Artist description Deftones New Record "White Pony" has nothing to do with trends or cliques or market surveys, and everything to do with five guys' unswerving commitment to follow where their hearts and heads take them, be it somewhere abrasive, angry, seductive or scary. Deftones have an unquestionable passion for music, for the release you feel in booming drums, screeching feedback, and gut-born screams and the headspace created by moments of stillness. If you can't feel that desire and intensity on every second of this album, you're numb beyond repair.

Music Style Rock, Metal, Accoustic

Musical Influences Bad Brains, Weezer

Similar Artists Limp Bizkit, Korn, Papa Roach, Bad Brains, Staind, P.O.D. Incubus, Linkin Park

Artist History Back in 1995, we met Deftones with "Adrenaline," a combustible compound of razor-blade riffs, rumble, rage, and rap-ish delivery. The record, besides selling a half-million copies, laid the foundation for the heavy movement that followed and continues today. Even then, we heard hints that this was not a band concerned with traditions or bothered by musical borders. Around the tempestuous bursts of hardcore were passages of eerie quiet and vulnerability. There was something pretty in the skirmish of feedback and cymbal wash, a mermaid surfacing in a mossy swamp. Chino knew from the get-go that nothing enduring is ever obvious and so opted not so much to outright tell a story, but rather cloak it in imagery for your imagination to undress. As he sang in that album's "7 Words," "You and me are here alone, face flat along the edge of the glass."

Group Members Chi Cheng, Chino Moreno, Stefan Carpenter, Abe Cunningham, Frank Delgado

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drum, Samples/Keys, Strings

Albums Deftones, Around The Fur, Adrenaline, White Pony

Location Sacramento, CA - USA

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