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Deftones have released a short teaser video for their new album, Gore, set for release on 8 April via Warner Bros. Records. Check it out below.
It's going to be their 8th studio album and it's the follow up to 2012's Koi No Yokan. It's also the first release since the death of bass player Chi Cheng in 2013.
The clip doesn't give too much away and just shows a flock of flamingos flying as a huge sounding heavy instrumental section plays and it ends as the album title Gore is displayed.
Speaking with BBC Radio 1's Rock Show, frontman Chino Moreno opened up about the new album: "I can't really compare it to our last couple of records. I mean, those two records were done in a very similar manner where we locked ourselves in a room for a short period of time and wrote and recorded it. And therefore, I feel like we sort of really captured this moment in time, and the records sort of sound cohesive because of that."
"This record was done sort of over a year, spread out over these little, tiny writing sections. So it sounds a bit more fragmented, but in a good way. I mean, I feel like you put on one song and it's completely different from the song after it, or previous to it. So it's not like we had this one main idea and we went in and we sort of went with that vibe. I mean, the vibe's sort of all over the place. So, like any Deftones record, I mean, it's got dynamics and there's loud aggressiveness and there's mellowness to it, but it's all sort of got an ebb and flow to it. I don't know… It'd be hard for me to just put it in words exactly what it sounds like. It's definitely a Deftones record. The way I look at it is it's a gradual step from where we last were."
Elsewhere, the band will be hitting the road again after they pulled the remainder of their tour dates this month when they revealed that they were among those in the Bataclan when ISIS terrorists struck an Eagles Of Death Metal gig - killing 89 people.
Deftones are also set to perform at Download 2016, alongside the likes of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Rammstein.
Their rescheduled tour dates are below. For tickets and more information visit here. -
JUNE
3– London, UK – The SSE Arena, Wembley
14 – Koln, Germany – Palladium
15 – Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle
