An all-around nice guy with a profile name Old Composer does a reaction and a breakdown of 'Passenger' by Deftones and Maynard James Keenan of Tool on his YouTube channel. He goes just slightly into theory and really appreciates how the band has built the song. There's plenty of videos he uploaded, one of the newest was his reaction to Mudvayne's 'Dig' which he really - dug! He also did a video 'Why Led Zeppelin KASHMIR Makes Your Face Melt'. He is a composer, real name George “GiBi” del Barrio.

Deftones have announced a 20th anniversary deluxe reissue of their landmark 2000 album, 'White Pony', featuring a bonus LP of brand-new remixes dubbed 'Black Stallion' with reworkings by the likes of DJ Shadow, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda, and more. In advance of its December 11th release, Deftones have unveiled Purity Ring’s remix of 'Knife Prty'. Other remixers on Black 'Stallion' include Phantogram, Tourist, Clams Casino, Squarepusher, Blanck Mass, and others.

Deftones are back in shape with their atmospheric and heavy newest single 'Genesis'; Aimee Mann covered Leonard Cohen’s ‘Avalanche’ for HBO’s true-crime docu-series 'I’ll Be Gone In The Dark', it's a changed song, richer, sang differently; Jamila Woods' 'Sula' is accompanied by an erotic video with the singer as the star of it; another "different" cover - Lykke Li plays Gloria Gaynor's disco anthem 'I Will Survive' as a haunting piano ballad.

After Deftones announced the very diverse lineup for their second annual festival Dia De Los Deftones with CHVRCHES, Gojira, JPEGMAFIA, Hum, Youth Code, and Brutus, Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta took some issue with the order of the billing. “Who is churches with a v and why the fuck are they playing over Gojira... God the music industry suckkkkks sometimes,” he tweeted. CHVRCHES […]