The year 2000 looms large in pop culture history: the Y2k non-scare, the Seinfeld “Newmannium” episode, the “In the Year 2000″ sketch from Conan O’Brien’s original late-night show, the Hulu series PEN15. And just like, say, the grunge-defined 1991, the year immediately conjures specific sounds: gleaming teen-pop, earnest radio rock, the Neptunes and Timbaland. There’s […]
“It’s dark,” says Chino Moreno. “It’s a trip.” Not a bad off-the-cuff summary of Deftones’ ninth LP, Ohms, which amplifies the art-metal band’s signature dynamic extremes: Frank Delgado’s shadowy synth atmospherics are more prominent in the mix, and Stephen Carpenter’s detuned riffs scorch the terrain beneath them. But Moreno isn’t describing the album — instead, he’s […]
Just one week before the release of their new album, Sacramento’s Deftones are giving fans yet another taste of Ohms. On Friday, the crew unleashed their latest single off the forthcoming album, “Genesis,” with a video to match. The release follows lead single “Ohms” which dropped on Aug. 21 alongside their announcement of a Sept. […]
Following cryptic social media teasers, Deftones’ revealed that their ninth album, Ohms, will be out Sept. 25 on Reprise Records, while the single — which is the album’s last song and title track — drops Aug. 21. Ohms is 10 songs long, and includes such quirky titles as “Errorr” and “This Link is Dead.” Further to the spiritual […]
Over the weekend, the Deftones blacked out their socials and have since been sharing throwback lyrics. And as of today (Aug. 18), it hasn’t stopped. As previously reported, the profile photos on their social media accounts have been replaced with the color black. And on the California band’s website, you can only see a sign-up […]
Deftones are teasing something — and all signs point to the release of their anticipated new album. As Loudwire points out, the band recently updated all its social media profile pictures to black frames, with the Facebook image directing fans to its website. The website is a static black screen with white pixels slowly coming […]
Blame timing. Almost a year to the day after Korn’s self-titled debut landed on record store shelves, the Madonna-discovered Deftones issued their maiden studio set, Adrenaline, on the Material Girl’s Maverick Records label. Critics lumped the Sacramento-based avant-metal quartet in with the tracksuit-sporting boys from Bakersfield — which, in retrospect, was sort of like comparing […]
After accidentally sharing a snippet of new material back in April, drummer Abe Cunningham revealed Deftones’ anticipated new album is on to the mastering stage and will “hopefully” drop in a few short months. “We actually tracked everything over the summer, last summer — June and July — we were in the studio tracking,” Cunningham […]