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[from_musings]

I get the Adrenaline love, cuz for a lot of fans that's what got us into Deftones and aggressive music in general.   

hell no, not because they were aggressive and that's that.machine head,pantera and sepultura did that. it was because deftones were aggressive but girly emotional at the same time. gay and aggressive, only korn had done that before, that was their usp

[LG95]

fod was a big kick in the balls for me. also, he doesn't like adrenaline and st. i said "cool" because you spoke defending and tender about my two personal favourites.thanks. i agree with bullocks to some extent, but maybe we wouldn't get to hear b.r wihtout label milking money out of wp who knows.

would you like to hear crest?

BTW, I happen to disagree with Chino on Adrenaline and the self-titled - the latter in particular is an absolute masterpiece. But I understand why he doesn't like them as much (and I do think he genuinely likes the self-titled, he just finds it hard to relate to that period of time). As fans we're lucky that we can basically just judge the albums on their own merits, whereas artists and bands naturally relate a record to what it was like during the process of making it. That's probably partly why Around The Fur is Chino's favourite album.

And yeah I'd to hear Crest, just not as part of Gore itself.

[Mr Blonde]

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Deftones got me into bands like Pantera and Machine Head.  I bought Adrenaline cuz I saw it reviewed it a Skateboarding sales mag in 5th grade.  I was into Korn to a lesser extent and then never listened to them again after Follow the Leader.  My heavy metal taste weren't to developed around my exposure to Deftones

[from_musings]

fod was a big kick in the balls for me. also, he doesn't like adrenaline and st. i said "cool" because you spoke defending and tender about my two personal favourites.thanks. i agree with bullocks to some extent, but maybe we wouldn't get to hear b.r wihtout label milking money out of wp who knows.

would you like to hear crest?

BTW, I happen to disagree with Chino on Adrenaline and the self-titled - the latter in particular is an absolute masterpiece. But I understand why he doesn't like them as much (and I do think he genuinely likes the self-titled, he just finds it hard to relate to that period of time). As fans we're lucky that we can basically just judge the albums on their own merits, whereas artists and bands naturally relate a record to what it was like during the process of making it. That's probably partly why Around The Fur is Chino's favourite album.

And yeah I'd to hear Crest, just not as part of Gore itself.

ok, b-side then . lovers style.perfectly fine with me. hope is the last thing that dies in a man

[defsteve]

[Yoi Yes Kokan]

Everyone can calm down now.

http://teamrock.com/news/2016-03-17/deftones-stef-buries-split-rumours-that-followed-tense-gore-sessions

Amen. I don't see why most people overreacted in the first place. He said in that same interview that it took him awhile to get into it. So that means he eventually got into it. Common sense.I don't see what all the uproar was about.

i do, i knew people what take what stef said and even turn it into rumors of break up, first of all it's his personality to say something like that which is what makes it even more tiring to hear people's opinions and rumors of what he would say and everything in stef's rebuttal is the epitome of what social media does these days. people take you by your words, not your actions. that's wrong. 

[Jimmy_McNulty]

Just to be clear, Chino doesn't hate s/t...

Is there something in Deftones' career for which you have regretted doing or not doing?

I try not to regret anything. We definitely made some great and some weird decisions in our career but this stuff got us where we are now. I think that the bad decisions and the bad experiences we have faced all these years are in the same time a learning experience. There are some songs, for example from our self-titled album, that I'm feeling disconnected to them. I can't say that I am feeling embarrassed for them or that I have regretted recording them, but I can't really hear them because they remind me a specific period of my life.

[LG95]

Bought Kerrang this morning. Really lovely eight-page feature on them, talking to them about their history as a band, highs and lows, and the new record. I'll try and get it up later if nobody else does.

It does confirm that the video shoot was for Prayers/Triangles by the way.

[N0S3BLEED976]

Bought Kerrang this morning. Really lovely eight-page feature on them, talking to them about their history as a band, highs and lows, and the new record. I'll try and get it up later if nobody else does.

Yes please!

[beaverwithfishyshoes]

eight-page feature talking to them about their history as a band, highs and lows, and the new record.

is it like the eight-page feature the last time?

[from_musings]

did they say anything at all about crest? deluxe version? b-side? i-tunes bonus? what about the diamond eyes outtake? B-side rarities II?

[LG95]

Here you go...

[Penicks]

good interview, cheers, good to see some self-titled love from the band

[Moz]

Good shit, thanks for this

[Lucky_Me]

Thank you for posting this interview!

I'll see whether I can buy a copy, though. I want those pics, haha.

[ANattyRat]

That was an awesome read, further clarification on Stef's comments, and it's cool how Hearts/Wires ended up being one of the songs he likes the most. I guess he makes a good point about how they make music for themselves. We might love, hate or somewhere in-between their albums, but if the music they're making is what they're all happy playing, that's probably the reason for the longevity of the band.

[beaverwithfishyshoes]

S/T had songwriters? wait wut

[LG95]

S/T had songwriters? wait wut

The label put Chino with a few songwriters at some point in the process of making Saturday Night Wrist, not the S/T. He's definitely mentioned it before.

[King Leer]

its really frustrating to still read all of the negativity that S/T and SNW gets from Chino... while i do understand they're not your favorites  they're still part of the catalog and maybe they're the reason that some fans got into deftones in the first place. while i do understand the whole dark days thingy he must at least consider to play more songs out of those two albums it's long overdue.

[Moz]

I said it before, Chino is not telling you off for liking S/T and SNW. He probably knows it has tons of good songs. But music is one of the strongest ways to relive prior periods in your life, now imagine that multiplied by a thousand if you were the one actually making that music instead of listening to a record. He probably has constant flashbacks of his divorce, his drug use and tensions within the band when listening to those records. It's very hard to revisit music that remind you of a bad place in your life, I think we can all relate to that.