Deftones are having a big momentum, and now they’re expressing gratitude

Deftones guitarist and singer Chino Moreno talked about the band’s recent surge in popularity since the epidemic ended in a recently released interview with Los Angeles radio station KROQ. While many of its early counterparts from the nu metal era have long ago plateaued, the alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, gained a lot of younger fans because to their music’s viral success on social media platforms like TikTok, according to theprp. The band has easily risen to the position of arena headliners 25 years after recording “White Pony,” which was their then-career high. Many facets of the band’s reputation and business have been revitalized by the interest from younger audiences and the opportunity to connect with a wider audience, which has enabled them to operate on a greater scale.

It feels good, but I don’t think it’s something that… I think I kinda always had the mindset that it could go away at any moment as well, right? So I don’t ever invest too much of how I feel about us a band, or our music, or our records into that kind of stuff. It’s exciting, and it’s nice to know, and it is, how we literally are bigger than we’ve ever been in our almost 30-year existence. But it is exciting, we are very grateful. But I don’t think… Like, yeah, I think we are just in the moment, right? and enjoying it. Rolling with it. We wanna live up to it as well, I think in our live shows, and this record [“private music“] that we made, it also makes us want to be better — or as best we can be. It kind of pushes you a little bit, everybody says this about us, well, let’s try to be that, you know, more than ever.