Deftones

Deftones are a multi-platinum selling, Grammy award winning rock band from Sacramento, California. Personnel are Chino Moreno (vocals, guitar), Stephen Carpenter (g

Deftones are a multi-platinum selling, Grammy award winning rock band from Sacramento, California. Personnel are Chino Moreno (vocals, guitar), Stephen Carpenter (guitar), Abe Cunningham (drums), Chi Cheng (bass) and turntablist/keyboardist/sampler player Frank Delgado. (Incidentally, Carpenter is generally credited with "strings", though if he actually plays anything other than electric guitar it's not immediately apparent.)

Deftones have often been praised as one of the more innovative and unique rock bands of recent years. As Johnny Loftus notes, "Rock critics usually reserve a special place for Deftones above or at least away from the rest of the turn-of-the-century nu-metal movement. While they definitely share the influence of a group like Tool with peers like Korn and Linkin Park, Deftones have always seemed more curious, more willing to incorporate traditionally revered sounds like dream pop or D.C. hardcore into their southern California alt-metal."