Deftones gathered in 1988, in Sacramento, California, USA. In the same club squandered his teenage time guys from the increasingly popular group KORN - so that the inspiration was there ... Chino, Abe and Steve apparently wanted to go to the heroes in the eyes of classmates - and on this wave, they decided to organize its own team. In its original composition, along with three of them, you may have noticed a certain drummer John Taylor. He was soon traded to the group DEFTONES PRAYER WHEEL - "abandoned" as friends, not having tried a local drummer, not invented anything better than to steal Abe's of a friend of education PHALLUCY. On that note, stop ... The name of the team came up with Steven - it was him self in the midst of the working day (he was moonlighting as a pizza). The guy had taken under merry modern hip-hop like for example LL Cool J - and for some Deftones mp3 reason thought that most of these comrades was signed by Def Jam Records ("Def" meaning "cool"). The second part of the word, "tones", if you believe his memoirs, "came out" from some old 50's music ...Godsmack">Deftones Rocket Skates "It sounded as if we had known gang - when I'd known it was still oh how far" - laughs Steve now. First Steps team hardly differ particularly original: a labstva mini-bars, pivnuhah, at parties, "kebab" and other picnic began, probably, all ... launched from a platform hometown Sacremento, deftonsy "step-by-steps ahead clambered all of California steadily, bit by bit, picking up his fan base. And for more presentability was recorded disc "Engine No.9" ... Since it all started. At one concert (in 1995) to the boys approached the representative of Maverick Records, has acquired record - and, inspired, he decided to offer non-standard contract for beginners. (Maverick - Madonna's office itself.) The first professional album, THE DEFTONES was "Adrenaline" (1995), the work of darkly experimental, fresh, bold, and underestimated by many critics find fault (although many were those who immediately rasproboval kind of talent California debutants - assessing the mp3 download "Adrenaline" for the perfect score ). The same moment marked the completion of the team by the name DJ Frank Delgado: a guy to help with the recording of some tracks ("Fireal"), and worked the turntables at live shows ... and stayed. Before he was a member of the group SOCIALISTICS, who played the opening act for DEFTONES. Group gave many concerts, and by "live" power "Adrenaline" quantity sold Deftones Diamond Eyes nearly half a million. Unexpected fire of luck, that was not extinguished, it was necessary to maintain - and, realizing this, the guys locked themselves in the studio ... new album he had appeared two years after the debut of the 1997th, and was called "Around the Fur". Damp sound "Adrenaline" on this occasion had been carefully polished refined viscous melodies, heavy riffs, pulsating blood: the group opted for maximum saturation - and not lose. Hits was the song "Around the Fur", "Be Quiet and Drive" and, of course, "My Own Summer (Shove It)" - the latter can be no doubt ascribe the status of the anthem ... Radio stations have been in a mad frenzy. Moreno, sarcastic smile, comments: "When we were preparing to promotion single" Shove It ", not every radio has agreed to drive it on the air, because there are a lot of screaming. There is no such problem. Now, what may turn on a wave, everywhere all the shouting, and only ". On "My Own Summer" and "Be Quiet and Drive" were filmed clips, lavishly ratiruemye MTV and more. As the slide album of DEFTONES participated in several tours, including BAD BRAINS, SOULFLY, KORN, LIMP BIZKIT, WHITE ZOMBIE. Planck's popularity rose significantly ... Hooked on concert activity, "deftonsy" in no hurry to please the fans with new releases. In June of 2000 (the eve of the birth of a vocalist) in the light comes the famous "white horse", full-length album "White Pony". Continuing the line of "Around The Fur" (which received the "gold"), growing up and improving, the group showed the rare ability to keep within the corporate sound, showing however, more and more new facets of your talent. Radio-television way of promotion of THE DEFTONES paved the singles "Change", "Back To School" and "Digital Bath" - nevertheless, the leadership of the label is not showing signs of joy for the success of their pets (over 200 thousand just for the first two weeks). November 3, 2008 bassist Chi Cheng was in a car accident in Santa Clara. Currently, Chi is in a hospital in San Jose, he awoke from the coma, but still poorly away from her. Cheng Family, as well as the participants themselves Deftones are close to him. Ingredients: Camillo Wong Moreno ("Chino") - vocals, guitar Stephen Robert Carpenter ("Stef") - guitar, keyboards, bass, drums Chi Ling Dai Cheng - bass Abraham Cunningham ("Abe") - drums Frank Delgado - turntables, keyboards Discography: Adrenaline, 1995 Around the Fur, 1997 White Pony, 2000 Deftones, 2003 B-Sides & Rarities, 2005 Saturday Night Wrist, 2006 Diamond Eyes, 2010