
“I think it’s a little more of a heady record,” Moreno says in comparison to Deftones’ last. It’s the most tunes the group has ever recorded for an LP. The unusual writing session produced 16 songs for the new album, which Moreno expects to come out in the fall (“probably September or October”). When Rolling Stone reaches the singer in late February, he’s at his Oregon home getting ready to head to Los Angeles where the rest of the band has just finished the album’s drum tracks. We have five guys who have almost completely different takes on music, so when it works, it works great.” The songs are really built as a collective. “We had all of us in a room together with one person expressing an idea and another person jumping on it.

“The songs are amazing, and we wrote them in a really cool way,” frontman Chino Moreno tells Rolling Stone. When Deftones began work on the follow-up to Koi No Yokan, the emotionally charged alt-metal group’s dramatic 2012 album, none of the band members had written any material.
