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Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 139 Ratings

  • Summary: Bob Erzin (Jane's Addiction) produced the alt-metal band's fifth album. System Of A Down vocalist Serj Tankian guests.

Top Track

Cherry Waves
A sea of waves, we hug the same plank (Saw your end...) Just as I rehearsed over in my brain (Saw your end...) The waves... Suck... you in And you... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 18
  2. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Alternative Press
    100
    Saturday Night Wrist proves yet again that Deftones have a corner on the transcendental-metal market. [Dec 2006, p.192]
  2. The album is mostly a heady, atmospheric, willfully too-difficult-for-radio wash of sound that, save for a handful of tracks, stretches out and explores Deftones' creative limits more than ever before.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    Boasts some of the Deftones' best out-and-out metal tunes to date. [3 Nov 2006, p.76]
  4. New Musical Express (NME)
    70
    ['Wrist'] sees [Deftones] continue to explore that hazy hinterland, where The Smiths' sensitivity and Sepultura's sledgehammer riffs overlap. [28 Oct 2006, p.35]
  5. Saturday Night Wrist continues the Deftones’ sad trend, another album of scattered transcendent moments in a field of attention-getting parlour tricks, still eagerly tugging at the listener’s sleeve to say, "Listen to this sound we created!"
  6. Uncut
    60
    A record that feels massive without tipping into bombast. [Nov 2006, p.106]
  7. Q Magazine
    40
    There's little of the fire and invention that characterised 2000's White Pony. [Nov 2006, p.140]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 50
  2. Negative: 2 out of 50
  1. BradleyB
    Nov 2, 2006
    10
    Deftones return to form after the disappointing 2003 album. Up there with White Pony and Around the Fur.
  2. jorges
    Jan 23, 2007
    10
    always a fan of deftones since they began i just think they are the only band that can play with my feelings chino voice just is incredible always a fan of deftones since they began i just think they are the only band that can play with my feelings chino voice just is incredible nice they didnt became too much team sleep this album is just great as everything they do Expand
  3. ColinD
    Nov 1, 2006
    10
    Truely a amazing work of artistic structure and brilliance. This entire record is playing at my funeral when my time is done.
  4. StevenF
    Nov 18, 2006
    9
    I was ready to be dissapointed with this album because the release date kept being pushed back. This is their best album to date. It was well I was ready to be dissapointed with this album because the release date kept being pushed back. This is their best album to date. It was well worth the wait. Expand
  5. Jul 11, 2018
    8
    The most experimental Deftones' album. The elements that highlighted the band are still here. As a unity, the album is better thanThe most experimental Deftones' album. The elements that highlighted the band are still here. As a unity, the album is better than Self-titled, but the second one has songs more striking that the which are in this album. A high point is the production about the drum sound (drums that which are amazing about its lines, full of groove and turns). The songs are more melancholics and oneiric if compared with previous albums.
    Deftones delivers a great piece again. A worthy farewell by Chi Cheng in his last musical contribution.
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  6. AndrewG
    Nov 13, 2006
    8
    This is a very strange record, but somehow it feels like the Deftones have grown into the band they've always meant to be. "Rapture" and This is a very strange record, but somehow it feels like the Deftones have grown into the band they've always meant to be. "Rapture" and "Rats!Rats!Rats!" (which is absolutly fierce) are here to remind us that the Deftones were once a metal band, but the bulk of the album is given to dreamier, softer songs. It's still a very heavy album, but the heaviness comes from the density and tone of the album, not just raging guitars. "Beware" is one of the best songs the band has ever written, and is worth the price of the album itself. "Pink Cellphone" is either entirely genius or utterly, offensively stupid. Pretty impressive (though occasionally confusing) album. Expand
  7. BenM
    Jan 30, 2008
    0
    Horrible,I just hated the way he sang the songs.I can't believe people can listen to this shit.It wasn't even rock.Awful.

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