‎ ..deftones.. 1988~present

Despite their horrible (new) fanbase, Deftones is one of my favorite bands. I originally got into them through Around the Fur..'My Own Summer' being the first song i've ever heard from them years ago..Either that or 'Bored'. I've been hearing them around on the internet, on the radio, ect. for years and years, but only really got into them maybe around a year and a half to two years ago when i found out..They're actually really good! Around the Fur (still is one of my favorite albums,) is what I started off with but I then went to listen to Adrenaline and White Pony (and eventually went to later albums like Koi no Yokan.) The song playing right now, Headup (with Max of Soulfly, another one of my favorite bands) is my favorite Deftones song, along with Lotion, Entombed, and Elite.

I decided to write about Deftones because i've been listening to them alot lately, (not really having listened to them since the summer, and before the summer, was maybe around the 2 years ago i started getting into them.) with mainly White Pony and Around the Fur. Now, for about the band themselves... Deftones formed in Sacramento in 1988 with a lineup consisting of Chino Moreno (lead singer/frontman), Chi Cheng (bassist) Abe Cunningham (drummer), and Stephen Carpenter (lead guitar). Frank Delgado joined with turntables in 1990 and 99. They make alternative rock (I like to just tell the truth, they make nu-metal, at least early on. THEN they moved onto other kinds of rock and metal.)

And about the summer, I listened to Around the Fur (especially Be Quiet and Drive and Lotion) so much...Which really made Deftones grow onto me a ton..Then I got bored (haha get it..bored) and didn't listen to them for a bit..Then I went to Hot Topic and got a White Pony shirt and decided..It's been like 2 months! I gotta listen to them again, and more White Pony in honor of this shirt! And so I did. And here I am now. That shirt's actually stained now..It has a big sharpie stain RIGHT in the middle which really upsets me.

Their most famous songs are Change (in the house of flies), My Own Summer, and Be Quiet and Drive. Their first album to hit charts was Around the Fur. But back to why I love Deftones, they can go from soft singing to heavy screaming which I always love in music. And Chino's scream is one of my favorites. I also like that some of them are Mexican like me, and I know Chino is a Dodgers fan. I guess a memory I have with Deftones is a red White Pony shirt being the first shirt I bought in Texas. Whenever I'm waiting outside my school in the freezing cold, I like to listen to Deftones.


This is obviously Chino singing in concert if you couldn't tell. I don't know when it's from. By the hair, I would assume it's from 1998.

This is Chino with a Thrasher hoodie. I like it cuz Thrasher's the only magazine i ever buy, unless it's a magazine with a band I like on it.

Band picture that looks cool..Look at the middle, i'm sure this was in a magazine.

Screengrab from the 'My Own Summer (Shove it)' Music video.

A group photo. One of the only ones I could find without some retard's face plastered everywhere covering the whole picture. Why is Chino looking at the wall?

All pics belong to their respective owners. My broke lazy ass took none of them.

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