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||Deftones US Tour 05/02/2003 Deftones and Mudvayne, will serve as openers on this years Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003, beginning July 4. Metallica, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park will head the whole tour, whose itinerary is still being worked out, the trek is expected to visit 18 North American cities. Confirmed cities for the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003, according to Elektra Records are:

Minneapolis / St. Louis / Orlando / Philadelphia / New York / Boston / Columbus / Montreal / Dallas / Houston / Seattle / Denver / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Detroit / Toronto / Washington / Baltimore/ Chicago

Tickets for most shows of the tour will go on sale February 22. More Dates:

"Deftones Back on the Horse"

The Deftones spent the past few months in Seattle putting the finishing touches on their fourth album. The band has completed almost fourteen songs, one of which will be heard on the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack this spring. "Somebody say that it's fucked up, so I can hit 'em!" demands Deftones singer Chino Moreno, playing two new songs for friends at Larrabee Studios in West Hollywood. Fortunately, the group's first new material since 2000's White Pony went over well, and no one got hurt. On the two still-untitled songs, the group mixes explosive guitars with Moreno's bursts of raw, almost wordless emotion. Straight-up Deftones, in other words. "It's not the easiest music to like," Moreno admits. "But like all my favorite artists and records, you have to take time and get into it." © 2003 RollingStone

||Deftones Message 15/02/2003 Greetings All...We want to thank everyone who came out and showed support while down under. The shows rocked and were definitely a great way to kick things off after being in the studio for so long. We look forward to being back in Austraulia later in the year. We finish mixing the new album in a couple weeks and plan to finish up the artwork soon after. Get ready... If you haven't heard shows are starting to line up. Possibility of a couple ne offs in Europe sometime mid march. In May we'll be doing a club run in the states. Back to Europe at the end of May till mid june for the Festivals. We head out on the Summer Sanitarium in July. Also, we'll also be doing our own headline shows in between the Summer Sanitarium dates. Keep checking for updates as more things are confirmed. Once again we want to thank everyone for their patience. Much Thanks - DEFTONES Source: www.deftones.com

||Abe Clears Things up 10/03/2003 "It's been a long process, longer than any other record," Abe Cunningham said, then pontificated on the virtues of patience. As the drummer touched upon the almost three-year span leading up to the band's fourth album, singer Chino Moreno was in a Seattle studio tracking the remaining vocals for the follow-up to 2000's White Pony. Once that's completed, the project, still tentatively titled "Deftones", will enter the mixing stage, the final phase before it's released to a public restless for new material. Material fans thought they were going to get last fall. Last summer, a Maverick Records release schedule was issued to the press with a slot in mid-November reserved for the Deftones. "Fans got hold of that date on the Net, and we weren't even done with the record!" an incensed Cunningham said. "How dare they put out a release date? We want it out, too, but we also want to put out quality product." The album is now slated for a May 20 release, a due date that should be at least close to accurate, since Deftones will be setting out on the Summer Sanitarium Tour. They recorded about 15 songs with longtime Terry Date and are now deciding on which five to winnow out. Although the LP is being finished in Seattle, most of it was recorded in the band's own studio in its hometown of Sacramento. The members were able to work on their opus in a comfortable, relaxed environment; and therein lays much of the delay, and consequently, much of what promises to be compulsive perfection. "We had the luxury to be able to record it and screw with things as we went; we were never able to do that before. That's the beauty of having your own studio.". Although they refrained from performing any new material (at the Big Day Out Festival) out of a fear that songs would appear online before their time, taking the stage together for the first time in over a year cemented the fact that Deftones are ready to resume where they left off. "The friendship and camaraderie of the band is all back," Cunningham said, "and that's the best thing in the world." Source: www.mtv.com

|| Deftones DVD 26/08/2002

The Deftones first official DVD is released tomorrow - Music in High Places. It's being rumored that the Boy's Republic is not included in this DVD. But I've found a pretty cool synopsis about the DVD:

Synopsis: Music in High Places, the ultimate international music and travel adventure series, takes top recording artists to the most ancient sites on earth. Each expedition takes music's biggest artists to the four corners of the globe and features exciting acoustic performances set against the backdrop of earth's most intriguing natural locations. Take an intimate journey with the Deftones as they discover the culture, history and spirituality of Hawaii while performing some of their greatest hits! Songs: Headup, Knife Party, Digital Bath, One Weak, Boy's Republic, Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away), Around the Fur, Feiticeira, Change (In the House of Flies). Special Features: Behind the Scenes Featured; TV Spot; Biography; Interview; Location Footage; Play "Just the Music" . 51 mins.

|| Another Release Date 23/08/2002

Despite rumors of the album being pushed back to an early 2003 release, Maverick Records' current release schedule lists the Deftones new album on track for a November 19th release. A tentative title of "Lovers" is being carried for the effort and it is expected to feature enhanced content when it lands in stores. The group have been working on new material for the effort at their own home studio in the Sacramento, CA area with producer Terry Date as of late while a temporary new website for the band has been launched at www.deftones.com.

source: www.theprp.com

|| Official Site + The Kush Project 18/08/2002

www.deftones.com has a new intro page. You gotta have flash plugin 6, otherwise you won't be able to watch Chino's short movie.

The Kush Project, a group comprised of members of the Deftones, Cypress Hill and former Fear Factory members, will be embarking on a Californian trek that will take them to 13 different universities from October 18th through till October 31st. The outing has been dubbed the "Legalize-It" Tour and dates and venues are expected to be announced shortly. At present the bands long awaited debut album is not expected to see a release until next year.

source: www.theprp.com

|| CHENG SPEAKS ABOUT NEW ALBUM 29/03/2002

Chi Cheng recently spoke with RollingStone.com about the Deftones upcoming record - "Lovers":

"We definitely want to put out a very energetic, very upbeat, fast album (...) We spent three or four months, each of us, working on our little solo projects and now we're all kind of like, These fucking side projects! We need to wrap them up and get back to our main focus (...) Everyone's trying to get their personal life in order before we jump into the whole mess of an album cycle and touring and everything else."

source: rollingstone.com

|| LOVERS??!?!?? 20/03/2002

Deftones frontman Chino Moreno called into Mary-Anne Hobbs' BBC Radio 1 Rock Show program last night, Tuesday, March 19th, and revealed the tentative title of the next album to be "Lovers". He also went on describe the effort as a "really hardcore album...it's pretty loud and heavy. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's angry, but it's not pretty by any means". So far, around half of the album is done being written and a fall/winter release through Maverick is being eyed. In other news, Moreno also mentioned that his side project Team Sleep may embark on a U.K. tour in July. Team Sleep's forthcoming Tone Def/Maverick debut is expected out in June. source: theprp / bbc