Deftones Lyrics
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From the Album
1. My Mind Is a Mountain
2. Locked Club
3. Ecdysis
4. Infinite Source
5. Souvenir
6. cXz
7. I Think About You All The Time
8. milk of the madonna
9. Cut Hands
10. ~metal Dream
11. Departing The Body
From the Single
My Mind Is a Mountain
From the Album
1. Genesis
2. Ceremony
3. Urantia
4. Error
5. The Spell of Mathematics
6. Pompeji
7. This Link Is Dead
8. Radiant City
9. Headless
10. Ohms
From the Album
1. Prayers / Triangles
2. Acid Hologram
3. Doomed User
4. Geometric Headdress
5. Hearts / Wires
6. Pittura Infamante
7. Xenon
8. (L)MIRL
9. Gore
10. Phantom Bride
11. Rubicon
From the Album
1. Feiticeira
2. Digital Bath
3. Elite
4. RX Queen
5. Street Carp
6. Teenager
7. Knife Prty
8. Korea
9. Passenger
11. Pink Maggit
From the Album
1. My Own Summer (Shove It)
2. Lhabia
3. Mascara
4. Around The Fur
5. Rickets
6. Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)
7. Lotion
8. Dai The Flu
9. Headup
10. Mx
From the Album
1. Bored
2. Minus Blindfold
3. One Weak
4. Nosebleed
5. Lifter
6. Root
7. 7 Words
8. Birthmark
10. Fireal
11. Fist
(Hidden Track)
Other Songs
976-evil
Anniversary Of An Uninteresting Event
Answers
Back To School
Battle Axe
Be Quiet And Drive
Beauty School
Bender
Beware
Bloody Cape
Cant Even Breathe
Change
Cherry Waves
CMND/CTRL
Combat
Crenshaw
Crenshaws Punch
Damone
Deathblow
Diamond Eyes
Do You Believe
Drive
Earth
Engine
Entombed
Feiticiera
Freaks
Gauze
Gods Hands
Good Morning Beautiful
Goon Squad
Graphic Nature
Hearts / Wires
Hearts/Wires
Hexagram
Hogburg Hop
Hole in the Earth
I Want Milk
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep [Live]
Jealous Guy
Kimdracula
Leathers
Linus
Lucky You
Mein
Minerva
Moana
My Own Summer
Needles And Pins
Nightboat
No Ordinary Love
Pink Cellphone
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Poltergeist
Prayers / Triangles
Prayers/Triangles
Prince
Rapture
Rats! Rats! Rats!
Risk
Riviere
Riviére
Rocket Skates
Romantic Dreams
Rosemary
Royal
RX Queen
Savory
Savoury
Say it Aint So
Sextape
Simple Man
Sleep Walk
Smile
Sweetest perfection
Swerve City
Teething
Tempest
The Boys Republic
The Chauffer
The Chauffeur
This Place Is Death
U U D D L R L R A B Selct Start
U U D D L R L R A B Select Start
Venison
What Happened To You?
When Girls Telephone Boys
Wicked
Xerces
Youve Seen The Butcher
From the Album
(Hidden Track)
Deftones is an American alternative metal band formed in Sacramento, California, in 1988. They were formed by frontman Chino Moreno, lead guitarist Stephen Carpenter and drummer Abe Cunningham, with bassist Chi Cheng and keyboardist and turntablist Frank Delgado joining the lineup in 1990 and 1999, respectively. The band's experimental nature has led some critics to describe them as "the Radiohead of metal".
After the lineup settled in 1993, the band secured a recording contract with Maverick Records, and subsequently released their debut album Adrenaline in 1995. Extensive touring and word-of-mouth promotion of the album helped Deftones garner a dedicated fan base. Their second album, Around the Fur (1997), brought the band fame among the alternative metal scene and reached chart positions along with its singles. It became the band's first record to receive certification from the RIAA.
The band found further success with their third album White Pony (2000), which marked a transition from their earlier, more aggressive sound into a more experimental direction. Its lead single "Change (In the House of Flies)" is the band's most commercially successful single, and the track "Elite" won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance; it was also the band's first of three albums to be certified platinum in the United States. Their self-titled fourth album was released in 2003. While the group's critical success continued, sales proved to be lackluster compared to White Pony. Deftones' fifth studio effort, Saturday Night Wrist (2006), received similar praise, although the album's production was marred by creative tensions and personal issues within the band, some of which influenced its material.
In 2008, while Deftones were working on an album tentatively titled Eros, Cheng was involved in a traffic collision. As a result, he was left in a minimally conscious state until his death in 2013 of cardiac arrest. After Cheng's accident, Deftones halted production on Eros and recruited Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega until his departure in early 2021.
The band released the critically praised Diamond Eyes in 2010 and embarked on a triple-headline tour with Alice in Chains and Mastodon throughout North America. Their seventh and eighth albums, Koi No Yokan (2012) and Gore (2016) respectively, showcased the band's continued experimentation, while their ninth album, Ohms (2020), marked a return to the band's heavier sound. Their tenth album, Private Music, was released on August 22, 2025.
-Wikipedia
Members:
After the lineup settled in 1993, the band secured a recording contract with Maverick Records, and subsequently released their debut album Adrenaline in 1995. Extensive touring and word-of-mouth promotion of the album helped Deftones garner a dedicated fan base. Their second album, Around the Fur (1997), brought the band fame among the alternative metal scene and reached chart positions along with its singles. It became the band's first record to receive certification from the RIAA.
The band found further success with their third album White Pony (2000), which marked a transition from their earlier, more aggressive sound into a more experimental direction. Its lead single "Change (In the House of Flies)" is the band's most commercially successful single, and the track "Elite" won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance; it was also the band's first of three albums to be certified platinum in the United States. Their self-titled fourth album was released in 2003. While the group's critical success continued, sales proved to be lackluster compared to White Pony. Deftones' fifth studio effort, Saturday Night Wrist (2006), received similar praise, although the album's production was marred by creative tensions and personal issues within the band, some of which influenced its material.
In 2008, while Deftones were working on an album tentatively titled Eros, Cheng was involved in a traffic collision. As a result, he was left in a minimally conscious state until his death in 2013 of cardiac arrest. After Cheng's accident, Deftones halted production on Eros and recruited Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega until his departure in early 2021.
The band released the critically praised Diamond Eyes in 2010 and embarked on a triple-headline tour with Alice in Chains and Mastodon throughout North America. Their seventh and eighth albums, Koi No Yokan (2012) and Gore (2016) respectively, showcased the band's continued experimentation, while their ninth album, Ohms (2020), marked a return to the band's heavier sound. Their tenth album, Private Music, was released on August 22, 2025.
-Wikipedia
Chino Moreno - lead vocals (1988-present); rhythm guitar (1999-present)
Stephen Carpenter - lead guitar (1988-present; intermittent touring since 2022); rhythm guitar (1988-1999)
Abe Cunningham - drums (1988-1990, 1993-present)
Frank Delgado - keyboards, turntables, samples (1999-present; touring musician 1996-1999)
Former members:
Dominic Garcia - bass (1988-1990), drums (1990-1991)
Chi Cheng - bass, backing vocals (1990-2008; died 2013)
John Taylor - drums (1991-1993)
Sergio Vega - bass, backing vocals (2009-2021; touring substitute 1999)
From: Sacramento, California
Genre(s): Alternative metal, art rock, shoegaze, nu metal
Active From: 1988-present
Associated Acts: Team Sleep, Crosses, Palms, Sol Invicto, Kush, Saudade
Did You Know:
• Steven Carpenter was struck by a drunk driver (settlement gave him the money to start band)
• shared a fan community drawn largely from skateboarders (with Korn)
Quotes:
"A love we chased and found
The last ride we're gonna take
A final wave and bow"
-Deftones
from Infinite Source (2025)
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The last ride we're gonna take
A final wave and bow"
-Deftones
from Infinite Source (2025)
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