For three decades, they've balanced crushing riffs with airy melodies and abstract lyrics.
If you want to understand Deftones, put on 'Change (In The House Of Flies)' and 'My Own Summer (Shove It)'. That's the whole story right there.
Listen to 'Change (In The House Of Flies)' from 2000's 'White Pony' and you hear what they do best. Stephen Carpenter's guitar riffs hit hard while Chino Moreno's vocals drift somewhere between a whisper and a scream. They've kept working in that space between aggression and atmosphere ever since, whether on early tracks like 'My Own Summer (Shove It)' or later material like 'Cherry Waves'.
They formed in Sacramento in the mid-1990s with a raw, heavy sound on 'Adrenaline'. 'White Pony' in 2000 defined their approach of balancing crushing guitar work with melodic vocals. They've continued exploring that tension across albums like 2010's 'Diamond Eyes' and 2016's more experimental 'Gore'.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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