Saturday Night Wrist

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Saturday Night Wrist

Studio album by Deftones
Released	October 31, 2006
Recorded	November 2004 - May 2005 in Hartford, Connecticut, The Spot in Sacramento, California January - April 2006 at The Airport Studio in Burbank, California and during the Taste Of Chaos tour
Genre	Alternative Metal, Experimental Rock
Length	51:33
Label	Maverick Records
Producer(s)	Shaun Lopez Bob Ezrin Deftones
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link Revolver Aversion link
Deftones chronology
B-Sides & Rarities (2005)	Saturday Night Wrist (2006)

Saturday Night Wrist is the fifth studio album from the Sacramento-based band Deftones. The album was released on Maverick Records on October 31, 2006. The first single to be released was "Hole in the Earth". The song can be heard at the Deftones' MySpace page as of August 16, 2006. The single hit radio on October 16, 2006.

1 History
2 Track listing
3 Collaborations
4 Credits
5 Chart positions
6 External links

[edit] History

Back in early 2004, the band started spinning around ideas for a new album at their studio The Spot in Sacramento, California. On April 30, 2004 they announced that they would be relocating to Malibu, California, to continue writing the album at the "Morning View Studios", which was made famous for being the place Incubus recorded their 2001 album of the same name. The band spent most of the summer there and came out with an album's worth of material which Chino described as "Straight Evil Music". They then decided it was time to pick a producer and start recording the album. While initially they pursued Ken Andrews of Failure fame and even worked with Dan The Automator, they eventually settled on Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin and would have Brian Virtue engineer. They then took a short break before planning a month long tour with Dredg and C-Minus to road test some material starting in San Francisco, California, and ending in Hartford, Connecticut, where producer Bob Ezrin's studio was located. Recording of the album began in November, 2004. During the recording, tensions mounted within the band and between singer Moreno and producer Ezrin. Chino eventually jumped ship to continue work on his side project Team Sleep while the rest of the band continued recording. The Ezrin sessions concluded before Christmas and the band relocated back to their homebase in Sacramento to take a break.

In early 2005, the band started tweaking the Ezrin material at their studio The Spot with Brian Virtue and wrote several new songs in the process. Singer Chino Moreno decided to take a break from recording in the Spring to tour with his band, Team Sleep, who were also releasing their long awaited debut album. The rest of the band, while anxious to finish the album, decided that it would be best to take a much needed break and take their mind off the music for awhile. During this hiatus, the band released a 10 year anniversary CD/DVD entitled B-Sides & Rarities on October 4, 2005 which included one of the songs from the Virute sessions, a Cocteau Twins cover titled "Wax And Wane". In late 2005, Moreno met with longtime Deftones producer Terry Date to help record vocals for some of the remaining tracks. The band also managed to record a quick cover of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" for Amnesty International as well as an iTunes exclusive cover of The Cars' "Drive".

In early 2006, all previously recorded vocals were scrapped and the band started working on the album again with longtime friend Shaun Lopez of Far and The Revolution Smile fame acting as producer. The album was then mixed by Ryan Williams. Saturday Night Wrist was released on October 31, 2006, with "Hole In The Earth" released as the first single. The album was leaked onto the Internet on October 13, 2006, over two weeks prior to its release.

In interview's since the album's release, guitarist Stephen Carpenter has said that a significant portion of certain songs on the album were based around ideas from Chino Moreno, and said that "Pink Cellphone", minus Anne Hardy's vocals, is all Chino. This is reflected in that Moreno plays second guitar on many of the songs. The known songs he plays second guitar on are "Hole in the Earth", "Beware", "Cherry Waves", "U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,A,B,Select,Start", "Xerces", and "Rivière". However, Moreno has stated that "Rats!Rats!Rats!" is 'all Stephen', and it is confirmed that Stephen wrote/plays all guitar parts on "Rapture", "Rats!Rats!Rats!", and "Kimdracula", but also plays guitar and wrote guitar parts on all songs except on "U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,A,B,Select,Start", where he plays drums and Chino plays the only guitar parts of the song.

[edit] Track listing

"Hole in the Earth" - 4:09
"Rapture" - 3:25
"Beware" - 6:00
"Cherry Waves" - 5:17
"Mein" (featuring Serj Tankian) - 3:59
"U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,A,B,Select,Start" - 4:12 [1]
"Xerces" - 3:42
"Rats!Rats!Rats!" - 4:00
"Pink Cellphone" (featuring Annie Hardy) - 3:54
- The "dirty version" runs 5:04 and contains a monologue at the end which was cut out on the "clean version" due to the very offensive language and controversial themes.
"Combat" - 4:46
"Kimdracula" - 3:15
"Rivière" - 3:44
"Drive" - 4:50 (iTunes Bonus Track)(The Cars cover)

[edit] Collaborations

Annie Hardy from Giant Drag: Additional vocals on the song "Pink Cellphone"
Serj Tankian from System of A Down: Additional vocals on the song "Mein"

[edit] Credits

[edit] Chart positions

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2006	The Billboard 200	10
2006	World Wide Chart	17
2006	Billboard Top Internet Albums	3
2006	Billboard Top Canadian Albums	4
2006	Billboard Top Rock Albums	4
2006	U.K. Albums chart	33
2006	Irish Chart	50

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2006	"Hole in the Earth"	Modern Rock Tracks	18
2006	"Hole in the Earth"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	19

[edit] External links

Discography
Deftones
Chino Moreno \| Stephen Carpenter \| Abe Cunningham \| Chi Cheng \| Frank Delgado
Albums: Adrenaline \| Around the Fur \| White Pony \| Deftones \| Saturday Night Wrist