The announcement marks the 20th anniversary of the seminal record.
Deftones are twice making headlines this week as the band made the announcement that they are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their seminal record, White Pony, with a b-side remix companion fittingly called, Black Stallion.
Frontman Chino Moreno confirmed some initial details. “We’re gonna be releasing later in the year a reissue of the record and we’re going to do sort of a split side of the record, a remixed version of it titled Black Stallion,” he revealed. “So we have a bunch of different people on it, some that actually inspired some of the writing of the record itself, the original album. So it’s kind of come full circle.”
Foreseeing the importance of the record, Deftones’ Frank Delgado talked about how the idea of a remixed version of the record was already being discussed before the original was even released. “We would talk about our new record, how good it was going to be and we’d immediately jump to, ‘It’s going to be so good, we’re going to have Shadow remix it and we’ll call it Black Stallion.’ I think one time we actually hit him up. He was playing here in town and I was opening DJing and me and Chino Moreno kind of cornered him. We were like, ‘Hey man, we’re the Deftones,’ and he looked at us like we were fucking crazy. We were like, ‘We want you remix our record,’ and he was like, ‘Deftones? Are you guys ska?’ But he was like, ‘Well, send it to me,’ kind of like trying to get rid of us and we were like, ‘Well, we haven’t actually recorded it yet.’ It was kind of batshit crazy of us.”
Ironically, DJ Shadow was one of the collaborators confirmed for this remixed project. June 20th is the exact date White Pony will mark 20 years since it’s release. No date thus far has been set for the release of Black Stallion.
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