Deftones släpper sitt sjunde album den 9 oktober. Albumet följer upp Diamond Eyes från 2010, sångaren Chino Moreno kommenterar, ”Obviously we’re an aggressive band — not the heaviest, but there’s a lot of attack. But there’s also this lush beauty that flows within everything that we do, and that’s my favorite part of the band. To me, it’s the epitome of what the Deftones do.”
Albumet produceras utav Nick Raskulinecz som även stod för Diamond Eyes och har förr jobbat med bland andra Foo Fighters, Rush, Evanescence och Alice In Chains. Moreno kommenterar, ”He’s a very hands-on guy. We adopted a work ethic that was really productive on the last record. We said we were going to work eight hours a day, and since we had those hours, everybody in there was super focused. Before that we had been working up in Sacramento, and the vibe was everybody would come in and hang out and we would work when we got around to it. We had to get more efficient.”
Som sig bör spelar Deftones in en handfull covers, några kommer finnas med på albumet medan andra förblir osläppta. Moreno kommenterar, ”We’ve done a lot of ’80s stuff, but we wanted to do something from farther back. We sat down and everybody had their computers on and were playing songs that we like. So we’re going to do an Elvis Presley song — we have five Elvis songs that we’ve been talking about. And we’re going to do Earth, Wind, and Fire. Hopefully we’ll get at least two, maybe three or four. It’s always fun. We’re done with the real creative part of having to come up with music out of thin air, and now we can be experimental with someone else’s song.”
