Deftones have announced some exciting news for their fans.
The alternative metal and rock band revealed the lineup for their seventh annual Dia De Los Deftones festival, which will take place at San Diego’s Petco Park on Nov. 7. This year, the lineup consists of AFI, The Neighbourhood, Converge, Jehnny Beth, Bktherula, Ladrones, Lip Critic, LustSickPuppy, and, of course, Deftones themselves.
Previous lineups of the Dia De Los Deftones festival have included Doja Cat, Future, Sunny Day Real Estate, Paris Texas, 2hollis, Rico Nasty and more.
View this post on Instagram
Dia De Los Deftones is an annual music festival curated by the Deftones that celebrates the band’s diverse musical influences and connection to their fan community. The event debuted in 2018 at Petco Park in San Diego, and was conceived as a destination festival that blends heavy music with artists spanning the hip-hop, electronic, alternative and indie genres.
After a hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dia De Los Deftones returned in 2021 and has since become a recurring event held each fall in San Diego. Rather than focusing solely on metal, the festival reflects the broad musical tastes of Deftones frontman Chino Moreno and his bandmates, offering fans a one-day experience that showcases artists from multiple genres alongside a headlining performance from Deftones.
In an interview last year with Revolver, Moreno spoke with the magazine about the importance of having different genres in their annual music festival, knowing that they could probably be just as successful if they hosted an all-metal or an all-goth festival.
“We’re fans of lots of different music. When I was in high school, I thought I was kind of weird because I listen to goth music and Rush at the same time,” the 53-year-old musician answered. “Now it seems like you’re not judged as much for liking a variety of things.”
Deftones was formed by Moreno, Stephen Carpenter and Abe Cunningham when they were just teenagers living in Sacramento. After years of playing local clubs, the band broke through with their 1995 debut album Adrenaline before gaining wider recognition with Around the Fur two years later. In 2000, Deftones released White Pony, which earned them a Grammy Award and is widely considered one of the defining rock albums of its era.
Often associated with the nu-metal movement, Deftones distinguished themselves by blending the shoegaze, dream-pop, indie and rock genres, inspiring generations of alternative and heavy artists. Their atmospheric sound and willingness to evolve have helped them remain influential for nearly four decades. The band’s best-known song, “Change (In the House of Flies),” became their highest-charting single and remains a staple of modern rock radio.
Last summer, “my mind is a mountain,” the lead single from private music, their tenth studio album, reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay and the Hot Hard Rock Songs charts. Their rise to the top also set a Mainstream Rock Airplay record, as they waited 27 years, three months and one week to earn their first No. 1 hit — the longest such span for any group in the chart’s 44-year history.
View the original article to see embedded media.
“I feel like we’re much more into making sounds than we are writing songs,” Moreno told Zane Lowe in a sit-down interview last year. “The sounds are the ones really inspiring us.”
“We’re creating soundscapes, if you will, and there’s just some things for me, my instinct and where I gravitate to always is hearing a chord ring out or palm-muted stuff, that’s what I’m really into,” Carpenter added on. “I’m at a place now where I’m more interested in putting in stuff that I’m unfamiliar with and trying to be more than just the power chord. But I still end up back there, that’s the problem.”
Before headlining their own festival, Deftones will embark on a European/UK tour in August, then play at the Sick New World festival in Fort Worth, Texas, on Oct. 24.
