DEFTONES singer Chino Moreno 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 Tim “Herb” Alexander for the PRIMUS drummer’s “Herb’s Happy Hour” show, Chino said (see video below): “We have a record that we finished maybe — I don’t […]

Originally posted on Facebook Live on June 26th, Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn’s latest Acoustic Happy Hour features Flynn running through covers of Slipknot (“Snuff”), Pearl Jam (“Black”), Deftones (“Change”), and Staind (“Outside”), plus Machine Head tunes “Is There Anybody Out There?” and “Circle The Drain”. Check it out below.

Sacramento’s Deftones emerged from the nu-metal scene of the mid-90s but they were always a band apart. They could do the low, down-tuned lurch with the best of them, especially on their first two albums. There was always a lot more to them than mere heaviness though and they mixed in layers of light, shade […]

Forming in Sacramento, California all the way back in 1988, and releasing eight outstanding LPs over the last 25 years (with number nine on its way), Deftones have indelibly shaped the alternative metal genre while remaining a band apart. Always one step ahead, that bit smarter, sharper, more daring than even their closest peers, they […]

Deftones are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their White Pony album with a global listening party and a new capsule of commemorative merch. The band’s landmark 2000 album turned 20 years old this past Saturday (June 20th), and we’ve already listed 20 reasons why we still love the stellar LP, in addition to examining the […]

With a reissue on the way and an album listening party planned for later today (June 22), Deftones are doing plenty to celebrate the 20th anniversary of White Pony. And now fans will even be able to wear their love for the Sacramento gang’s third album with a new ‘White Pony 20th Anniversary Capsule’ merch drop. […]

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 […]