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Moreno also started contributing additional guitar on several tracks. An interview with the band in Alternative Press explained the recording process of White Pony. Moreno explained that the majority of this time was spent trying to write songs, and that the writing of " Change In the House of Flies " was the turning point where the band began working as a group.

Despite being pressured to release the album sooner, the band decided to take their time making it. Cheng explained that "We didn't feel like we had anything to lose, so we made the record we wanted to make. I made up a lot of story lines and some dialogue, even. I took myself completely out of it and wrote about other things.

Reviews were generally positive, noting Moreno's increasing sophistication as a lyricist and the group's experimentalism. The album was originally released as an 11 track version beginning with "Feiticeira" and ending with "Pink Maggit" and featuring gray cover art. A limited edition print of 50, black and red jewel case versions of White Pony were also released at the same time with a bonus twelfth track titled "The Boy's Republic".

Later, the band released " Back to School Mini Maggit ", a rap-influenced interpretation of the album's closer, "Pink Maggit". That song was listed as a bonus track track 12 on the leaked pre-release version. Not entirely happy with re-releasing the album, the band negotiated to have "Back to School" made available as a free download for anyone who had already bought the original album. Chino noted that "Everybody's already downloaded our record before it came out anyway, otherwise I'd be kind of feelin' like, 'Man, why [are] we putting [out] all these different versions of the record?

And if they wanna buy the record again, it's cool. White Pony achieved platinum status on July 17, , [10] selling over 1. Deftones began work on their fourth album under the working title Lovers. The band brought in Date to assist with production and also received input on musical arrangement from Greg Wells on several of the album's tracks.

Shortly after, the band returned to the studio to finish their fourth album. The self-titled Deftones was released on May 20, Deftones entered the Billboard at number two and sold , copies in its first week.

The band made a video for the track "Bloody Cape", but it was never released for play on television. The video was only made available on the band's official website for one day. Reviews were mainly positive, praising the band for the heavy album's progression and originality in the midst of declining creativity in contemporary metal.

We told motherfuckers not to lump us in with nu metal because when those bands go down we aren't going to be with them.

Club similarly called the album "less rewarding than its predecessor, though its peaks rival any in the genre. The CD includes various b-sides and covers from throughout their career, while the DVD contains behind-the-scenes footage and the band's complete videography up to that point. Deftones performing live in Glasgow , June Deftones released their fifth album Saturday Night Wrist on October 31, It debuted at number ten in the US Billboard chart with sales of just over 76,, [35] a significant decrease on the first week sales of their two previous releases.

Cunningham says that while the group enjoyed working with Date, "At this point, we just needed to change things up [ Working with him [Ezrin] is just putting us fucking upside down. He's cracking the whip. I never ask Chino what something means, I want to know what it means to me.

Deftones have an unquestionable passion for music, for the release you feel in booming drums, screeching feedback, and gut-born screams and the headspace created by moments of stillness. We drifted back together, started writing songs and messing around at The Spot, the rehearsal space and studio we had built for ourselves. And we could tell immediately that we were on to something. We just ignored all that shit. When the time was right, we all knew it.

By the summer of , the time was definitely right. The band had brought their music to a whole new level thanks to a blistering touring schedule that kept them sharp, focused and formidable night after night. We eat, sleep and everything else you can think of together. I could tell you we were surprised about the way people reacted to us no matter where we played. I was fucking tweaked out of my mind, but I felt like it was all left to me to make sense of all this fragmented work.

I felt like no one else cared, everybody else was in their own worlds. And also, not that I quit [drugs] completely then, but Team Sleep got me away from that environment, and we went on tour.

It was a good three, four-month period where I was gone and occupied by something and I was away from the people that were poisonous in Sacramento. So I was off drugs, I was away from that record that was bringing me down, it was an escape from everything. It was kind of like a stand-off. I finished that whole cycle with Team Sleep, we had fun, I was sober for the most part, and then I came back to Sacramento, and I got right back into the drug thing.

So we all went and met up at this hotel, and I showed up late, all strung out and shit. I had driven from Sacramento to LA overnight. I get there, and everybody was just about to leave because they were tired of waiting for me.

It was a really weird, tense meeting. They asked me. Me and my buddy Shaun went into the studio and pieced the record together. And it worked, it came out, we toured on it, and we started as a band reconnecting, started to get into a good place. Everyone was clean, Chi was clean and sober and Abe was as well.

We were the toxic trio. Stephen never really did drugs. So it was time to go and make another record. It was the Eros record. We got two thirds of the way done. At that point I still lived in LA but I was staying in a hotel in Sacramento, and it was a rough time. I was a single father, I had split up with my wife.

So even though it was a good time as a band it was a fucking hard time. So the kids moved with me to LA and I was going to finish the record there. We were a good couple of months finishing that record, and then I got a call that Chi had his accident [bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a car crash in that left him in a coma — he eventually died in ].

And then at that point everything was just kind of up in the air. All our thoughts were with Chi and the band was secondary. It took a good five or six months until we discussed the future of the band. But working on Diamond Eyes felt like a rebirth, that was when we were given our second chance. We realised our mortality, how lucky we were to have the chance to have the platform to make music and have people care about it. Life is short, our friend is in a coma, and we just put aside all our grieving and everything we were going through and just focussed on music.

Locked ourselves in a room and we wrote a brilliant record. Eagerly anticipated by both fans and critics alike, Deftones dropped in May and spawned the single "Minerva. Deftones ended up peaking at number two on the Billboard , and the band took a well-deserved break for rest and side projects.

In October , Deftones issued a two-disc set of B-sides and rarities before returning with a new studio full-length, Saturday Night Wrist , a year later. In , the group began working on Eros, which was set to be their sixth album. The record was delayed indefinitely when bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a serious car accident that left him in a coma.

Cheng 's spot was filled by Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega in , and the band got back to touring and recording. Though Eros was still shelved, in Deftones released a new album, Diamond Eyes. Cheng partially regained consciousness in and returned home to recover, though he wouldn't be in good enough shape to appear on the band's seventh album, Koi No Yokan , which arrived later that year.

Despite his recovery, Cheng passed away from cardiac arrest on April 13, , at age In , to mark the one-year anniversary of his death, Deftones released the track "Smile," from the unreleased Eros. Two years later, the band returned with their eighth album, Gore , released in April Their second-highest charting to date, the critically acclaimed record topped the charts in Australia and New Zealand while reaching number two in the U.