The Deftones landed a recording contract with Maverick Records.
In April 2020, Deftones announced that they were mixing their new album
=== Ohms, Black Stallion, and Vega's departure (2017-2023) ===In 2017, Chino Moreno revealed that Deftones had begun writing material for their ninth studio album, which he stated hoped would be out sometime in 2019

