On Sunday June 29, Deftones played a sold-out headline show in London’s Crystal Palace Park. The performance took place just 24 hours after the band pulled out of their scheduled performance on the Other Stage at Glastonbury 2025. Despite the setback, the band returned in full-force, playing a 19-track set packed with career-spanning hints and teasing the arrival of new music.
The band were forced to pull out of Glastonbury just hours before their set due to one of the band members falling ill. Grime icon Skepta was drafted in as a last-minute surprise replacement. Our coverage of Skepta’s impromptu Glastonbury performance can be read here.
At Crystal Palace Park, Deftones opened with fan favourites Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) and My Own Summer (Shove It) from their 1997 breakthrough album ‘Around the Fur’. The setlist also featured heavy-hitting renditions of ‘Diamond Eyes’, ‘Tempest’, ‘Swerve City’, ‘You’ve Seen the Butcher’, ‘Sextape’, ‘Rosemary’, and ‘Hole in the Earth’. The night closed with a powerful back-to-back encore of Minerva, Bored, and 7 Words.
However, it was a cryptic visual displayed on the side screens before and after the performance that sparked the most buzz among fans. The cryptic semi-announcement read “Private music – to be distributed by Deftones, all rights reserved,” followed by the roman numerals X.VII.MMXXV. The encrypted date translates to July 10 2025, strongly suggesting the alt-metal veterans are intending to drop a new album this July.
The band have been hinting at a follow-up to their 2020 album ‘Ohms’ for some time, with guitarist Stephan Carpenter confirming that the band were working with producer Nick Raskulinecz back in 2023. Frontman Chino Moreno added in a recent press release: “We have a whole record recorded all musically and it’s pretty much my job right now to finish up the vocals… We’re not really in a rush. We want it to be great. I think that’s most important. But it is coming, and, yeah – it’s really good”.
Deftones are currently making their way through the European festival circuit before kicking off a North American tour in late August. Tickets for upcoming dates are available here.
For more on the band’s headline tour announcement, read our earlier coverage here.
