Some 30 years after they released their debut album “Adrenaline,” alt-metal band Deftones will headline the largest local arena show of their career when they play Minneapolis’ Target Center on Aug. 29.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday through Ticketmaster. Phantogram and the Barbarians of California open.
Childhood friends Chino Moreno (vocals), Stephen Carpenter (guitar) and Abe Cunningham (drums) began jamming together in 1988 when they were in high school. They brought a diverse group of inspirations — hardcore punk, post-punk, new wave and heavy metal — to form a unique sound that straddled alt-rock and metal.
After some lineup changes, the group adopted the name Deftones and signed with Madonna’s Maverick Recordings in 1993. They released “Adrenaline” two years later and toured heavily to support it. In 1996 alone, Deftones played 7th Street Entry, First Avenue, Target Center twice (opening for Ozzy Osbourne and Pantera) and the Dinkytown McDonald’s parking lot.
They scored their first hit in 2000 with “Change (In the House of Flies),” which landed at No. 9 on Billboard’s mainstream rock chart, the group’s first of a dozen times they visited that chart’s Top 20. The following year, Deftones won their first Grammy, a best metal performance nod for “Elite.”
Deftones have spent the past two decades continuing to record and tour. The group’s most recent album, 2020’s “Ohms,” was hailed as a return to form after a series of more experimental releases. It earned Deftones three Grammy nominations and a win for best remixed recording for “Passenger.”
In a concert review from Inglewood last week, the Los Angeles Times raved: “Deftones have never been bigger, or more definitional for what young people want out of heavy music in all its gradients. A band ahead of their time, for 30 years and counting.”
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