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“There is some really bad-ass stuff on that album”: This legendary alt-metal band are sitting on an album recorded at the height of their success – but it may never come out

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“An arresting, unsettling, sometimes unpredictable effect – and in that sense it nails the Deftones brief”: KHDK Digital Bath review

This signature stompbox recreates one of Deftones’ dreamiest tones – but is it more than just a one-trick (white) pony?

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“I’m more interested in putting in stuff that I’m unfamiliar with and trying to be more than just the power chord. But I still end up back there, that’s the problem”: Stephen Carpenter shares his power chord addiction as Deftones announce new album

In a candid conversation with Zane Lowe, Stephen Carpenter and Chino Moreno describe how they search for soundscapes instead of songs – while Carpenter reveals his long-lasting guitar tone influences

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Deftones appear to be teasing the release of new music next week

The nu metal-era stars put up a graphic at their London concert on Sunday, hinting towards something going down on July 10

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“Digital Bath is the most complex pedal we have ever developed. It took us nearly two years to get it absolutely perfect”: KHDK teams up with Chino Moreno for a delay that promises “immersive, melancholic textures” and an iconic Deftones tone

Say goodbye to dry. Digital Bath combines analogue delay with filter modulation for haunting echoes and liquid sounds

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KHDK dives into a Deftones classic with a signature modulation pedal – and it’s the first pedal to ever capture the coveted Digital Bath tone

Chino Moreno has collaborated with the effects specialist to bottle the track’s hypnotic sounds

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“A wolf in sheep’s clothing, full of smart and deceptive songwriting… oddball dispositions lurk in every darkened corner”: You may not have realised, but Deftones’ Diamond Eyes is a cunning prog masterpiece

When tragedy led to ditching the album they’d planned to release, the “Radiohead of metal” delivered something much more unorthodox

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Hear Deftones frontman Chino Moreno’s remix of The Cure track Warsong

It’s taken from the transformative project Remixes Of A Lost World, out on June 13

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“The record label took a million dollars from us. There was nothing we could do because it was our fault”: How Deftones helped create nu metal – then escaped it

Deftones were there at the beginning of nu metal

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Watch Paramore’s Hayley Williams join Deftones to sing Minerva in Nashville

Williams previously joined the nu metal-era idols for a performance of Passenger in 2010

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“We had our share of arguments doing this record, a lot of them, but those arguments should escalate our art”: How Deftones rose above musical tension and a horrific tragedy with Gore

Deftones’ eighth album, Gore, was one of the most difficult records they made

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"It’s actually Sid Wilson’s favourite Slipknot song." Inside nu metal's greatest deep cuts

From a Slipknot buried treasure to the long-overlooked Korn rarity, these are the overlooked classics in the nu metal canon

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Deftones announce two more UK headline shows for summer 2025

Didn’t get tickets to Deftones’ blockbuster London date? The quasi-nu metal beloveds have just announced extra stops in Yorkshire and Cornwall

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System Of A Down announce three co-headline stadium shows with Korn, Avenged Sevenfold and Deftones

American and Canadian metal fans will be spoiled next year, thanks to these three blockbuster events

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“In my mind I was thinking this could be the last record we ever made, They thought I wanted to leave it”: How Deftones pulled back from the brink of oblivion to make Saturday Night Wrist

Tensions between bandmates, bust-ups with their producer, divorce – Deftones’ fifth album Saturday Night Wrist almost didn’t happen

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Watch Deftones' Chino Moreno excitedly live out his fan boy dreams by fronting Smashing Pumpkins

Have you ever seen Chino Moreno look this happy?

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“I was so difficult to deal with, but I wasn’t the only one in the band doing something that they shouldn’t have been doing”: how Deftones rose above turmoil and tragedy with Diamond Eyes

Deftones are one of modern metal‘s most acclaimed bands – and its most turbulent

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Polyphia’s Scott LePage teases new signature Ibanez Xiphos – a reimagined über-metal classic from the X Series

One minute you're watching a playthrough of Bloodbath, getting twisted knuckles trying to play along, and the next you are checking the Ibanez site for updates, credit card in hand

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The 10 strangest places heavy metal bands have performed

From Metallica in Antarctica to Chino Moreno in a volcano, these are the most bizarre places metal musicians have bashed out some notes

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"This is something I wouldn’t have believed if you’d told me 20 years ago": Chino Moreno couldn't be more thrilled that The Cure's Robert Smith appears on the new Crosses album

The mutual love in between Deftones and The Cure is a pure and wonderful thing

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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Doro, Twin Temple and Prong are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Soulfly at 25: how Max Cavalera assembled the metal avengers to save himself from grief, depression and addiction

After leaving Sepultura following the death of his stepson, Max Cavalera was at his lowest ebb. Then he got an idea for something new

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