Songs Like Change (In the House of Flies)
By Dan Cohen · Published 2026-09-05
Deftones are filed under metal, and Change (In the House of Flies) registers soft vocals on our scale, with intensity 41, dynamic range 7, 75 BPM, layered, mild shifts. That is not a heavy reading. It is the reading of a slow, wide, restrained record, and its neighbours reflect that. Tagged introspective, melancholy, reflective.
Two Radiohead songs measure identically
- Fake Plastic Trees — Radiohead. Intensity 41, dynamic range 7, 72 BPM. Identical on both headline figures, three BPM apart.
- Exit Music (For a Film) — Radiohead. Intensity 41, dynamic range 7, 80 BPM. Also identical.
The full three-tag match
What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye is the only record here sharing all three of the seed’s mood tags — intensity 38, dynamic range 6, 90 BPM. Three points gentler, and doing the same emotional work.
The wider band
- Self Control — Frank Ocean. Intensity 41, dynamic range 6, 120 BPM.
- Good Days — SZA. Intensity 41, dynamic range 6, 120 BPM.
- Young and Beautiful — Lana Del Rey. Intensity 41, dynamic range 6, 123 BPM.
- Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence — Ryuichi Sakamoto. Intensity 38, dynamic range 7, 70 BPM, instrumental.
- Losing My Religion — R.E.M. Intensity 44, dynamic range 6 — the most intense on this page.
Change (In the House of Flies) appears on Deftones’ 2000 album White Pony. Figures are our own measurements, read from the public API at build time. The genre and era spread is a consequence of measuring sound rather than style — it is not a claim that these artists resemble each other in any other way. No lyrics are reproduced.