DEFTONES Drummer: 'I Can't Wait Until The New Album Comes Out'

January 18, 2006

DEFTONES drummer Abe Cunningham recently spoke to MTV.com about the status of group's long-awaited new album, which has been in the works for more than a year.

"Dude, I can't wait until it comes out," Cunningham told MTV.com. "It's been so insane this time around. It's what you go through to get it done. It's been a very strange process. Each record has [taken] longer and [has been] a bit more difficult to make. This is taking a long time. And there's nothing wrong with taking a long time to make a record, but it's just ... it doesn't need to be that way anymore. There's so much technology available that you don't need to spend that much money. But we end up just spending more and more and more and more. We just want it to get out. God knows it's taken long enough."

At this stage, DEFTONES have 17 songs on the verge of completion. Frontman Chino Moreno is said to be still tracking vocals for the new tunes.

"He's finishing vocals on all the songs we'd recorded, just so we have more to choose from," the drummer explained. "We will begin the selection process soon," he added, explaining that the democratic process consists of a band vote. "So far I'm liking all the songs we've recorded, so it will be hard," he continued. "We'll probably have a bake-off or some kind of contest. It's going to be difficult, but we have a gut feeling on some of them already."

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