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    If a metal album is released in a pandemic, does it make a sound? Deftones are about to find out

    by August Brown, Los Angeles Times Sep 25, 2020 5 minutes

    The job of any good metal album is capturing fans' collective despair and fury. But how do you get them into a new record if even the band can't be in the same room together due to COVID-19?

    When Chino Moreno tracked his vocals for Deftones' new album "Ohms," he barely bumped into a soul.

    "Instead of getting a hotel, Terry (Date, the band's producer) had this trailer in his driveway and I slept out there. I wouldn't even go to the store for groceries," Moreno, 47, says of the weeks in rural Woodinville, Washington, finishing the album as COVID-19 shut down concerts and any other place where people got within spitting distance. "This was back when we all thought you couldn't touch anything."

    Over the last six months as the concert

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