Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge was recently spotted with Deftones frontman Chino Moreno backstage at Blink-182’s concert in Portland.
Tom DeLonge poses with Chino Moreno
It has come to light that Deftones is completely done with their new record. Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno, who recently had a hilarious moment, is working on vocals, and he is set to take as long as it takes to get them right.
In an interview backstage at Coachella, Moreno spoke about the record and stated that he’s been in and out of the studio for a little while now honing his performance on the upcoming record.
“We haven’t really talked much [publicly] about it,” said Moreno. “We’ve just sort of been working on and off over the last year and a half from when we started writing to… Basically, where we’re sitting right now is we have a whole record recorded all musically. And it’s pretty much my job right now to finish up the vocals.
“And I have, obviously, this show again next week, and then straight after that, I go back home to Oregon and I go in the studio. So as long as that takes… I hate to put a definite kind of timeframe, ’cause we’re not really in a rush. We want it to be great. I think that’s most important. But it is coming, and, yeah, it’s really good. We’re really excited with what we’ve been working on. And everybody’s jazzed.”
On how new Deftones sounds four years out from Ohms, Moreno added: “I feel like, overall, it’s an invigorated kind of sound. We went in and everybody… It’s, like, after all these years, you go in, and it’s, like, we hadn’t written a record since — what was it? Pre-COVID, I think, when we were last in the studio. So it’d been a while since we’d actually… I mean, we’ve been playing shows, but we hadn’t really got into being creative.
It is to be noted that the new Deftones album will be their first without bassist Sergio Vega, who played on the band’s previous four albums and quit in 2021. Fred Sablan has been filling in with Deftones live. However, the band never announced an official replacement for Vega.
