“Like people assume that because Stephen looks like the most metal guy in the band, that he only listens to metal… but he listens to mellow music too.
“We all had the same idea, but different ways of going about it,” says Moreno of the process. In shaping their definitive hybrid sound, Deftones married their heavy metal roots with other influential sounds of the Eighties and Nineties, drawing from shoegaze, industrial, trip-hop and electronica. He looked at us like we were fucking crazy. Me and Chino kind of cornered him at the Cattle Club. “We actually hit up before we even wrote the album,” added Delgado. “We had that idea 20 years ago,” said Moreno. So far, DJ Shadow is the only confirmed producer to contribute to the album. “Electronic, beat-driven music was something we all gravitated towards in that time,” said Moreno, citing DJ Shadow and UNKLE as influential during the White Pony era. The latter album will feature all-new remixes of the tracks, each rendered by a different producer. The band confirmed that White Pony will be getting a reissue later in the year, as well as a remix LP titled Black Stallion. Earlier in the week, Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno, drummer Abe Cunningham and keyboardist Frank Delgado hosted a virtual press conference on Zoom to share updates from quarantine - as well as revelations on the album that forever changed a genre. In 2020, Deftones continue their trailblazing arc as an alternative leader with their ninth full-length album, Ohms, and a thrilling full-album remix of White Pony.This Saturday, June 20th, marks the 20th anniversary of Deftones’ third album White Pony, which Rolling Stone named as one of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. Selling out both installments to date, the eclectic lineups hosted everyone from Future and CHVRCHES to Gojira and Megan Thee Stallion. Not to mention, they curated, launched, presented, and headlined their own festival, Dia De Los Deftones, in 2018. Following the success of Diamond Eyes and Koi No Yokan, Gore landed at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 in 2016, moving over 71K units first week and marking their highest chart position in 13 years. The quintet’s career spans three platinum albums- Adrenaline, Around The Fur, and White Pony -as well as a 2001 GRAMMY® Award, a gold album Deftones, and countless critical plaudits.
Change (In the House of Flies) (Tourist remix)įormed in Sacramento, CA, in 1988, the multiplatinum GRAMMY® Award-winning Deftones are an influential alternative presence with 10 million records sold worldwide as of 2020.5, making it Deftones’ fourth Top 5 debut and sixth to make it into the Top 10.Īrriving in Ohms’ wake, Black Stallion’s radical remixes further cement the vanguard reputation of a band that is always thinking of the future, even as it looks to the past. Last month, the group released its ninth album, Ohms, to widespread acclaim, including a 5-star review in the NME that proclaimed the band “as thrilling-and as emotional-as they have ever sounded.” The album entered the Billboard Top 200 at No. While White Pony (20th Anniversary Edition) is an opportunity for Deftones to reflect on their legacy, the band continues to move forward and explore new possibilities for heavy music.
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