Deftones

Deftones is the fourth studio album by the American alternative metal band Deftones. It was released on May 20, 2003 through Maverick Records.

Originally to be titled Lovers, the album was instead given an eponymous title because singer Chino Moreno considered Lovers too obvious to the context of its material. The song “Lovers” does, however, exist on the UK single for “Hexagram” as a B-side. Deftones was the last album produced by Terry Date, who had collaborated with the band since Adrenaline, due to the vast amount of time spent in the studio, for example the band spent the first 3 days hanging around. They took considerable amounts of time to write and record music which frustrated Date as much as their lack of material when they entered the studio, the latter of the songs were written in the studio. “Needles and Pins” originally had two tentative names, one being “Aria” and the other being “White Woman”. It was intended to be the opening track, but the band decided to change the song’s title and order at the last minute.