Track Listing

1. Hole In The Earth
2. Rapture
3. Beware
4. Cherry Waves
5. Mein
6. UUDDLRLRAB Select Start
7. Xerces
8. Rats Rats Rats
9. Pink Cellphone
10. Combat
11. Kimdracula
12. Riviere

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48448 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Back when the world was ruled by primitive nu-metal gorillas barking dysfunctional rhymes over recycled rock riffs, Deftones set themselves apart with a wild experimental streak that saw the group incorporating influences as diverse as the Cure, Ornette Coleman, and Aphex Twin. Produced by Bob Erzin (Pink Floyd, Jane's Addiction), the Sacramento band's fifth full-length release, Saturday Night Wrist, features the kind of envelope-pushing fans have come to expect, shifting between gloomy ballads ("Xerces," "Beware") and apocalyptic rockers ("Rapture," "Rats! Rats! Rats!") that in an instant allow singer Chino Moreno to take his dynamic voice from a whisper to a scream with help from guest vocalists such as System of a Down's Serj Tankian and Giant Drag's Annie Hardy. -–Aidin Vaziri

CD Description
Named after a condition caused by drunkenly falling asleep on top of one's arm, this long-delayed fifth album from Sacramento, CA's favourite sons follows 2003's self-titled effort and frontman Chino Moreno's detour with his electro-rock project Team Sleep. Recorded with legendary Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin, it swaps some of the crushing heaviness of yore for further explorations into the band's downtempo, space-rock side. Includes the single 'Hole In The Earth' and features guest spots from System Of A Down's Serj Tankian and Giant Drag's Annie Hardy.

Customer Reviews

An amazing album
I always wait a week to review the Deftones. As I am a shameless hardcore fan, I always think every new release is the greatest record ever. After seven days or so I generally calm down a little.

With the previous record I was a little disappointed. It lacked melody for me and there were too many songs that just drifted along. There were also not enough stand out tracks.

However, with the new album, this has all changed. Aggression and melody are fused perfectly. I have not had to press the track forward button once. Every song is brilliant. I can't pick out favourites as every song is great

Chino has one the most original vocals in modern music.
I am also a big fan of the Abe Cunningham as well, his drumming is immense.

Buy it now. No excuses.

Deftones offer a more textured approach on fifth album
Having emerged during the earliest days of nu-metal, Deftones are one of the few bands that managed to maintain a hugely loyal fan base where others have fallen by the wayside. They side-stepped any genre pigeon-holing and secured their place in many a CD collection in the late nineties and early noughties by blending bludgeoning beats and towering, crunchy riffs with the ethereal, transcendent vocal stylings of singer Chino Moreno, injecting it all with a bold dose of experimentalism.

Since 2003's self-titled album, Moreno has busied himself with the spacey, occasionally sublime, Team Sleep project - much to the chagrin of his other band mates by all accounts. So, what of this then, their long-awaited come-back LP? Well, as lazy as a description as it may sound, Saturday Night Wrist is a cross between that eponymous fourth album and the aforementioned Team Sleep record, in the sense that it combines the calculated heaviness of the former and the unobtrusive 'floatiness' of the latter. But then Deftones have always provided a more subtle, less immediate hit than most, and this is definitely a 'grower'...

There are riffs capable of wrecking your speakers (see: `Rapture', `Rats!Rats!Rats!', `Kimdracula') and Moreno's raging scream-to-soothing croon still reaches parts that other, lesser, singers barely aim for. And while the guest spots from Serj Tankian and Giant Drag's Annie Hardy are diverting enough, it's tracks like the immense lead single `Hole In The Earth' (absolutely classic 'tones), the slow-burning `Beware' and `Cherry Waves' that will really get under your skin and have you coming back to Saturday Night Wrist as often as anything from their impressive back catalogue.

Matt Pucci

Deep
Im a pretty hardcore tones fan, and I was very impressed by this album.
When the self-titled album came out in 2004, I was a bit let down by the sparse, raw, deductive method of song writing they used, especially considering the amazing melodies and grooves that were used in the amazing subtlty of white pony. Saturday night wrist can be summed up as somewhere in between these two cds. In places its mellow, haunting, slick, and raw. A great album with lots of varied songs.