Deftones New Album 'Gore' Set For April 2016; First Single 'Prayers/Triangles' Released

Deftones has dropped the first single "Prayers/Triangles," from their new 2016 album.

The new single debuted earlier this month on BBC's Zane Lowe show. The group has also revealed "Gore's" entire track listing, as well as an audio visual for "Prayers/Triangles" and their 2016 tour dates.

Deftones is set to take over London's Wembley Arena in June, which was rescheduled due to the attacks in Paris late last year.

Before that, the band will perform at Travis Barker's MUSINK festival on March 5 alongside Taking Back Sunday and Epitaph's garage band Plague Vendor.

According to Mxdwn.com, "Gore," the group's follow-up album to 2012's "Koi No Yakan," will be released this in April this year. Matt Hyde (Slayer, Monster Magnet, Children of Bodom) produced the record that will feature Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell in one of its tracks.

Frontman Chino Moreno says that the upcoming record is heavily influenced by Morrissey, the frontman for the iconic British group The Smiths.

"I've been on this crazy Morrissey kick recently - totally obsessing over his solo records - so I brought a lot of that to the table," Moreno told NME magazine. "On those early solo records, he uses this awesome, Elvis-y delay on his vocal that I've been ripping off a ton. He's always been a favourite lyricist of mine - the beautiful poetic melancholy of it all."

The "Sextape" singer said "Gore" is a little more technical compared to the previous album.

"I think it's a little more of a heady record" and "I feel like we've gone into the songs and really dissected them," Moreno said in a separate interview with Blabbermouth. "If something sounded a little straight, we took a left turn and made things a little screwy."

Stay tuned for more news on Deftones' new 2016 album "Gore" as updates become available.