It’s been a relatively long wait for the upcoming tenth studio album from multi-platinum alternative metal favorites Deftones. The celebrated band hit the studio in Nashville, TN earlier this year to lay down the tracks for that outing with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters). That wasn’t a first time pairing of course, as it was Nick Raskulinecz who previously oversaw the band’s past albums, “Diamond Eyes” and “Koi No Yokan“.
Several months after those sessions, vocalist/guitarist Chino Moreno was back in the studio with Raskulinecz in May, finalizing his vocal parts for the record. Since then, there hasn’t been too much said about what fans can expect to hear on it, or when they can get their hands on it.
Presumably, with a U.S. tour set to launch in late February, the group will begin ramping up to the big reveal in a few months time. However, for now, in his latest appearance on B-Real‘s ‘The Dr. Greenthumb‘ show, guitarist Stephen Carpenter had a few more things to say about this highly anticipated full-length offering. When asked what it sounds like, he responded [transcribed by theprp.com]:
“I feel this one sounds like a continuation of ‘Ohms‘ and ‘Koi‘, that’s what I would say… I tell you what, I think when you hear it, like all of our records, you will hear our sound. You’ll hear us. But I think you’re going to hear things on this one that you never heard on any of them. So…”
When asked if there was any rap on it, Carpenter replied “not yet.” After B-Real noted that Moreno “usually finds a way to rap on it somewhere”, Carpenter stated:
“He’s really good at flipping up what he does, like, he always changes what he does,[while] still doing what he does. It’s actually pretty dope.”
Dates for the group’s aforementioned U.S. tour with The Mars Volta & Fleshwater, can be found below. Thanks to a bit of a bump on TikTok and a growing appreciation among younger audiences, that run is also a bit more ambitiously booked than usual, with the band setting out to fill arenas.
02/25 Portland, OR – Moda Center
02/27 Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
03/01 Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center
03/04 San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
03/05 Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum
03/06 Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum
03/08 Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena
03/09 Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center
03/12 Austin, TX – Moody Center
03/13 San Antonio, TX – Frost Bank Center
03/15 Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
03/16 Houston, TX – Toyota Center
03/18 Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
03/20 Orlando, FL – Kia Center
03/22 Sunrise, FL – Amerant Bank Arena
03/24 Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center
03/26 Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
03/28 Indianapolis, IN – Gainbridge Fieldhouse
03/29 Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
03/31 Chicago, IL – United Center
04/01 Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
04/03 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
04/04 Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
04/06 Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
04/08 Boston, MA – TD Garden
04/09 Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
