After arguing, they eventually came together and created a mix of heavy and melodic songs for the album. Carpenter wanted to write heavier riffs, while Moreno wanted more melodic songs. Lead vocalist Chino Moreno and guitarist Stephen Carpenter struggled with creating material for the album in the first place. While bands like Metallica, Slayer and System of a Down deserve an article of their own, Deftones blows the genre out of the park in their 2000 release “White Pony.” I could spend time dissecting every song on this album, but I do not have enough room. An album that ebbs and flows through emotions and perfectly encapsulates what metal is all about. Out of all of the metal albums I have listened to, only one tops the rest of the group. The guitar is an instrument that can push itself into different sounds no matter the genre, and metal pushes this instrument to its limits. Metal is one of those genres a lot of people nowadays seem to brush off as “just noise.” However, metal is one of the only genres in existence that can be thoroughly dissected artistically. COLE QUINN, Evergreen Sports Photographer

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