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.)

White Pony

In 2000, the band's third album, White Pony, was released. It debuted at No. 3 in the US Billboard chart with sales of 177,000 copies. It is generally considered by fans to be Deftones' most mature recording.

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2000 - White Pony

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Of White Pony, one reviewer wrote, "Moreno is exquisitely mind-blowing, but his fear is also evident" and that "Deftones went soft, but in an impressive way, to twist around its signature punk-thrash sound." http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:21o20r1au48n~T1

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Punk - Thrash

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Delgado was now a full-time band member, and he added greatly to the atmospheric album. Reviews were overwhelmingly positive, noting Moreno's increasing sophistication as a lyricist and singer, and the group's bold experimentalism: The fragile "Teenager", for example, incorporates elements of glitch and trip hop, with programming duties carried out by friend and Team Sleep bandmate, DJ Crook, aka, "Crookone". ("Teenager" was originally a Team Sleep song.) "Knife Prty" (sic) features a stunning, Diamanda Galás-like vocal performance by Rodleen, and a conceit to make Borges proud: a secret society of knife fighters. A collaboration with singer Maynard James Keenan (of Tool) on "Passenger" is a highlight.

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Glitch - Trip hop - Team Sleep - Sic - Diamanda Galás - Rodleen - Borges - Secret society - Knife - Maynard James Keenan - Tool

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A limited edition print of 50,000 black and red jewel case versions of White Pony were released with a bonus 13th track: "The Boy's Republic". "It?s like a little gift to our hard-core fans," admitted Carpenter. "It?s our gift to the hard-core that are going to show up the first day." Shortly after the limited edition print, the album was rereleased with the original cover art and included a new beginning track entitled "Back to School (Mini-Maggit)".

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White Pony later went on to earn multi-platinum status as well as a Grammy award for Best Metal Performance.

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Multi-platinum - Grammy award

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