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“We blew this whole scene open, I don’t care what anybody says. We did all the work, and now all these other bands are popping up”: How Korn changed up their sound and left the copycats behind with Follow The Leader

Korn’s 1998 album Follow The Leader was the sound of the nu metal pioneers pulling away from the competition

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“The record label took a million dollars from us. There was nothing we could do because it was our fault”: How Deftones helped create nu metal – then escaped it

Deftones were there at the beginning of nu metal

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Watch Paramore’s Hayley Williams join Deftones to sing Minerva in Nashville

Williams previously joined the nu metal-era idols for a performance of Passenger in 2010

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Deftones announce more North American dates for 2025 with IDLES in support

Deftones will play an additional 14 dates in Canada and the US in August and September of this year

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Glastonbury 2025 lineup confirmed: The 1975, Olivia Rodrigo, Biffy Clyro, Deftones, Weezer, Kneecap, Turnstile, The Prodigy and many more set for this year’s festival

Glastonbury has officially unveiled its lineup for 2025!

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Bring Me The Horizon, Korn, Deftones and A Perfect Circle among over 100 bands announced for Aftershock festival 2025

Rob Zombie, Gojira, Turnstile, Bad Omens, and The Dillinger Escape Plan are also bound for California's biggest rock festival in October

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Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Evanescence and more announced for Louder Than Life 2025

Louder Than Life 2025 is go and it is STACKED!

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The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2025

From Ghost to Babymetal, Halestorm to Sleep Token, these are the metal albums you should keep an eye out for in 2025

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“It’s heavy… Lots of eight-string. We’re playing baritones, too. We’re making new guitars that don’t exist”: Polyphia’s next album is going to be brutal – and some big-name metal artists are already slated for guest appearances

Tim Henson let us in on what’s next for the boundary-smashing instrumental band – and it’s all in the name of blowing festival crowds away (and maybe, just maybe, selling more guitars)

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“We had our share of arguments doing this record, a lot of them, but those arguments should escalate our art”: How Deftones rose above musical tension and a horrific tragedy with Gore

Deftones’ eighth album, Gore, was one of the most difficult records they made

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10 brilliant but overlooked rock and metal albums you need to hear from 2000

The year 2000 gave us massive releases from Deftones, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, but these 10 albums flew under the radar

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Architects, Alien Weaponry and Whitechapel are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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"It’s actually Sid Wilson’s favourite Slipknot song." Inside nu metal's greatest deep cuts

From a Slipknot buried treasure to the long-overlooked Korn rarity, these are the overlooked classics in the nu metal canon

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“We’re maintaining en element of prog but hopefully still being accessible”: Giant Walker chase an audience who wouldn’t normally bother with their style of groovy riffs

With elements of Deftones and Soundgarden in their experimental approach, Newcastle quartet want to preach their prog news at the heavier festivals

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Deftones announce two more UK headline shows for summer 2025

Didn’t get tickets to Deftones’ blockbuster London date? The quasi-nu metal beloveds have just announced extra stops in Yorkshire and Cornwall

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System Of A Down announce three co-headline stadium shows with Korn, Avenged Sevenfold and Deftones

American and Canadian metal fans will be spoiled next year, thanks to these three blockbuster events

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“I had a Spice Girls stage…but then I grew up and it became Deftones!” WWE superstars reveal the artists that changed their lives

WWE wrestlers including Johnny Gargano, Tiffany Stratton and Carmelo Hayes tell us about the bands and artists that have impacted them the most

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From Linkin Park to Limp Bizkit, nu-metal is back but without the cargo pants and casual misogyny

IN FOCUS: Nu-metal was once shorthand for terrible fashion and even worse music. Now, with a new Linkin Park album and Limp Bizkit announcing their most extensive tour in years, this genre once considered the nadir for rock’n’roll has made a surprising comeback, writes Ed Power

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“You think we’d go across the pond for one show only? No way!!” Weezer reveal European headline shows and festival appearances booked around previously-announced UK show supporting Deftones

Weezer are coming to the UK and Europe in summer 2025

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“We’ve never made a song as close to our core”: Deftones- and Alcest-approved synth-punks Kælan Mikla release new single Stjörnuljós

The Icelandic trio, who’ve toured with Deftones and Him’s Ville Valo, have shared their first original music since 2021

Guitar World

“Shredding is an amazing thing to be able to do, but when you can really write a feeling with a melody, like Johnny Marr did so well, that’s the goal”: Conor Curley of Fontaines D.C. on his love of Deftones and why he’s writing riffs like a beginner

Romance is the sound of self-confessed “guitar culture nerd” Curley expanding the Fontaine D.C. sound with elemental reasoning, pure instinct, and occasional Mellotron – and if he ever gets stuck for inspiration, he has a pile of Total Guitar back issues to reference…

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From Finnish supergroup Crownshift to crossover brutes Drain, doomgazers Iress and nu metal revivalists Profiler, these are the bands you need to hear in October 2024

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Watch Deftones' Chino Moreno excitedly live out his fan boy dreams by fronting Smashing Pumpkins

Have you ever seen Chino Moreno look this happy?

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Stephen Carpenter reveals when he expects to return to live duties with Deftones

Carpenter was notably absent from the band's recent shows and had previously talked about anxieties related to touring

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Deftones' Stephen Carpenter absent from 50,000-strong San Francisco concert, headlined by System of a Down

In 2022, the guitarist announced he was sitting out any future international tours and has recently spoken out about touring-related anxiety

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