ALBUMS OF THE WEEK Deftones Gore Yin and yang. Push and pull. Tension and release. Put it however you want; by any name, they’re the opposing forces that have always driven and defined Deftones. But they’ve seldom conspired as effectively as they do on the Sacramento alt-metal quintet’s eighth album Gore. As usual, the 11-track disc is a fierce fusion of heavy and lush, with songs that seamlessly meld craggy guitar riffs and punishingly powerful grooves to ethereal pop dreamscapes and haunting synth tones — all topped and fuelled by Chino Moreno’s whisper-to-primal-scream vocals. But this time, there seems to be more urgency, aggression and potency to the...
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