When Deftones made their debut album, Adrenaline, in 1995, they couldn’t know that they were destined to become one of the most influential bands of their generation, helping to kickstart the nu-metal revolution while remaining, musically, just on the outside of it. Still in their early 20s but eight years into the line-up’s history, the four young men who made up the band – vocalist Chino Moreno, guitarist Stephen Carpenter, bassist Chi Cheng and drummer Abe Cunningham – were having a ball out on the road, even if the audiences didn’t know quite what to make of them.
Chino Moreno looks back on the times surrounding the album that gave them their big start…
