As much I love hearing about Deftones’s origins, I wish we could hear more about their time between “Around the Fur” era to “White Pony” era. This small documentary just schemed right through like it wasn’t that important. Especially, since Chino’s favorite album is “Around the Fur” from their discography.
Crazy to think they’ve been underground or borderline underground almost they’re entire career but now they’re bigger than ever and are overshadowing bands that overshadowed them for years. A true testament to hard work, dedication and never giving up.
I think it worked out in their favor..they stayed right in the middle. You get too popular too fast you crash... too underground you're never known. It just annoys me they've been a bit of a meme in the last year or so with the Gen z (which I NEVER would have predicted being a fan since WP came out) but also they generated alot of young fans too and still taken seriously. Bands of their era definitely went sideways a few times and didn't generate as many newer fans except maybe korn, slipknot, and limp bizkit
@mikekrause910 I think is todays world and lifestyle which are truly irrelevant. I don’t know how would anyone listen to Ohms and think it’s irrelevant unless the listener is braindead.
@@mikekrause910you must not be seeing the numbers. In very recent years they’ve absolutely blown up on social media and gained a whole new generation of fans
Deftones are genuinely one of the best bands EVER, maybe even the best. I don't know many bands who have consistently put out amazing music for the best part of 30 years and are just so incredibly unique whilst at the same time aren't plastered absolutely everywhere. Definitely a one of a kind band for sure
Deftones is my favorite band, I feel something that I can't feel even with drugs when I listen to them. Something that transports me to other mental states. Something that touches parts of me that I didn't know existed.
Love how you worded that very same feeling I also have when listening to the magical Deftones. It feels as if some part in me just lit up; a giddy like feeling that resonates true happiness. However many years can pass, you always remain connected to "that feeling" every time you hear a favorite tune by a band you've loved for decades. It's amazing how music makes our world more vibrant and more hopeful than ever.
So eloquent man. I couldn't put words like that together to explain that feeling but my God you nailed it. Just reading what you wrote literally gave me chills because I never have been able to describe what I feel when I listen to Deftones. It's absolutely insane I just listened to around the fur in my driveway Just getting out of work Sat out here for the entire ride and then start watching this short doc. Yeah man f****** awesome!
Been waiting years for a deftones documentary from you, finally! Rip Chi Cheng, I wonder what Eros would have sounded like had you not passed, rest easy.
I saw them live in Atlanta, GA several times over the years starting from 95 for there first album. It was awesome seeing them and Sugar Ray live during both bands heavier period of music. They were a huge influence for my friends and I growing up in Stone Mountain, GA in the 90s. Awesome time for music and to grow up.
In '97 my buddy, who had been teaching me to play guitar brought me an unopened Adrenaline CD. We put it in, and "Bored" immediately changed our lives. It had been out for a while, but we were living on an Army post in Germany, so our fingers weren't exactly on the pulse of new music. We were already aware of Korn and kind of digging that new flavor, but Deftones immediately hit the nail on the head for us as a couple of adolescent, angsty, aimless kids trying to find our way in the post-grunge era. We spread it all over school and in no time at all just about everyone we knew was a fan. Saw them in Hamburg soon after and I was so relieved they could bring the goods live. Deftones will always be in my top ten bands of all time!
For me that was what made them so great. This hard, angry, legit thrash style which still found a way to be interesting beyond a few power chords.. Elite screaming and an ethereal haunting voice. I thought it was a perfect mix on Adrenaline, and then they just kept tweaking it and changing and leaning more into one style or the other and it just missed that raw perfect combination for me. I liked songs on their first three records and then honestly barely bothered to listen to the newer stuff because it just all sounded like filler that would have never interested me on day 1 when I fell in love with Adrenaline, but admittedly that's me for practically every band. I always like the first 1-3 albums, and then a band just falls apart at the seams when they stop doing 'THAT''
@@mattm8441I agree, first three are my favorite. I didn't really like much until they put out Ohms which pleasantly surprised me. I really like every song on that album except for the song ohms which is kinda meh.
To me what really stands out about Deftones and makes them my absolute favorite bad ever is that exact evolution that Chino talks about. I dont know a single other band that has been as consistently talented, creative, and innovative with their sound. While still delivering the kind of music that fans of the band want to hear. They never completely shifted their sound, changed genres or anything like that like a lot of 90s ish bands did when they "grew up" they always just moved forward. Deftones doesnt have a single bad album, for almost 30 years they have been making consistently incredible music. I dont know a single other band that i can say that about, ESPECIALLY when it comes to alt rock/punk/numetal scenes.
I feel like you don’t see a lot of “casual” Deftones fans… in my experience, people have either never heard of them or are OBSESSED with them in a very non-casual way lol
@@CeeBee781 huge relate, as someone who is the latter, i can say that i haven't met a casual deftones fan. albeit i have met people who just like change, passenger, my own summer, rosemary, or entombed. so i guess if you qualify liking five songs or less as a casual fan then that'd be it.
Wow! Of all the people I thought we should thank for Deftones, I never thought a guy hitting Stephen with his car and Madonna (?!?!) would be on the list. The legendary story of a legendary band! RIP Chi, and long live Deftones 🖤
7 Words is one of my favorites. The whole Adrenaline album is just beyond awesome. I played it on repeat for weeks. The same thing happened when Around The Fur came out. I love all their music. But the first two albums are definitely my favorites. I think a lot of the bands I was listening to at the time all had debut albums that were their best in my opinion. Korn, Limp Bizkit, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Snot(R.I.P. Lynn), Sevendust and so many more. That was a great time for a music lover. Everybody had debut albums that didn't have a bad song. Damn I miss those days
Dude I loved Snot! "my balls your chin!" Haha...they were so badass. On another note, one time I randomly ran into the singer of Coal Chamber Dez on Melrose in Hollywood lol he was a cool dude."Mi Loco!" LOL
I can relate man. I grew up in the 90s in Stone Mountain, GA right outside of Atlanta. I was lucky to see each of those bands live in the beginning of their careers. The 90s was a damn good time to grow up for music lovers (rock, punk, metal, rockabilly, industrial, oi!, ska, reggae, etc.). Atlanta was bad ass back then.
I play them all of the time in the car, especially on long trips. My wife says she dislikes the music but I’ve caught her tapping/humming/singing to them a fair few times. She can’t hide it!
@@krinque each album gets better? Then the lastest one must be the best right? So adrenaline is the worst? AtF is the second to worst! That's what you are saying I think.
@@bloodlorde4994 when did I say they started bad? I said each album gets better but I never said that their first album was trash. Every Deftones album is a 8+ and there are even some that exceed 10. It was a expression dickhead
The fact Chino Marino had such a passion for skateboarding really had me relating to the music and atmosphere this band put out. Absolutely loved Deftones and still do to this day 🔥👊🧡👍🔥
Im just a 90s kid from Romania and I'm gonna be totally honest here, Deftones is the soundtrack of my highschool years which were my favourite years.. And not just that, they are present with me everyday, still to this day . I've had the opportunity to watch them live , once here in Romania and once in Italy. They will be Forever etched in my heart ❤️
i cannot even use words or any type of action to show just how much i love deftones and chino. the sound and the passion just fills me with purpose and happiness. i love deftones so much - the genre, the music, the meanings behind the songs, the backstory- its all so beautiful and is art in its own special way.
So glad I got to see them live twice. For the Change tour they opened for Godsmack and blew them away! Godsmack came out and after their second song we left. We had come to see Deftones and they killed it.
I think it can go without saying they were an elevation of nu metal.. but this documentary acts offended or surprised they were lumped in.. They were from the same area as Korn, friends with Korn, signed with Adidas.. I HEARD of them from being a Korn fan and everyone telling me to listen to them.. then all of a sudden they're not nu metal? They're at least part of the same clique.
I'd say they're more Alt Metal, kinda like Grunge (Part of what's considered Alt Metal) when it comes to bands like The Smashing Pumpkins(We love the Smashing Pumpkins)
Happy to see Deftones getting love. I am one of the OG listeners who lost track of them at White Pony. I feel they lost that hunger, that edge that made me love them.
A friend gave me a copy of Adrenaline and White Pony back in junior high school. Still love these albums to this day. And really stoked that they've found new audiences.
I first discovered them when around the fur came out, but white pony is the album that REALLY stuck with me and it's still an all time favorite. Such a great band, thanks for this video on them🤌
Same. White Pony has been my all time favorite album since it came out! As a music fan of heavy and not, I've yet to hear anything sound like that including the deftones themselves. Whatever they were doing during the writing and recording of that record was magic. I don't count that back to school track since they were forced to by the label for a 'hit' and they literally wrote it in like a hour to just prove how simple it was to do something like that lol
I found your channel the other day and watched a couple back to back, immediately searched Deftones and couldn't believe you hadn't done them yet. I Love your content!
I’ve been playing the guitar for 6 years now and whenever someone’s compliments a piece of mine like “it reminds of deftones” it’s fills my heart with so much joy hehehe
I was a junior in high school when Adrenaline was released. I was into hip-hop, punk, and new wave at that time. Depeche Mode was one of my favorites. I was hooked as soon as I heard Adrenaline. It spoke to me. For the 1st time I really connected with someone who had the same angst and depression I did. I've been a Deftones fan for almost 30 years now.
A band that plays a genre of their own, nobody sounds and writes like them, so many different influences blended together, thus somebody called them "the Radiohead of metal". My two cents: they are the most "longevous" alternative band from the 90s in terms of listening experience, meaning they will never sound dated, more than any other great band from that era, because they were so ahead of their time in terms of writing, performance and production. Even if you listen to them nowadays, with nowadays' ears, they could sound like a young contemporary band (at least from Around The Fur onwards). Indeed they became hugely popular in the last few years amongst the alternative TikTok kids. Conversely, grunge to me it's starting to sound a bit dated and classic rock-ish, although I'm a huge grunge rock fan and for example Soundgarden are one of the best bands ever. Even most nu-metal and rap-metal and crossover sounds a bit dated nowadays. Some of Deftones' dedication to details, songwriting and sound is yet to be fully understood and appreciated, because their unique blend found both the metal and the alternative audience not ready for that yet back then, and they were underrated as just another nu-metal band, so they were less popular than other bands, such a shame. They also had a great taste in choosing and playing covers, and they sounded great even acoustically.
You took words right of mouth. I've told people that almost verbatim. Around the Fur and White Pony sound as fresh today as it did then! The only except is a few moments on ATF with songs like Lotion where some of that vocal delivery had a bit of that 'rap flow' but then again you hear that in hardcore as well. It's not like he is literally rapping with some sideways hat style. Songs like BQAD still sound timeless like it could come out today. Even lyrically his stuff was more poetic and that gave it a sense of something deeper. White Pony...classic and just perfect from beginning to end with the heartbeat at the end of Pink Maggot..its just all other worldly. For a 17 year old kid when it came it, it just really made a impact on me not just in music taste but as a person. I felt like it shaped me to see the world differently as corny as that may sound The only thing that does annoy me is Gen z turned them into a meme in the last year or so but it's not really done in a negative way and if anything it has turned young kids on to them who are 16 and 17 like I was. Either way WP is my favorite album of all time and I've never grown tired of it! I'll listen to it all the way to my death bed
@@DNashvegas as a younger listener (23, but been into them since i was 16) i can say that the kids my age aren't necessarily turning them into a meme, just a format to present a post. tiktok is such a strange platform because it's simultaneously full of memes and "unironic" posts that you can't ever really fully tell if someone is just making a meme or making a genuine cry for attention. in my experience though the posts using deftones songs aren't memes based around the songs and moreover memes based around the fact that alcoholism and addiction are unfortunately a trend currently.
Saw them with Pantera in Worcester...great southern trendkill tour.... Adrenaline had just come out recently....they blew my mind and changed my view of music since then.... easily my all-time fav band since that first time...then saw em again on the White Pony tour with Glassjaw opening
I’ve heard of FIVE ALBUM DEALS, but this band called the Deftones signed a EIGHT ALBUM deal as their first major contract. That is encouraging ! Not EIGHT SONGS or a PUBLISHING deal but EIGHT ALBUMS. - God bless You for the Song you sent 🙃🎥📼🎬💯🎨🍧🗺️📱
We had a local TV show here in San Diego called STV (Surf, Snow, Skate). One segment featured music from the Deftones (7 Words). Then a second segment had Engine No.9. I INSTANTLY became a fan. This was right around the time Adrenaline was released. I picked up Adrenaline on CD, made a cassette out of it (I only had a cassette player in my truck), and had it on repeat for months.
Im a big fan of Deftones, but holy shit , they had it rough when it came to the early days of their career, especially that Kiss tour in 96 , Its like kiss set them up purposely to get booed, but nevertheless, great video , now i know more about them than from what i already knew
I highly doubt kiss set them up for failure. They were probably just as confused as to why the hell Deftones were on tour with them though. It’s got nothing to do with them. Just business suits.
@@puppet585 yeah, label exec's make those choices and in my opinion knowing the information from this video i wouldn't be surprised if the suits set them up for failure, but i doubt the band had anything to do with it. realistically considering it was a reunion tour the label wanted anyone who could sound "eh" in front of a kiss audience to be the act.
Good video. I do wish you would have included Frank in it though, he’s been there since White Pony and a big part of the sound every album. Also, Sergio was their bassist for something like 12 years, and although the band or at least their management considered him a “fill in”, the 4 albums he was a part of makes him a member for us fans.
First discovered deftones around 2020/2021. Was on RUclips and I saw change but with the lyrics of toxic by Britney Spears. That I’m itself is worth a listen but now I’m say here in my white pony T-shirt after recently buying a 7 string to play their songs. Love them, always
Theres a reason why out of all the nu metal bands, deftones are the only one i still listen to. They could never be pinned in the nu metal genre, fheir music goes so much deeper.
I found out about them in 1995 and I have been a Hugh Fan since!! I've seen 6 shows though out the years and I've watched them grow as a band since but they have a sound that no pne else has and that's why they will always be the band that got me into playing music. Among others, I will always hold what they have done very close to my heart!!!
Here's my take on Deftones, it means nothing, but here it is. Deftones never pandered to their fanbase. They were never afraid to change up their sound, and it always sounded natural and not forced. I also feel like they grew with the audience they already had. It was never about trying to keep a certain age group interested in their music, unlike a certain other band that came up in the same era. Deftones are one of my top 3 all time favorite bands and somehow I own none of their music, physically. I kinda brushed them off when I was younger, I didn't dislike them, but I never really gave them a chance as a whole. I knew the singles from White Pony and that was about it. It wasn't until my early 20s I really started digging in to their entire discography and realizing that this band had influenced so many bands that I listened to then. They did a split EP with Poison the Well ffs and I would have considered those bands on complete opposite sides of the heavy music spectrum. Post-hardcore really opened me up to Deftones I guess. Weird typing that out. Edit: Even weirder being validated by the video as I typed this up before watching it LUL
Same here..My friend made me heard Kimdracula way back in the early 2000s when I was high school...which was followed by Change...Chino has such an intense voice
Deftones came at a time in metal where a lot of bands were all doing something different. Korn, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Ill Nino, Disturbed... all newer metal bands with different interpretations of what metal could be.
Sacramento Cattle Club. It needs it's own documentary as well. Deftones lived there on stage and in the audience. 7 Words video was filmed there. I was lucky to hang out with Chi in college...RIP. Amazing from '89 to now. They still got it. Sactown proud.
Thank god nobody has noticed I said Vulgar Power of Display...(⬅ this is sarcasm) I made the same mistake in my Pantera documentary, you can watch it here ruclips.net/video/MWxWO814ccA/видео.html
@@CarvedJoker there are literally 1000s of documentaries where the narrator is present on screen. It's called presenting. Jesus dude, culture yourself.
Probably shouldn't say this but I owe Muse of all bands for introducing me to Deftones. I've been hooked ever since, change (in the house of flies), Headup and Bloody Cape absolutely pulled me in.
I heard Adrenaline in 1997. I was also listening to Korn's debut at that time. I thought of them as like Korn with a higher guitar tuning, lots of rapcore but DAMN, Bored was one of those songs that was such a hook that it was on another level. "They'll never pull that off again," I thought. Then Shove It came out... color me incorrect! And they were just getting started. Be Quiet and Drive exploded!! I had been in a metalcore band since 1997, and White Pony changed EVERYTHING. It was played everywhere we had a gig, one of those albums that I didn’t need to buy because I heard it everywhere I went. I didn’t understand their fourth album ( I didn’t like Minerva), so I took a break. Somewhere in the 2010s I checked out their newer stuff and was completely floored. They just kept getting better and better at their craft to the point where literally no one was like them anymore. I checked out all the albums, and still am. I love them. Deftones are one of those bands that will easily stand the test of time.
The thing I love about nu metal is eclectic influences and sounds in all the bands. Especially the successful ones. For me Deftones are nu metal. And nu metal is part aura , part sound. The sound is always creative with a deep heavy guitar. I don't understand why so many bands and fans fear the word
Back in the early 2000’s I heard DJ Merit of 102.1 the Edge mention how the Deftones were signed to Madonna’s (my heart goes out to her families lost) label Maverick Records. My intentions are not to be argumentative however you stated soon as the video began the Deftones started in 1997. Your wrong. Sacramento, California, U.S. After the line-up settled in 1993, the band secured a recording contract with Maverick Records, and subsequently released their debut album Adrenaline in 1995. Extensive touring and word-of-mouth promotion of the album helped Deftones garner a dedicated fan base.
P.S..absolutely adore Ohms......can't stop listening to this utter masterpiece...Deftones just keep getting better and better as they age....do miss Chi though. He didn't deserve to pass away like that...I do think Deftones music does honour his memory..
Vulgar Power of Display. Nailed it.
Beat me to it. Classic.
Same
Don't forget far driven beyond!
@@stephenhall2980 inam a fan of “hell from cowboys”
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As much I love hearing about Deftones’s origins, I wish we could hear more about their time between “Around the Fur” era to “White Pony” era. This small documentary just schemed right through like it wasn’t that important. Especially, since Chino’s favorite album is “Around the Fur” from their discography.
He skipped over a bunch of stuff. Didn't even mention their last 3 or 4 albums.
Around The Fur is still my favorite Deftones album.
I feel this comment
Be nice to have a part 2 documentary. Suggest it!😊
Literally dude went from saying they were being booed on stage to them topping charts with no context in between
Crazy to think they’ve been underground or borderline underground almost they’re entire career but now they’re bigger than ever and are overshadowing bands that overshadowed them for years. A true testament to hard work, dedication and never giving up.
I think it worked out in their favor..they stayed right in the middle. You get too popular too fast you crash... too underground you're never known. It just annoys me they've been a bit of a meme in the last year or so with the Gen z (which I NEVER would have predicted being a fan since WP came out) but also they generated alot of young fans too and still taken seriously. Bands of their era definitely went sideways a few times and didn't generate as many newer fans except maybe korn, slipknot, and limp bizkit
I would say they pretty irrelevant right now, like all rock music for that matter
@mikekrause910 I think is todays world and lifestyle which are truly irrelevant. I don’t know how would anyone listen to Ohms and think it’s irrelevant unless the listener is braindead.
@@mikekrause910you must not be seeing the numbers. In very recent years they’ve absolutely blown up on social media and gained a whole new generation of fans
Back when Korn came out with Life is Peachy they did some shows with Deftones was incredible
Deftones are genuinely one of the best bands EVER, maybe even the best. I don't know many bands who have consistently put out amazing music for the best part of 30 years and are just so incredibly unique whilst at the same time aren't plastered absolutely everywhere. Definitely a one of a kind band for sure
Radiohead....
But agree Deftones IS one of a kind ❤.
Best band ever??? Stop. Even Chino would slap you for saying such stupidity
I agree. Deftones are such an incredible band.
@@estebanramosjimenez7291Radiohead doesn’t really compare to this band though if you ask me
Definitely Deftones is the best band of the nu metal era
Deftones is my favorite band, I feel something that I can't feel even with drugs when I listen to them. Something that transports me to other mental states. Something that touches parts of me that I didn't know existed.
Love how you worded that very same feeling I also have when listening to the magical Deftones. It feels as if some part in me just lit up; a giddy like feeling that resonates true happiness. However many years can pass, you always remain connected to "that feeling" every time you hear a favorite tune by a band you've loved for decades. It's amazing how music makes our world more vibrant and more hopeful than ever.
Hell yeah dude.. That's the best way to describe it.. It definitely takes you to part of something that you never knew existed within you.
@ZolaDeLacey wow what words ❤❤❤❤
Beautifully put , Mate .😊
So eloquent man. I couldn't put words like that together to explain that feeling but my God you nailed it. Just reading what you wrote literally gave me chills because I never have been able to describe what I feel when I listen to Deftones. It's absolutely insane I just listened to around the fur in my driveway Just getting out of work Sat out here for the entire ride and then start watching this short doc. Yeah man f****** awesome!
Bro. I'm cousins with Chino. You nailed this documentary. Kudos! Rad as hell 🤙
Thanks man! Greatly appreciated 🤙
@treepeekerspodcast Chino's your cuz
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Been waiting years for a deftones documentary from you, finally! Rip Chi Cheng, I wonder what Eros would have sounded like had you not passed, rest easy.
I'd love to hear Eros someday the two tracks I heard sounded great (Smile and Melanie) rip Chi you are missed 😢
RIP Chi, absolutely kickass bass player. Wear a seatbelt, it would've saved Chi, it'll save you
I saw them live in Atlanta, GA several times over the years starting from 95 for there first album. It was awesome seeing them and Sugar Ray live during both bands heavier period of music. They were a huge influence for my friends and I growing up in Stone Mountain, GA in the 90s. Awesome time for music and to grow up.
In '97 my buddy, who had been teaching me to play guitar brought me an unopened Adrenaline CD. We put it in, and "Bored" immediately changed our lives. It had been out for a while, but we were living on an Army post in Germany, so our fingers weren't exactly on the pulse of new music. We were already aware of Korn and kind of digging that new flavor, but Deftones immediately hit the nail on the head for us as a couple of adolescent, angsty, aimless kids trying to find our way in the post-grunge era. We spread it all over school and in no time at all just about everyone we knew was a fan. Saw them in Hamburg soon after and I was so relieved they could bring the goods live. Deftones will always be in my top ten bands of all time!
Bored and minus blindfold are the kinda songs you listen to 5x on the way home. I still do
Passenger, Digital Bath, and Be Quiet And Drive are my favorite songs from Deftones.
Hell yeah Chino and Maynards vocals just work perfect together, I listen to passenger all the time
Idk if you’ve heard them or not but rats!rats!rats!,poltergeist,this place is death,phantom bride and hole in the earth are really good
There's too many to name IMO.
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Oh my god Passenger is heavenly
Stephen Carpenter really pushed this band to the harder edged places, while Chino really found room for melody.
For me that was what made them so great. This hard, angry, legit thrash style which still found a way to be interesting beyond a few power chords.. Elite screaming and an ethereal haunting voice. I thought it was a perfect mix on Adrenaline, and then they just kept tweaking it and changing and leaning more into one style or the other and it just missed that raw perfect combination for me. I liked songs on their first three records and then honestly barely bothered to listen to the newer stuff because it just all sounded like filler that would have never interested me on day 1 when I fell in love with Adrenaline, but admittedly that's me for practically every band. I always like the first 1-3 albums, and then a band just falls apart at the seams when they stop doing 'THAT''
@@mattm8441I agree, first three are my favorite. I didn't really like much until they put out Ohms which pleasantly surprised me. I really like every song on that album except for the song ohms which is kinda meh.
To me what really stands out about Deftones and makes them my absolute favorite bad ever is that exact evolution that Chino talks about. I dont know a single other band that has been as consistently talented, creative, and innovative with their sound. While still delivering the kind of music that fans of the band want to hear. They never completely shifted their sound, changed genres or anything like that like a lot of 90s ish bands did when they "grew up" they always just moved forward. Deftones doesnt have a single bad album, for almost 30 years they have been making consistently incredible music. I dont know a single other band that i can say that about, ESPECIALLY when it comes to alt rock/punk/numetal scenes.
I love this channel. I'm a casual Deftones fan, but the documentaries here are excellent. I just wish they were longer. 😊
I feel like you don’t see a lot of “casual” Deftones fans… in my experience, people have either never heard of them or are OBSESSED with them in a very non-casual way lol
@@CeeBee781 huge relate, as someone who is the latter, i can say that i haven't met a casual deftones fan. albeit i have met people who just like change, passenger, my own summer, rosemary, or entombed. so i guess if you qualify liking five songs or less as a casual fan then that'd be it.
Wow! Of all the people I thought we should thank for Deftones, I never thought a guy hitting Stephen with his car and Madonna (?!?!) would be on the list.
The legendary story of a legendary band! RIP Chi, and long live Deftones 🖤
This band has had such an impact on my life! Nothing ever comes close to the music they make. Thank you Deftones for being a band!
7 Words is one of my favorites. The whole Adrenaline album is just beyond awesome. I played it on repeat for weeks. The same thing happened when Around The Fur came out. I love all their music. But the first two albums are definitely my favorites. I think a lot of the bands I was listening to at the time all had debut albums that were their best in my opinion. Korn, Limp Bizkit, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Snot(R.I.P. Lynn), Sevendust and so many more. That was a great time for a music lover. Everybody had debut albums that didn't have a bad song. Damn I miss those days
Dude I loved Snot! "my balls your chin!" Haha...they were so badass. On another note, one time I randomly ran into the singer of Coal Chamber Dez on Melrose in Hollywood lol he was a cool dude."Mi Loco!" LOL
Foreal I fucking love adrenaline
I can relate man. I grew up in the 90s in Stone Mountain, GA right outside of Atlanta. I was lucky to see each of those bands live in the beginning of their careers. The 90s was a damn good time to grow up for music lovers (rock, punk, metal, rockabilly, industrial, oi!, ska, reggae, etc.). Atlanta was bad ass back then.
I see Deftones like Chevelle. Never quite get the recognition they deserve but never make a bad album
Same thoughts here. Been a fan of the two bands.
FACTS
2 of my favorites
I LOVE both they definitely deserve more recognition ❤
10 years too
As a huge Deftones fan, this made me an even bigger fan.
this band has been aged like pure fine wine. i hope my future wife likes deftones
My wife loves knife prty!
I play them all of the time in the car, especially on long trips. My wife says she dislikes the music but I’ve caught her tapping/humming/singing to them a fair few times.
She can’t hide it!
Mines sh*t out of luck
I lovee deftones
Deftones is such a consistent band. each album gets better
So you think around the fur is their 2nd worst album?
@@bloodlorde4994 huh?
@@krinque each album gets better? Then the lastest one must be the best right? So adrenaline is the worst? AtF is the second to worst! That's what you are saying I think.
@@bloodlorde4994 when did I say they started bad? I said each album gets better but I never said that their first album was trash. Every Deftones album is a 8+ and there are even some that exceed 10. It was a expression dickhead
You are right hehehe From personal perception I prefer their albums from their beginning 90"s debut 2000's
The fact Chino Marino had such a passion for skateboarding really had me relating to the music and atmosphere this band put out. Absolutely loved Deftones and still do to this day 🔥👊🧡👍🔥
I got to skate backstage on the Around the Fur tour. It's was Easter and my 21st birthday as well. He shared many Heineken. Lol
Im just a 90s kid from Romania and I'm gonna be totally honest here, Deftones is the soundtrack of my highschool years which were my favourite years.. And not just that, they are present with me everyday, still to this day . I've had the opportunity to watch them live , once here in Romania and once in Italy. They will be Forever etched in my heart ❤️
IMHO, Deftones are the best band to come out of that weird Era of underground music, and they're still killing it.
i cannot even use words or any type of action to show just how much i love deftones and chino. the sound and the passion just fills me with purpose and happiness. i love deftones so much - the genre, the music, the meanings behind the songs, the backstory- its all so beautiful and is art in its own special way.
So glad I got to see them live twice. For the Change tour they opened for Godsmack and blew them away! Godsmack came out and after their second song we left. We had come to see Deftones and they killed it.
Thank you, man! That was excellent. It made me drop a Deftones CD in play. So good!
They're so underrated. They were more than the Nu Metal tag that music journos love to pin on them. They are the Radiohead of Metal.
"Radiohead of Metal" I love that comparison 👌
I think it can go without saying they were an elevation of nu metal.. but this documentary acts offended or surprised they were lumped in.. They were from the same area as Korn, friends with Korn, signed with Adidas.. I HEARD of them from being a Korn fan and everyone telling me to listen to them.. then all of a sudden they're not nu metal? They're at least part of the same clique.
Radiohead was and always will be ghey.
I'd say they're more Alt Metal, kinda like Grunge (Part of what's considered Alt Metal) when it comes to bands like The Smashing Pumpkins(We love the Smashing Pumpkins)
Radiohead suck big time. Deftones are fire
Happy to see Deftones getting love. I am one of the OG listeners who lost track of them at White Pony. I feel they lost that hunger, that edge that made me love them.
Self titled went hard tho?
Started to get that heroin feel to em don't know why they stopped going so hard... still my favorite band
@@Jaysoccowhat do you mean
A friend gave me a copy of Adrenaline and White Pony back in junior high school. Still love these albums to this day. And really stoked that they've found new audiences.
Actively avoided this band my whole life until 30 years old. My now absolute top 3 ever.
Me too, I wasn’t into them for 25 years despite trying. Then like a week ago it clicked and now I can’t stop. Wtf? I’m 40 😂
The heck?! Why?!
You've got the perfect voice for these type of documentaries.
Despite the Pantera album name derp, your content is awesome. Keep it up!
Still not over it?
Vulgar Power of Display really broke my immersion. 😂
...I was at that Vans warp tour, been a fan since then💯
I first discovered them when around the fur came out, but white pony is the album that REALLY stuck with me and it's still an all time favorite. Such a great band, thanks for this video on them🤌
Exactly the same for me. White Pony was life changing back then. But now It's the other way around, I listen to around the fur more.
Same. White Pony has been my all time favorite album since it came out! As a music fan of heavy and not, I've yet to hear anything sound like that including the deftones themselves. Whatever they were doing during the writing and recording of that record was magic. I don't count that back to school track since they were forced to by the label for a 'hit' and they literally wrote it in like a hour to just prove how simple it was to do something like that lol
12:10 imagine being one of those ten people who stuck around for that performance and not realizing you were watching history being made.
I found your channel the other day and watched a couple back to back, immediately searched Deftones and couldn't believe you hadn't done them yet. I Love your content!
The story of them opening up for Kiss is brutal! I love Deftones, great video!
The Deftones were….have and will always be their own sound. Their own thing!
You and Trash Theory are nailing it with the best RUclips rock documentaries. Thanks. Keep up the good work.
I’ve been playing the guitar for 6 years now and whenever someone’s compliments a piece of mine like “it reminds of deftones” it’s fills my heart with so much joy hehehe
This is one of the bands that I have more years listened to. Since White Pony release in 2000 when I was 14.
I was a junior in high school when Adrenaline was released. I was into hip-hop, punk, and new wave at that time. Depeche Mode was one of my favorites. I was hooked as soon as I heard Adrenaline. It spoke to me. For the 1st time I really connected with someone who had the same angst and depression I did. I've been a Deftones fan for almost 30 years now.
Hell yeah man! Been waiting for this one! Deftones is one of my favorite bands! 🤘🏽
So great and dope Band !! So famous here in my country !! Much love from Brasil Rio de Janeiro city of god 🇧🇷 Rip Chi Chen 🙏
I'm happy they have recognition in your country!! Such a good band, and RIP Chi
A band that plays a genre of their own, nobody sounds and writes like them, so many different influences blended together, thus somebody called them "the Radiohead of metal".
My two cents: they are the most "longevous" alternative band from the 90s in terms of listening experience, meaning they will never sound dated, more than any other great band from that era, because they were so ahead of their time in terms of writing, performance and production. Even if you listen to them nowadays, with nowadays' ears, they could sound like a young contemporary band (at least from Around The Fur onwards). Indeed they became hugely popular in the last few years amongst the alternative TikTok kids.
Conversely, grunge to me it's starting to sound a bit dated and classic rock-ish, although I'm a huge grunge rock fan and for example Soundgarden are one of the best bands ever. Even most nu-metal and rap-metal and crossover sounds a bit dated nowadays.
Some of Deftones' dedication to details, songwriting and sound is yet to be fully understood and appreciated, because their unique blend found both the metal and the alternative audience not ready for that yet back then, and they were underrated as just another nu-metal band, so they were less popular than other bands, such a shame.
They also had a great taste in choosing and playing covers, and they sounded great even acoustically.
You took words right of mouth. I've told people that almost verbatim. Around the Fur and White Pony sound as fresh today as it did then! The only except is a few moments on ATF with songs like Lotion where some of that vocal delivery had a bit of that 'rap flow' but then again you hear that in hardcore as well. It's not like he is literally rapping with some sideways hat style. Songs like BQAD still sound timeless like it could come out today. Even lyrically his stuff was more poetic and that gave it a sense of something deeper. White Pony...classic and just perfect from beginning to end with the heartbeat at the end of Pink Maggot..its just all other worldly. For a 17 year old kid when it came it, it just really made a impact on me not just in music taste but as a person. I felt like it shaped me to see the world differently as corny as that may sound
The only thing that does annoy me is Gen z turned them into a meme in the last year or so but it's not really done in a negative way and if anything it has turned young kids on to them who are 16 and 17 like I was. Either way WP is my favorite album of all time and I've never grown tired of it! I'll listen to it all the way to my death bed
Well spoken. Was telling someone the other day almost the exact same thing; they will never sound dated.
@@DNashvegas as a younger listener (23, but been into them since i was 16) i can say that the kids my age aren't necessarily turning them into a meme, just a format to present a post. tiktok is such a strange platform because it's simultaneously full of memes and "unironic" posts that you can't ever really fully tell if someone is just making a meme or making a genuine cry for attention. in my experience though the posts using deftones songs aren't memes based around the songs and moreover memes based around the fact that alcoholism and addiction are unfortunately a trend currently.
I remember Chino jumping like 30 feet into the pit at Ozzfest 99. Fuckin insane!
I've been waiting for this video for so long. Just want to say thanks for giving us such good quality videos. ❤️
Saw them with Pantera in Worcester...great southern trendkill tour.... Adrenaline had just come out recently....they blew my mind and changed my view of music since then.... easily my all-time fav band since that first time...then saw em again on the White Pony tour with Glassjaw opening
Thank you!! Deftones is in my top 5 and still I learned so much about them here. 👍👍👍👍
Excellent documentary. Thank you (from Czech Republic).
🤘🏻🤘🏻
I’ve heard of FIVE ALBUM DEALS, but this band called the Deftones signed a EIGHT ALBUM deal as their first major contract. That is encouraging ! Not EIGHT SONGS or a PUBLISHING deal but EIGHT ALBUMS.
- God bless You for the Song you sent 🙃🎥📼🎬💯🎨🍧🗺️📱
We had a local TV show here in San Diego called STV (Surf, Snow, Skate). One segment featured music from the Deftones (7 Words). Then a second segment had Engine No.9. I INSTANTLY became a fan. This was right around the time Adrenaline was released. I picked up Adrenaline on CD, made a cassette out of it (I only had a cassette player in my truck), and had it on repeat for months.
Im a big fan of Deftones, but holy shit , they had it rough when it came to the early days of their career, especially that Kiss tour in 96 , Its like kiss set them up purposely to get booed, but nevertheless, great video , now i know more about them than from what i already knew
I highly doubt kiss set them up for failure. They were probably just as confused as to why the hell Deftones were on tour with them though. It’s got nothing to do with them. Just business suits.
@@puppet585 yeah, label exec's make those choices and in my opinion knowing the information from this video i wouldn't be surprised if the suits set them up for failure, but i doubt the band had anything to do with it. realistically considering it was a reunion tour the label wanted anyone who could sound "eh" in front of a kiss audience to be the act.
One of my favourite bands. Great documentary.
Good video. I do wish you would have included Frank in it though, he’s been there since White Pony and a big part of the sound every album. Also, Sergio was their bassist for something like 12 years, and although the band or at least their management considered him a “fill in”, the 4 albums he was a part of makes him a member for us fans.
I heard an interview where Chino stated that when Chi wakes up they were just gonna have 2 bassists which would be crazy awesome. Too bad he passed
First discovered deftones around 2020/2021. Was on RUclips and I saw change but with the lyrics of toxic by Britney Spears. That I’m itself is worth a listen but now I’m say here in my white pony T-shirt after recently buying a 7 string to play their songs. Love them, always
Well done documentary. Your work is appreciated.
Discovered this band 20+ years ago, through an old friend from .. thanks Jeroen. Hope you are doing well where ever you are
Theres a reason why out of all the nu metal bands, deftones are the only one i still listen to. They could never be pinned in the nu metal genre, fheir music goes so much deeper.
I would love to watch a documentary made by you about the story of "Queens Of The Stone Age"
Loving your vids!!!!!
Thanks for doing this vid of my all time favorite band. 🤙🏽
I found out about them in 1995 and I have been a Hugh Fan since!! I've seen 6 shows though out the years and I've watched them grow as a band since but they have a sound that no pne else has and that's why they will always be the band that got me into playing music. Among others, I will always hold what they have done very close to my heart!!!
I can't imagine a world without the Deftones in it!!
Thanks Madonna!
I saw them in ‘98 on the Warped tour and it changed my life.
Deftones has and always will be my favorite band of all times. Great documentary vid, tooo!
I'm from Brazil, and i love deftones
My love for deftones goes back to 2010. My brother introduced me, blessed to have a brother with a good taste in music 😂🤙🏽
Love the Deftones i grew up listening to them. Such an amazing band
Oh by the way, fantastic mini doc man!
Here's my take on Deftones, it means nothing, but here it is.
Deftones never pandered to their fanbase. They were never afraid to change up their sound, and it always sounded natural and not forced. I also feel like they grew with the audience they already had. It was never about trying to keep a certain age group interested in their music, unlike a certain other band that came up in the same era.
Deftones are one of my top 3 all time favorite bands and somehow I own none of their music, physically. I kinda brushed them off when I was younger, I didn't dislike them, but I never really gave them a chance as a whole. I knew the singles from White Pony and that was about it. It wasn't until my early 20s I really started digging in to their entire discography and realizing that this band had influenced so many bands that I listened to then. They did a split EP with Poison the Well ffs and I would have considered those bands on complete opposite sides of the heavy music spectrum. Post-hardcore really opened me up to Deftones I guess. Weird typing that out. Edit: Even weirder being validated by the video as I typed this up before watching it LUL
Feel in love with this band in 7th grade. I'm still a fan now in my 30's.
I saw them open for Korn and Ozzy.I also saw them at the Summer Sanatarium with Mudvayne Linkin Park Limp Bizkit and Metallica.
First time I heard Deftones I was hooked,like no other band before or since period
Same here..My friend made me heard Kimdracula way back in the early 2000s when I was high school...which was followed by Change...Chino has such an intense voice
deftones is my favorite band right now, so good to listen to while driving.
I was looking/waiting on a good quality video on Deftones. Found it 👌
My group of friends in the mid to late 1990’s and 2000’s love Deftones. White pony albums was graduation album we’d listen to. 🥃🤘🏽
How they got discovered by Maverick Records is CRAZY. Badass stuff.
Thank you for making this! I fell in love with deftones in 98 when I heard ‘shove it.’ Greatest band of the last 100 years
The 90s rule 💯 Korn & Deftones coal chamber static x slipknot killer bands
saw them a hand full of times, but my absolute favorite show was seeing them at the electric factory in Philly.
somehow this man managed to make me fall in love with this band even more
I Discovered DefTones when they opened for Anthrax (John Bush era). Great show!
I want that picture of chi perfectly jumping horizontally in the background while the boys are gaming and chillin
I was at Warped Tour to see Deftones. Wish we could go back!
Deftones came at a time in metal where a lot of bands were all doing something different. Korn, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Ill Nino, Disturbed... all newer metal bands with different interpretations of what metal could be.
Sacramento Cattle Club. It needs it's own documentary as well. Deftones lived there on stage and in the audience. 7 Words video was filmed there. I was lucky to hang out with Chi in college...RIP. Amazing from '89 to now. They still got it. Sactown proud.
I always felt they were different and they're still an enigma to me which is why I love them.
Thank god nobody has noticed I said Vulgar Power of Display...(⬅ this is sarcasm) I made the same mistake in my Pantera documentary, you can watch it here ruclips.net/video/MWxWO814ccA/видео.html
I noticed. Funny moment.
I noticed immediately as well, lol. Also, @RAWMUSICTV, stick to the subject content. It was kind of weird watching the narrator narrate. Like, why?
@@CarvedJoker there are literally 1000s of documentaries where the narrator is present on screen. It's called presenting. Jesus dude, culture yourself.
Probably shouldn't say this but I owe Muse of all bands for introducing me to Deftones. I've been hooked ever since, change (in the house of flies), Headup and Bloody Cape absolutely pulled me in.
I heard Adrenaline in 1997. I was also listening to Korn's debut at that time. I thought of them as like Korn with a higher guitar tuning, lots of rapcore but DAMN, Bored was one of those songs that was such a hook that it was on another level. "They'll never pull that off again," I thought. Then Shove It came out... color me incorrect! And they were just getting started. Be Quiet and Drive exploded!! I had been in a metalcore band since 1997, and White Pony changed EVERYTHING. It was played everywhere we had a gig, one of those albums that I didn’t need to buy because I heard it everywhere I went. I didn’t understand their fourth album ( I didn’t like Minerva), so I took a break. Somewhere in the 2010s I checked out their newer stuff and was completely floored. They just kept getting better and better at their craft to the point where literally no one was like them anymore. I checked out all the albums, and still am. I love them. Deftones are one of those bands that will easily stand the test of time.
The thing I love about nu metal is eclectic influences and sounds in all the bands. Especially the successful ones. For me Deftones are nu metal. And nu metal is part aura , part sound. The sound is always creative with a deep heavy guitar. I don't understand why so many bands and fans fear the word
deftones will always be my number one. i love them so much
Great documentary! Well done.
Dude, awesome documentary! I fucking LOVE Deftones.
Blows my mind which genius booked them onto a KISS tour as the opening band
Back in the early 2000’s I heard DJ Merit of 102.1 the Edge mention how the Deftones were signed to Madonna’s (my heart goes out to her families lost) label Maverick Records.
My intentions are not to be argumentative however you stated soon as the video began the Deftones started in 1997. Your wrong.
Sacramento, California, U.S. After the line-up settled in 1993, the band secured a recording contract with Maverick Records, and subsequently released their debut album Adrenaline in 1995. Extensive touring and word-of-mouth promotion of the album helped Deftones garner a dedicated fan base.
I mean, it's super easy to start an argument with this comment, considering at 2:20, the first date mentioned, is 1988.
then 4:26, Chino says 88 himself. What are you on about lol
RIP Chi 🫶🏻 always here through your playing and presence!
Hands down my favorite band for the past 15 or so years.
P.S..absolutely adore Ohms......can't stop listening to this utter masterpiece...Deftones just keep getting better and better as they age....do miss Chi though. He didn't deserve to pass away like that...I do think Deftones music does honour his memory..
White Pony is their masterpiece, and they rightfully won a Grammy for it, but I think Digital Bath not Elite should have been the song
you meant change or passenger
@@lefriccestchic3012no, Digital Bath is way better than either
It was their commercial sell out album. Considered by far the worst of the first 3 by actual metal fans.
@@DepthFromAbove Bahahaha