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 steel 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 points of the band’s profile and enterprise, permitting them to function at a bigger scale and be extra comfy taking dangers.
The resurgence in fan curiosity has additionally resulted in an extended 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 informed KROQ [transcribed by theprp.com]:
“It feels good, however I don’t assume it’s one thing that… I believe I kinda at all times had the mindset that it may go away at any second as nicely, 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 information into that form 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 nearly 30-year existence. However it’s thrilling, we’re very grateful. However I don’t assume… Like, yeah, I believe we’re simply within the second, proper? and having fun with it. Rolling with it.”
“We wanna stay as much as it as nicely, I believe in our stay reveals, and this file [“private music“] that we made, it additionally makes us wish to be higher — or as greatest we will be. It form of pushes you a little bit bit, everyone says this about us, nicely, let’s attempt to be that, you understand, greater than ever.”
Deftones‘ tenth studio album “personal music” was launched yesterday, August twenty second.
