...they All Were There and You Destroyed Them Completely. Theyã¢â‚¬â„¢ll Never Attack Us Again.
Alt metal band Deftones' Chino Moreno, ane of the greatest frontmen in metal, on their next album, crazy stage antics and collaborations
(From left) Sergio Vega (bass), Stephen Carpenter (atomic number 82 guitar), Chino Moreno (vocals), Abe Cunningham (drums), Frank Delgado (keyboards). Photo: Frank Maddocks
Later spending a considerable number of years [perchance a decade, even] doing back flips into the front row of hungry audiences across the earth, Chino Moreno, 42, says his stage diving days are long by. Moreno, the frontman of culling metal band Deftones, says over the phone from his Bend, Oregon dwelling, "A lot of that stuff, I don't actually remember doing. Information technology was all this stuff I did when I was kind of defenseless upwardly in the moment. If I spotter some of that stuff, I think to myself, "˜Wow. Why would I do that?'"
Those old, wild days of Deftones was backed upward by the most distinct music that set them autonomously from nu-metallic when they released the seminal White Pony in 2000. We might have unpredictable djent metal now, but Deftones' power lay in creating unpredictable sonic moods "" that went from the brooding to the all-out blazing ["Passenger," one of their most popular tracks, features prog rock band Tool's frontman Maynard James Keenan]. They followed it up with a cocky-titled album in 2003, which was a study in extremities "" from "Hexagram," which Moreno says is the most emotional vocal to perform live, to the slow-riff explosion that's "Minerva."
Each Deftones record since White Pony has remained consistently acclaimed, gaining Deftones a reputation that fifty-fifty drew in fans who by and large didn't like metal. Deftones still remain angry, seething and pained, but their terminal two albums "" Diamond Optics [2010] and Koi No Yokan [2012] "" have been "happier," according to Moreno. He adds, "I recall our last couple of records were very similar in sure means. They carried a bit of an optimistic vibe in them. To me, they were similar brother and sister records."
"For all the stuff I've done, I've never broken a os in my body so"¦ but the craziest thing I do now is snowboard."
Diamond Eyes was delivered after a gap of four years, the longest the Sacramento ring had gone without a release. This was caused past a machine accident in 2008 that left bassist Chi Cheng in a coma. Cheng died in 2013 afterwards a long boxing. They shelved their existing album Eros [yet to exist released, the only song released is a tribute to Cheng called "Smile"] and toured Diamond Eyes with new bassist Sergio Vega.
Their upcoming eighth studio album, Gore, set to release on Apr eighth with a unmarried out in February, likewise comes after a four-twelvemonth gap. But now, with major festival performances lined upwardly everywhere, from U.k.'due south Download Festival to Germany's Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, Deftones are ready to striking the road over again. In an exclusive interview with ROLLING Stone India, Moreno talks about new fabric, raising his kids in a musical household and futurity collaborations.
Deftones performing at KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas Xl in Los Angeles in 2000. Photograph by Jeff Kravitz/Getty images
What was your favorite moment of 2015?Â
The year was pretty much a year off for the band, other than recording. It was pretty mellow. I enjoyed being dwelling house and kinda recording this album. It's important for united states at this time, because the concluding couple of records we made, we did information technology pretty fast and sort of worked ourselves abroad. On this record, we were a lot more than leisurely. I kinda enjoyed that approach because y'all're able to expand on a lot of things doing it that way.
What tin can you tell us about the new record?Â
The record itself is a slight departure, non from the stuff we've done every bit a band, only from the terminal couple of records. It's still very much similar Deftones, only I think we just tried to aggrandize on things. I don't remember it'due south a record people are going to expect from the band. Nosotros always effort to not fall into any formula and expand on what we've washed. This record is like an expansion from the final two records, I'll say that for sure.
It was originally due in September, right?Â
We took our time with pretty much"¦ nosotros had the tape done quite some fourth dimension ago. But we wanted to take our fourth dimension mixing. Nosotros had a few different mixes come in and do information technology. Nosotros thought we'd wait until adjacent yr, until nosotros started touring over again. This yr, at present. The official release date will be April eighth.
Y'all mentioned in an interview that you're more into writing the romantic kind of stuff than aroused stuff "" has this record still got some heavy stuff in it? [Alice in Bondage guitarist] Jerry Cantrell is on it.Â
Aye, most definitely. One of the strongest points about the music that nosotros brand is it's kind of between the annoying sound and the soothing sound. Those dynamics are very much function of this tape, only it's but a dissimilar manner of doing things, yous know? That's what we expand on.
"I'yard not very creative on my own. I similar working with other people."
But obviously, my experience over the years, even before I became role of the band, I was actually into more melodic music than only aggressive music. I didn't go into the aggressive stuff until early on, when we started the band. I call back I've kinda dealt better with a wide range of combing those influences, mixing them into what we practice and in doing it so information technology'due south very organic. It'south not something that'south forced; it just naturally comes out of me when I hear the music that's being made. It's definitely got that yin and yang of what nosotros do.
You lot were in Paris when the terrorist attacks took place last year. Do you take dates confirmed to become back to the metropolis? What do yous think it's going to be like?Â
I'1000 sure information technology'll definitely be a moving experience. We've been to Paris and France then many times and we've had and then many nifty shows, a lot of great times there. Obviously, it was a terrible event, merely I recall the dandy times we've had there completely outweigh this one feel. We're hoping to go back and make some more memories. I remember sometime in the summertime, perhaps in June, is when we plan on going back to France.
There's a string of festivals you guys are summit billing on this spring and summer "" when you lot wait out into a bounding main of people, is it difficult to sometimes tell where yous are in the globe?Â
Not necessarily. Nosotros have very intimate relationships, we have it different in each place we get and information technology's always good to go back there and experience that again. That's all over the world and we'll exist glad if we get to come to India "" we always wanted to become there. And hopefully we will be able to do that this cycle. We are really planning on that.
At that place are likewise massive crowds out there "" in almost all your shows until a sure point, yous used to flip dive into the crowd, fifty-fifty on the stage "" it looked existent hurtful. What's the craziest affair 42-twelvemonth-quondam Chino has done on stage?Â
[Laughs] At present I'm not in my early on 20s. Now I'm in my early 40s. Information technology's a good few years ago. For me, when I lookout some of that stuff back "" a lot of that stuff, I don't actually remember doing.
I remember one time we were playing a testify in Sacramento, which is actually our hometown, and I climbed on peak of this barricade, on to the speaker stack on the side and then I didn't realize how high I was. Information technology was one of those things where I was upwards there and thought, "˜Wow, this is also high to jump off of'. Just I felt so in-the-moment that "˜I'm up here now, I have to do it'. I remember merely gratis-falling off there and that was probably 1 of the scariest things, because I was unconscious. But I ended up doing it and information technology was probably i of the more memorable falls from our early on days. It was pretty great.
The band at the 2013 edition of Leeds Festival, England. Photo by Gary Wolstenholme/Getty Images.
I'm guessing you never broke any bones.Â
Ah, definitely not. But I've been lucky, because since I was a kid, I used to skateboard all the time. For all the stuff I've done, I've never broken a bone in my body so"¦ but the craziest thing I practise now is snowboard. The stage, I still jump effectually, but it's nowhere well-nigh what I used to do in the Nineties.
Y'all've personally done then many collaborations with so many different bands "" from [post-hardcore ring] Norma Jean to [metal band] Lamb Of God "" what do you look for in a collaboration? How do you pick?Â
Well, a lot of those collaborations were people who asked me to do a song with them. They had my voice in mind for something they had written. A lot of times, I don't mind. For me, it'south fun to work with people "" yous meet how they work differently and you acquire things, especially the lead vocalizer. I never had any formal training in singing, so I only learned past my experience and worked with other singers and run into how they do things.
I've actually been asked a lot more than by people to practice guest appearances and things similar that, just I really don't have the fourth dimension to do it. But from the ones I've done, the ones you've mentioned, information technology'due south always a fun time and a good experience to piece of work with other people and see how it turns out.
Take at that place ever been any collaborations on your wishlist? Somebody like Depeche Mode?Â
Yeah. Well, of class, I would love to piece of work with anybody from Depeche Way "" new or quondam "" that'due south ever been my favorite ring. Anything from my childhood "" stuff I grew up listening to "" and so in that location's simply some nostalgia there, to connect on that level with somebody who influenced you. It will e'er be something special.
I like it better when people approach me to do music as opposed to me approaching people, because if they approach me, I feel like they specifically are influenced past me or what I practice. I tin can then just be myself and I don't have to effort and see how I fit into that. Just collaborating in full general is fun, though. I have a studio in my house but I inappreciably e'er record annihilation because I don't similar working by myself. I get down people and that'southward the fun fashion to be artistic. I'm not very artistic on my own. I like working with other people.
Speaking of those collaborations "" is in that location going to be Team Slumber, Palms or Crosses material out in the future?Â
Yeah, I remember all three of them. That'south in the works for all three of those projects, so I recall any i gets finished first. It all depends on the guys who are making the music for it. I like those projects likewise, because I don't have annihilation to do with the music part. It's kind of similar where they simply make music and I merely react to the songs that are already there. Not like Deftones, where I'chiliad part of writing the songs from their inception. Information technology's usually rewarding. Hopefully I'll get to do some of that this yr as well.
Both your sons Kristian and Jakobe are musicians "" what was it like bringing them upwardly and did yous call back they'd get into music?Â
I remember they both grew upward in a very musical household. Not just me, but even their mother is very into music "" a lot of old punk stone and bang-up music that I was into when growing up. They heard a lot of different music in our household equally kids and I e'er wanted them to observe their own thing. I never pushed them to make music or what to listen to. They were e'er very curious, since they were little "" "˜What is this album?' and stuff. Now that's exactly the way I listen to music "" I however haven't changed that"¦ the first thing I do in the morning is to grab my estimator and listen to music. I'm listening to all kinds of music and that'south my biggest hobby. My boys are the aforementioned exact way. They've come into their own and the younger son has a actually thrash punk band and my other son is an electronic DJ "" he does a lot of French and European sometime-school weird electronic shit "" information technology's really great to see them completely be their own people.
Was in that location a stage where they didn't get Deftones at all and now they like it?Â
They've always liked it, I call up. Even when they were kids, they'd come to shows and relish information technology, simply at present I think"¦ if they wanted to, they would try and make music similar Deftones, but they don't and do nothing like that. They do exactly their own thing and I don't think information technology's because they don't like Deftones or anything, but they just take their ain tastes and I actually capeesh who they are.
Deftones' music has an emotional touch to it. Which songs are emotional for you to play?Â
Some of the harder ones, like the vocal "Hexagram," off the self-titled record. That song is even so insane to me. It really makes me lose my mind for a second. That'due south one of the songs where I actually feel that passion. Some of the other songs, as well, like we still play "Digital Bathroom" "" that song always gives me this haunting, hollow feeling while playing information technology. Just it's very frail and that'due south the opposite of something like "Hexagram." In that location's a gamut of emotions that we're lucky enough we go to get through during a typical set of ours. I similar the extremes of playing different things during an hour-and-a-half-long set.
You guys have a lot of fans in India. Accept y'all had any offers to play here?Â
Non that I've ever been aware of. Merely hopefully, this interview volition help. We'd beloved to exist downwardly there. We as a band have talked near it a few times and we ever wanted to experience that role of the globe.
Listen to Deftones' second single "Doomed User" here.
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