In een recent interview heeft Stephen Carpenter, gitarist van Deftones, aangegeven dat hij eigenlijk helemaal niet mee wilde werken aan de band’s aankomende studioalbum Gore. Hoewel de gitarist geen behoefte voelde om zijn bijdrage te leveren aan de in april verschijnende plaat, laat hij weten geen plannen te hebben de band te verlaten.

Lees hieronder een fragment uit het interview.

Are there any songs or guitar parts on the new record that you’re really proud of or really excited for the fans to hear?
“Oh god. I think my proudest thing about my guitar playing on this record is just playing on the record because I didn’t want to play on the record to begin with. It wasn’t until way later once I actually got into it. I look at all the songs on the record and they were all a challenge for me to get in to.”

That’s not saying that you’re going to leave the Deftones, is it?
“I would never leave the band that I started but the band started leaving me, I can’t control that.”

That’s a democratic way to look at it, really.
“I mean, I have a great time for the most part. This record has been a struggle and we have got issues that I do not want to leave home but how things will be in the future, I do not know. But I know what I will do and what I will not do and there are some things that I will not do in the future because I just don’t agree with it.”