Adrenaline (album)
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| Studio album by Deftones | ||||
| Released | October 3, 1995 | |||
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| Length | 47:06 | |||
| Label | Maverick | |||
| Producer | Terry Date | |||
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| Drowned in Sound | 8/10 |
Adrenaline is the debut studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones, released in 1995 by Maverick Records. A hidden track on the album, "Fist", was produced by Ross Robinson, while the rest of the album was produced by Terry Date.
Regarding the recording, drummer Abe Cunningham said, "At the time we did the first record – which I really like and think is good – you can tell the band was really young. We'd been playing most of those songs for quite a while, and we were just so happy to be making a record that we didn't really think a whole lot about making the songs better". Frontman Chino Moreno felt that Adrenaline was recorded "really fast", and he performed all his vocals live with the band in the room using a hand-held Shure SM58 microphone.
"7 Words" was released as the first single from the album on December 17, 1995.
"Bored" was issued as the second single on April 4, 1996.
Music videos were released for "7 Words", "Bored", "Root" and fan favorite "Engine No. 9"; the latter song was also featured in the film Law Abiding Citizen.
Adrenaline was praised for its new and innovative sound, with critics initially comparing the album to a diverse range of acts, such as Helmet, Korn, Pantera, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Smashing Pumpkins. In 1995, Jon Wiederhorn of Pulse stated "Adrenaline pitches between gloom-saturated melodies and explosive riffs, lashing out like a sleep-deprived paranoiac awakened by noisy neighbors. The rhythms are crisp and crafty and the vocals resonate both fury and sensitivity in a way that's similar to, but far more blatantly metallic than Nirvana." Critic Katherine Turman wrote in January 1996 that "If this is what heavy metal is evolving into, it's a damn good thing."
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