You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
Deftones are a Grammy-winning band from Sacramento who've sold over 10 million albums.
Their ninth album came out this year on September 25th, 2020.
It's called Ohms, and the last track on it is also called Ohms.
In this episode, singer Chino Moreno breaks down how that song came together,
and how they literally went back to where things started in order to create the music.
Here's Chino Moreno on how Ohms got started.
My name is Chino Moreno.
The first time I heard anything of it was an email that I received from Stephan Carpenter,
who plays guitar.
He sent this demo, and I remember I was traveling, and I was on my way to Yellowstone National Park,
and I remember my wife was getting mad at me because I don't have unlimited data,
so I was downloading stuff using my cellular network,
and she was like, why are you downloading stuff right now?
We're going to run out of data.
But I'd already got like two-thirds of the way through, so I just continued on.
This was probably three or so years ago, out of the blue.