White Pony

White Pony is the Deftones’ third consecutive gold-selling album – and now there’s a new, improved edition with an added track, the second single, “Back To School (Mini Maggit),” and even new cover art. One of modern rock’s most respected groups, the Deftones go beyond the new heavy rock to bring together the accessible and dissonant, bombastic and vulnerable, aggressive and thoughtful, with a new White Pony

Certified at 500 thousand units by the RIAA. (2/01)The aggro-rock movement spearheaded by the ‘Tones, Korn, Sevendust, System of a Down, and Rage Against the Machine, among others, has been taking on new influences with each new release by the major players. White Pony may be the biggest leap yet for the genre, as Chino Moreno, Chi Cheng, Abe Cunningham, Stephen Carpenter, and DJ Frank Delgado maintain the fierceness that’s earned them a rabid following. This time out, however, their patented brand of hip-hop metal is adorned with ambient and alt-rock touches. –Steven Stolder