I thought we should use it as propaganda to represent our individuality, to say, ‘We are the white pony amongst all these other bands,’ and we stuck with it.”
Why, even the new album’s title and stark cover art, depicting a small galloping horse against a prevailing silver backdrop, came together before the first notes were even recorded, as Moreno told Slamm Magazine: “The name started out as the graphic itself, the picture of a pony. That stemmed from Chino picking up the guitar, but it’s also because Stephen kinda left, he moved out, and so we did what we needed to do,” drummer Abe Cunningham recalled in a 2010 interview with Rocksound.TV.Īs Carpenter stewed in his new hometown of Los Angeles, the remaining Deftones carried on pre-production with producer Terry Date, himself a former heavy metal purist whose one-track mind had been positively warped by Chino’s persistence in making this search for individuality an integral of White Pony’s creative process from day one. “We wanted to add some more electronic sounds and textures were way more prominent on all the songs – he was more of a guest on the first two records, a buddy of ours who was touring with us constantly – and the whole guitar thing with Chino, that was the start of a huge animosity and tension between him and Steph that’s been well-publicized over the years. A huge fan of Depeche Mode, The Cure, and other emotionally weighty new wave and electronica acts, band frontman Chino Moreno was keen to expand his bandmates’ horizons, despite no small resistance from guitarist Stephen Carpenter, in particular.
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