Fans of the Sacramento, California-founded hard rock act Deftones have long known that the band is one of the best of its kind. Though lumped in with the nu-metal craze of the late 1990s ...

Don’t call them shoegaze. It’s futile to try to define them at all. For 37 years, Deftones have avoided all blanket assumptions — especially nu-metal, where they may have been lumped forever ...

2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Deftones’ debut album, and somehow the band feels more popular, more influential, and more current than ever. Between the re-evaluation of nu metal and the ...

“Our first time at the Forum was 1995, opening for Ozzy Osbourne,” Deftones singer Chino Moreno said, sweating through his T-shirt before the first of two sold-out crowds. “It was f— crazy.

It was pumping, literally and figuratively, through MGM Grand Garden Arena unabated Saturday for the Deftones’ first concert in Las Vegas since 2022 and the sixth stop on their global tour.

Chino Moreno was all smiles. Well, maybe not all smiles. Moreno and melodic metal titans the Deftones were pure menacing for much of their Thursday show in Seattle, with the singer’s ...

Some 30 years after they released their debut album “Adrenaline,” alt-metal band Deftones will headline the largest local arena show of their career when they play Minneapolis’ Target Center ...