The first new Deftones album in four years is finally here, and people are loving it pretty much across the board. I'm on my first listen all the way through this morning and I can already see why. It's a great mix of extremely heavy Deftones, chilled out Deftones, and a lot of new sounds that fit perfectly into their usual writing style!
Stream the new album below alongside a visual tracklist.
Recently, frontman Chino Moreno reviewed every album in Deftones' discography, and for the new album, Ohms, Chino said "“Heavy” is kind of subjective, you know? The last thing I ever want to do is be quoted saying, “This is our heaviest record!” The first thing that’s going to happen is some dude’s going to be like, “No way dude! This is …” You know what I mean? It’s kind of subjective. But I do feel like it’s got a little more energy. I think that is attributed to everybody being engaged completely. Everybody firing on all cylinders. There’s not one of us individually that was sort of sitting back just going along. Everybody was very present physically and emotionally, ready to work and to put the work in."
Drummer Abe Cunningham also recently spoke about what song is his favorite off the new record: “I like it all obviously because it’s new and we haven’t played it 17 million times, all these songs, it’s always nice to have new stuff. But there’s a song called 'Radiant City' which is kind of cool. It starts out with just Sergio on bass, just [mimics bass notes] it’s just got this really nice kind of driving [rhythm], you know what I mean? And that’s my one right now, it changes every few days, but I’ve had time to live with the record too…"
