So if I have any spare time, I'm either listening to music, researching music or making music. It's like, my kids are at school, I'm at home, am I going to just watch TV all day? I want to do something creative. 'What else am I gonna do? If I'm not out on tour, I'm not gonna sit around and play video games or go golfing. 'I'm just keeping busy,' the 39-year-old singer says, acknowledging that music is not only his day job, but his hobby as well. The band was set to begin rehearsals for their next round of touring, and also gearing up for the release of its new and seventh studio album, Koi No Yokan.Īnd yet, despite all the activity in Deftones world, Moreno finds himself on this day at the home studio of a friend - former Isis drummer Aaron Harris - where he's laying down vocals for the debut album from Palms, a band that, in addition to Harris, features additional ex-Isis men Clifford Meyer and Jeff Caxide. Moreno was home in Los Angeles following the Deftones' short run of arenas with System of a Down. Take, for example, a recent afternoon in early September. This story was originally published in 2012.įor Deftones frontman Chino Moreno, there's no such thing as downtime.

Deftones albums after 2012