So he’s just a great dude, and making this record with him was awesome. He’s not a producer that is in there trying to push his ideas into what we’re doing other than just capture what it is that happens when we get together, as well as speaking up and telling us when stuff isn’t where it should be or whatever. He’s pretty much been there since the beginning of us making records, and we just vibe with him really good. In a recent interview with Apple Music, DEFTONES vocalist Chino Moreno stated about the band’s decision to reconnect with Date for the new album: “We’ve always wanted to go back and make records with him again… We love Terry. I’ll say this… We can’t help but sound like ourselves, but just being back with Terry, there’s certain sounds that we developed with Terry that kind of became sort of our core sounds, and those are back again.”Īs for a possible release date, Abe said: “Maybe September. So it’s been something to do in this strange off time.”Īsked about the sound of the new DEFONES material and whether it is “heavier” than “Gore”, Abe said: “It’s all that. It’s getting mastered right now, and that’s been the main thing. It’s a lot better when we’re all in the room we can knock it out quick and argue and do our things.

With this while distancing thing, it was a bit rough, but we figured out a way to kind of do the mixes without being there. We’re working with our old pal Terry Date, who a bunch of our earlier records. But we actually just completed everything. Last summer - June and July - we were in the studio tracking. Speaking to Download presenter Kylie Olsson, Abe said (see video below): “We actually tracked everything over the summer. DEFTONES drummer Abe Cunningham has offered an update on the band’s follow-up to 2016’s “Gore” album, which was recently recorded for a tentative late 2020 release.

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