There was some push and pull, but sonically, I realized things started to come together with ‘Digital Bath.'” “Like people assume that because Stephen looks like the most metal guy in the band, that he only listens to metal… but he listens to mellow music too. “We all had the same idea, but different ways of going about it,” says Moreno of the process. In shaping their definitive hybrid sound, Deftones married their heavy metal roots with other influential sounds of the Eighties and Nineties, drawing from shoegaze, industrial, trip-hop and electronica. “We’re gonna need to get on taking off Spotify,” he added in jest - or not.
“With the reissue, we’re going with the original version, as we intended it to be,” said Moreno. However, their contentious rap-metal single, “Back to School (Mini Maggit),” was a song they wrote and tacked on to a second edition of the album, at the behest of their label Maverick. The California metal pioneers’ eclectic taste - as well as their ability to alchemize seemingly disparate sounds - is what made White Pony’s release a turning point in American metal, which in the year 2000, had been commercially engulfed by rap-rock and its variants. He looked at us like we were fucking crazy. Me and Chino kind of cornered him at the Cattle Club. “We actually hit up before we even wrote the album,” added Delgado. “We had that idea 20 years ago,” said Moreno. So far, DJ Shadow is the only confirmed producer to contribute to the album. “Electronic, beat-driven music was something we all gravitated towards in that time,” said Moreno, citing DJ Shadow and UNKLE as influential during the White Pony era. The latter album will feature all-new remixes of the tracks, each rendered by a different producer. The band confirmed that White Pony will be getting a reissue later in the year, as well as a remix LP titled Black Stallion.
Earlier in the week, Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno, drummer Abe Cunningham and keyboardist Frank Delgado hosted a virtual press conference on Zoom to share updates from quarantine - as well as revelations on the album that forever changed a genre. This Saturday, June 20th, marks the 20th anniversary of Deftones’ third album White Pony, which Rolling Stone named as one of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.
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