Deftones

Deftones have announced that their forthcoming seventh studio album will be entitled Koi No Yokan. The album will hit stores on Nov. 13 and the band will also be hitting the road on a nationwide headlining tour, with special guest Scars On Broadway, kicking off on Oct...

Days after Deftones bassist Chi Cheng, who remains in a partially conscious state following a 2008 car accident, was hospitalized with pneumonia, Metal Insider reports, his mother updated fans yesterday via the fund-raising website OneLoveForChi...

Like Motley Crue with Crue Fest or Metallica with Orion, the masked men of Slipknot are getting ready to launch their own festival. The inaugural Knotfest will take place Aug. 17 and 18 and feature such artists as the Deftones, Lamb of God, Serj Tankian, Cannibal Corpse, Deathlok and the Dillinger Escape Plan, Rolling Stone reports...

Meet Palms, a newly formed Los Angeles based quartet featuring three former members of Isis (Aaron Harris, Clifford Meyer and Jeff Caxide) with Deftones' vocalist Chino Moreno. "Clifford, Jeff and I started Palms a little over a year ago out of a desire to continue making music together after Isis ended," explained Harris...

System of a Down just announced a slate of North American tour dates with Deftones. The trek will kick off at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Philadelphia, Pa. on Aug. 2 and conclude on Aug. 15 at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Ill. Serj Tankian, vocalist for System of a Down, will be releasing Harikari, his third solo album, on July 20...

We'll have new Deftones tunes sooner than later. The band is entering the studio next week to begin recording the follow up to 2010's Diamond Eyes. Previous reports indicated that the Sacto crew would start the process in July, but certain details were lost in translation during frontman Chino Moreno's interview with a Chilean outlet...

Congrats are in order for Deftones lead screamer Chino Moreno, who has married Risa Mora, his girlfriend of two years, Blabbermouth.net reports. The couple tied the knot on Wednesday, March 7, and judging by the photos on Moreno's Facebook page, the Hawaiian wedding was a rocking good time...

"I don't know what this means. I don't think it means anything" -- Eddie Vedder, accepting a Grammy for Pearl Jam's 'Spin the Black Circle,' 1996 I tend to take the Pearl Jam Attitude toward the Grammys, but it's still fun to sit back and watch people who know nothing about metal try and hand out awards for "Best Performance" every year...

After more than three years in a coma, Deftones bassist Chi Cheng is beginning to show signs of improvement, Loudwire.com reports. Cheng has been conscious or semi-conscious since November 2008, when he was involved in a car accident that left him in critical condition and necessitated life-threatening surgery...

Sol Invicto, the side project of Deftones' guitarist Stephen Carpenter and producer Richie Londres, will be issuing a new EP soon entitled 'Initium II.' The EP features the kind of instrumental tuneage that delivers a swift boot to the groin, but it's certainly not Deftones sans vocals, either...