The Deftones’ summer tour was sidelined on the day the band was due to depart for a string of dates that would have carried it through Europe and the States (along with the French environmental prog-metal outfit Gojira and the ascendant pop star and YouTube sensation Poppy). Between the pandemic and the coming election, it’s hard to sit back and decompress. We can’t congregate in the spaces where we used to meet to fraternize and blow off steam. Moreno’s a rock star, not a politician, but the divisive climate of the year is hard to shake. He spends the rest of the song wishing we could all just stop pecking at one another, that we could start all over again. Ohms, the upcoming ninth album from Sacramento alternative-metal veterans the Deftones, opens with some timely words, as vocalist Chino Moreno cuts into a wall of guitar and synth noise with a piercing shriek: “I reject both sides of what I’m being told!” “Our music doesn’t have to be any one thing ever,” says Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno.
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