Alternative metal stalwarts Deftones are back at it once again with new music since 2012's 'Koi No Yokan', and in their first single from their new album 'Gore', we hear them taking their trademark ethereal and lush metal sound into even greater heights. Always owing a bit of their sound to that of the genre of shoegaze, those elements are more pronounced here than a good chunk of their previous output, which still leaned heavily to that of the alternative metal that they are known for. Lyrically, the song describes how we are still mental slaves to some sort of omnipotent entity, and how we will quite literally "never be free", an angsty theme that isn't uncommon in the alternative metal genre.
Still very much a Deftones song in structure, the lush atmosphere and tone in Prayers/Triangles is almost reminiscent to that of newer shoegaze acts, such as Nothing and even some of the more obscure bands such as Les Discrets. In a music world where the popularity of atmospheric metal is currently at it's apex, Deftones are still managing to make themselves stand out even after all these years, and that in itself is commendable.