DEFTONES Frontman Says New Album Is 'The Most Diverse Record We've Done'

April 25, 2006

DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno has told MTV.com that "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 while he focused on his experimental side project TEAM SLEEP.

"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."

DEFTONES' fifth full-length offering is due September 12. The band spent two years writing the album, 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. Rich Costey (AUDIOSLAVE, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE) has signed on to mix the record.

The album 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."

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