Deftones

Deftones are a multi-platinum selling, Grammy award winning hard 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.)

Adrenaline

They signed to Madonna's Maverick Records in 1994 and released their debut album, Adrenaline, the following year. The album sold well, and earned mostly positive reviews. "Bored" was a minor hit. Delgado was not yet a member, but he performed on several songs.

Related Topics:
Madonna - Maverick Records - 1994 - Adrenaline

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One review of '"Adrenaline" noted Cunningham's "surprisingly sophisticated drumming" and wrote that "Unlike many of their contemporaries, the Deftones are very controlled even in the midst of chaos." http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:nr6m96hofep6~T1

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About this time, Deftones stopped touring and collaborating with bands like Ko?n. This was due in part to the fact that Deftones were often lumped into the then-emerging genre sometimes dubbed nu-metal. Like many bands so catigorized, Deftones disagreed with the classification. Though Deftones were only tangentially associated with nu metal, they feared the increasingly negative use of the term and separated themselves from other such groups, both professionally and aesthetically. Their music would later evolve into a distinctive, often artsy take on heavy rock, and was often quite far removed from nu metal.

Related Topics:
Ko?n - Nu-metal

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