My Mind Is A Mountain

Album: Private Music (2025)
Charted: 89 102
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Songfacts®:

  • Released on July 10, 2025 - five years and one pandemic after Deftones' previous album, Ohms - "My Mind Is a Mountain" arrived with no polite preamble: just drop-tuned guitars, thundering drums, and Chino Moreno's anguish-laced falsetto soaring somewhere between a whisper and a siren.
  • If the title suggests quiet reflection, don't be fooled. The track opens in full pummel mode, skipping the foreplay and throwing listeners straight into a blitz of riffs and fury before suddenly dissolving into a distorted, dreamlike verse. Then, as if nothing happened, it's back to the chugs.
  • The lyrics echo Deftones' signature approach: atmospheric, emotionally charged, and open to interpretation. The track is divided into four main verses and no chorus, each developing central themes of emotional weathering, internal struggle, and patient endurance.
  • The title doesn't show up in the lyric but fits with Deftones' artistic style. The phrase "My Mind Is a Mountain" functions as a metaphor for the emotional and psychological landscape Chino Moreno explores.
  • Deftones are known for abstract, poetic, and atmospheric titling. Many of their song titles, like "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event," "Dai The Flu," "Digital Bath" and "Tempest," evoke a mood or concept rather than repeating a lyric.
  • Deftones recorded "My Mind Is a Mountain" for their 10th album, Private Music. They laid down the LP in various locations in California, including Malibu and Joshua Tree, as well as Nashville, with producer Nick Raskulinecz. It was their third collaboration with Raskulinecz, who had previously helmed Diamond Eyes (2010) and Koi No Yokan (2012).
  • Shot largely in black and white, the video finds Deftones playing in a stark, windowless room that could be a bunker or a dream. Chino Moreno leans into the mic like he's exorcising something, while flashes of red gradually bleed into the frame, a reminder that even grayscale emotions eventually catch fire.

    The video was directed by Rizz, who is a member of the band Vowws.
  • Deftones gave "My Mind Is A Mountain" its live debut on August 22, 2025, during their concert at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada.

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