Deftones seem pretty stoked overall on their new record Ohms. Which they should be, because oh man is that record fantastic. Though looking back on their career, vocalist Chino Moreno reveals to Zane Lowe on Apple Music his favorite album Deftones have done so far is the band's 1997 effort Around the Fur. He also said he's not a big fan of the band's debut album Adrenaline.
“…Honestly, I still think [Around The Fur] will always be my favorite record. One of the main reasons why… For one, we were pretty young. We were probably late, maybe mid-20s then, something like that. But we were on fire.”
“…The Adrenaline record… I never really liked that record too much. I still sort of toggle with just like, I appreciate it for what it is, obviously. It’s like we were very naive and sometimes things will shine because it’s like, they don’t know what they’re doing, but sometimes there’s brilliance in that I guess.”
“I knew that we were capable of so much more. So when we got the opportunity to make a second record, and at the time you always hear about, ‘Oh, sophomore jinx, like these bands, they have success first record and their second record comes out and then whatever.’ My headspace was the complete opposite.
I was like, ‘Oh, now we can show people what we can really do.’ And we were so confident… we wrote, recorded it and mixed it and everything within this four-month period – which is really not that long from the time you start writing songs to the time you’re listening to it going, ‘Wow.’ We loved that.”
Around the Fur has been certified Platinum by the RIAA in the United States, and has gone Gold in both the United Kingdom and Australia.
[via Kerrang!]
