Metal Anarchy

Deftones have confirmed that they are working on a “White Pony” remix album titled “Black Stallion.” The release will be available as part of an upcoming reissue.

Chino Moreno said the following during a global Zoom press conference [via Loudwire]:

“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‘. 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.”

Frank Delgado went on to reveal that the “Black Stallion” idea actually came about before the release of “White Pony”:

“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 [DJ] 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.”

“It’s funny because now he’s involved in that and I think that’s kind of special. This record was just embedded in our brains before we put it down on tape. It’s crazy. I think it has a lot to do with the hangs we were doing. We were just friends hanging out and making shit happen.”

“White Pony” will be celebrating its 20th anniversary on June 20 and you can read an oral history of the album at theringer.com.