The new Deftones record has long been looming over our heads like some unattainable prize, though that might just be my impatience coupled with a severe want for a new Deftones record. We'd been hearing October as the release date for a little while now, though in a recent interview WSOU, Chino Moreno says the new release date is maybe November 20… don't quote him on that though.
“I think October or November now, probably November, as of today we are rushing to get our thank you’s our credits and all that stuff turned in. Once the music turned in which should be hopefully in the next couple of weeks there is still some mixing and mastering to be done. But the recordings all done the songs are all there, they are awesome we’re excited about it. We’re just dealing with the stuff now, putting all the artwork and everything together. And then a few months for them—the powers that be—to prepare it to be released … You know what they told me, I think it’s the [November] 20th. Don’t quote me on that though.”
Moreno also touches on some of the more interesting aspects of the album, like the fact that bassist Sergio Vega is using a six-string bass/baritone guitar.
"Every time we make a record, our main focus, with anything, is to try different things, and try things maybe outside our comfort zone a little bit. But this time, this record, one thing that's really cool, sonically, is that our bass player [Sergio Vega] is really not so much playing… He does play bass on some of the record, but [on] a lot of the record he plays a Bass VI, which is a six-string bass, which is more like a baritone guitar, sort of. So the way his frequency works with my guitar frequency and Stephen's [Carpenter] guitar frequency, it kind of [gave] it a different sound."
Ugh… everything I hear about this record makes me that much more excited. Here's hoping that late November date is correct!
