Editing Adrenaline (album) (section)

==Background and recording==
[[Stephen Carpenter]], [[Abe Cunningham]] and [[Chino Moreno]] were high school friends. All three went to Sacramento's [[C. K. McClatchy High School]] together, and participated in the city's skateboarding scene.<ref name="GWstef">{{cite web|url=http://www.deftonesworld.com/guitar-world-october-1997-stef-interviewed/|title="Guitar World" - October, 1997 // Stef Interviewed|website=DeftonesWorld|date=October 13, 2011|access-date=December 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220112832/http://www.deftonesworld.com/guitar-world-october-1997-stef-interviewed/|archive-date=December 20, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Carpenter was a fan of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]]; Moreno was interested in [[hardcore punk]] bands such as [[Bad Brains]] as well as [[post-punk]] and [[New wave music|new wave]] bands such as [[Depeche Mode]] and [[the Cure]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/11/20/heavy-wather|title=Heavy Wather|last=Frere-Jones|first=Sasha|website=[[The New Yorker]]|date=November 12, 2006|access-date=October 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012052133/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/11/20/heavy-wather|archive-date=October 12, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> When Moreno learned that Carpenter was a guitarist, he set up a [[jam session]] with Cunningham, who played drums. The trio began playing regularly in Carpenter's garage around 1988.<ref name="GWstef"/> They recruited bassist Dominic Garcia some time after, and the band became a four-piece.<ref name="exclaim!">{{cite web|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/deftones-beauty_and_brutality|title=Deftones Beauty and Brutality|last=Gormely|first=Ian|website=[[Exclaim!]]|date=April 26, 2016|access-date=December 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228010351/http://exclaim.ca/music/article/deftones-beauty_and_brutality|archive-date=February 28, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> When Cunningham left Deftones to join [[Phallucy]], another band from Sacramento, Garcia switched instruments and became the band's drummer.<ref name="exclaim!"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.laweekly.com/deftones-perform-fundraiser-for-bassist-chi-cheng-at-avalon/|title=Deftones Perform Fundraiser for Bassist Chi Cheng at Avalon|last=Webber|first=Anna|newspaper=[[LA Weekly]]|date=November 24, 2009|access-date=February 11, 2024}}</ref> [[Chi Cheng (musician)|Chi Cheng]] filled the void as bassist, and the band recorded a four-track demo soon afterwards. Cunningham then returned to the band on drums, replacing Garcia.<ref name="GWstef"/>

Regarding the recording, Cunningham said, "At the time we did the first record&nbsp;– which I really like and think is good&nbsp;– you can tell the band was really young. We'd been playing most of those songs for quite a while, and we were just so happy to be making a record that we didn't really think a whole lot about making the songs better".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Peiken|first=Matt|title=Interview with Abe Cunningham|magazine=[[Modern Drummer]]|publisher=Modern Drummer Publications|issn=0194-4533|date=1997}}</ref> Moreno felt that ''Adrenaline'' was recorded "really fast",<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Bromley|first=Adrian|title=Keeping It Simple|magazine=[[Chart Attack|Chart]]|location=Toronto|issn=1198-7235|date=July 1998}}</ref> and he performed all his vocals live with the band in the room using a hand-held [[Shure SM58]] microphone.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Walkling|first=Dennis|title=Chillin' with Chino: Deftones get Moody|magazine=[[Circus (magazine)|Circus]]|issn=0009-7365|date=June 1998}}</ref>

Although not specifically credited in the album's liner notes, it was stated that [[Frank Delgado (American musician)|Frank Delgado]] contributed to the songs "Minus Blindfold" and "Fireal". He was later credited on Deftones' subsequent album ''[[Around the Fur]]'' as a guest, followed by becoming an official member in 1999.<ref name="exclaim!"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.deftonesworld.com/frank-delgado/|title=Frank Delgado - DeftonesWorld - All about the Deftones|website=DeftonesWorld|date=October 6, 2011|access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.altpress.com/deftones-white-pony-20th-anniversary-reissue-black-stallion-remix/|title=Deftones' remix album for 'White Pony' is 20 years in the making|website=[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]]|date=June 18, 2020|access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref>