Somehow, his Deftones (despite being signed to Madonna’s now-defunct Maverick label) got sucked into the late-’90s rap-metal vortex of Korn and Limp Bizkit (well, he did appear on a Korn album), but by their third full-length, 2000’s critically beloved White Pony, they’d already moved on to shoegaze-y dream-sludge with trip-hop textures, and you deserve your own seven-string Ibanez if you can decipher their lyrics enough to detect anything “aggro.” (Even key early single “7 Words” is the “Cut Your Hair” of angry choruses: Is he screaming, “Suck, suck, suck” or “Fuck, fuck, fuck”? And yes, it does make a difference.)īy the time Deftones songs with titles like “Rocket Skates” and “U, U, D, D, L, R, L, R, A, B, Select, Start” were commonplace, there was no telling what dimension Moreno was coming from, other than a stoned and loving one: This is a man who gave the band’s last record (and Revolver‘s 2012 Album of the Year) a title ( Koi No Yokan) that translates to “Premonition of Love.” And as you’d imagine, he has side projects galore, from the somewhat ill-fated ambience experiments of Team Sleep (which put out one full-length in 2005) to last year’s return to his dream-metal wheelhouse with Palms. Listen to the Noise11 Music News channel now at iHeartRadioįollow Noise11.Chino Moreno is the rare artist who both hates being labeled and actually makes music that resists labeling. Subscribe to the Noise11 Music Newsletter here Never miss a story! Get your free daily music news email alert. ‘The Serenity Of Suffering’ will be released on October 21, 2016. The album was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Deftones, Mastodon) and features a special guest appearance from Corey Taylor of Slipknot. Korn 2016 is Jonathan Davis (vocals), James “Munky” Shaffer (guitar), Brian “Head” Welch (guitar), Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu (bass) and Ray Luzier (drums). I’m just sitting there, fucking dying and letting it happen for years and years and not helping myself to get out of that place. That’s where ‘Rotting in Vain’ came from.

“It takes you years and years to figure out how to claw your way out.

“Rotting in Vain was written about being in that black place, being in situations that I don’t like in life–be it relationships, or feeling when you’re stuck and you’re just being abused or you don’t like where you’re at, and you just sit there and rot,” says Jonathan Davis. The first song from the album ‘Rotting In Vain’ debuted live at the Open Air Festival in Chicago on 16 July, 2016.

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