The new millennium was less than a week old when Deftones decamped to a Hollywood mansion to begin work on their third album. They were already in imperious form: their two previous albums – 1995’s Adrenaline and 1997’s Around The Fur – established them as one of the most acclaimed, innovative and incendiary bands to emerge […]

“Massive in pretension, slightly too long and gothic,” read the original NME 8/10 review of Deftones’ ambitious third album ‘White Pony’ back in 2000, “but when all the pieces fit, you can’t deny its unstoppable power.” So powerful was the experimental ambition, pure musicality and onslaught of bangers on the Sacremento art-metallers’ opus that here […]

The partially-finished Eros project has long been a hot topic of Deftones lore. The band had been working on an album with that tentative title as the follow-up to Saturday Night Wrist, released in 2006, when bassist Chi Cheng was in a 2008 car accident that left him incapacitated. After a period of grieving, the […]

The Deftones are moving at a typically Deftonesian pace on their new album, which they once promised would be out in 2019, but it seems we’ll get to hear it sooner rather than later: drummer Abe Cunningham indicated in a new interview that the record has now been fully mixed and has moved into the […]

DEFTONES drummer Abe Cunningham has offered an update on the band’s follow-up to 2016’s “Gore” album, which was recently recorded for a tentative late 2020 release. Speaking to Download presenter Kylie Olsson, Abe said (see video below): “We actually tracked everything [for the new LP] over the summer [of 2019]. Last summer — June and […]

Veronica Bordacchini, who has been Fleshgod Apocalypse’s touring soprano vocalist since 2013, has released “Change (In the House of Toxic),” in which she sings Britney Spears’ “Toxic” over the music from — you guessed it! — “Change (In the House of Flies)” by Deftones. Technically, it’s a cover of a viral hit from last year. […]

Deftones have performed last night at Jimmy Kimmel Live. The band played “Prayers/Triangles” and “Heart/Wires” from their latest album “Gore”. Chino and Sergio showed up with new hair colors, blonde and pink. Buy “GORE” here.