Deftones approached their new album, Ohms, from a different perspective this time around. The band's Chino Moreno told Australia's Music Feeds, “The whole thing with us, when we're making records, is that we're always trying to find different angles or ways of approaching what we do . . . The thing that we did a little differently on this record is we took a bit of a different approach to the guitars. We wanted to record this one pretty much live as a band. We didn't record to a click track or anything. It's just us, much like we were when we were younger, playing together in a garage without all this technical stuff — basically just us playing off of each other and trying to feed off the energy in the room. I think that really helped capture that exciting vibe for us, made it feel like it used to when we were kids.”
Moreno says the difference between Ohms and their last album, 2017's Gore, is time. He said, “We've been friends for so long and been through so much stuff, so we took our time to cultivate that energy, whereas on Gore, we went in for these writing sessions and just tried to bash out songs, and the first songs that we made got kept, and that was the record. On this one, we stretched it out over a year and a half, so we wrote, then we'd step back and reflect on what we'd done, and then work on it some more. We really let the songs and the record grow without the weight or pressure of having to have it done at a certain time. I really feel that contributed positively to the way that Ohms sounds.”
Ohms arrives at retail today (Friday, Sept. 25th).