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“People are saying, ​ ‘Are you mad about what Stef said?’” Chino told Kerrang! at the time.

In a world of manicured press statements from bands, his ability to just speak his mind in the moment is – alongside his guitar playing, natch – his superpower. The first is the blunt-force honesty and forthrightness that makes Stef, Stef. Principally, two things got lost in translation upon Gore’s arrival. This, of course, went against the perception (and reality) of how they had so movingly reconvened for Diamond Eyes after bassist Chi Cheng suffered the horrific car crash that would, after years in a coma, claim his life. “I think my proudest thing about my guitar playing on this record is just playing on the record, because I didn’t want to play on the record to begin with,” guitarist Stephen ​ ‘Stef’ Carpenter told .Ī soundbite endlessly reproduced online, it not only made it sound like Deftones’ guitarist hated their own record, it seemed a throwback to the Saturday Night Wrist days – evoking a band at creative odds with one another. To get right to the root of why it is so excruciatingly and unfairly misunderstood, just revisit how it arrived in the public eye. No, if we’re talking their most misunderstood record, we need only travel back five years to the band’s eighth studio album, Gore. But as far as the music and the whole vibe, the whole song, to me, I think that it’s a special one on this record, for sure.”ĭEFTONES is Moreno, guitarist Stephen Carpenter, drummer Abe Cunningham, programmer Frank Delgado and bassist Sergio Vega. I kind of tether with the true meaning of that song, ’cause it’s really, really, really bad. “I feel like I really connected with the song,” he continued. So ‘Ceremony’ was one of those ones where someone was just playing something, and then everybody just kind of picks up their instrument, like, Oh,’ starts reacting to each other, and then it just starts to build. But a lot of the stuff kind of comes from jamming. Carter” about “Ceremony”: “That was one of the first songs that we wrote. The LP was recorded at Henson Studios in Los Angeles, California and Trainwreck Studios in Woodinville, Washington with veteran producer and engineer Terry Date, who previously worked on 1995’s “Adrenaline”, 1997’s “Around The Fur” and 2000’s “White Pony”.ĭEFTONES singer Chino Moreno told BBC Radio 1‘s “Rock Show With Daniel P. “Ceremony” is taken from DEFTONES‘ ninth album, “Ohms”, which arrived in September. When it comes to politicians and their stupidity and insanity, all bets are obviously off.” Specifically I mean talk about the ART and pop culture you love, not the art and pop culture you hate.

The moral of the story is talk about the things you love on Twitter, not the things you hate. The next day their manager sent me a DM asking if I wanted to direct a music video for them. At the time, he tweeted: “Hello this album is excellent (probably my favourite DEFTONES ever) and you should listen to it if you like music that is heavy and beautiful simultaneously.”Įarlier today, after DEFTONES shared a poster for the “Ceremony” video, with Whannell‘s name listed as the director, he took to his Twitter to write: “One day I wrote on Twitter that I was loving the new album. Whannell, who more recently wrote and directed a new take on “The Invisible Man”, previously expressed his appreciation for DEFTONES‘ latest album, “Ohms”, on social media last November. Cleopatra Coleman, who co-starred in Fox‘s “The Last Man On Earth” comedy series, will star in the clip, which is expected to be released in the coming days.

DEFTONES have tapped Leigh Whannell, writer of the original “Saw” and “Insidious” movies and writer-director of 2018’s “Upgrade”, to direct the official music video for their song “Ceremony”.