Posts tagged "Quicksand"
Metal Monday Volume 96 (11.12.12)

Metal Monday Volume 96 (11.12.12)

It’s almost impossible for the deftones to make a bad album at this stage of their almost 20-year recorded career. However, it’s not impossible for them to continually raise the bar in heaviness with each album. On the bands seventh album, they have made the most solid and, quite possibly, best album of their career so far. Deftones albums don’t necessarily fall into the metal category all the time. Their benchmark album, White Pony (Which I still think is just […]

Pedals (The return of Rival Schools)

Ten years is a long time to wait for a sophomore album. I won’t get into why it took so long or what happened in-between here. Here, we’re just gonna see if Pedals was worth the wait. Opening with “Wring it Out”, it sounds as if Walter Schreifels and Rival Schools haven’t missed a beat since United By Fate came out in 2001. There’s a solid bounce right off the bat laid down by Sam Siegler (drums) and Cache Tolman […]