You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Hereway.

This episode contains explicit language.

Deaf tones are a Grammy-winning band from Sacramento, who sold over 10 million albums.

Their ninth album came out this year on September 25th, 2020.

It's called Ohms, and the last track on it is also called Ohms.

In this episode, Singer Chino Moreno breaks down how that song came together,

and how they literally went back to where things started in order to create the music.

Here's Chino Moreno on how Ohms got started.

My name is Chino Moreno.

The first time I heard anything of it was an email that I received from Stefan Carpenter, who plays guitar.

He sent this demo, and I remember I was traveling, and I was on my way to Yellowstone National Park.

I remember my wife was getting mad at me because I don't have unlimited data, so I was downloading stuff like using my cellular network.

Why are you downloading stuff right now? We're going to run out of data.

I'd already got two-thirds of the way through, so I just continued on.

This was probably three years ago, out of the blue.

He rarely sends me demos, because a lot of our music has really written like all of us in the same room.

But I know when he sends me something that he feels strongly enough about it to send it to me.

So when he does do that, I'm already excited about the bat.

Just a guitar riff ideas were there.

There was like this longing, desperate sort of undertone in there. This sort of desperate feeling.

I think it's like close to seven minutes on, I don't remember, but it's pretty lengthy.

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