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As they gear up for their appearance next month at this year’s Robert Smith-curated Meltdown festival in London, Deftones frontman Chino Moreno has revealed that work has begun on the follow-up to 2016 album, Gore.

Though no release date has been mooted, let alone confirmed, the alt.metal band’s singer has said that fans can expect “powerful” new material when it’s finally unleashed.

Speaking to Argentinian website Rock.com, Morena explained where Deftones were in the creative process: “There are six or seven songs which are still mutating. They are very powerful and I am anxious because it’s been a collaborative process.

“I think all of our albums were postcards of what we were going through at each moment. With 1995 debut album, Adrenaline, we were boys, while 2000’s White Pony, we had matured a little. Everyone has their own feelings, because it belongs to an era.

“Today we are older but we still enjoy making songs with marked riffs, cool melodies and a lot of groove. It’s fun.”

He continued: “We don’t try to box ourselves in to these pre-conceived ideas, but we have talked about getting together sooner rather than later to start making noise together – just out of pure excitement of creating music.”

Moreno also spoke of how low-esteem affected his creativity after he went straight following years of drug abuse.

“What affects me the most is low self-esteem,” he said. “And when I went through those moments, my creativity diminished. But now I know what the problem was: that I didn’t believe in myself. I could compose, but I did not believe in anything I did, nor did I think it was good. Everything I created sounded horrible to me, and I had no one to tell me if the songs were really good or bad. It was a very ugly period.”

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