Members: Chino Moreno/Voice,Guitar Abe Cunningham/Drums Chin Cheng/Bass Frank Delgado/Turntables Stephen Carpenter/Strings

Deftones are not so much a band as they are a hyperdynamic musical experience. Image the word spinning of its axis, and you'll have a good idea of what these guys sound like. Or, as the lead singer CHINO MORENO says, "It's sweet, ruthless." With their wicked rhythms, sinister riffs, speaking in tongues vocals and rabid lyrics, the Sacromento, CA foursome build provocatively on their Maverick debut album Adrenaline with the new around the world fur. More powerful than their first, it's a record that consolidades all their strenghts the rhytmic dynamism, the jarring use of melody, the industrial/rap undercurrents, "the bracing blend of extremes," according to the Los Angeles Times and radically creates its own wavelenght. In the words of the guitarist STEPHEN CARPENTER........