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Deftones
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Handle	@deftones
Style	Music
Date joined	October 28, 2005
Twitter / X	@deftones
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Videos	200
Status	Semi-Active
Personal information
Full name	Current members: Camillo Wong Moreno Stephen Carpenter Abraham Benjamin Cunningham Frank Delgado Former members: Dominic Garcia Chi Ling Dai Cheng † John Taylor Sergio Vega
Nationality	American
Location	United States
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Deftones is an American alternative metal band formed in Sacramento, California in 1988.

History

When Stephen Carpenter was 15 years old, he was hit by a car while skateboarding. Confined to a wheelchair for several months, he began teaching himself to play guitar by playing along to songs by thrash metal bands such as Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death, and Metallica.

Carpenter, Abe Cunningham and Chino Moreno were childhood friends. All three went to C. K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento and remained friends through the city's skateboarding scene. Carpenter was a fan of heavy metal, and Moreno was interested in hardcore punk bands such as Bad Brains and post-punk and new wave bands such as Depeche Mode and the Cure. When Moreno found out that Carpenter played guitar, he set up a jam session with Cunningham, who played drums, and the three began playing regularly in Carpenter's garage around 1988. They recruited bassist Dominic Garcia some time after, and the band became a four-piece. When Cunningham left Deftones to join Phallucy, another band from Sacramento, Garcia switched to drums. Chi Cheng joined to play bass, and the band recorded a four-track demo soon afterwards. John Taylor replaced Garcia on drums in 1991, until Cunningham's return in 1993. Within two years, the band began playing club shows and later expanded their gigging territory to San Francisco and Los Angeles. They were signed to the label after performing three of their songs for Freddy DeMann and Guy Oseary.

Carpenter created the band's name by combining the hip hop slang term "def" with the suffix "-tones." The name is also a pun on the term "tone deaf".

In late January 2009, the band released a new statement, stating that "our fallen comrade has not yet made significant progress", and that a friend of the band, Sergio Vega, would be taking over as bassist in Cheng's absence, due to a fatal accident he was in. Chi Cheng never fully recovered from the accident, and would die from a cardiac arrest on April 13, 2013.

In March 2022, it was announced that bassist Sergio Vega left the band in early 2021, with Vega claiming he was never an official member of the band and was just a contracted bassist for his tenure. Vega said he sought what he perceived as official membership, and chose to leave after being offered the same status as he had been since he began performing with the band. The following month, it was announced that Fred Sablan joined the band as Vega's touring replacement.

Discography

Albums

• Adrenaline (1995)
• Around the Fur (1997)
• White Pony (2000)
• Deftones (2003)
• Saturday Night Wrist (2006)
• Diamond Eyes (2010)
• Koi No Yokan (2012)
• Gore (2016)
• Ohms (2020)
• private music (2025)

Compilation Albums

• B-Sides & Rarities (2005)
• Covers (2011)
• The Vinyl Collection 1995-2011 (2011)

Demo Albums

• Answers/Hogburg Hop (1991)
• The Deftones (Demo 1) (1992)
• The Deftones (Demo 2) (1992)
• Engine Number Nine/7 Words (1993)
• (Like) Linus (1993)
• Root/Nosebleed (1994)

Video Albums

• Music in High Places: Live in Hawaii (2002)

Unfinished Albums

• Eros (2008-2009)

Extended Plays

• Live (1998)
• Back to School (Mini Maggit) (2001)
• Live: Volume 1 - Selections from Adrenaline (2013)
• On Tour (Live) (2020)

References

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