Deftones have confirmed plans to release a deluxe edition of their classic 2000 album White Pony, along with a bonus alternate disc of brand-new remixes dubbed Black Stallion.
Singer Chino Moreno revealed, “We’re going to be releasing later in the year a reissue of the record and we’re going to do sort of a split side of the record, a remixed version of it titled Black Stallion. So we have a bunch of different people on it, some that actually inspired some of the writing of the record itself, the original album. So it’s kind of come full circle.”
Only one contributor, DJ Shadow, is confirmed, while the rest of the participants and a release date are yet to be announced.
White Pony was released 20 years ago this Saturday (June 20th). It is widely considered Deftones' finest effort to date. The million-selling disc yielded the Top Three rock hit “Change (In The House Of Flies).”
Moreno told us at the time that White Pony established the template for the kind of records he wanted to make: “I wanna make music that’s very soothing. It can be so abrasive, but the whole time you’re listening to it, it’s soothing you, you know what I mean? I wanna make a record that you hear and it’s poking the s**t out of you the whole time you’re hearing it, but it’s stroking you. It’s making you feel warm inside, and that’s the vibe I’m going for.”
Deftones recently completed work on their new album, which is tentatively slated for a September release.