American metal band Deftones have revealed that they’ve recorded the instrumentals to the follow-up to 2020’s Ohms, with just Chino Moreno needing to lay down his vocals.
In an interview with KROQ at Coachella—where Deftones notably played Combat for the first time since 2011 and brought out their cover of The Smiths’ Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want in a live debut—Moreno said that the band “have a whole record recorded all musically. And it’s pretty much my job right now to finish up the vocals.”
While that’s exciting news, there’s no set date for their tenth album’s release, with Moreno stating that the band haven’t “put a definite timeframe” on the LP.
Explaining the creative energy they’ve found in the studio, Moreno elaborated, “We hadn’t written a record since—what was it? Pre-COVID, I think, when we were last in the studio. We’ve been playing shows, but we hadn’t really got into being creative. The creative part, to me, is always the funnest part of being in this band.
Describing the feeling that “cannot be topped” when in the studio with his bandmates, Moreno teased an “invigorating” new album, adding:
“When you get in the room with your friends, we’re laughing, we’re having fun, and then someone does something, and then I react to it, or they react to what I’m doing. It goes in a circle, and then, all of a sudden, we lift our heads up, and there’s something that exists that didn’t exist before we walked in that room. That’s just great.”
During the interview, Moreno said that the new songs are sounding “really good,” but the band wants the next album to be “great. “We’re really excited with what we’ve been working on, and everybody’s jazzed,” he said.
You can watch Moreno talking about Deftones’ new album approximately five minutes into the interview.
Deftones last performed in Australia for Good Things Festival in December 2022, just one spot behind headliners (and currently touring) Bring Me The Horizon.
The iconic nu-metallers “ripped through a setlist that spanned all Deftones eras, with tracks coming from Ohms, Diamond Eyes, Around The Fur, White Pony, the self-titled album and Koi No Yokan,” The Music’s Brisbane review noted. You can find the complete review here.
In an album review of Ohms for The Music, Alex Sievers declared that the LP “is satisfying and rewarding off the bat without having to test your patience nor requiring you to alter your state of consciousness in order to ‘get it’”.
