Interviews [Topic Unique]

[phoenix_striker]

Ayant constaté que chaque nouvelle interview nécessite souvent un nouveau topic, je prend l'initiative de créer un topic général. En effet, il m'est arrivé plusieurs fois de ne pas savoir où mettre une interview, car je ne jugeais pas nécéssaire de créer un topic pour l'occasion.
J'ai regroupé plusieurs interviews déjà données sur ce forum (par ordre chronologique à partir de janvier 2006), et les suivantes pourront désormais être postées ici (en quote ou en lien).
Les réactions aux interviews sont les bienvenues également, mais si une info importante se glisse dans l'une d'entre elle, libre à vous de créer un topic a coté (si vous préssentez qu'on va en parler pendant 15 pages par exemple).

Bien entendu, deux liens s'imposent:

http://pinkmaggit.free.fr/interviews.htm
http://www.deftonesworld.com/interviews.htm

Le premier qui me traîte de mono-maniaque je lui en colle une

[phoenix_striker]

De: Chino
Par: Alternative Press
Date: Janvier 2006
Langue: Anglais

Why did deftones sign on to do TOC?
We did it for the money (laughs) just fucking with you. seriously, though, we've done the warped tour and as im sure you know, they are similar in nature, its going to be a big year for deftones, and we thought (this tour) would be a good way to kick it all off.

Your fans are probably split down the middle between wanting to see you play versus wanting to hear new music. does participating in the tour inhibit the completion of the new deftones record, or do you look at the taste of chaos as a way to reflect on new material within the framework of a live set?
Don't trip. im finishing the record as we speak, and it'll be done before we start the tour. the record will be out in spring. we tend to take a bit of time in between records, so by the time we're done in the studio, the songs are pretty much done and good to go. the new shit sounds amazing. i cant wait for all our fans to hear it.

If warped tour is punk rock summer canp. how would you describe TOC?
Never really heard that term "punk rock summer camp" before. im not really sure how i would describe TOC, since this is the first time were playing it. hit me up halfway through the tour, and i'll let you know.

How do you pack for this sort of tour?
Ikd chinese proverb: why buy a dog if you're gonna bark yourself? i pack the same way for every tour: get someone to do it for me! much easier that way.

What's the one item that you're going to kick yourself if you forget to bring along?
Shit, i guess it would be my microphone. that or my laptop-definitely the two things i cannot live w/o on the road. tough call. probably my mic, though.

What's the one band you're most excited to see on this tour every nite?
Hmm, a tough one, i cant really say, to be honest. what i CAN tell you is that me and the band are looking forward to this tour, playing with some bands we have never played with before and killing it on a nightly basis.

How do you make the setting feel fresh every night when you're traveling from arena to arena?
Aside from actually making the record, touring is my favorite part of being in a band. touring has never really been a problem for me. but, if i'm ever feeling like i need to keep things fresh, a little baby powder always does the trick.

What's the most extravagant item on your rider?
Live chickens or goats, in some cities. (laughs) nothing too extravagant, we're not that kind of band, i just like a good bottle of jamesons, preferably 18 year old shit.

What does chaos taste like?
Not really sure, though i would assume it'd taste like something purchased from [seattle-based seafood vendor] Pike Place Market on a hot summer afternoon. or maybe an un-maintained coo-coo after jazzercise class.

[phoenix_striker]

De: Abe
Par: MTV
Date: 17 janvier 2006
Topic: Cliquer ici
Langue: Français [Merci Aegehn ]; Anglais

Les fans de Deftones ont pu attendre encore et encore que le cinquième album du groupe sorte dans les bacs. Cela fait plus d'un an qu'on leur en parle, et ils ont pu constater que 2 dates de sortie furent annoncées puis dépassées. Actuellement, les fans savent que l'album n'est pas encore fini - et c'est effectivement le cas. Mais peut-être que personne n'est plus anxieux concernant la sortie du LP que l'un des membres du groupe lui-même : Abe Cunningham le batteur.

"Mec, je suis impatient qu'il sorte," déclara Abe la semaine dernière. "Ca a été si malsain cette fois-ci. C'est la manière dont on a procédé pour le faire. Ce fut un processus très étrange. Chaque morceau a pris du temps et a été un peu plus difficile à créer. Tout ça prend du temps. Et il n'y a rien de mal à prendre son temps pour faire un morceau, mais c'est que... on ne peut plus continuer comme ça. Il y a tellement de technologies disponibles qu’on n’a pas besoin de dépenser autant d'argent. Mais on à quand même dépenser encore et encore et encore. On veut juste qu'il sorte. Dieu sait à quel point cela a assez duré."

Cela fait depuis plus d'un an que les Deftones ont quittés le domicile-studio enneigé de Bob Ezrin, ancien producteur des Pink Floyd, pour les sables gorgés de soleil de Malibu, en Californie, où ils ont depuis réexaminés, arrangés et réenregistrés les montures qu'ils avaient mis sur support avant que le froid ne prenne le meilleur d'eux. A cet instant, les Deftones possèdent 17 titres sur le point d'être finalisés. Meneur, et perfectionniste, Chino Moreno est toujours en train d'enregistrer les chants pour les nouveaux arrangements.

Le temps imparti à Moreno s'écoule. En effet le groupe prendra part au Taste of Chaos Tour avec Thrice, Atreyu, As I Lay Dying et Dredg, qui démarre en fanfare à San Diego le 16 Février pour se terminer le 15 Avril à Montréal. Cunningham affirme qu'il est prévu de commencer à mixer le nouvel album dès que le travail de Chino est terminé et avant le début de la tournée connu sous le nom de "Winter Warped".

"Il est en train de finir les chants sur tout les titres que nous avons enregistrés, et nous n'aurons plus qu'à choisir", explique le batteur, ajoutant "nous allons bientôt commencer le processus de sélection", qui consiste à un vote démocratique des membres du groupe. "J'aime tellement tout les morceaux qu'on a enregistrés que ça va être difficile de choisir", continu-t-il. "Il va sûrement y avoir une sorte de concours. Ca va pas être facile, mais on à déjà un bon feeling sur certains d'entre eux."

Cunningham estime que le disque contiendra une douzaine de pistes (dont une intitulée "America"), et qu'il sera dans les magasins aux alentours de la fin du printemps. Les 'tones vont dévoiler une partie de leur nouvelles chansons lors du Taste of Chaos Tour.

"On va à coup sûr jouer une partie des nouveaux morçeaux," a-t-il dit. "Dans le passé, on à toujours eu peur qu'il y ai des fuites sur les chansons ou quoi que ce soit, mais on peut désormais ne plus s'inquiéter de ça maintenant. On est très excités à l'idée de jouer nos morceaux. Mais on à qu'un set d'une heure, donc on va tenter de caser 4 ou 5 morceaux dans cette heure. Ca va aussi être difficile, mais on espère pouvoir jouer au moins deux nouveau morceaux par set. On a votés pour ça, aussi."

Et concernant le titre de l'album, c'est toujours un mystère pour le groupe en entier, et il sera peut-être aussi sujet à un vote.

"On en a pas vraiment parlé beaucoup. On a été très concentré sur les morceaux," explique Abe. "J'ai regardé sur le net, et j'ai lu que c'était Saturday Night Wrist, et j'avoue que j'aime vraiment la manière de sonner de ce titre. Aussi je pense que ça sera le titre définitif, puisque l'Internet en a décidé ainsi. "

— Chris Harris

[phoenix_striker]

De: Chi Cheng
Par: Fender
Date: Février 2006
Langue: Anglais

Innovative Sacramento, Calif.-based alt-metal heroes Deftones have certainly come a long way since skateboarding together during their late ’80s high school days. Early on, Deftones first defined and then defied the nu-metal label placed on the band and its contemporaries, proceeding to embark on a multi-platinum-selling, Grammy®-winning career odyssey that saw adventurous stylistic nods to trip-hop, punk, acoustic and Brit new-wave elements on albums including Adrenaline (1995), Around the Fur (1997), White Pony (2000) and Deftones (2003).
Through it all, nimble—deft, you might as well say—bassist Chi Cheng (yes, that’s his real name) has provided first-order sonic underpinning, riffing away on his beloved Fender Precision Bass® guitar, a model of which, as we’ll soon see, he is an unabashed and ardent admirer.
Cheng, born in 1970, joined Deftones not long after the band’s inception. A graduate of the University of California, Davis, he has a B.A. in English literature and released his poetry collection, Bamboo Parachute, as a spoken-word album in 2000.
Fender News caught up with the always-articulate Cheng in January 2006, as Deftones were working on their as-yet untitled forthcoming album and preparing to embark on the Taste of Chaos tour (see related story on the tour) ...

FN: First things first—have you finished tracking the new album?
CC: Yes, thank the lord! I think we have (laughs). It’s been about a year and a half on and off. And it’s been a really hard, terrible struggle. I think it’s finally turning around though, and I’m really happy about that.

FN: You stopped working with (legendary Pink Floyd producer) Bob Ezrin. Who are you working with now, and has it had any effect on the album?
CC: The album has been touched by a bunch of different producers. Ezrin did a lot of it with me, Abe (drummer Abe Cunningham) and Stephen (guitarist Stephen Carpenter). And we went back and worked with some other people. Chino (vocalist Chino Moreno) has been working with a bunch of people. I think it’s just a compilation of a bunch of different people, really. Ezrin did a lot of it. I love Ezrin and I got along with him famously. I don’t think he and Chino jived together well, and that happens.

FN: When you deal with artists, that’s what you get, for better or worse.
CC: Yeah. It’s the same thing. Bob Ezrin is also an artist. No one in the band questions how great his work is. It’s just a matter of jiving with somebody or not jiving with somebody.

FN: Does it sound like one fluid work, or does it sound more like a compilation?
CC: It’s really an amazingly good piece. I’m thrilled with it, especially now that I’m starting to hear some vocals for the first time in two years. It’s like, “Holy @#$%!”

[b]FN: Is it more like White Pony or Deftones?
CC: It is more of a White Pony, for sure. It’s got that whole feel and depth. The other album (Deftones) was very intense and kind of dark. Everyone was going through a dark period. This album has a lot more variety and depth. People are really going to be tripped out when they hear this album.

FN: Is there a title?
CC: Hell no! This close to being finished (laughs)? No, no … we’re the Deftones, man!

FN: It’ll be out later this spring?
CC: Yeah, hopefully May or early summer.

FN: Many fans consider White Pony as your definitive album. How do you feel about that, and will the new album change that?
CC: The new album will show that the best is yet to come from the Deftones. I really think this album is going to show what’s going on with our band. We’re nowhere near being done yet.

FN: Chino and Stephen definitely offer different musical influences. Chino is more into the Cure and My Bloody Valentine; Stephen is more into heavier bands like Meshuggah. Where do you stand?
CC: I kind of float around, right in between.

FN: Like Switzerland?
CC: Exactly … I’m neutral (laughs)! Oddly enough, we’ve begun to rehearse again at night. And I’ve been listening to our past albums. Rather than playing with Stephen or Abe, I kind of float in between them.

FN: It’s your job to hold them together.
CC: Yeah, yeah … it’s cool.

FN: With tracking for the new album finished, you can focus on the upcoming Taste of Chaos tour. Will you be adding new songs to the set?
CC: Yeah, we’ll be doing two new songs.

FN: Do they have titles yet?
CC: You know … (Chino) changes the titles so much I have no clue. We haven’t even picked them yet.

FN: Any bands on the bill that you’re particularly excited to see?
CC: I’m always excited to see Dredg. I haven’t seen a lot of the other bands. I’ve seen Thrice, and they’re great!

FN: Last year, you played for the Cure on MTV® Icon™. What was that like?
CC: That was nerve-racking, to be honest. I was thrilled to honor the Cure, a band we all respect and have loved for a long time. But to actually go over there and sit down in front of them with them staring at us, I was just hoping someone else would mess up instead of me. We just played one track (“If Only Tonight We Could Sleep,” from Deftones’ B-Sides & Rarities). It was amazing. I don’t know if I could have stood to play any more songs!

FN: Do you still get nervous when you play live?
CC: Yeah, I do. I had an anxiety dream about it last night. I always have anxiety dreams before I go on the road. It was the worst. I ended up waking up at 7:00 this morning saying, “Oh god, we suck (laughs)!”

FN: You’ve played Fender Precision basses for most of your career. What led you to them and how have they affected your playing?
CC: As soon as I got hold of one, that’s all I played. I think I started playing them when I met Alex Perez (Fender artist relations manager and Custom Shop veteran) on the ’95 Warped Tour. His guitars and basses are the dopest! I was on tour with Fluf then. O (Fluf guitarist/vocalist) played Fenders. I told him that I wished I played them, so he gave me Alex’s number. Two weeks later, Alex sent me two basses. I dropped everything I had been playing, switched right over, and have never gone back! They were Precision Bass Specials, the same basses I play now. They have humbucking pickups in the front and the back, and have vintage Precision pickguards.

FN: How many basses do you take on the road with you?
CC: Just one to play, and one or two as backups. I don’t want it to look like (Van Halen bassist) Michael Anthony’s house (laughs). All respect to Michael Anthony!

FN: Well, do you have a Jack Daniel’s® bass?
CC: No, I don’t. I would probably go with a single-malt bass (laughs)!
FN: Do you play five-string basses?
CC: Yeah, I do have some five strings. I have to admit I’m not a big fan of the five-string, period. That’s more of a necessary evil for me.

FN: Do you tune down your four-string basses?
CC: Yeah, absolutely. Stephen consistently gets lower every album. I’m having to consistently follow him.

FN: Why doesn’t he just get a baritone or a bass?
CC: I don’t know what’s wrong with him. He just keeps going down lower and lower. And on a lot of the songs where he’s playing a seven-string, I’ll still be playing the four. But sometimes it doesn’t translate and I need to get that fifth string. I fought it for three albums, but then I had to give in.

FN: Do you have trouble setting up your action, or do you use much thicker strings?
CC: Yeah, they’re ridiculously thick strings. And I still tune the thing down. I think we’re in Z or Z-flat (laughs)!

FN: How has your playing developed since the Deftones took off? Do you still practice and work on your style?
CC: No. No, I’m lazy (laughs)! I think the more you listen to music, the more you play music, the more you get confident with music—you can move around better, and know yourself as a musician better, philosophically. I don’t have time to sit and practice for four hours like I did in high school. I feel like I should, but with a wife and a kid and a band, it gets to where you’re suddenly a grown-up, and time is hard to find. Young players should enjoy it while they can.

FN: Iron Maiden bassist and fellow Precision lover Steve Harris was a huge influence on you. What other bassists influence you?
CC: I’ve got to say that after my metal period I went into a new-wave period and was really into the Smiths’ bass player (Andy Rourke) and the Cure’s bass player (Simon Gallup, usually). Their playing was unreal! So I got into a small new-wave phase in my high school years. Then I got into punk. I really like a lot of the punk bass players a lot. I still think Matt Freeman from Rancid is such a monster! His playing is really tasteful and classy.

FN: Who else has inspired you?
CC: I love (Charles) Mingus. He set the standard. Jaco Pastorius is nice to listen to, but I can’t emulate it. But it’s beautiful. I love the old reggae bass playing and Studio One bass playing. I listen to that a lot more than I listen to anything else now.

FN: It sounds like there’s more of that in your playing now.
CC: It’s absolutely true. When I wrote the bass part to “Change (In the House of Flies),” Stephen was like, “Dear lord, no! Please don’t play that.” Frank (Delgado, turntables) was like, “Don’t do it!” But that’s how I play. Terry Date (producer), fortunately, was backing me. He told them to leave me alone and let me play the line I wrote.

FN: It was one of your biggest hits …
CC: It was our biggest hit. But Stephen wrote all of the leads and won a Grammy® for it. So he has the upper hand (laughs)!

FN: Now that you’re headlining festivals and inspiring future bassists, any advice for aspiring bassists?
CC: Spend as many hours as you can playing and listen to as many kinds of music as you can. Don’t shut yourself off to jazz or country. I was one of those kids. My mom paid for a month of bass lessons for me, and my instructor wanted me to check out some jazz. All I wanted to learn was (Metallica’s) “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth.” I could’ve been more open-minded (laughs)!

FN: As an avid reader and music lover, what are you listening to and reading lately?
CC: I’m such a collector. I’m reading some Camus. I love The Plague and The Stranger. I also started reading Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays. I’ve got some really rare Henry Miller that I’ve been reading—Sunday After The War. I’m kind of a book collector. It takes up a lot of my money. Unfortunately, (Charles) Bukowski is my favorite writer, followed by (Hunter S.) Thompson. So I like a lot of the derelicts (laughs)!

FN: 2006 marks Fender’s 60th anniversary. Your thoughts?
CC: Let’s have another 60 years of continuously good work. If I’m alive 60 years from now, I’ll still be playing Fender!

[phoenix_striker]

De: Abe
Par: John Benson, Cleveland
Date: 24 Février 2006
Source: Deftones World
Topic: Cliquer ici
Langue: Anglais

Nearly three years removed from their last studio album, the Deftones have finally finished recording the follow-up. Drummer Abe Cunningham tells Billboard.com this is a good sign of how far the band has come through its struggles and internal acrimony, which nearly resulted in a breakup.
"I don't want to sit here and complain because these things happen to everyone," Cunningham says, "but if there was a VH1 'Behind the Music' special on us, it would be the perfect episode with divorces and all kinds of crap. It was just lack of communication. Thankfully, we've been reattaching our limbs."
While sessions started in earnest two years ago for the new project, which, depending on who you ask, could be released in early to late spring (Cunningham) or this summer (Maverick), it wasn't until earlier this year that the Deftones completed recording their fifth album. In describing the new material, which still needs to be mixed, Cunningham looks back for a point of reference.
"Actually, if you look at our last record, I refer to it as 'Dark Days' because that's basically what it was," Cunningham says of 2003's self-titled effort. "It's kind of an incomplete record from my viewpoint. I think it's a good record [with] a lot of good songs but the new album, from start to finish, is a very complete record and has all of the extremes that we like. I'd say it's kind of hard."
While Cunningham says Internet rumors of the effort being called "Saturday Night Wrist" were premature, he wouldn't completely rule out the title. Among the many tracks being considered is "Beware of the Water," which the band may drop into its headlining set on the Taste of Chaos tour. That trek stops tonight (Feb. 24) in Jacksonville, Fla.

Up next for the Deftones is an extended European run in the spring, with an anticipated headlining Stateside jaunt this summer. For now, the band is just enjoying its Taste of Chaos experience as it reclaims its concert legs. "We've been off for quite a while and this is our way to just ease back into it," Cunningham says. "And it's going really well. It's all good."

[phoenix_striker]

De: Stephen
Par: Drew Ailes
Date: Mars 2006
Topic: Cliquer ici
Langue: Anglais

So you're about to embark on the two month long Taste of Chaos tour. While I know doing lengthy tours is nothing too new for you, how do you generally feel the few days prior to beginning a tour of that length?

It's ironic, I was just thinking about that before you called. My psychic intuitive side told me that something like that was going to come up. I knew it, but I was thinking about it myself, that's why I said it to myself. Anyway, it was ironic, I was saying to myself, "you know, it's those three days before the tour, where you're like, if you're about to go on any trip or some shit like that, you're stressing on it and making sure you've packed everything and all that kind of stuff. That's all it is. I think anyone can relate to it. For me, the touring part, that's easy. That's fun. But I think it's just that stress of making sure you don't forget anything.

How long does it usually take you to pack?
Not long. I can probably pack what I need to take with me in less than an hour. I'm really just making sure I have my camera and my computer and all the right cables with me. You know, "do I need to order parts for my guitars," or anything like that. For my personal, I don't have much to take with me. I only roll with like, a week's worth of clothes, and we get our laundry done every day so it's not like I have to have a massive stash of clothes.

Yeah. Whatever I can fit into a suitcase is what I'm wearing for the next...who knows how long.
And plus, when we go out on tour, I try to take nothing with me because I always end up coming back with stuff. So, the lighter I keep it going out, the easier it is coming back.

Are there any bands on the tour that you're already well acquainted with and looking forward to joining out on the road, or is this an entirely new scope of people for you?
Well, Thrice, we've actually toured with them, and I've met the Story Of The Year guys; those guys are pretty cool dudes. I feel like I've met a lot more but it's just going to be fun to go out with a lot of bands. I think those are some of the most fun environments to play in, when there's so many different people playing. So many different angles couldn't cover it.

I know the openers for the dates were selected by popular vote, but how was this tour arranged and organized in general?
I'm really not in the know on that. My recent path has been all about still working on our record and finishing it up with Chino and just rehearsing the last couple of weeks to get it together.

Is there anything about this tour that you see stands out as being different rather than some of the larger tours you've been a part of?
Isn't it kind of like the Warped Tour? Isn't that the basis of it? The winter Warped Tour?

The winter Warped Tour? ?
I mean, it's like the same scene, it's just the Warped Tour is during the summer and the Taste of Chaos is during the winter. Isn't that it?

Warped Tour has a lot of stages, though?
Oh yeah, it's a miniature version of it, but that's because it's only the second year of it. Give it a few years, you watch it. Motocross at midnight...

Monster trucks at 2AM... ?
Right. I don't know, mix it up, have fun. That stuff's all cool. It's just growing. The Warped Tour was a lot smaller when it started out compared to where it is now.

As you mentioned working on the new album, I was wondering if there's a chance of any new material being performed on this tour?
Yeah, we're going to play some new stuff.

Can you give any hints as to how the new material is shaping up as? I've already read it's a little more aggressive, but to what extent?
I can't apply more aggressive to any of it. I think that's funny when people say that. I wish. Hey, I personally wish it was more aggressive.

I think that was in an interview with Chino.
Yeah well, more aggressive for him, maybe. If we busted out some blastbeats and double bass, then I'd definitely be glad to take it to the next level, but that's asking too much right now.

Yeah, blastbeats aren't usually the most widely accepted of all the beats out there.
Uh huh, they're the best, though.

I tend to agree, yeah. So is there any specific intent or defining concept behind this record?
You know, we've never really had a concept on any of them. The way we all explain it is it's just a part of our lives, that period of time and where we're at. I don't think anyone sits down with any plan in mind, it just ends up becoming what it is. It's almost like the artist and the canvas. He might have an idea, but once he starts going, that thing can morph a million ways.

I wanted to move on to your side project, Kush. I know you guys already have a Myspace up with a few tracks, but have you announced a bassist as of yet?
No, not yet. We're not sure about that, yet. Like I said, I've been busy with this, so our goal is to get something recorded with that later this year. But who knows.

How did that come together anyhow? Were you already close with the guys from Fear Factory and B-Real before?
I had met B-Real a couple times before them, but I've known Christian since 1995, and we've been talking about jamming forever. I moved to Los Angeles in December of 1999 and I wanted to get it going when we had time. We were going to be down here working on "White Pony" at that time, so, we started jamming and we pretty much jammed for a couple months every year, for the first couple of years. Then everyone's schedules were flipping all around and stuff, so it's just been more of a time issue at the moment, but later on this year we should have some more time to get something going. It's a matter of it being convenient and respectful to all things going on. We have so much on our schedule and Fear Factory has got all their stuff going on, and B-Real's always working. Either paintballing or working on his solo stuff, or even with Cypress Hill too.

My girlfriend just recently picked up a bunch of Cypress Hill, and I hadn't really followed them past their early material, but their later stuff has changed a lot, and it's actually really good.
I know, the thing that I love about their new stuff is that they play it as a band. They're actually playing in it now, and it's fucking tight.

It's come a long way, it's cool.
I agree.

Are there any other side projects that you have in the pipeline or other people you've worked with that your fans might be unaware of?
I'm doing some drum n' bass stuff with Bobo from Cypress Hill, and then I'm going to mix it up and do some stuff by myself. But it'll be like, metal, definitely, but it won't be all metal. But I really like the faster stuff. It's just something I'm doing on the side. I want to do a drum n' bass album, but I want to play guitar as well, and I want to mix it up. Instead of having a lot of the keys being there, I'll use guitar and the zillions of effects I have to make all those crazy sounds. What I'll probably end up doing is hooking up the music, programming some beats, DJs, whatever, and start it from there. Then start layering some stuff up and making some crazy stuff. The hot hit tracks in the clubs.

Is that your goal? To break into the club circuit?
No, really, my goal is to be number one in the PGA.

Do you do a lot of golfing?
I started to. I started about five months ago, but I pretty much went every day.

What got you started golfing?
Um, I was the number one Tiger Woods golfer online on the Playstation.

Are you serious?
Yep.

That's weird, I've been thinking about golfing lately, and I can attribute it entirely to playing Tiger Woods. I had no interest in the game at all, and now, if you turn on the TV, I'll actually watch it.
I follow the tour all the time. The things I enjoy are golf, watching all the golf channels, all the Nascar shit, that stuff's great, and I listen to a lot of talk radio. I'll listen to anything on it, really.

Just as long as it's talk radio?
Yeah. It's just other people's opinions. You start to see where a lot of people fall in line together and where people clash. You can learn a lot of things from it, I believe.

I blame myself for not knowing more, being that I hardly read, I should be listening to more talk radio.
[laughing] I don't do any reading.

I feel guilty about it.
I don't feel guilty about it. I can talk, and I can communicate as best as I can, and if I have any issues or difficulties with making those communications I'll try to figure out another way or I'll politely excuse myself from the situation. Be like, "I'm sorry, I don't understand, I've gotta go. That one's just above me." You know what I mean? Why lie? Just like, "I don't understand what you're saying, I'm sorry."

I wish more people would do that, but I find when you're kind of direct with them in that way, you'd think people would appreciate the honesty behind it, but they actually don't.
I agree totally. It's amazing. I don't watch a lot of TV because all I have to do is look around. Get some people around you for a couple of hours. You'll find it equally, if not greater than, TV.

Or go sit on a bench at the mall sometime. If you're able to sit there longer than thirty minutes without losing it, at least. I had to be at the mall today for Valentine's Day.
Wha? For what? Wha...what'd you have to do?

I bought chocolate. I'm not going to lie. I bought chocolate.
[laughing]

But, but. It's not because I know my girlfriend would kill me if I didn't buy her chocolate, it's because deep down, I know she will share some of that chocolate with me.
[laughing] I hear you. It's gotta be something you can get something too, I guess.

I mean, I'm a giving guy, I guess, but a little bit has to be selfish. To my credit, I did get her only the chocolate I know she would like.
Valentine's Day. It's such a racket.

Hold on, she just got home.
Nikol: Hi!
Drew: I'm doing an interview. I'm on the phone with the guy from Deftones.
Nikol: Oh. I got you some socks.
Drew: Thank you.
Nikol: Happy Valentine's Day!
Drew: Happy Valentine's Day.

Did you catch that?
Yeah.

She bought me some socks.
Make sure you print that.

I think the last interview I did, I had to stop the interview to watch Laguna Beach with her.
[laughing]

It got me in a lot of trouble with a lot of people except for her.
Yeah, I would have gave you some trouble too, man.

I gave myself more than enough trouble for it. Just battling if I should even...I even had to cut some of it out for what I said, because I'm sure I went on a long big rant about how guilty I felt...but instead I just wrote like, "hold on, dude! Laguna Beach is on!" Hold on, I have to explain what kind of chocolate I got her.
[laughing]

Alright, let me get back to this. Otherwise this interview will crumble before our feet. Which could be cool.
[laughing]

Okay, anyway.
Moving on.

I noticed that the B-Sides and Rarities demonstrated that there's a lot of eclectic tastes operating within the band, but who would you say has the strangest or most abstract taste?
You know, I gotta say Frank. He's a DJ. He's got everything.

That's true, he's forced to have it all. Is there anything anyone listens to that you absolutely can't stand?
Well...you know.

You don't have to name names.
Oh yeah. There's definitely times where I gotta leave the room. I think we all do that to each other, though. It's a good way to get some privacy. Put on some music that you know no one likes. They'll just go the opposite direction, quick. It's a polite way of telling someone to fuck off.

You did an interview with a website back in 2001, and it's a very strange interview, actually. You're talking about losing your faith and tracing it back to something you saw about a metal door being found within the Egyptian pyramids. Do you remember that?
Well, I was talking about that, but I don't think it was about losing my faith.

The interview was weird. It was like, after you said that, you were saying that there was a cover-up about it and you were "gone for good," and then the interviewer follows it up with, "Just remember, it's never too late to turn back, embrace Christ, and the sacrifice he made for each and every one of us."
Hmm. I wonder if that was just edited. I've never really had anyone get really religious with me or anything like that.

It was an interview where you were talking about aliens building the pyramids and all that stuff.
I definitely still believe that.

Okay, good, because that leads me into two questions, which are: are things like that partially the reason why there aren't a great deal of interviews with you out there, and number two: are you kind of a conspiracy theory reader?
No, I wouldn't say I'm into conspiracy theory. I'm just like anyone else. I'm just trying to sift through all the bullshit that's fed to us daily. I'm trying to make my own logical conclusions as to what lies at hand. What you can actually see and what is tangible, you know what I mean? Otherwise it's just all hype. Have you ever looked at the sun satellite website?

No, I haven't.
It's a satellite that monitors the sun and it's going 24/7.

Is that the one they took down because there was like, UFOs or something appearing on it?
Well, it's been talked about for a long time. I haven't looked at it for a long time because I've already seen enough to know what I need to know. Like, yeah, basically, there's eight different filters on this satellite, and one filter really shows physical objects. There's an object in space and it wasn't a photo, but you could totally see the shit. That filter, man, every day, for as far back as you can see, there's activity going on at the sun at an impeccable rate. Something is happening at the sun with something. They're impervious to the effects of the sun. Completely impervious. Stuff that is just...massively huge. You've never seen anything that huge before. And it was in the pictures, man.

I want to see that. Are there pictures on the internet?
Hold on, I've got my computer right here, I'll tell you if it's on. Every day. Every day. I heard it on Coast To Coast, this program at night...

With Art Bell?
Yeah. They had this guy, he's a meteorologist, but he did this other stuff on the side. This whole thing was all about every day our weather is being manipulated.

Yeah, I've read about it. I guess it's with technology that Nikola Tesla came up with.
It's the...uh...I have a picture on my computer of it. The HAARP system.

See, you are too into this stuff. I don't consider myself a conspiracy theory buff either, but I know about all this stuff.
I'm not into the conspiracy of it, like I said, I'm just basing my opinions on what I can see for myself. So here we go, for instance. Right now, I'm looking at the sun. I'm telling you, if I had this thing counted out, I could count you out a good dozen things that you couldn't tell me what they were. And they're massive.

So if I pull this up right now, I can see it?
Yeah.

What's the web address?
Just go to nasa.gov and then just do a search for Soho on their search. There's eight different lenses and filters. There's one where the entire picture will be blue. In the middle of that picture, you're going to see a dark blue circle, and in the middle of that circle, you're going to see a white circle. The white circle in the center of that blue circle is the actual sun, how big it is. That circle is roughly about a million miles wide. The sun is about a million miles wide. If you look just right above the blue circle, there's a huge white streak there. These pictures, if you'll actually look on there, there's different sizes of the pictures you can look at. What you're looking at normally, it's zoomed out a million miles, you know what I mean? But they have the raw images on there where you can zoom in on the image. You can actually look at that shit.

Alright, I'm going to have to do this on my own free time.
Go for it. But look at that shit, you know what I mean?

Yeah, that's very strange.
And since you're on there, do that mpeg of that very same filter. Let it play. It'll basically show you a sequence of all those frames over the last hour or the last day or something like that. Watch it and watch how much shit flies in and out of that picture. [laughing]

But yeah, back to what I was asking about the way the person edited that one interview, is that partially a reason why there aren't a lot of interviews with you?
Usually there's just not a lot because, I don't know, I'm not really Mr. Big Interview. I'm not really...I just...you can only say so much. I'm not really a big hype person. I don't really want to hype myself up. "Oh, go see my band, buy our record, blah, blah, blah," you know? I'm trying to do it, I'm trying to have fun, and I'm very thankful for those who enjoy our stuff and provide a living for me. It doesn't get more simple than that, and that's where I live, all the time.

Kind of on a parallel line, do you ever read the messageboard on the Deftones website?
Nope. Not enough hours of the day for me to get around on all those.

It's very strange. It's a forum that has nothing to do with the band.
Yeah, I always hear that. I just think it's funny. It's just people using the web and having a good time.

Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.
Rock on.

Much like our website. Not unlike our board, which is very immoral.
Most boards and most forums, they're all very immoral.

They are. These are things that potentially ruin someone's life.
[laughing]

Last night, for example, someone made a post that was about how he had just started seeing this girl and sleeping with her, but her vagina smelled. He posted her Myspace and apparently people thought she was pretty unattractive, so in turn, there's maybe 200 comments of people making fun of this girl and making fun of this guy, and then someone has the nerve to mail this link to this girl. So...I mean, needless to say, it's pretty much the most painful thing to watch.
The internet is cold as ice!

It is!
It's a digital comic book, you know what I mean? You can be anyone you want on it, you can be real or not. There's just so much on there. It's like anything, it's up to you to decide what's right, wrong, true, or not. It's up to you to accept things the way they are or to change them for the way you want them to be. You know how it is.

It's a sinister area of life, I guess.
It's kind of just like, we're all dealing with something. Everyone of us has problems, but I think just in general, the internet is an escape where you can go look at someone else's problems, where you're like, "ooh, look at that."

Yeah, it's like a soap opera where someone could end up getting killed.
It's a big, giant, digital, bulletin board. I didn't go to college, but I rode my bike through it all the time when I used to go down to the river, and there was this bulletin board that I used to go by. And that's what it is to me. The modern age version of that. There's no need for that bulletin board except for in that little community where people will be walking by, otherwise people will go to the internet for information. Who buys encyclopedias anymore? You don't need no encyclopedia, buy the internet.

Buy yourself a google.org.net.
You'll have it all. And then all the porn you've ever dreamed of.

And that's when your life just falls into place.
The internet really is just porn. 95% porn and 5% productivity and information.

I was just thinking how far the world has come in terms of...like, when I was in high school, if I had a cell phone when I was in high school, like everyone has one now...
Kids got cell phones now, not even in high school.

Yeah, exactly. There were pagers when we were in high school, but even then...
I was in school right before the pagers came out. When I got out is when the pagers were coming out.

See, through the use of the pagers, if they were popularized as much as the cell phone, you would've failed out of school anyway. And that's what would've happened to me if everyone had a cell phone. I just barely skated by on a mixture of charm and confusing people. That's how I graduated, by lying to people constantly. If there were cell phones there, I would've been completely fucked. There would've been so many botched drug deals and so much other screwed up shit, that there would've been no way I could've made it through high school with all my limbs or out of jail.
It's wild times. We live in wild times. There's no question about it. You can really pick your topic, it doesn't really matter, because everyone's living to the extreme now.

Everything has gone and done The Dew.
Exactly. Everybody's on The Dew.

It's The Dew that's fucking up our kids! If only it was that simple. But back to the internet porn thing. When I was ten or so, in order to watch porn, you had to sit real close to the TV and catch the scrambled channels.
You had to put it between two and three...

You had to work for it.
Yeah, you had to get that channel knob to stay right there in the middle and not flip to the next one. I don't know what channel that was on, it wasn't no channel that you knew of.

No, this was some sort of ethereal channel that the gods surely delivered to tease you as a young man.
Floating around in the ether.

But now it's like, you can be five years old and you can find a video of a kid getting hit in the head with a shovel, you'll get to watch it, but all of a sudden shit starts popping up, and then instantly, you know what boobs are.
Yeah. [laughing] It's out of control. Everything you ever wanted on there. Everything in life that there is in life that we all know about, it's on the internet. If we don't know about it, as soon as we do know about it, it'll be on the internet.

Have you heard about this Russian scientist who has developed an invisibility cloak. Have you heard about this?
Nah uh, but I wouldn't put it past reality.
It doesn't look very good.

My girlfriend says it doesn't look very good, but still, the fact that they can make anything and still refer to it as an "invisibility cloak" is mindblowing, even if it isn't perfect.
That's dope.

Yeah, dope indeed. Yeah, get on the internet and look up invisibility cloak when we get off the phone. Or even right now if you feel like it.
I'm just waiting for our generation to kick in and take the hardcore nano-research and take it to the public and make it all happen. Like, I know at some point I'm going to have to deal with all the years of fast food that I ate, and I'm going to need me a pill that's going to put two-trillion little nanobots to go in and just coarse through all my veins and destroy all the enemies in my body. Okay, meanwhile, while doing so, give each cell an injection - a boost, to resuscitate it back to its youthfulness...

...while you are teleporting to your hovercar.
Exactly.

Excellent. Excellent. There could be good things in this future, although everybody is on The Dew and disaster is impending, there could be good things. And by good things, I mean hovercars.
Yeah, it's crazy. I know one thing's for sure, I never thought I'd ever imagine us really having to be worried about nukes blowing up. But we're going to have to worry about that sometime soon. People is crazy.

Yeah. People is crazy. I'm going to move on now to a few questions you might not want to answer. Number one, I know there's this huge announcement that's being hyped that's supposedly going to be on your website. I figure you might as well just tell it to me, because it'll be a while until this interview gets up, you know what I'm saying?
Um...

Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?
Hah, no, I really don't.

Damn. That's one question thwarted.
I mean, if you really slipped me the sodium-pentothal, I still wouldn't have an answer for you.

I believe you. Let's see...a question that came up a few times was about rumors that were floating around a few years ago. I know you all are tied with Faith No More, being that you're friends with the Fear Factory guys who worked with Billy Gould, or, I think Mike Patton even did some guest vocals on the Team Sleep album. But supposedly there was a Faith No More reunion around the same time that a tribute album that was being planned. Apparently, Mike Patton threw a fit over a few things; one of which having to do with Chino being drunk at a meeting between all the artists. Any truth to that?
I actually...I'm familiar with him being drunk with Patton, but it wasn't at a meeting of the artists, it was at a show we did in Holland. They were having a drinking contest, only Patton was tossing his drinks over his shoulder while Chino was killing his.
[laughing]
Needless to say, Chino lost that battle.

Yeah, or won, depending on your mindframe. So you're saying that rumor is not true, as far as you know.
Yeah, no, I'm not aware of that.

And this rumor: back when I was 14 or so, reading metal magazines, I read some news blurb about you guys playing a show with Type O Negative and triggered a riot, ending with Type O Negative being unable to perform, and thus, starting a fight with you guys. Any truth to that?
Yeah, that happened. It wasn't a fight with us, it was more like, one of their members tried to jump on Chino, and I didn't really see what happened when he did it, but there was just a big scuffle and that was it, really. There was no fight, really, there was no one really kicking anyone's ass.

Have you since made up with the Type O Negative folk?
I never really had beef with them, hah. I think that was more generated by people around than it was with us and them.

I don't know, I would love to see Type O Negative fight anybody, being that they're all...very...large. And have long hair. So I can see how that rumor would get really boosted up. So I know you're kind of the metal guy, how much do you keep up with heavy music?
I don't really keep up with it on a day to day basis, or even month to month for that matter, but I've got friends who are always listening to it, and they always turn me on to some stuff, and if I like it, I'll put it in my Itunes and I got it there to rock later on. But as far as following who's the hottest and doing what with the sickest stage moves and all that...I don't really know.

Are there any bands off the top of your head that give you any real hope for the future?
Yeah. I'm a devoted Meshuggah fan.

I know you're a devoted Meshuggah fan. It's very well established everywhere that you love Meshuggah. Are there other bands or is it just flat out Meshuggah?
Um, there are, but I don't really know a lot of bands names. Like I said, I hear them here and there. I like Chimaira a lot. Then there's this band that my friend Christian's doing, they're called Threat Signal, they're pretty fucking good. I think they're from Toronto or something like that. They're fucking massive, dude, it sounded really good. I can't think of anyone else at the moment.

I've heard minor gripes from your fans about how you aren't playing a lot of your older material live very often. Is there any reason for that other than the assumption that you're probably tired of just playing them?
Yeah, Chino always takes them out of the set-list.

Does he?
Yeah.

So pin it on him?
Yeah, because he doesn't play guitar on any of that stuff, and he wants to play guitar.

I've heard you have a little problem with him playing guitar so much.
Yeah, he's terrible.

Easy enough. We can go with that.
I love him, but...

...but he's a terrible guitarist. Okay.
He's not terrible. I'm just saying, he needs to practice.

Last question, and this is kind of an important one, and I'm going to give you the option to jump out of it. Are you seriously able to smoke half an ounce of pot in a day?
If I had to, I probably could, but no, I don't normally. Nor would I try to.

Somebody told me that you regularly smoke a half an ounce a day.
No, I heard that from somebody recently too, and I laughed. I was like, "are you kidding me?" I'm saying, it's not impossible to do, I'm just saying I don't.

It's very difficult.
I may have done it once or twice, but it's not a regular event by any means. That's just plain too much.

That's like when you hear about people who smoke four packs a day and you wonder if they quit their job to do that, or what.
If, I say...in a day maybe, two or three grams. Not a lot.

Yeah, that's about moderate to...yeah, okay. Is there anything else you wanted to add or touch on?
No, just, it's always the same. Just, you know, like I said, thank you very much.

[phoenix_striker]

De: Franck
Par: Frank Gatto
Date: 16 Mars 2006
Source: Deftones World
Topic: Cliquer ici
Langue: Anglais

Taste of Chaos tour and playing in Z-flat Implementing a DJ in a metal band is a rocky and perilous road. Bands like Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park have decimated the reputation of rock DJs by limiting their creativity to inconsequential scratching and sampling. Thankfully, Frank Delgado transcends this trite existence as resident mood-maker and DJ for the Deftones. With his trusty vinyls, an assortment of machinery, and a knack for aural texturing, Delgado ups the ante with each Deftones album by creating washes of noise that exponentially expand the sound of the Deftones. Background layers, foreground effects, and subliminal mood-setting are all in a day's work for the soft-spoken DJ. Delgado's talents have grown over time, as he explains, "I'm learning more, playing instruments on keyboards. I never really knew how to play instruments, so I'd try to find crazy records with crazy sounds to try and use. Now I create those crazy sounds. I'm more comfortable playing and writing with the guys."

Delgado also shed some light on the Deftones highly anticipated fifth and upcoming record, which will drop late this summer and is still untitled. Luckily the vocals are finished and mixing is up next. There may be guests on the album, and Delgado leaves the fans intrigued: "We've been working on the record for such a long time that there are always people coming in and out, but I don't know which songs are actually going to make it. I'm not gonna say who they are either!"

Currently the Sacramento quintet is on tour headlining the Taste of Chaos, which is essentially the winter version of the Warped Tour. Delgado reasons, "Kevin Lyman [founder of the Warped Tour] hit us up, and the timing was perfect. The tour goes 'til mid-April, and then we'll head home for a few weeks, rehearse, and then we'll go overseas for about six weeks. We'll tour Europe, and we're trying to definitely hit South America, Japan, and head back to Russia." Good news for those of you spending your summers abroad.

As if the fifth wonder of the Deftones does not keep busy enough, Delgado even has his own side project titled "Decibel Devils." "Me and [long-time friend] Crook, we grew up together and started up a Web site with a buddy of ours, Donk. We DJ a lot in town when we're home, so we just started putting up mixes. It's just a way for us to put out there what we do on the side, what we've always done since we were kids."

What is to be expected next from the Deftones? Delgado claims the band will "start putting snippets out there," and he warmly closes, "I never planned on being in this position. It's kind of weird, and I think about that for the whole band in general. The Deftones have been together since they were kids, and for them to open up and let me in and to be creative and make noise, it's rad, man. I can't deny that."

[phoenix_striker]

De: Chino M(a ou o ça dépend)reno
Par: Heather Adler, Dose.ca
Date: Avril 2006
Langue: Anglais

On a bad day, heaven can look a lot like hell. With 10 years of experience, millions in album sales and a ferociously dedicated fanbase that even managed to save them from the downfall of nü-metal, agro rockers the Deftones are in a pretty blessed position. But the making of their forthcoming album, due out this summer, was three years of pure purgatory. Vocal-shredding frontman Chino Marino says making the disc nearly destroyed them and, at one point, he just had to walk away.

Trouble first reared its ugly head after the band had already recorded the majority of the material, then were forced to give the boot to mega-producer Bob Ezrin (who's worked with Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd, KISS, Nine Inch Nails) because Marino just "really didn't get along" with him musically or personally and felt like he was all talk, no action.

"Obviously, there was turmoil after the Bob Ezrin mess. I just wanted to step away from the project and I did," says Marino, explaining why he left to tour with side-project Team Sleep for nearly six months during recording. "I didn't really talk to anybody and I just took off. I think it was a good thing for the project because it had just become no fun. Period."

Producer problems were far from the worst of the torments inflicted on the Deftones: the band also fought tooth-and-nail with the devil himself, their record company, who Chino says interfered and used "straight extortion" to influence their unique brand of metal-infused hip hop.

"The record label was putting us on trial. They said 'When you have a single, then we'll continue to record,'" Marino laments.

"The demise of this band would come if we started listening to record label's opinions on what we should do and how we should do it. That's what's been on everybody's shoulders and made it not fun to be in a band because that's bullshit and that's not why we do this."

Marino says it's "a fuck of a lot harder" to make albums today compared to when his crew of controlled chaos creators first started out. Prior to this album, the Deftones had been left to their own devious, hook-creating devices and never had to deal with meddling industry hellions who judged the worth of music by it's radio-friendly weight.

"I think the Internet and the record companies suffering in the last couple of years has meant that they really need a radio hit to sell enough records to recoup their investment," Chino reveals. "They need a hit single, even if it's the corniest song in the world. They want kids singing along to it. We've never been about trying to get an instant payoff — cash or hype."

Things got so hellish Marino admits he started to feel parallels between what was happening with the Deftones and what Metallica went through in the bitter and twisted documentary Some Kind of Monster. After suffering three years of album purgatory, Marino says that if there's any advice he could give up-and-comers, it's that they should avoid record labels like the money-sucking plague.

"I would tell them to save their money, buy a computer and record their own records for cheap," he asserts. "You have to pay record companies back for everything they do with interest, so if you take it from a bank at least you get to put out your own record and you don’t have to listen to anyone."

Despite the management migraines and the fact the release date for the currently untitled album has come and gone many times, Marino is comforted by the fact that he whole-heartedly believes this disc will is the band’s finest work.

"In my mind, it's our best album ever," he says. "With this record, pushing ourselves to be more creative and not get complacent or comfortable with a formulae was really important. We experimented with being a little more forward with a few things and not always trying to be weird or left field."

The Deftones will be premiering some of their new melodies this week on the Taste of Chaos tour. Check it out and see if going through hell has lead the band to musical heaven.

[phoenix_striker]

De: Chino
Par: Dave Jaffer
Date: 13 avril 2006
Langue: Anglais

Frontman Chino Moreno tires of talking about himself, both musically and on the phone

It's not that Chino Moreno doesn't like doing interviews, he insists. "I just don't like talking on the phone. Not even with my girlfriend. And sometimes you get [interviewers] who ask all these stupid questions, and you're like, 'What the fuck?'"
Moreno, the charismatic guitarist/lead singer for The Deftones, is in Vancouver ("My assistant saw a guy wash a needle in a puddle") where he and his bandmates are preparing for a one-off show before starting their much-anticipated Canadian dates on the Taste of Chaos tour, which also includes the likes of Thrice, Atreyu, Thursday and As I Lay Dying.
On the topic of anticipation, Deftones fans the world over are hurriedly cancelling plans for a revolution, as the band is just about ready to unleash their latest, as-of-yet untitled album (though the prevailing rumour has it called Saturday Night Wrist ), which has been over two years in the making. "This record was the hardest one," Moreno allows, "the record where we realized we should really take time and dissect our music a lot more, and put much more into it. [Consequently] I think the final product will be longer lasting." And, if we're to take him at his word, less "personal."
"I'm really over a lot of vocalists, including myself," he confesses. "A lot of music is ruined by people's personal lives in their music. I want to hear the music for the music... not about a singer who had a bad childhood or a lost love. And I don't want to come off like my life is more tragic or glorious than anyone else's. I'm just trying to fantasize a bit more, to sing about things that have nothing to do with describing myself or my life."
Vicious, visceral and illuminating, The Deftones' eclectic sound has been described in a variety of ways, including progressive metal, alternative metal and art metal. To many, though, their sound is defiantly unclassifiable, and even Moreno stumbles slightly when asked if he knows where he'd slot their style. "I think the dynamic between music that's moody and music that has energy is a good description. Even though [our music is] sometimes an onslaught of powerful sounds and rhythms, there's a lot of the opposite - broken down, sullen, quiet, peaceful. We enjoy making music which goes through peaks and valleys."
Though hardcore fans have reportedly been more than a little perturbed by the bands included on their current tour, Moreno contends that Taste of Chaos has been "a good way to come back in and enter the mix" after spending years conceiving, recording and tweaking the new disc. The time away from the scene, time to relax and regroup, has also afforded them the room to improve their live performances.
"Our shows now are getting really super tight," he tells me, his voice thick with wondrous, childlike enthusiasm. "There are times when we can be extraordinary, and times we're just okay. We're looking at being extraordinary every time out, and when we're able to put out even 80 per cent of what we're capable of, I think it's magical. [We know now] that what we put into it is what we're going to get out of it."

[phoenix_striker]

De:Chino
Par: MTV
Date: 25 Avril 2006
Source: Deftones World
Langue: Anglais

There was a point a few years back when Chino Moreno just didn't want to make another Deftones record. Neither did the rest of the Sacramento, California, rockers.
Moreno told the rest of the band he'd be doing his own thing for a bit. That thing was Team Sleep — Moreno's ambient, experimental side project, which released its self-titled debut in 2005.
"I wasn't interested in making a Deftones record at the time, and we were writing songs here and there, but no one really wanted to take control of the project," he explained. "With Team Sleep, there was just so much creativity going on, and everybody wanted to try all these weird, different things. So I just had more interest in it, and I told everyone [in Deftones] I was going to go away for a while. And Team Sleep was really fun for me. Some people enjoyed it, some people didn't."
As you'd imagine, Moreno's temporary departure from the Deftones created tension within the group, and he said there were several months where he didn't even speak to any of his bandmates. "Hole in the Earth," the tentative first single from the Deftones' forthcoming, still-untitled LP, addresses the internal strife that paralyzed the band for a time, as well as the feelings Moreno grappled with upon his return to the 'Tones.
"We wrote it live, with everyone writing their part right along with each other, and it's the best of what we do," he said. "It's really, really in-your-face, and yet it kind of sways and it's pretty ... but it's aggressive and it's sort of bleak. That's what I like about our band, and it's all in that song. It's sort of ruthless and mean, but it had to be said at the time."
In the song's lyrics, Moreno talks about wanting to leap into a hole and disappear. "I think it was healthy for me to do," he said, regarding Team Sleep — a project he plans to revisit. "It was healthy that we all took a break. When I came back, we wanted to make the record, and we all got together and had the best time ever, just talking about what we wanted to do. We had to do other things. I had to do Team Sleep. I had to go just make music, different music with different people. I didn't want it to get stale at all — just making a record for the sake of making a record. I wanted to make something really good and that, hopefully, 10 years from now, people will still be listening to."
And that record, the Deftones' fifth full-length offering, is due September 12. The band spent two years writing the album (see "Why Is The New Deftones Album Taking So Long?"), and ended up recording 17 tracks — a dozen of which will make the final cut. The Deftones worked on most of the songs with producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, Jane's Addiction) at his home studio in Connecticut and then returned to the West Coast to put the finishing touches on them.
"Most of the vocals I've been doing with [former Far guitarist] Shaun Lopez," Moreno said.
"He has a studio right around the corner from [where I live], and every day, I've just been at his house, just recording, and it's been the most comfortable, best way of recording music ever. He knows Deftones just as well as we do. We all grew up together. He knows what he likes about our band and what we like about our band, and he wants to really bring that out. [This record] took awhile, but I think it was for the right reasons. The record is coming towards the end of two years of work, so I'm ready to just close the book on it and that's it."
Rich Costey (Audioslave, My Chemical Romance) has signed on to mix the record, which is a mixture of some of the Deftones' heaviest material to date and some of their "sweetest," Moreno said. "The heavy stuff is really, really heavy, like really aggressive, and the stuff that's sweet and weird or whatever is sweeter and weirder. A lot of people will probably compare it to [2000's] White Pony, because that was one of the most diverse records that we did. This one's probably the most diverse record we've done."
And there are several guests who'll be appearing on the album, he said, including Giant Drag singer/guitarist Annie Hardy on the electronically inclined "Pink Cell Phone," which "reminds me of a club song, but it's Deftones, and that's what's awesome about it," said Moreno. System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian appears on the song "Buffalo."
"I've done a lot of stuff with a lot of people, and Serj came by and sang a little melody in this little part of this one song," said Chino. Other tracks planned for the record include "America," "FM" and "Beware." "I like to use people for what it is I like about what they do, and to me, I really like — I'm not too into System of a Down, lyrically, so much as I like some of the melodies that him and [guitarist] Daron [Malakian] do. That's what I utilized him for."
Moreno said the 'Tones will incorporate as much of the new material as possible into their set this summer, when they head out with Korn for the resuscitated Family Values Tour. Dates have not been announced yet, but the run's expected to make stops in 30 cities.
— Chris Harris, with reporting by Corey Moss

[Lnkjuice]

Ah trop bien phoenix, ca va me faciliter grandement le travail.
Grand merci a toi!!!

[Lnkjuice]

Je serais vous, j'irai jeter un oeil dans le prochain Rocksound (en kiosque fin de semaine ou debut de semaine prochaine) : il y aura de l'exclu Deftonienne .

[cyril_def]

Je serais vous, j'irai jeter un oeil dans le prochain Rocksound (en kiosque fin de semaine ou debut de semaine prochaine) : il y aura de l'exclu Deftonienne .

fais nous partager ce que tu sais qd meme

[phoenix_striker]

A mon avis il a été informé par mister rocksound-rennes, mais est tenu de la boucler. Fin jdi ça...

[Lnkjuice]

C'est pas par Mr. Rocksound-Rennes mais je suis effectivement tenu de la boucler (et d'ailleurs je ne sais pas grand chose de plus )...