Deftones have confirmed that they’re currently in the midst of tracking their new album, with frontman Chino Moreno calling it “a little more of a heady record.”

Speaking to Rolling Stone, the frontman explained that, for the follow-up to 2012’s ‘Koi No Yokan’, the band have been tackling songwriting in a different manner.

“The songs are amazing, and we wrote them in a really cool way,” he explained in the interview. “We had all of us in a room together with one person expressing an idea and another person jumping on it. The songs are really built as a collective. We have five guys who have almost completely different takes on music, so when it works, it works great.”

Going on to call it “a step from our last record”, the frontman went into some further detail on the ground it explores. “I think it’s a little more of a heady record. I feel like we’ve gone into the songs and really dissected them. If something sounded a little straight, we took a left turn and made things a little screwy. We just tried something completely opposite, not to sabotage it, but to challenge ourselves and try new things that we haven’t done in the past.”

The band hope to release their latest record later this year, after completing tracking later this month. Read the full interview with Deftone’s Chino Moreno here.