Deftones frontman Chino Moreno made an appearance on Scuzz TV to discuss the band’s forthcoming album “Gore” in early February. Footage of that has just been uploaded online and can be seen below. Although we’ve learned in the time since the interview of band guitarist Stephen Carpenter‘s initial disinterest with the writing process for it, Moreno does touch on it below, labeling himself as the ‘aggressor’ when it came to writing the songs for the album as a result.
“It’s hard to explain, I mean it’s not any one… one thing. I mean I think it’s very Deftones-esque in that way. But the way a lot of the songs came about was… I have to say that I did a lot of the writing on this record, Sergio and myself. as far as initiating some of the initial ideas of the songs. Stephen is very present in the record as well, but he is more of the aggressor, I guess—he writes more of the aggressive stuff. I was actually the aggression when it came to what songs we were gonna do… And that wasn’t really, really by choice. I enjoy writing songs, although once Stephen sort of joined into the process, it definitely escalated. And I think that our best songs are when it’s a really collaborative record.”
“Gore” will be released on April 08th. If you missed the news yesterday, the band just announced a new round of summer U.S. touring with Refused appearing on select dates, get those dates here.
