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[Bifrost]

I'm not surprised but still disappointed 

[Martin]

I'm not surprised but still disappointed 

This. Exactly this.

[RavinVsFlud]

http://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/music/new-songs-or-not-deftones-deliver

New songs or not, Deftones deliver

Posted October 23, 2015 - 5:54pm
By Dave Herrera
Las Vegas Review-Journal

When Deftones were last in town for May's Rock In Rio, the Sacramento-based act played more than a dozen cuts. And while Chino Moreno and company served up satisfying staples such as "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)," "My Own Summer (Shove It)," "Diamond Eyes," "Sextape" and "Change (In the House of Flies)," sadly, the set didn't include any new material.

Six months later, the band returns fresh off a co-headlining tour with Incubus, stocked with material from a new album that's set to be released sometime in the next month or so.

Will Vegas be treated to a sneak peek of the record? It's hard to say. There doesn't seem to be any real extensive plan right now to hit the road in support of the record, at least not until after the first of the year, according to frontman Moreno, who spoke with college radio station WSOU in New Jersey at the end of the summer.

What's more, recent set lists haven't been drastically different from the Rock In Rio sequence. So, yeah, it's hard to say if they'll unveil any of those new songs live yet, but it seems likely that a few could surface. After all, they're going to have to road test the new material at some point in advance of the next tour, and now seems as good a time as any.

Whatever the case, if the band's past two releases are any indication, the as-yet-untitled album should be stellar, as the quintet has continually progressed with each record and remained consistent when it comes to creating compelling music — and that's noteworthy when you're talking about a modern rock act that's been around for more than two decades.

While there hasn't been a ton revealed yet about the new album, Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains reportedly makes a cameo, and in his chat with WSOU, Moreno talked about how bassist Sergio Vega (who stepped in for the since dearly departed Chi Cheng in 2009) plays a six-string bass on the album, which Moreno says provides a solid tonal counterpoint to what he and guitarist Stephen Carpenter are playing.

Stop by Brooklyn Bowl on Tuesday to see if Deftones break out any of the new songs. Expect them to deliver either way.

[RavinVsFlud]

Pretty good Chino phone interview with Chino. Links in article of interview.

http://www.capradio.org/music/eclectic/2015/10/23/chino-moreno-reflects-on-nearly-three-decades-of-deftones/

Chino Moreno Reflects On Nearly Three Decades Of Deftones

by Nick Brunner 
Friday, October 23, 2015

The Deftones return to their hometown for this weekend's Aftershock Music Festival. I recently spoke with lead singer Chino Moreno about the history of the band since its formation in Sacramento in 1988.  I asked Moreno how he feels about playing the older, more aggressive songs the band recorded some 20 years ago.

The band's sound has evolved from the raw aggression of the albums that put them on the map. While Adrenaline and Around the Fur may have captured the minds and ears of frustrated kids, in 2000 White Pony ushered in a more refined sound and with it critical praise. Moreno told me he's always interested in exploring new musical territory with Deftones but likes to let it happen organically.

(Link in artcile)

But, as Moreno went on to explain, the success of White Pony was not a totally stress-free endeavor for the business end of the band or for its record label.

(Link in article)

As for his Sacramento roots, Chino says that as a kid he loved his job in the magazine warehouses of Tower Records.

(Link in article)

Deftones play the main stage of Aftershock on Sunday.  The band is currently prepping the release of its eighth studio record.

[RoyalDeftonicBoy]

New interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGgFab2uMm8

[Vesanic]

I asked Moreno how he feels about playing the older, more aggressive songs the band recorded some 20 years ago.

What the fuck is he talking about?

[tarkil]

New interview in Blabbermouth :
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/deftones-are-still-finalizing-new-album-title-artwork-and-songtitles/


Izzy of the 105.1 The Blaze radio station conducted an interview with DEFTONES drummer Abe Cunningham and turntablist/keyboardist Frank Delgado at this past weekend's Aftershock fetival in Sacramento, California. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On DEFTONES' upcoming follow-up to 2012's "Koi No Yokan" album:

Delgado: "It's being mixed now. It started being mixed a couple weeks back. They're actually going tomorrow to go down and listen to mixes and do things and... We're mixing and we still are in the process of [finalizing the] album title, artwork, songtitles. We haven't even got there yet. But the music's done."

On the writing and recording process for DEFTONES' new album:

Delgado: "You know what's cool? We had some [release] dates that were already kind of tentative. But we were [putting the finishing touches on the album] and the label actually came in. They were, like, 'Hey, guys, for the first time ever, you guys wanna just take your time, make it right, and then we'll release it in the first [quarter] of the year?' And we were, like, 'Wow! Yeah. That sounds great.' And that was actually how we wrote the record. We would go and we'd meet up in L.A. and we'd write for, like, two-three weeks, we'd go home for a week or two weeks, and we'd go back to L.A. and write for a month, then go home for three weeks. So it was very relaxed and very chill. Then we'd do a couple of shows in between all that, and then we were ableto jam our ideas on soundcheck. And we have never done it like that. Usually we'd be, like... They'd say, 'You need a record out at this time.' And then you're, like, 'Oh, shit! We've gotta go in the studio.' Now you've gotta be creative and turn it on within this short amount of time, and write and record. But this one's been hella cool, because it's been at our own pace, at our discretion, and it's been different and really good. And it works for us too, especially now at this time in particular for who we are as musicians and men. A lot of the guys got kids and families, so it worked out for that part of the thing really well."

Speaking about the new album's musical direction, DEFTONES singer Chino Moreno told a radio station this past summer: "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."

Chino also talked about the songwriting process for the follow-up to 2012's "Koi No Yokan". He said: "It's never easy, I don't think. I think we found better ways to work nowadays. We used to have our own studio in Sacramento, and we didn't have set hours or anything like that. We would show up at the studio at eight o'clock at night, and we'd get there, and we'd have no focus. I mean, we'd sit there for two hours watching 'Lost'... Seriously, we would just waste a lot of time, and by the time we'd start playing our instruments, it was midnight or one o'clock in the morning. We were taking three years sometimes to make records. And I attribute that to a lot of different things, but that was one of the main things. A couple of records back, we adopted this [routine] of going in at this hour — we start at noon and we end at five. And the room that we actually write in is pretty small, so while we're in there, we wanna be actually doing something productive. We just need to create, create, so we can get out of here for the day, and then listen to whatever we did the next morning, come [back] in, and do it again. We did, like, ten days, two weeks of writing sessions — going in and spending six days a week just doing that. We all live apart now — a couple of guys live in Sacramento, I live in Oregon, one guy lives in New York, and one guy lives in L.A. So, yeah, we all kind of fly in to meet at a certain spot and just work. And we all kind of go back to our little hideouts and come back and meet again. So it's kind of cool."

According to Moreno, sixteen songs were written for DEFTONES' new CD, which was once again produced by Matt Hyde (SLAYER, CHILDREN OF BODOM, MONSTER MAGNET, WINDS OF PLAGUE). The effort will feature a guest appearance by Jerry Cantrell (ALICE IN CHAINS).

Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/deftones-are-still-finalizing-new-album-title-artwork-and-songtitles/#1vRSSD4BbsfI4GmS.99

[RavinVsFlud]

http://diffuser.fm/18-years-ago-deftones-leave-nu-metal-in-the-dust-with-around-the-fur/

18 Years Ago: Deftones Leave Nu Metal in the Dust with ‘Around the Fur’
by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni October 28, 2015

“It sounds like something sexual,” Deftones frontman Chino Moreno explained during a 1997 Dutch TV interview. “But it isn’t.” He was referring to the title of the band’s landmark second album, Around the Fur, which had just recently come out at the time. Moreno went on to discuss how he’d been mulling over the unattractive truth that lurks beneath glamorous surfaces. He talked about fur as a visible exterior that conceals skin, which appealed to him as both a metaphor for what people hide about themselves – and as an inverse analogy for the band’s sound, which he described as “soothing” under its “ugly” and “abrasive” exterior.

Indeed, Around the Fur captures the first full blossoming of the duality that has come to define the Sacramento quintet’s musical identity. The album also set a new standard for ’90s alt-metal and opened doors to what’s possible when bands find the motivation to get heavy away from the brutish impulses that typically drive aggressive music. Which is not to say that Around the Fur doesn’t ooze with aggression, but that Moreno and company had learned how to marshal aggression in its broadest sense. As Around the Fur demonstrates, guitarist Stephen Carpenter and the rest of the band had already perfected their ability to warp heavy riffs to suit ambiguous moods. In moments where the music erupts like boiling lava, it’s nevertheless clear that anger isn’t its primary motivation.

When the 1995 Deftones debut Adrenaline first arrived, it cast the band as a slightly more speed-driven variation of the nu metal movement spearheaded by the likes of Korn. As Korn and Adrenaline made clear, rap’s influence had soaked into metal all the way to the roots. Moreno’s vocals on that album place him as a kind of quasi-rapper in a post-thrash, Helmet-influenced world, but the overtones of groups like Cypress Hill were also apparent in the overall sonic ambience and the grooves that both bands favored. On Around the Fur, however, Moreno’s love of new wave groups like Depeche Mode and the Cure began to rear its head in earnest.

At the same time, Around the Fur sounds undeniably thicker and heavier than Adrenaline. When Carpenter locks-in with late bassist Chi Cheng and drummer Abe Cunningham, the three of them together sound gigantic as the music bounds forward with a dinosaur-like stride. Just as significantly, though, the production — once again courtesy of producer Terry Date (Soundgarden, Fishbone) — captures a much wider sense of space that leaves room for Carpenter’s chords and Cunningham’s cymbal hits to trail off into the air. (You can even hear this on low-bitrate MP3s.)

Around the Fur also marks the further integration of DJ-keyboardist Frank Delgado. A far cry from the ornamental DJ scratching favored at the time by groups like Incubus and Sugar Ray, Delgado would eventually become a full-time Deftones member and play an integral role in shaping the sonic character of every Deftones album after this. On Around the Fur, he brings an eerie sense of atmosphere to half the songs, including the darkly ethereal bridge section of the otherwise piledriving title track.

The final piece of the Deftones puzzle to fall into place, Delgado’s contribution essentially consummates the band’s ugly/soothing, crushing/delicate dynamic. His arrival dovetailed with the huge developmental leap forward the band took on Around the Fur, the moment where every aspect of their sound, style, and temperament came together. It’s no surprise, then, that singles like “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)” and “My Own Summer (Shove It)” — the latter with its thrilling video — broadened the band’s audience.

Deftones appeared on both Warped Tour and Ozzfest in the wake of Around the Fur, but looking back it’s easy to see why the album firmly entrenched them in the alt-rock firmament and earned them a place as commercial-radio staples. No small feat for such an uncompromising work, one that remains “heavy” in more ways than one.

[Brice]

Short interview with Chino by Daniel P Carter for the BBC Rock Show last night, starts around 1h10 minutes mark :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nmx5p#play

[Raswid]

Short interview with Chino by Daniel P Carter for the BBC Rock Show last night, starts around 1h10 minutes mark :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nmx5p#play

So they finished mixing, now mastering. They are close to get album title.
And... they will try to play new song on Wembley!!! I hope it's true.

[endstand]

I hope they will play new song(s) in all of the European shows.

[E-Money]

Man kinda disappointed they didn't do a new song durning the Cali shows. The crowds were great at all of then. Fans were really into it. Hope they do it in Europe. That Ventura show was really special. Probably the best show I've seen by them since chi passed. The energy in there was just incredible.

[ANattyRat]

Short interview with Chino by Daniel P Carter for the BBC Rock Show last night, starts around 1h10 minutes mark :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nmx5p#play

So they finished mixing, now mastering. They are close to get album title.
And... they will try to play new song on Wembley!!! I hope it's true.

Stupid question, but what's the difference between mixing and mastering? Yay, progress finally! I really hope they play a new song in the UK, it'll be an awesome show.

[N0S3BLEED976]

Mixing is putting all the recorded parts together, adding effects, fades, equalizers, etc. while mastering is basically putting on the finishing touches like setting an equal volume between songs and so on

[therealdaebat]

Short interview with Chino by Daniel P Carter for the BBC Rock Show last night, starts around 1h10 minutes mark :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nmx5p#play

So they finished mixing, now mastering. They are close to get album title.
And... they will try to play new song on Wembley!!! I hope it's true.

Stupid question, but what's the difference between mixing and mastering? Yay, progress finally! I really hope they play a new song in the UK, it'll be an awesome show.

Mixing is applying effects to individual sounds and mastering is when you affect the entire song. http://www.fixyourmix.com/mixing-vs-mastering/

[Diplo]

Maybe it's too early for a new song in the next Paris shows ?

[Brice]

Maybe it's too early for a new song in the next Paris shows ?

We'll see on Saturday ;-)
Hope they will play it.

[DefAlx]

Does anyone have new Kerrang #1595? There's something about Deftones should be there. Please share if you have it already.

http://www.kerrang.com/37935/k1595-pvris-out-of-the-darkness-a-rock-phenomenon/

[deftfan]

Full size (1820x1200) here: http://deftfan.bplaced.net/deftones%20-%20K1595.jpg

[DefAlx]

Thank you Deftfan!