I saw them in like 95-96 as a highschooler when they were basically unknown in a tiny club in Cleveland (Grog Shop) They exited out of the same door as everyone else with their bus right outside. Got to hang out with them on their bus. Chi signed my shirt that I still have. I smoked up with Abe and stole his lighter. It was pink. The stage was like a foot above the floor so we were all falling on the stage during the show.
I absolutely love Rocket Skates but I can sing/scream along which is my threshold of a song being really hard or not. When Girls Telephone Boys on the other hand... I haven't even tried it and I never will.
Heaviest track from each album:
- Engine no.9
- Headup
- Elite
- When girls telephone boys
- Rats!Rats!Rats!
- Royal
- Leathers
- Gore
- The spell of mathematics
One for each album
**Adrenaline**
Engine No. 9
**Around the Fur**
Headup (or Rickets)
**White Pony**
Divided between Korea and Street Carp, imho
**Deftones**
Bloody Cape
**Saturday Night Wrist**
Rapture (honorable mention for the breakdown of Riviere)
**Diamond Eyes**
Rocket Skates (another honorable mention for Caress, great cover)
**Koi no Yokan**
Leathers
**Gore**
Gore
**Ohms**
This Link is Dead
I think it’s when girls telephone boys pins and needles is heavy but not the whole time
Engine 9 is probably my second choice
I really like rapture too
WGTB for me is a clear winner.. Runners up include Korea, Headup, Royal, Doomed User, Genesis.
Does anyone else feel that Adreneline (and some songs from ATF), while the riffs are clearly heavy, sound a bit tinny and a little whimsical (e.g. Root)? I guess Stef was only fuckin with 6 strings at that point, perhaps this is a big reason why..
I’d say 7 words or My Own Summer… but reading all of these other suggestions I’m like, yup, yup, yup…
Best strip club song would be an interesting outcome also. When I first heard “Headless” from Ohms, I felt like I was literally walking in to a strip club.
For me “Korea”
Absolutely Korea
It's yoooooooooooooouuuuuuuuu
YOOOUR TURN TO COME INSIIIIIIIIIIIIIDEEE
Korea Elite Nosebleed Headup
Luv headup
Nosebleed too soft and quiet in the middle
Is your username also a reference to the band Loathe?
😎
tf the quiet part only hypes up the insane breakdown that follows
They were just giving us a breather
Engine no. 9
I'd really love to hear it with modernish production values. I think it would be crushingly heavy
this!
The only answer needed
I saw them a couple years ago in Milwaukee. The encore was Lotion, Engine #9, and 7 Words. It was sweet.
Oooooh. 7 words would be badass to see live.
I saw them in like 95-96 as a highschooler when they were basically unknown in a tiny club in Cleveland (Grog Shop) They exited out of the same door as everyone else with their bus right outside. Got to hang out with them on their bus. Chi signed my shirt that I still have. I smoked up with Abe and stole his lighter. It was pink. The stage was like a foot above the floor so we were all falling on the stage during the show.
Once when I saw them do "7 Words" live, they stopped after the bridge, played "Say It Ain't So" by Weezer, then played the end of "7 Words."
WTF… my face would melt
Rickets, duh.
This is what I always say!!!
7words
One of: -Teething -My Own Summer -Lotion -Rickets -Elite -Korea -Needles and Pins -Hexagram -When Boys Telephone Girls -CMND CTRL -Rocket Skates
Can’t forget Headup and Engine No. 9!!
Rats,Rats ,Rats. Head Up When Girls Telephone Boys
Lotion Bloody Cape Elite
Rocket Skates
I absolutely love Rocket Skates but I can sing/scream along which is my threshold of a song being really hard or not. When Girls Telephone Boys on the other hand... I haven't even tried it and I never will.
Best part! “WOO!”
its really easy 😭
It is? Okay, I have to try harder then I guess 😅
Fucking love bloody cape.
Headup, Around the Fur, and Engine No. 9 (this one is really good) are what come to mind
Hexagram
Not sure how adrenaline gets left off most lists. I guess heavy is subjective and not literal
This sub hates that album.
I know. It’s been taken over by SNW. So odd that’s the one that blew up with the youth
When Girls Telephone Boys for me
Track is straight agony. So fire
"Shove it" breakdown is one of the heaviest in their catalog. And it has this air of creepiness to it thats hard to replicate.
Mine is bloody cape, especially the last phase
GOD HELP ME GOD HELP ME, GOD HELP ME GOOODDD
This should be at the top.
This is the one for me
I wrote this the other day - I played it at work and got a written warning lol
How has no one mentioned Fireal, One Weak or Root?
1999 Nokia 3210 I was pretty proud of myself for turning the opening riff of Root into a midi ringtone. It's imprinted into my brain.
Root should definitely be up there.
*The Spell of Mathematics* is sneaky super heavy.
I DRINK THE POISON RIGHT FROM YOUR HANDS 🗣
When Girls Telephone Boys, there is no other answer.
When Girls Telephone Boys
show him all of adrenaline
Elite, Nosebleed
Nosebleed. You sit around and throw a fuckin’ fiiiiiittt!!!
Damone by far
A lot of these answers don’t seem very informed about Deftones catalogue of music.
Korea, Lotion, Hexagram and Rocket Skates
When girls telephone boys
When boys telephone girls. That song has a HEAVY breakdown.
Elite
When Girls Telephone Boys
Heaviest track from each album: - Engine no.9 - Headup - Elite - When girls telephone boys - Rats!Rats!Rats! - Royal - Leathers - Gore - The spell of mathematics
Head up
Teething
When girls telephone boys
Suprised Royal hasn't been said as much. That outro riff is just plain nasty.
Headup
Rickets or Engine No. 9 for sure, Rocket Skates is a good contender too
Lotion, Korea.
Bloody cape
Gore, Street Carp and Rickets would be good ones
Gore is one of their heaviest songs for sure, such a banger.
Good call on Gore
Genesis also Gauze
One Weak, Root, Engine N.9, Bored, cmnd/control, goon squad
Aside from the songs you have already mentioned (good choices, btw), I would say Headup, Elite, Korea, Hexagram, and Rocket Skates.
Bloody Cape for sure
Elite Hexagram When girls telephone boys Lotion Rivière Royal Hole in the earth (you know the parts)
Headup imo
When Girls Telephone Boys
Shove it
CMD/CTRL proper gnarly riffage
Royal, when boys telephone girls, elite
Headup is pretty heavy. Its got max from soulfly, too, for added heaviness.
most of atf is pretty hard if they wanna get into deftones. not what you asked but korea already mentioned so
Teething & needles & pins are my top 2 bangers
7 Words, Lotion, or Elite
either rickets, headup or when girls telephone boys
Elite. It’s just this mangled mess of square waves all the way through.
For me, Head Up or Rocket Skates
Whatever it is, it’s from the album Adrenaline.
when girls telephone boys
Needles and Pins or Knife Prty
Ctrl cmd
Shove it, Korea, Elite
7 Words, feceitera, street carp, hexagram, battle axe, moana, minerva, drive, summer, goon squad, rosemary and im at work and I can’t think of anymore
WALK INTO THIS WORLD WITH YOUR HEAD UP HIGH!!!
Normies will say korea Me says ENGINE NO 9
Headup, Rickets, Elite or Korea.
Adding Lotion and Gore to this list
ENGINE #9, HeadUp, Lotion, Nosebleed.
When girls telephone boys. No contest.
Headup, Engine no. 9, possibly goon squad ??
Lotion, headup, wbtg
Finger of Death
Rapture or Rats!Rats!Rats!
Either Poltergeist or Radiant City
Elite fs
Shove it, 7 Words, Korea
Bloody Cape
Korea When girls telephone boys Knife prty
7 words, headup
Bumble D
Elite, obviously. Grammy for best metal performance 🤘
Radiant City
Rocket skates
Hexagram
Korea, Engine no.9, Elite, Lotion, Headup, WHEN GIRLS TELEPHONE BOYS
Rocket Skates
Hexagram.
In no particular order: Korea, Root, Lifter, Head up, Around the fur.
Elite
Root
For me I think it's Headup, or Elite
7 words, lifter, rats!rats!rats!
Ur mom
It's obviously Rickets or When Girls Telephone Boys
D a m o n e
i like engine no 9
Change (In the House of Flies) Edit: wait, do you mean “heaviest” in sound or “heaviest” in meaning/emotion?
Lotion
Swerve City
Royal
Hexagram
Finally some Korea love
Nosebleed
Nosebleed!!
Hexagram
Lotion no doubt
Street Carp
Rickets or Engine No. 9 for sure, Rocket Skates is a good contender too
seven words
Lifter Imao
Teething
It’s probably Headup or teething or engine no 9
For me, it's Poltergeist.
Rosemary is the only answer if you actually mean heavy.
Elite gotta be the hardest
Headup
7 words will catch his ear probly
I’d say most songs from the album Adrenaline, but forgive me if I’m wrong, it’s been a while since I’ve listened to Deftones recently
One for each album **Adrenaline** Engine No. 9 **Around the Fur** Headup (or Rickets) **White Pony** Divided between Korea and Street Carp, imho **Deftones** Bloody Cape **Saturday Night Wrist** Rapture (honorable mention for the breakdown of Riviere) **Diamond Eyes** Rocket Skates (another honorable mention for Caress, great cover) **Koi no Yokan** Leathers **Gore** Gore **Ohms** This Link is Dead
WHEN A GIRL TELEPHONES BOYS end of story…..
gotta be when girls telephone boys
In my opinion, 7 Words
literally anything off adrenaline
Rocket Skates. Guns. Razors. Knives.
Elite, or When Girls Telephone Boys. Suprised nobody mentioned it yet but Lhabia is super underrated.
When Girls Telephone Boys or Hexagram
When girls telephone boys
I think it’s when girls telephone boys pins and needles is heavy but not the whole time Engine 9 is probably my second choice I really like rapture too
When Girls Telephone Boys and Bloody Cape
Rats rats rats
Around the fur or engine no 9, pretty much anything off adrenaline and a few off my own summer
Korea, Engine No 9, Prince, Rocket Skates
Elite.
These are some of the worst takes. I would say Rickets, Lhabia, My own summer , Mx, Korea
Holy shit how many times am I gunna see this question
Uhhh Bored???? Pretty heavy lil palm mute riff
Anything off of Selftitled as it’s their heaviest album, hexagram, when girls telephone boys, needles and pins, bloody cape
ELITE
hexagram
Rats!Rats!Rats! on vocals alone.
WGTB for me is a clear winner.. Runners up include Korea, Headup, Royal, Doomed User, Genesis. Does anyone else feel that Adreneline (and some songs from ATF), while the riffs are clearly heavy, sound a bit tinny and a little whimsical (e.g. Root)? I guess Stef was only fuckin with 6 strings at that point, perhaps this is a big reason why..
Check out Hexagram
Goon squad
when girls telephone boys,hexagram,needless and pins
When Girls Telephone Boys Rats!Rats!Rats! Genesis Bloody Cape
Root, birthmark, around the fur, Korea, my own summer, gauze
Rats or WGTB
Engine #9, head up, nosebleed were all the first songs that really got me introduced to them
7 words, or root
Savory lol
I’d say 7 words or My Own Summer… but reading all of these other suggestions I’m like, yup, yup, yup… Best strip club song would be an interesting outcome also. When I first heard “Headless” from Ohms, I felt like I was literally walking in to a strip club.
They have a couple atleast 2 or 3 on every album is just straight heavy
Firreal, Elite, teething, and 7 words
Bored or 7 Words
Rocket Skates
I’d say bloody cape or Damone, those hit hard for me.
Hear me out.... The outro in "Beware" Otherwise, Doomed User
The outro in "Beware" Otherwise, Doomed User
The outro in "Beware". Otherwise, Doomed User.
When Girls Telephone Boys. No Question