These boys have turned into something of a rock megaband
after notching up headlining performances at this years’ Download, a fledgling
collection of Grammy awards and major US billboard chart success. ‘Hole
in the Earth’ hails the arrival of a fifth album ‘Saturday Night Wrist’, and it
certainly packs a punch. It’s not just the soaring guitars, but the haunting
pleas from lead singer Chino Moreno. It’s equally a plea to highlight our
imminent global environmental breakdown as it is to exorcise some very personal
tragedy. In typical style it breaks into some chunks of moshing-friendly guitar
at regular intervals, but again proves The
Deftones’ pedigree endures the flash-in-the-pan merchants that
characterised the unfortunate term ‘nu-metal’. With more than 500,000 Myspace
plays to date on this track, it’ll no doubt make Fred Durst look blearily into
his cornflakes thinking of what might have been. It brings in much more varied influence,
and travels from progressive rock to metal and back in four short minutes. A
bit like Muse would sound after eating a few raw steaks.
3.5/5
Label - Maverick
Release - 16.10.06
Mark Lees
