He tells Kerrang: "We recorded this record in a different way. I'm not saying we went in with any preconceived ideas as such, but I do think we went in knowing that we wanted to make this record a little different from the last two.

"It's still a Deftones record - we didn't really have any new influences that changed that. But it's an expansion of what we were comfortable with. And it's important to get out of your comfort zone sometimes with the music - just to be excited.