Its lead single " Change (In the House of Flies)" is the band's most commercially successful single, and the track " Elite" won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance it was also the band's first of three albums to be certified platinum in the United States. The band found even further success with their third album White Pony (2000), which saw a transition away from their earlier, more aggressive sound into a more experimental direction. Their second album Around the Fur was released in 1997, reached chart positions along with its singles, and became the band's first to receive certification from the RIAA. Promoting the album by touring exhaustively with other bands in the scene, Deftones managed to gain a dedicated fan base through word of mouth. After the lineup settled in 1993, the band secured a recording contract with Maverick Records, and subsequently released their debut album Adrenaline in 1995.
ĭeftones have released nine albums since their inception. The band is known as one of the most experimental groups to have come from the alternative metal scene. The lineup remained stable for fifteen years, with the exception of keyboardist and turntablist Frank Delgado being added in 1999. During their first five years, the band's lineup changed several times, but stabilized in 1993 when Cunningham rejoined after his departure in 1990 by this time, Chi Cheng was bassist. It was formed by Chino Moreno (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Stephen Carpenter (lead guitar), Abe Cunningham (drums), and Dominic Garcia (bass). While you’re here, why not take advantage of our brilliant new subscribers’ offer? Get a digital pay monthly subscription for as little as £1.78 per month and enjoy the world’s best high voltage music journalism delivered direct to your device.Deftones is an American alternative metal band formed in Sacramento, California in 1988. But compared to other albums, the door certainly seems far from shut on the final material recorded by Chi and his friends in those halcyon days of creativity and reconciliation. With the band currently expected to release album number nine before the year’s end, it seems Deftones are too busy to tidy up Eros for the time being. We know that there is interest in the album from the die-hards but I’m sure we will do the right thing at the right time with it… it’s something that could surface in the coming years.” “There is some really fucking bad-ass stuff on that album, but also stuff that’s not that good in my opinion. “If anything at all, I see some tracks from it coming out in some form or another,” Abe told Irish website Overdrive. However, in 2017 drummer Abe Cunningham seemed more optimistic that Chi’s final recordings could see the light of day. If the record were finished and we were just sitting on it, we probably would have put it out by now, maybe even given it away, just so that people can hear it, but it would take a lot more work to get it done.” Once Chi had his accident, everything came to a halt with the Eros sessions, so the idea of going back to that batch of songs, finishing them and have Sergio learn Chi’s parts just hasn’t felt like something that we’re interested in doing.
I had faith it was going to come together and be great in the end, but we never got to that point. Some of the music was lacking a little bit. “Musically it’s probably 75-80% done and lyrically it was about halfway there, but honestly, I wasn’t too happy with the material we had. In an interview with The Independent in 2016, Chino was still unresolved on the matter. Though it was taken down by the band’s label, it’s the only tantalising glimpse of an album that the band have been asked been questioned about ad nauseam in the years since, but are understandably apprehensive about revealing to the world. To mark the one-year anniversary of Chi’s passing, Chino uploaded a song, Smile, to YouTube.