Abe Cunningham: Last News

Deftones have announced their third annual Dia De Los Deftones event.It’s back after a two-year hiatus following the pandemic and will take place November 5 at Gallagher Square at Petco Park in San Diego.The line-up will see the Deftones perform alongside Turnstile, Phantogram, Freddie Gibbs, Audrey Nuna, Destroy Boys, Provoker, and Cold Gawd.Tickets for the event go on sale August 5 at 10am PST.Speaking about the event, Deftones’ singer Chino Moreno said: “We’re hyped to be bringing back Dia de Los Deftones this year.“We take a ton of pride in curating it; it’s a chance for us to put forth and showcase some artists that we love and respect, and putting on an amazing day of music and culture for our fans. We’re excited to see everyone again out at Petco in November.”We are thrilled to announce our 3rd annual #DiaDeLosDeftones – taking place Saturday, 11/5 at Petco Park in San Diego, CA.

Deftones’ Frank Delgado and Abe Cunningham spoke to NME backstage at Download Festival about the future of the band, the next generation of metal and 25 years of second album ‘Around The Fur’.This weekend saw the Sacramento metal veterans play Donington Park for the fifth time – a number matched by glam-rock icons and headliners KISS. Unlike KISS though, Deftones have no plans to retire any time soon. Or, as drummer Cunningham puts it: “Fuck no! We just sat at home for three years.

Deftones performing on Public-Access TV in 1992 has surfaced online – you can watch it below.Sourced from a filmed broadcast on the Sacto Active Rock community-access TV show, the clip sees the band perform a song called ‘Answers’ during their formative years.The pre-‘Adrenaline’ track has more of a dub/reggae vibe in comparison to the heavier alt-metal sound that they’re known for.Shared by a Deftones fan channel, the clip sees the band with a different lineup, with John Taylor behind the drum kit in place of Abe Cunningham, who left the group in 1990 prior to rejoining in 1993.Watch Chino Moreno and co.

Deftones have blacked out all their social media profile pictures, hinting that an announcement is on the way.The announcement could well be that of a new album – the band said back in June that their new record is finished, and could be out in September.Yesterday (August 14), the band updated their profile and header pictures on their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages, and a Facebook post links to the band’s website, which has now been blacked out.When visiting the website, the URL suddenly becomes ‘deftones.com/0925’, hinting that, as they said back in June, the album could come out on September 25, which is also a Friday.Speaking of the new album earlier this year, the band’s drummer Abe Cunningham hinting at the September

The band recently recently teased new music during a livestream

"We wanted to thank you for your patience – it's coming"

Deftones drummer Abe Cunningham has given an explanation as to why the band’s long-shelved ‘Eros’ album still hasn’t been released.Speaking in a new interview, Cunningham discussed the 2008 project, which the band started before bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a serious car accident. He died in 2013.“It was never completed, and that’s what people don’t get, like, ‘What, you’re just sitting on it?’ And I mean no, we’re not just sitting on it, we never finished it,” Cunningham told Download TV, a virtual edition of Download Festival, the UK’s biggest metal festival designed to take the place of 2020’s cancelled edition this weekend (June 12-14).He added: “And then [Chi] got in his accident and that’s kinda where it just stopped.