℗ 1995 Maverick Recording Company
| Released | April 8, 2016 |
| Duration | 47m 02s |
| Record Label | Maverick |
| Genre | Rock |
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1.1
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Bored
Deftones |
4:06 | |||
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1.2
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Minus Blindfold EXPLICIT
Deftones |
4:04 | |||
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1.3
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One Weak EXPLICIT
Deftones |
4:29 | |||
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1.4
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Nosebleed EXPLICIT
Deftones |
4:25 | |||
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1.5
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Lifter EXPLICIT
Deftones |
4:43 | |||
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1.6
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Root EXPLICIT
Deftones |
3:40 | |||
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1.7
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7 Words EXPLICIT
Deftones |
3:43 | |||
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1.8
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Birthmark EXPLICIT
Deftones |
4:18 | |||
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1.9
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Engine No. 9 EXPLICIT
Deftones |
3:24 | |||
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1.10
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Fireal EXPLICIT
Deftones |
6:34 | |||
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1.11
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First (Hidden Track)
Deftones |
3:36 |
"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 metallic than Nirvana."
- Pulse
Adrenaline is the debut studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones, released on October 3, 1995, by Maverick Records. The majority of the album was produced by Terry Date, while a hidden track titled "Fist" was produced by Ross Robinson.
Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham and Chino Moreno were high school friends. All three went to Sacramento's C. K. McClatchy High School together, and participated in the city's skateboarding scene. Carpenter was a fan of heavy metal; Moreno was interested in hardcore punk bands such as Bad Brains as well as post-punk and new wave bands such as Depeche Mode and the Cure. When Moreno learned that Carpenter was a guitarist, he set up a jam session with Cunningham, who played drums. The trio began playing regularly in Carpenter's garage around 1988. They recruited bassist Dominic Garcia some time after, and the band became a four-piece. When Cunningham left Deftones to join Phallucy, another band from Sacramento, Garcia switched instruments and became the band's drummer. Chi Cheng filled the void as bassist, and the band recorded a four-track demo soon afterwards.
Regarding the recording, drummer Abe Cunningham said, "At the time we did the first record – which I really like and think is good – you can tell the band was really young. We'd been playing most of those songs for quite a while, and we were just so happy to be making a record that we didn't really think a whole lot about making the songs better". Frontman Chino Moreno felt that Adrenaline was recorded "really fast", and he performed all his vocals live with the band in the room using a hand-held Shure SM58 microphone.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Maverick Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.20 -0.20 to -0.20 | -10.40 -14.89 to -8.91 | -6.98 -9.70 to -5.80 | 6 5 to 7 | |
| 1 | Bored | 0.00 | -9.82 | -6.7 | 5 |
| 2 | Minus Blindfold | 0.00 | -10.25 | -7.2 | 6 |
| 3 | One Weak | 0.00 | -8.91 | -6.1 | 5 |
| 4 | Nosebleed | 0.00 | -10.84 | -7.0 | 7 |
| 5 | Lifter | 0.00 | -9.02 | -5.8 | 5 |
| 6 | Root | -0.20 | -11.17 | -7.7 | 6 |
| 7 | 7 Words | 0.00 | -10.11 | -7.2 | 6 |
| 8 | Birthmark | 0.00 | -9.97 | -6.7 | 6 |
| 9 | Engine No. 9 | 0.00 | -9.22 | -5.9 | 5 |
| 10 | Fireal | 0.00 | -10.22 | -6.8 | 6 |
| 11 | First (Hidden Track) | -0.20 | -14.89 | -9.7 | 6 |