Change (In the House of Flies)

The hypnotic lead single from White Pony — a brooding, mid-tempo build from clean shimmer to a heavy, swelling chorus. Despite the band's later reputation for extended-range guitars, Carpenter cut White Pony mostly on a 6-string ESP Horizon Custom with Seymour Duncan pickups (the EMG and 7-string era came after), in Drop C (C-G-C-F-A-D), through his ADA MP-1 / Marshall JMP-1 rack into a Marshall 9200. Producer Terry Date framed the dynamic swells that make the song breathe.