Upon first listen, “Digital Bath” is a hauntingly beautiful song that could be played during a late-night cruise.

One critic says:

“Digital Bath”, “Knife Prty”, and “Change” are all defined by the ghostly samples in the background that perfectly match Chino’s vocals and the wonderful harmonic phrasing on those songs.

Diving farther into the song, however, we learn that it is about luring a girl into a bathtub, killing her with an electrical device, and then dressing her back up.

Chino Moreno, lead vocalist of Deftones, on “Digital Bath”:

The song itself, if you took the lyrics out of it and you listen to just the melodies and the song, you wouldn’t think that it would be a violent song. It’s a prettier, spacier song.

A separate quote from Chino from the same source:

It was probably 5 in the morning – we were still up partying – and I just pictured this whole scenario of having this girl, bringing her downstairs and taking a bath and like, out of nowhere, just reaching back and electrocuting – basically throwing some kind of electrical device in the bathtub and then taking her out of the bath and drying her off and putting her clothes back on.