There’s one Deftones album that frontman/guitarist Chino Moreno doesn’t look back all that fondly on, and for good reason. 2006’s “Saturday Night Wrist” saw the band at one of their lowest points, with Moreno fighting through drug addiction, which led to the band barely communicating with each other. Moreno recently recalled that time to Teamrock.com:
“Communications stopped. Instead of us arguing about things we just gave up, like trying to fight or even to try and communicate. And that was what really made that suck, because instead of working things out and arguing things out, and settling on what was best, both of us kinda stopped wanting to even argue.
It was one of those things where it was like ‘if you don’t care then I don’t care’. ‘If you’re not going to talk then I’m not going to talk.’ And us both [him and guitarist Stephen Carpenter] being bullheaded and then nothing gets done, No one’s taking the driver’s seat. We never really fought. It was more just like a power struggle.”
He continued:
“The album was fragmented in a really bad way. No one took the driver’s seat there, so it was like no direction and at the very end there was all these pieces that you kind of had to stack them together and try to make an album out of it, and that’s how it sounds to me when I listen back to it.”
