“In that space between the chords and the beat… We just let it breathe,” said Moreno of “Change (In the House of Flies).” “It was pretty miraculous,” said Cunningham of the song. I just remember sitting back and realizing we were making something special.”Ī key element, says the band, was allowing for more negative space, “instead of everyone playing at once,” says Delgado. But we’d drive down Sunset to get home every night, blasting that song in the Mustang, top down.
“We were renting this Mustang 5.0 convertible that was hideous, like bright yellow. “After we’d leave the studio at night, we’d take the rough mix of whatever song we were working on,” Moreno continues. There was some push and pull, but sonically, I realized things started to come together with ‘Digital Bath.'” “Like people assume that because Stephen looks like the most metal guy in the band, that he only listens to metal… but he listens to mellow music too. “We all had the same idea, but different ways of going about it,” says Moreno of the process. In shaping their definitive hybrid sound, Deftones married their heavy metal roots with other influential sounds of the Eighties and Nineties, drawing from shoegaze, industrial, trip-hop and electronica. He looked at us like we were fucking crazy. Me and Chino kind of cornered him at the Cattle Club. “We actually hit up before we even wrote the album,” added Delgado. “We had that idea 20 years ago,” said Moreno. So far, DJ Shadow is the only confirmed producer to contribute to the album. “Electronic, beat-driven music was something we all gravitated towards in that time,” said Moreno, citing DJ Shadow and UNKLE as influential during the White Pony era. The latter album will feature all-new remixes of the tracks, each rendered by a different producer. The band confirmed that White Pony will be getting a reissue later in the year, as well as a remix LP titled Black Stallion.
Earlier in the week, Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno, drummer Abe Cunningham and keyboardist Frank Delgado hosted a virtual press conference on Zoom to share updates from quarantine - as well as revelations on the album that forever changed a genre. But when you do, you learn a little bit more, and then you can start making little adjustments, maybe you wake up a little bit happier the next day, or just make better decisions.This Saturday, June 20th, marks the 20th anniversary of Deftones’ third album White Pony, which Rolling Stone named as one of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. A lot of people need to do that, and it’s not the easiest thing to do. It’s just about how, if you’ve made a decision and it didn’t make you feel good, then how do you change that? You hold yourself accountable.
And I’m not mad at them, I’m probably mad at myself when I know I can do better. A lot of times I’m not able to hold my composure and I’ll be a dick to my closest friends or family sometimes. As you can tell from some of the songs that I’ve written over my time, my emotions have always kind of been all over the place ( laughs). “I had times where out of nowhere I’d be mad. “I think a lot of people deal with this, but at some point if you’re unhappy, or you’re sad, lonely or angry,” he says. Speaking about the new album in this week’s Cover Story, singer Chino Moreno revealed that the recent past has seen him taking a look at himself and working out how he can continue to learn about being Chino.
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