Editing Adrenaline (album) (section)

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/adrenaline-mw0000179793|title=Adrenaline – Deftones|last=Gioffre|first=Daniel|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=January 22, 2022}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Drowned in Sound]]''
| rev2score = 8/10<ref name="drowned">{{cite web|url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/4802/reviews/350-?search|title=Album Review: Deftones - Adrenaline|last=Weston|first=Colin|website=[[Drowned in Sound]]|date=January 13, 2001|access-date=December 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054655/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/4802/reviews/350-?search|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|edition=5th Concise|year=2007|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|isbn=978-1-84609-856-7|pages=415–416|chapter=Deftones}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Kerrang!]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Kerrang! review">{{cite magazine|last=Brannigan|first=Paul|title=Albums {{!}} Deftones: 'Adrenaline'|magazine=Kerrang!|location=London|publisher=[[Ascential|EMAP]]|issue=573|page=45|issn=0262-6624|date=November 25, 1995}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-20-ca-26618-story.html|title=ALBUM REVIEWS / POP|last=Masuo|first=Sandy|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=January 20, 1996|access-date=May 24, 2017}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[MusicHound#MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Prickett|first=Barry M.|editor1-last=Graff|editor1-first=Gary|editor1-link=Gary Graff|editor2-last=Durchholz|editor2-first=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|title-link=MusicHound|edition=2th|year=1999|publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]]|isbn=978-1-57859-061-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/324/mode/1up 325]|chapter=deftones}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Gross|first=Joe|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|edition=4th|year=2004|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|isbn=978-0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea0000unse/page/222 223–224]|chapter=The Deftones}}</ref>
}}

''Adrenaline'' was praised for its new, innovative sound, with critics initially comparing it to a diverse range of acts such as [[Helmet (band)|Helmet]], [[Nine Inch Nails]], [[the Cure]], [[Korn]], [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], and [[the Smashing Pumpkins]].<ref name="wayback">{{cite web|url=http://www.deftones.com/reviews.html|title=REVIEWS|website=Deftones Official Website|access-date=October 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961102062002/http://www.deftones.com/reviews.html|archive-date=November 2, 1996|url-status=dead}}</ref> In his 1995 review, ''[[Kerrang!]]''{{'}}s Paul Brannigan felt the album's sound "falls between [[Quicksand (American band)|Quicksand]] and [[Tool (band)|Tool]]", and said Deftones "explode from atmospheric croons into buck-mad rages". He wrote, "Excellent production from Terry Date allows the crisp guitar on 'Lifter' and '7 Words' to shine", and that "Bored" and "Nosebleed" are "just as blunt and angry, slabs of guitar crashing down on swirling, hypnotic rhythms." Brannigan rated it 4 out of 5 stars, saying it was "Impressive."<ref name="Kerrang! review"/> In 1995, Jon Wiederhorn of ''[[Pulse! (magazine)|Pulse!]]'' stated that "''Adrenaline'' pitches between gloom-saturated melodies and explosive riffs, lashing out like a sleep-deprived paranoiac awakened by noisy neighbors. The rhythms are crisp and crafty and the vocals resonate both fury and sensitivity in a way that's similar to, but far more blatantly [[Heavy metal music|metallic]] than Nirvana".<ref name="wayback"/> Critic Katherine Turman wrote for ''Car Audio'' magazine in January 1996, "If this is what heavy metal is evolving into, it's a damn good thing".<ref name="wayback"/>

Giving the album 3 out of 4 stars in her 1996 review, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' critic Sandy Masuo praised the album's nuance and blend of musical extremes and various influences: "On the outside, Sacramento's Deftones are all pummeling rhythms and high anxiety, but delving further into the music turns up some surprising nuances: traces of [[post-punk]] pop, tinges of [[Hip hop music|rap]], a pinch of [[Industrial music|industrial]] grit. Chino Moreno rants, sobs, croons and even works some [[Middle Eastern music|Middle Eastern overtones]] into his vocals, while Stephen Carpenter's guitar shifts from coarse outbursts to crisp Helmet-ine precision. A bracing blend of extremes".<ref name="wayback"/> In his 1996 review, Tomas Pascual of ''[[Livewire (magazine)|Livewire]]'' magazine similarly noted the album's subtle yet diverse musical influences and the juxtaposition of loud and heavy with soft and melodic: "There are many bands these days that lay claim to a diverse section of influences. But no one band is as subtly boisterous about their eclectic mix as are Deftones. [...] Deftones' course is piloted by vocalist and frontman Chino Moreno, who expresses his smooth, melodic lyrics emotionally one minute before giving way to abrasive, maddened screams the next. Backed by the serene and apocalyptic guitar of Stephen Carpenter, this Yin-Yang formula keeps Deftones' debut ''Adrenaline'' progressively contagious".<ref name="wayback"/>

===Retrospective reviews===
In a retrospective [[AllMusic]] review of the album, Daniel Gioffre wrote, "Unlike many of their contemporaries, Deftones are very controlled even in the midst of chaos", adding, "Throw Abe Cunningham's surprisingly sophisticated drumming into the mix, and you have a band that possesses a far greater degree of nuance than most others that work in the genre".<ref name=AllMusic/> While he noted that "there is a bit of sameness in Chino Moreno's whispered vocal melodies, which drags the record down a bit", Gioffre ultimately states that "[o]n later albums, the band's [[Progressive music|progressive]] tendencies become more developed, but the more straight-ahead material on Adrenaline does not disappoint. A promising debut."<ref name=AllMusic/> In the book ''The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal'', author Essi Berelian wrote that the album "still stands as one of the best examples of [[Nu metal|nu-metal]]".{{Sfn|Berelian|2005|p=95}} Writing for [[MetalSucks]] in June 2009, Carlos Ramirez noted that the wide range of musical influences in both ''Adrenaline'' and ''Around the Fur'' helped to establish the band in the [[underground music]] scene prior to their larger commercial breakthrough with their third album, ''[[White Pony]]'': "[Deftones'] first two albums, ''Adrenaline'' (1995) and ''Around the Fur'' (1997), were both chock full of bombastic guitars, [[new wave music|new wave]]-kissed vocal lines, and [[post-hardcore]] informed arrangements, and their wide-scoped sound helped the Sacramento, CA band find audiences in various facets of the underground music scene".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metalsucks.net/2009/06/22/11-deftones-white-pony/|title=#11: DEFTONES - WHITE PONY|last=Ramirez|first=Carlos|website=[[MetalSucks]]|date=June 22, 2009|access-date=December 24, 2015}}</ref> In critic Tim Karan's 20th anniversary assessment for ''[[Townsquare Media|Diffuser]]'', he wrote: "For those who were swept up in the burgeoning nu-metal movement, 'Adrenaline' was a landmark, life-changing release. But Deftones never really were a true nu-metal band -- this album is more like [[Hardcore punk|hardcore]]-influenced post-hardcore than '[[Nookie (Limp Bizkit song)|Nookie]]' -- and it only scratched at the surface of the [[Avant-garde metal|experimental metal]] Deftones would soon step into".<ref name="diffuser">{{cite web|url=https://diffuser.fm/albums-that-turn-20-in-2015/|title=15 Albums You Won't Believe Turn 20 in 2015|last=Karan|first=Tim|website=[[Townsquare Media|Diffuser]]|date=January 2, 2015|access-date=May 5, 2015}}</ref>