DEFTONES Drummer Says New Album Almost Didn't Happen

September 16, 2006

DEFTONES drummer Abe Cunningham recently spoke to AOL Music about the recording process for the band's new album, "Saturday Night Wrist", due on October 31. The 12-track effort, the group's fifth to date, nearly didn't happen, according to Cunningham.

"It was not fun at all, and not pleasant," he told AOL Music. "It was horrendous. It made me very sad."

After recording trips to a mansion in Malibu and with veteran producer Bob Ezrin (ALICE COOPER, PINK FLOYD, NINE INCH NAILS) in Stamford, CT, tensions in the band were high. "We weren't communicating," Cunningham recalls. "We didn't like each other."

"There were no $45,000-a-week counselors or anything like that," Cunningham said, downplaying suggestions of METALLICA-style shrink sessions. "We had this huge meeting and Chino [Moreno, vocals], he was late. We told our management to go away."

"It could have been so, so brutal — finger pointing and attacking and all this sh*t — and it turned out to be the most beautiful, at-ease, wonderful conversation between the five of us. We just said, 'F***! We've been doing this for 18 years!'"

Find more on

Prev More News Next

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).