{"id":1975050,"date":"2025-08-22T19:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1975050"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:31:45","slug":"deftones-explosive-new-album-private-music-meets-the-moment-head-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/deftones-explosive-new-album-private-music-meets-the-moment-head-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Deftones’ explosive new album ‘Private Music’ meets the moment head on"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nearly 40 years into Deftones\u2019 career, the Sacramento-bred band are anything but a legacy act. As proved by the visceral allegiance from countless fans half their age thrashing at their feet as they perform on stage, the band continues to be as explosive as they were when they conquered the Warped Tour in the late \u201890s.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s late-era surge in popularity with generations of fans who missed their first (and second) go-round inspires and surprises them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does freak me out when I sit back and, in retrospect, think about it,\u201d Chino Moreno says of Deftones\u2019 longevity. Sitting backstage in a Victoria, Canada, arena during a break from the band\u2019s pre-tour rehearsal, kicking off in Vancouver on Friday, Moreno, 52, is relaxed as he discusses their place in the hard rock landscape.<\/p>\n

Since roughly 2022, the singer has noticed that the crowds at some of the band\u2019s meet and greets were younger. In some cases, fans in their teens and early 20s were introducing their parents to the band\u2019s catalog, including their turn-of-the-century classic, \u201cWhite Pony.\u201d<\/p>\n

That stature has only grown as elements of Deftones\u2019 amorphously aggressive sound, which has elements of post-hardcore, trip hop and, most relevant to their revival, shoegaze, have attracted a much younger audience. They\u2019ve broken out from being a cult and critical favorite from the n\u00fc-metal scene to being widely appreciated as one of the most important and influential bands of that era.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a big social media person,\u201d Moreno says of the medium that\u2019s enabled a new generation to discover Deftones. \u201cThere are positive sides to it, like amongst all the noise, you can share music. It is neat that everybody\u2019s much more connected to be able to share it like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, he\u2019s aware that based on the online resurgence, Deftones don\u2019t have to <\/i>release a new album. Even so, seeing this influx of a younger fan base invigorated the band. It has driven the band to push themselves not just on stage, but in the studio.<\/p>\n

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Chino Moreno of Deftones performs at the Kia Forum on March 5, 2025.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving this whole new generation of eyes on us and more attention now than we\u2019ve had in decades. So why not embrace it?\u201d he says. \u201cI love that I met a lot of parents and children, fathers and daughters, and they\u2019re at the show together as a bonding experience, and to talk about some type of art you both connected over \u2026 it\u2019s really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band also knew that if they were going to write and record, it had to be for the right reasons.<\/p>\n

Recording \u201ccan\u2019t be where the label needs [the album], or we need money,\u201d Moreno explains. \u201cWe\u2019ve made records under those circumstances before, and it sucks the fun out of the experience. We\u2019re bratty in that way where we only want to do something if it\u2019s something we want to do. The minute someone tells us we have to do it, then we fight it.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the band\u2019s members now scattered across the U.S., Deftones couldn\u2019t wait to get back into the studio together, just like they did as teens when they had a space that felt more like a clubhouse. As Moreno puts it, it excited them to be able to \u201cexperiment and hang out together. Locking ourselves in a room for six hours a day, five days a week, was fun. It was like going back into the clubhouse again.\u201d<\/p>\n

With \u201cPrivate Music,\u201d Deftones once again joined forces with Nick Raskulinecz, who produced \u201cDiamond Eyes\u201d and 2012\u2019s \u201cKoi No Yokan\u201d (\u201cDude, we have to finish the trifecta!\u201d Moreno says he told Raskulinecz whenever they\u2019d see each other.) Throughout the last year and a half, the band and Raskulinecz worked together through a variety of sessions before deciding on the 11 songs that constitute the album. Without a definitive timetable to release their 10th studio album, it allowed for a much more relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere than before. That said, the time between 2020\u2019s \u201cOhms\u201d and \u201cPrivate Music\u201d was the longest span between Deftones albums.<\/p>\n

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