Fantastic news as Deftones have set the release date of their new as-yet-untitled album for April 8th. It is the follow up to 2012’s Koi No Yokan, which I absolutely adored.
In an interview with ESP Guitars, guitarist Stephen Carpenter dropped the exact date while talking about some Spring/Summer festival date plans.
Vocalist Chino Moreno spoke about the sound of the new album in an interview with BBC Radio 1’s “Rock Show” last Spring, saying:
I think it’s a little more of a heady record. I feel like we’ve gone into the songs and really dissected them. If something sounded a little straight, we took a left turn and made things a little screwy. We just tried something completely opposite, not to sabotage it, but to challenge ourselves and try new things that we haven’t done in the past.
“It definitely feels like we’ve taken a step from our last record. But it’s definitely a DEFTONES record, and it has all the elements that make us who we are. We’re not going out there to change anything, other than just thinking outside the box.