Deftones Have Completed Recording The Music For Their New Album
Earlier this week, Deftones frontman Chino Moreno spoke to the KROQ radio station backstage at Coachella about the band’s plans for the follow-up to 2020’s Ohms album.
He said “We haven’t really talked much [publicly] about it. We’ve just sort of been working on and off over the last year and a half from when we started writing to… Basically, where we’re sitting right now is we have a whole record recorded all musically. And it’s pretty much my job right now to finish up the vocals. And I have, obviously, this show again next week, and then straight after that, I go back home to Oregon and I go in the studio. So as long as that takes… I hate to put a definite kind of timeframe, ’cause we’re not really in a rush. We want it to be great. I think that’s most important. But it is coming, and, yeah, it’s really good. We’re really excited with what we’ve been working on. And everybody’s jazzed.”
Regarding the musical direction of the new Deftones material, Chino said: “I feel like, overall, it’s an invigorated kind of sound. We went in and everybody… It’s, like, after all these years, you go in, and it’s, like, we hadn’t written a record since — what was it? Pre-COVID, I think, when we were last in the studio. So it’d been a while since we’d actually… I mean, we’ve been playing shows, but we hadn’t really got into being creative.
“The creative part, to me, is always kind of the most fun part of being in this band. Performing is great, but coming up with something out of nothing, that feeling cannot be topped. And so when you get in the room with your friends, we’re laughing, we’re having fun and then someone does something and then I react to it or they react to what I’m doing, it goes in a circle and then, all of a sudden, we lift our heads up and there’s something that exists that didn’t exist before we walked in that room. That’s just great.”
Last fall, Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter confirmed to the “Gnostic Academy” podcast that he and his bandmates were working on their new album with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Mastodon, Alice In Chains). This marks Deftones’ third collaboration with Nick, having previously worked with him on 2010’s Diamond Eyes and 2012’s Koi No Yokan LPs.