Deftones Overcome Near-Breakup to Rock Sacramento hard rockers Deftones will drop their new album, ‘SaturdayNightWrist,’ on Halloween. The 12-track effort, the group’s fifth to date, nearly didn’t happen, drummer Abe Cunningham tells AOL Music. “It was not fun at all, and not pleasant,” he says of the three years it took to make the record. “It was […]
“Kerrang!” – September 2006 // Chino Interviewed
T THANKS TO Aj from SharingLungs Board Deftones singer Chino Moreno has revealed exclusively to Kerrang that making their forthcoming fifth album “Saturday Night Wrist” nearly ripped the band apart. Moreno and his bandmates started work on the follow-up to their 2003 epnymous offering over two years ago with former Jane’s Addiction producer Bob Ezrin […]
“Live Daily” – September 2006 // Chi Interviewed
LiveDaily Interview: Chi Cheng of Deftones September 06, 2006 11:56 AM by Christina Fuoco Deftones bassist Chi Cheng is frank about the brutal and tumultuous nature of the recording process for his band’s forthcoming album, “Saturday Night Wrist,” due out Halloween. It lived up to nearly every rock cliché: the singer “disappeared,” producer and […]
“Billboard” – August 2006 // Stef Interviewed
Deftones Unfazed By Long Road To New CD August 30, 2006, 10:35 AM ET Gary Graff, Detroit It’s been three years since the Deftones released their last album of all-new material. But guitarist Stephen Carpenter says the group wasn’t sweating the long wait for the new “Saturday Night Wrist,” which, as previously reported , arrives Oct. 31 via […]
“LA Times” – August 2006 // Chino Interviewed
The metal family moshes on Korn, Deftones lead the way on the Family Values Tour. By Steve Appleford, Special to The Times The boy looked to be about 4 years old, a smiling little kid in spiky hair and green camouflage short-pants. And all around him were dozens of ecstatic young men, swirling in the […]