We already knew the Deftones have been hard at work in the studio since April, and that the band was hoping to release the album in the fall. A new interview with Deftones frontman Chino Moreno at Entertainment Weekly, where he revealed the band is hoping to put the record out on October 9th. Moreno also sheds some more light on the album, and what we can expect from it:
On their sound and naming tracks:
“Obviously we’re an aggressive band — not the heaviest, but there’s a lot of attack,” Moreno told EW. “But there’s also this lush beauty that flows within everything that we do, and that’s my favorite part of the band. To me, it’s the epitome of what the Deftones do.”
“We have to have something to go on when we’re writing a song, and we always come up with a name so we can reference it, and usually it’s just the silliest thing off the top of the head,” Moreno said. “They usually comes from [drummer] Abe [Cunningham] or [guitarist] Stephen [Carpenter]. They name it, and usually it’s something outrageously dumb or an inside joke, and it forces me to come up with great song titles so those song titles will never live on. It’s much easier for me in hindsight to step back and look at it.”
The band will once again be working with Nick Raskulinecz, who produced their phenomenal last album, Diamond Eyes and talks about how he turned the band into a steady efficient machine:
“He’s a very hands-on guy,” Moreno said. “We adopted a work ethic that was really productive on the last record. We said we were going to work eight hours a day, and since we had those hours, everybody in there was super focused. Before that we had been working up in Sacramento, and the vibe was everybody would come in and hang out and we would work when we got around to it. We had to get more efficient.”
Finally, Moreno revealed at the end of their sessions, the band plans to record covers of Elvis and Earth, Wind and Fire. Talk about random?!
We sat down and everybody had their computers on and were playing songs that we like. So we’re going to do an Elvis Presley song — we have five Elvis songs that we’ve been talking about. And we’re going to do Earth, Wind, and Fire. Hopefully we’ll get at least two, maybe three or four.”
I am really looking forward to hearing what the band's output will be.
[via MetalSucks]
