This has been amended.Long running alternative metal band Deftones have very rarely slowed down in their over 30 year career. Update: a previous version of this article mixed up Stephen Carpenter’s name with that of drummer Abe Cunningham. Watch the video for Hearts/Wires, which is taken from 2016’s Gore, below. Check out all the dates here, which include shows at Hellfest, Austin City Limits and an extremely special appearance at Robert Smith’s Meltdown Festival in London. There’s currently no say on when the album will see the light of day, however Deftones will be touring this year.

The best part is that now we are writing songs for the new album, and unlike Gore, it’s been a joint effort.”

Most of his problems were not about Deftones, but about personal things. He says: “ We really want Stephen to have a strong role on all the albums, but in this case it did not turn out the way we wanted. In the chat, which was translated by The PRP, Moreno also spoke of guitarist Stephen Carpenter’s involvement in the process, having been notably less invested in the recording process for Gore. Today we are older guys, I suppose, but we still enjoy making songs with marked riffs, cool melodies and a lot of groove. Everyone has their own feeling, because it belongs to an era. Either with Adrenaline, we were boys, with White Pony, we had matured a little, with Diamond Eyes or with which we are recording. I think all our albums were postcards of what we were going through at each moment.

They are very powerful, and I am anxious because, as I told you before, it has been a collaborative process. The American hard rock outfit are set to release the follow-up to 2016’s Gore either at the end of this year or the start of 2019, with a Spanish interview revealing that the record will be considerably heavier and feature plenty of groove.ĭuring a chat with, Moreno claimed that the group already had around six or seven songs which they were working on: “ There are six or seven songs, which are still mutating. Deftones frontman Chino Moreno has offered up an interesting update regarding their new album.

Deftones albums 2019