Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains provided guest guitar on the track 'Phantom Bride'. īassist Sergio Vega utilized a Bass VI when recording the new material, helping to push the band into new sonic territory. Despite creative differences, band members noted the collaborative nature of the album and considered the tension between differences of musical styles to be a strength. He stated, 'I had to embrace my inner psycho rapist and come up with the part and get into it'. Ĭarpenter expressed difficulty in getting into the feel of the album initially, comparing the feel of the song 'Hearts / Wires' with being a serial killer.

He described the album as 'a little more of a heady record' than the previous album. In late February 2015, just after the band had finished the new album's drum tracks, Moreno told Rolling Stone that he expected to be done tracking the album by the end of March, and that Deftones had written 16 songs during the album's sessions. Deftones also previously reported that they intended to record a new album either in late 2014 or early 2015.

In March 2014, while Moreno was touring with his side project Crosses in support of their self-titled debut album, the rest of Deftones began writing a follow-up to 2012's Koi No Yokan. The album was noted for its creative tension between frontman Chino Moreno and lead guitarist Stephen Carpenter, which was described by Rolling Stone as Moreno 'playing Morrissey to the guitarist's Meshuggah'. Its release was met with critical acclaim, debuting at number two on the US Billboard 200 it is the band's fifth album to debut within the chart's top-ten and is their highest-charting since their 2003 eponymous album. Gore is the eighth studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones, released on Apby Reprise Records.

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