"It was terrible! I was naked and I just froze. There was blood everywhere." Haunted houses, "turf wars" and Mimosa Mondays: the story of the album that confirmed Deftones as one of the most important bands of their generation

Deftones by a gate in a parking lot in 2000.

In the summer of 2020, as Deftones' career-defining, hugely influential third studio album White Pony turned 20 years old, Metal Hammer sat down for an interview with the band to discuss that record's legacy, the wild adventures they were having around that time and why, decades on, they made the right decision in dodging the nu metal bullet.