Frontman Chino Moreno's words have always been clothed in metaphor, and, while their contemporaries were brash in their demeanour, flashy in the way they dressed and the way they made their videos, Deftones have favoured a low key approach.Īlways consistently good, the band have also maintained the same line-up since their early days, with one exception.Ĭheng was seriously injured in a car crash in 2008 and spent the next five years in and out of intensive care.
The spiteful words and teenage angst that drove much of nu-metal was never found in the Deftones. They have prided themselves on being an island in so many ways. While they never hit the heights in terms of sales of the likes of Korn or Limp Bizkit, the band have always enjoyed critical acclaim and a fanbase that has kept them in arenas and at the top of festival bills. The album did not blow up upon release in 1995, but after solid touring the band were granted a second go and reunited with Date to record Around The Fur, which was released in 1997. This time things did begin to move, propelled by MTV favourite 'My Own Summer (Shove It)' and single 'Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)'.įrank Delgado, a long-time friend of the band who had contributed electronics and the sonics of a turntable on five of the tracks on Around The Fur, was soon made a permanent member of the band and helped established Deftones' sound, a blend of crushing metal and ambient electronics that wound them a huge and very loyal fanbase. Even in their earliest days.įormed in Sacramento, California in the late 1980s, the band brought together high school friends Steph Carpenter, Abe Cunningham and Chino Moreno, who were joined by bassist Chi Cheng a couple of years later.Īfter establishing a firm following in their home state, the band were picked up by Maverick Records and put into the studio with up and coming producer Terry Date to record their debut album, Adrenaline. It's true to say that in bringing together the hip-hop they'd grown up listening to alongside the hardcore sonics of Bad Brains and dark power of Depeche Mode, the band attempted to meld the same genres as Korn and Limp Bizkit, and the same genres the likes of Linkin Park, Slipknot and Incubus would go on to do, but the Deftones always stood apart.
Though they came up at the same time as nu-metal heavyweights Korn and Limp Bizkit and had the same penchant for oversized jeans and mixing the sounds of a turntable alongside heavy guitars, Deftones have never really fitted in alongside so much of that genre.
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