"If you take one song off White Pony and play it to somebody," Delgado said on the band's website around the time of the album's release, "You can't say, 'This is what the new album sounds like.' Because each fuckin' song is different, and how many albums can you say that about?"īut despite being spacier, weirder and more diverse than anything Deftones had previously released, White Pony was both a major artistic and commercial success for the band. White Pony would be the first (and definitely not the last) Deftones album to prominently feature elements of shoegaze, trip hop and post-rock in its music not coincidentally, it was also the first Deftones album to feature Frank Delgado (turntables, keyboards) as a full-time band member, and the first to feature Moreno's guitar contributions. Now our label and everybody wants us to fit back in with all this, but we feel like we've already grown past it."
Now radio is playing all kinds of heavy shit that they wouldn't even think of playing when our first record came out. That's the way I perceived it and that's what came out. "When we did our first record everybody was saying, 'Why are you screaming, radio's not going to play this, blah, blah, blah, why don't you sing more?' And I was like, 'Well, I just feel like screaming.' That's just the way I was, a lot of these songs were written when I was 16 years old, so I was an angry teenager who felt like the whole world was against them. "I've always loved to sing," Moreno told KNAC radio in the summer of 2000. spent so much time trying to carve their own musical niche with a more mature, melodic and multi-textured sound. Produced (like the band's first two albums) by Terry Date, White Pony took the better part of a year to make - partly because the band's Ozzfest commitments ate up most of the summer of 1999, but also because Chino Moreno and Co.
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