Deftones singer Chino Moreno joined Herb’s Happy Hour which is hosted by Primus drummer Tim “Herb” Alexander and gave an update on the upcoming Deftones album, which they hoped to have out in 2020. Chino said that he expects the new album to be released in September.
“We have a record that we finished maybe — I don’t know — about a month ago, we finally got all the final mixes of it. It’s supposed to come out in, I think, September. But we’re really happy with it. We worked with one of our longtime producer buddies, Terry Date, who did our first three albums. We hadn’t done a record with him in a while, and we went back in the studio with him, and it was super awesome.”
Chino said that the everything was done for the album except his vocals, so they have been waiting on him.
“It’s kind of been weird, because we recorded everything — the music stuff — all last summer in L.A., and then we have been working on overdubs and vocals and mixing and all that stuff since then, so it’s almost been a year. But, obviously the last six months have kind of been doing everything remote [due to the coronavirus pandemic]… Mainly, it was just me. All the music stuff was done, so just mainly vocal stuff, and then mixing and mastering, going back and forth. But we finally finalized everything, I wanna say a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago now. It’s gonna be sweet. I’m excited about it.”
The Deftones postponed their 2020 North American tour but have plans to reschedule everything for 2021.
