DEFTONES HAVE COME HOME

Returning to the last place they made music with Chi Cheng, Deftones also reunited with the producer who knows them best. It’s all resulted in their most personal album yet

ELEANOR GOODMAN

Walking into their Sacramento rehearsal space, to work there for the first time since bassist Chi Cheng passed away, Deftones frontman Chino Moreno felt heavy. “We all had our own little stations in the studio, and Chi’s station was exactly how he’d left it, with his Tibetan flag hanging up and all his gear”, he says. “We had these dry-erase boards with some of the old songs we were working on written on them. It was like walking into a time capsule - it was a trip.” They had last been at ‘The Spot’ in 2008, making what should have been their sixth album, Eros, but abandoned the material and the building after Chi was in a car accident, leaving him with injuries from which he would never recover. When…

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Metal Hammer UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2020

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