White Pony (2000)

While their contemporaries relied on unrelieved nu-metal bludgeoning, Deftones embraced dream-pop textures and Trip-hop spacing. Chino Moreno alternates between breathy, sensual whispers and agonised screams, while Stephen Carpenter holds back his detuned eight-string riffs until the precise moment of maximum impact on tracks like Digital Bath and Change (In the House of Flies).