I'm a lot more iffy on this than I was in the past but this was a necessary bridge that needed to be crossed through during my gothic pipeline
Lacking any kind of authenticity or identifying sound and a pale imitation of an already shaky persona, Deftones did not need a clone, yet, Fleshwater sought out and found the answer to the question, 'What if we did nothing of note for 30 minutes and released it to the public?'