One factor was that it lacked the anthemic grandeur of White Pony, the bruised beauty of their self-titled record or even the sheer aggression of their first two outings. And that mixed-reception on UK shores isn’t just because Pink Cellphone boldly reminded us of our shitty teeth and beer. Now Moreno says the band is “sitting on” its sophomore album.Historically speaking, a lot of factors have converged to make Deftones’ fifth album the most divisive and misunderstood record of their career. The group announced its return last year and invited fans to see its members – which count Death Grips drummer Zach Hill among their ranks – play a concert that included previously unreleased music. Outside of Deftones, Moreno has spent the last decade fine-tuning the sophomore release by his side project Team Sleep. At this point, we don’t have any guests lined up, but that could change any moment.” “He toured with us a couple times,” he says. “He’s done a great job.” (The singer also beams about Hyde’s C.V., since, in addition to Deftones, he co-produced the self-titled debut for Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell’s Porno for Pyros project – “one of my favorites.”)Īlthough Deftones posted a photo of former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward stopping by one of their writing sessions last year, prompting fans to speculate on whether he’d appear on the LP, it was just a friendly visit. “We thought it would be good to have somebody there who knows us well and who can keep us on track,” Moreno says. In addition to the “lucrative” songwriting process (to quote the singer), Moreno has been enjoying working with producer Matt Hyde, who did production and engineering on Koi No Yokan. It’s the most tunes the group has ever recorded for an LP. The unusual writing session produced 16 songs for the new album, which Moreno expects to come out in the fall (“probably September or October”). When Rolling Stone reaches the singer in late February, he’s at his Oregon home getting ready to head to Los Angeles where the rest of the band has just finished the album’s drum tracks. We have five guys who have almost completely different takes on music, so when it works, it works great.” The songs are really built as a collective. “We had all of us in a room together with one person expressing an idea and another person jumping on it.
“The songs are amazing, and we wrote them in a really cool way,” frontman Chino Moreno tells Rolling Stone. When Deftones began work on the follow-up to Koi No Yokan, the emotionally charged alt-metal group’s dramatic 2012 album, none of the band members had written any material. UPDATE: Deftones have announced that their as-yet-untitled new album will be released on April 8th, via DIY.
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