It was a frozen day. In the middle of the “Around the fur” European Tour the band faced a setback when their bus broke down on the way to Stockholm (Sweden) leaving the group stranded in sub-zero temperatures until the bus was repaired. This happened just a few days after the Deftones tour van been… [Continue Reading]

As so many bands out there, the Deftones are no exception. They’ve been robbed several times. Once was on the “Around the fur” European Tour while the band was playing a gig in Berlin (Germany), thieves pillaged the group’s tour van making off with camera equipment and CDs. The most valuable were video tapes containing… [Continue Reading]

This story was told by Chino’s mom and it happened when he was a young teenager…it starts like this; One evening Chino grabbed his skate and went straight to his girlfriend house. When he reached her house he climbed to her bedroom window and asked her: “Well, can I come up?” and she leaned out… [Continue Reading]

Abe Cunningham wasn’t the first Deftones drummer. John Taylor (photo) was the drummer before Abe. John stayed with the band a couple of months before Abe definitively agreed to be the drummer. Then John left Deftones and went to a band called Prayer Wheel.

Max Cavalera formerly Sepultura’s vocalist, was wearing a Deftones t-shirt on Sepultura’s video “Roots Bloody Roots”. It was a red t-shirt and it appeared a lot during the video, that t-shirt contained this Deftones logo: Max seems to be a defanatic too. He also invited Chino to trade lines with him on “First Commandment”, from… [Continue Reading]

After you watch all the videos and all the flowers are colored (either red or blue), click on the right eye of the skull before you exit and you’ll see a video titled “Stef cuts Chino’s guitar strings”. Then before you exit when the little box pops up, showing all the credits, click on the… [Continue Reading]

- Moana: Moana is the Maori (New Zealand native) word for the sea. Pronounced Mo-a-na, maw-a-na. – Minerva: Minerva was the multi-talented Roman goddess of wisdom, poetry, music, medicine, arts and crafts (especially wool) , dyeing, science, commerce, and war. More generally she was the patroness of intellect and learning, especially academics. – Hexagram: An… [Continue Reading]