In a newly revealed interview with Los Angeles radio station KROQ, Deftones vocalist/guitarist Chino Moreno mentioned the newfound wave of success the band have been using since popping out of the pandemic.
Whereas so a lot of their early friends from the nü-metal period have long-since plateaued, the music of the Sacramento, CA-based various metallic band caught fireplace on social media companies like TikTok, introducing the band to a hordes of youthful listeners.
As such, 25 years after releasing their then profession excessive with 2000s game-changing “White Pony“, the band have comfortably elevated to area headliners. That curiosity from youthful audiences and connecting with a subsequently wider viewers has reinvigorated many features of the band’s profile and enterprise, permitting them to function at a bigger scale and be extra snug taking dangers.
The resurgence in fan curiosity has additionally resulted in a protracted overdue spherical of trade accolades, with a wave of platinum and gold certifications for his or her recorded works being bestowed upon them this previous July. When requested how they’re taking that every one in, Moreno instructed KROQ [transcribed by theprp.com]:
“It feels good, however I don’t suppose it’s one thing that… I feel I kinda all the time had the mindset that it may go away at any second as effectively, proper? So I don’t ever make investments an excessive amount of of how I really feel about us a band, or our music, or our data into that sort of stuff. It’s thrilling, and it’s good to know, and it’s, how we actually are larger than we’ve ever been in our virtually 30-year existence. However it’s thrilling, we’re very grateful. However I don’t suppose… Like, yeah, I feel we’re simply within the second, proper? and having fun with it. Rolling with it.”
“We wanna dwell as much as it as effectively, I feel in our dwell exhibits, and this report [“private music“] that we made, it additionally makes us wish to be higher — or as greatest we may be. It sort of pushes you a bit of bit, all people says this about us, effectively, let’s attempt to be that, you understand, greater than ever.”
Deftones‘ tenth studio album “non-public music” was launched yesterday, August twenty second.
