They were formed by frontman Chino Moreno, lead guitarist Stephen Carpenter and drummer Abe Cunningham, with bassist Chi Cheng and keyboardist and turntablist Frank Delgado joining the line-up in 1990 and 1999, respectively.

Deftones' fifth studio effort, Saturday Night Wrist (2006), received similar praise, although the album's production was marred by creative tensions and personal issues within the band, some of which influenced its material.

After Cheng's accident, Deftones halted production on Eros and recruited Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega until his departure in early 2021.

[a] The band released the critically celebrated Diamond Eyes in 2010 and embarked on a triple-headline tour with Alice in Chains and Mastodon throughout North America.

Their seventh and eighth albums, Koi No Yokan (2012) and Gore (2016) respectively, saw the band continue to move in an increasingly experimental direction and were released to critical acclaim.

[15][16][17] An early track which predated Adrenaline but did not make the album's final cut was "Teething"; the band contributed the song to the soundtrack for the 1996 film The Crow: City of Angels.

[24] AllMusic's review of Adrenaline praised the album's musical control, precision, overall groove and Cunningham's "surprisingly sophisticated drumming".

[22] The album was praised for its loud-soft dynamics, the flow of the tracks, Moreno's unusual vocals, and the strong rhythm-section performance of Cheng and Cunningham.

[23][28][29] Stephen Thomas Erlewine's retrospective review noted that "while they don't have catchy riffs or a fully developed sound, Around the Fur suggests they're about to come into their own".

[30] Around the Fur propelled the band to fame in the alternative metal scene on the strength of radio and MTV airplay for the singles "My Own Summer (Shove It)" and "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)".

"Passenger" was a collaboration with singer Maynard James Keenan of Tool, and the refrain in "Knife Prty" featured vocals by Rodleen Getsic.

After a break from touring, the band spent four months in the studio writing and recording it, the longest amount of time they had dedicated to an album thus far.

A limited-edition print of 50,000 black-and-red jewel case versions of White Pony was released at the same time with a bonus twelfth track titled "The Boy's Republic".

[41] White Pony achieved platinum status on July 17, 2002,[21] selling over 1.3 million copies in the US,[33] and earning the band a 2001 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the song "Elite".

The band brought in Date to assist with production and also received input on musical arrangement from Greg Wells on several of the album's tracks.

[46] In January 2003, Deftones left the studio to perform several one-off shows in Australia and New Zealand as part of the annual Big Day Out festival.

[45] In reviewing Deftones, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that "Hexagram", the album's opener, "hits hard—harder than they ever have, revealing how mushy Staind is, or how toothless Linkin Park is".

[55] According to an interview with Abe Cunningham, there were tensions involved with the recording of Saturday Night Wrist that were related to the band members' personal lives.

[61] Collaborations on the record include Annie Hardy from Giant Drag on the song "Pink Cellphone" and Serj Tankian from System of a Down on the track "Mein".

And although those songs will see the light of day at some point, we collectively made the decision that we needed to take a new approach, and with Chi's condition heavy on our minds while doing so.

Both "Diamond Eyes" and "Rocket Skates" received positive reviews from fans and critics, with many making comparisons of the two singles' style and sound to that of material from the Around the Fur album.

The tour included a limited edition series of silk-screened art prints promoting each show individually, created by the poster artist Jermaine Rogers.

[89] On April 13, 2013, despite making a partial recovery and returning home, Cheng died in a hospital in his hometown of Stockton, California, after falling into cardiac arrest.

[92] In March 2014, while Moreno was touring with his side project Crosses in support of their self-titled debut album, the rest of Deftones began writing a follow-up to Koi No Yokan.

[110] Gwilym Mumford of The Guardian praised the album for its emphasis on experimentation and ambiance and noted the exploration work in the tension between the "croon" in Moreno's "soulful" voice, his "opaque" lyrics, and Carpenter's "pile-driving" guitar riffs.

Moreno went on to state that the band would be going in a different direction than they had on Gore and that he would be taking a step back from leading the song writing to allow Stephen Carpenter and Abe Cunningham to be more involved in the material on the new album.

[121] On September 22, the band announced their "Adopt-a-Dot" campaign in which fans could digitally sponsor a dot from the Ohms album cover via a charitable donation.

The reissue was packaged alongside Black Stallion, a companion remix album featuring artists including Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda, DJ Shadow and Robert Smith.

[162] Asked about their connection with bands such as Korn, Moreno has also stated that their commonality came down to only the shared influence of Faith No More, especially the percussive approach to vocals by Mike Patton.

[1][2] The band have been cited as an influence by musicians including 7 Angels 7 Plagues,[175] Architects,[176] Boston Manor,[177] Carbomb,[178] Chvrches,[176] Deafheaven,[176] Circa Survive,[179] Disembodied,[180] Every Time I Die,[181] Fightstar,[182] Finch,[183] Glassjaw,[184] Higher Power,[185][186] In This Moment,[187] Iwrestledabearonce,[188] Karnivool,[176] Linkin Park,[189] Loathe,[190] Misery Signals,[191] Nothing,[176] Paramore,[192] Poison the Well,[193] Senses Fail,[194] Skycamefalling,[195] Slipknot,[176] Spiritbox,[184] Static Dress,[184] Suicide Silence,[176] Thornhill,[196] Thursday,[176] the Used,[197] Vein.fm,[198] Taproot,[199] the Weeknd[200] and Will Haven.