DEFTONES Singer: TEAM SLEEP 'Is Not Something I Believe People Have To Hear'

May 18, 2005

DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno recently spoke to MTV.com about the self-titled debut album by his side project, TEAM SLEEP.

"It's not something I believe people have to hear," he said. "It's mainly something that was done for fun and something that I really like. It's definitely not supposed to be similar to the DEFTONES. That band is pretty aggressive and metal-based, and when we're doing a record, I have to constantly think about not being too self-indulgent and not being completely myself. But when I'm making TEAM SLEEP records, there are no guidelines, so I can go out and do whatever the hell I want."

Lyrically, Moreno wants his work with TEAM SLEEP to be as different from the DEFTONES as it is musically. "In the DEFTONES, it's all about my pain and my life, so with TEAM SLEEP I try as much as possible to step out of myself and write about other things," he explained. "Like, one song is about cults like Jonestown and Heaven's Gate, and another is about medieval castles and diamonds. I didn't want to complain anymore. I just wanted to fantasize a little bit."

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