New Deftones album could be ready, indicates publication with Chino Moreno

Everything indicates that the new album by Deftonesannounced in September last year by guitarist Stephen Carpenter, it is almost or completely ready. Last month, in a radio interview KROQ (via NME), at the Coachella, Chino Moreno stated that the band “has an entire album recorded instrumentally” and that it was “basically” their “job to finish the vocals”.

However, the vocalist confessed that he didn’t want to “set a definitive date” for the release: “We’re not in a rush. We want it to be great. I think that’s the most important thing. But it’s coming.”

Last week, David “Beno” BenvenisteCEO of Velvet Hammer Music and Management Groupshared a photo alongside dark skinned and the producer Nick Raskulinecz on his Instagram, with a studio in the background. Raskulinecz worked How Deftones in albums diamond eyes (2010) and Koi No Yokan (2012).

“We hadn’t written an album since — when was that again? Pre-covid, I think, when we were last in the studio,” he explained. dark skinned The KROQ. “We were playing shows, but we hadn’t really gotten into creative mode. The creative part, for me, is always the most fun about being in this band.”

“Playing live is great, but creating something out of nothing, that feeling can’t be beat,” he continued. “So when you’re in the room with your friends, we’re laughing, having fun, and then someone does something and I react to it or they react to what I’m doing, it goes in a circle and then suddenly we raise our hands. heads and there’s something that exists that wasn’t there before we walked into that room.