DEFTONES drummer Abe Cunningham recently spoke to AOL Music about the recording process for the band's new album, "Saturday Night Wrist", due on October 31. The 12-track effort, the group's fifth to date, nearly didn't happen, according to Cunningham.
"It was not fun at all, and not pleasant," he told AOL Music. "It was horrendous. It made me very sad."
After recording trips to a mansion in Malibu and with veteran producer Bob Ezrin (ALICE COOPER, PINK FLOYD, NINE INCH NAILS) in Stamford, CT, tensions in the band were high. "We weren't communicating," Cunningham recalls. "We didn't like each other."
"There were no $45,000-a-week counselors or anything like that," Cunningham said, downplaying suggestions of METALLICA-style shrink sessions. "We had this huge meeting and Chino [Moreno, vocals], he was late. We told our management to go away."
"It could have been so, so brutal — finger pointing and attacking and all this sh*t — and it turned out to be the most beautiful, at-ease, wonderful conversation between the five of us. We just said, 'F***! We've been doing this for 18 years!'"
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