Elite by Deftones Song Info
“Elite” is the third track from American alternative metal Deftones' third album "White Pony", their highest selling album to date. While the album marked a significant growth in the band’s sound, incorporating new wave, dream pop, trip-hop, and shoegazing influences, this song hearkened back to the band’s previous style of searing vocals coupled with a heavy, distorted guitar riff that drives the song, most reminiscent of earlier songs such as “Headup” and “My Own Summer (Shove It)”. The enhanced CD physical release showcases an edited rehearsal of the song as well as a full-length rehearsal which can be viewed after completing “Joystick”, a game portion of the enhanced material. The game plays similarly to Pac-Man, with the player controlling the white pony on the cover artwork and avoiding the heads of the Deftones members while collecting music notes to a MIDI of the "My Own Summer"verse riff. The full-length clip is shown after beating the sixth level. It also provided the band with their only Grammy Award up to this point, winning for Best Metal Performance at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2001.
