The band has always dealt in extremes, uncovering light in darkness and finding beauty in heaviness. DEFTONES Confirm New Album For 2019 itshappening By Greg Kennelty Published Decemitshappening Deftones keyboardist Frank Delgado recently revealed that the group is working on a brand. Musically, the French quartet-brothers Joe Duplantier (vocals, guitar) and Mario Duplantier (drums), Christian Andreu (guitar), and Jean-Michel Labadie (bass)-gracefully swings between quaking and quivering guitars, mind-bending percussion, chillingly elegant melodies, and cosmic atmospherics. Fueled by unbridled emotion, the ten tracks confront the fragility of life, the aftershocks of loss, and what lies beyond this realm. Gojira incite a similar release on their sixth full-length album and second for Roadrunner Records, 'Magma'.

Lying beneath the ground’s surface, this molten material engages the earth to unleash its own lifeblood. In 2020, Deftones will release their much-anticipated ninth full-length and continue their trailblazing arc as an alternative leader.ĭeftones are Chino Moreno (vocals, guitar), Stephen Carpenter (guitar), Frank Delgado (keys, samples), Abe Cunningham (drums), and Sergio Vega (bass). Selling out both installments to date, the eclectic lineups hosted everyone from Future and CHVRCHES to Gojira and Megan Thee Stallion. Not to mention, they curated, launched, presented, and headlined their own festival, Dia De Los Deftones, in 2018. Following the success of Diamond Eyes (2010) and Koi No Yokan (2012), Gore bowed at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 in 2016, moving over 71K units first-week and marking their highest chart position in 13 years. The quintet’s career spans three platinum albums-Adrenaline (1995), Around The Fur (1997), and White Pony (2000)-as well as a 2001 GRAMMY® Award, a gold album Deftones (2003), and countless critical plaudits. Deftones’ last album, Gore released in 2016, was their eighth studio album.Formed in Sacramento, CA during 1988, multiplatinum GRAMMY® Award-winning Deftones are an influential alternative presence with 10 million records sold worldwide as of 2019. The band is excellent at alternating the heavy riffs and screaming vocals with more atmospheric and hushed music. It’s almost like starting from scratch again and making a whole other record,” he described.īesides Moreno, guitarist Stephen Carpenter, drummer Abe Cunningham, keyboardist/turntablist Frank Delgado and bassist Sergio Vega are the men behind Deftones. “It is a little bit more time-consuming because we’ve made the one part of the record and now it’s like starting all over again and making the vocal part of it. Moreno explained the slight delay of the new album is because of the “time-consuming” polishing. I like to collaborate and be inspired by the people around me, the people I’m making music with.” You start piecing it together and that’s just usually the way I’ve always worked.

“A lot of times when we’re making the songs themselves, I’ll have a rough jumble of words or melodies or whatever, but kind of the way we’ve always been is the music has always been the inspiration for the words.įor me, I’m not a person who keeps a diary or a journal or a book of poetry or things to draw from, I’m just inspired by the sounds that are coming out and sort of just react to those sounds. When asked about his inspiration for making music, Moreno admitted his method is similar to a word puzzle that is ‘jumbled’ and then comes together. So that’s pretty much where we’re at right now.” “This summer, we actually went into the studio and recorded an album’s worth of music,” Moreno addressed, “so, the music was pretty much done and the last few months have sort of just been working on the lyrics and the melodies and the singing parts. Though the album started a year ago, the recording process really got going in the summer. So, we’ve been doing that for a little over a year or so.” We’re not doing that thing where we go in and lock ourselves in a room until it’s done we are kind of enjoying our time making it.” He also gave the hard-working credits to the bandmates, “it’s been a cool process, we get together, we work for a couple weeks, whether that’s just making noise and coming up with ideas and then everybody just goes home and comes back to work on ’em a little bit more. In an interview with NBC 7 San Diego, Moreno shared the process of their upcoming album, “we’ve been working on our record for about a year now.

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