Deftones have played their version of Japan’s ‘Ghosts’ live for the first time at their Día De Los Deftones festival – watch footage below.
The band were headlining the fifth iteration of their own curated festival at Petco Park in San Diego on Saturday (November 2), where they gave a live debut to their cover of the 1982 synth-pop classic, the studio version of which they released as a bonus track to their 2010 album ‘Diamond Eyes’.
The set also included a number of other rarities, including 2003’s ‘Hexagram’ and 1997’s ‘Lhabia’ for the first time since 2018 and ‘Rickets’ for the first time since 2019.
See fan-captured footage from the show here:
Deftones played at Día De Los Deftones:
‘Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)’
‘My Own Summer (Shove It)’
‘Lhabia’
‘Tempest’
‘Swerve City’
‘Beware’
‘Beauty School’
‘Diamond Eyes’
‘Rx Queen’
‘Rapture’
‘Ghosts’
‘976-EVIL’
‘Hexagram’
‘Rosemary’
‘Headup’
‘Around The Fur’
‘Rickets’
‘Change (In The House Of Flies)’
‘Genesis’
‘7 Words’
Other acts on the bill at this year’s Día De Los Deftones included IDLES, Paris Texas, HEALTH and Sunny Day Real Estate.
In other Deftones news, Chino Moreno joined The Smashing Pumpkins on stage in Portland in September for a version of Pumpkins deep cut ‘Jellybelly’.
Deftones also announced a North American tour with The Mars Volta for 2025, their first headline stint since 2022. It kicks off in Portland on February, ultimately wrapping in Boston on April 8. Tickets are on sale now – get yours here.
This year has seen Deftones perform at Coachella, Primavera Sound and Lollapalooza. Last month, the band joined System Of A Down and The Mars Volta for a huge sold-out event at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
In September 2023, Deftones teased an upcoming full-length album – potentially slated for a 2024 release – which would follow on from 2020’s ‘Ohms’. Guitarist Stephen Carpenter said at the time that the group were “starting to work on new material for a new record”.
This April, Deftones gave fans an update on their new LP. “[We] have a whole record recorded all musically,” explained Moreno. “And it’s pretty much my job right now to finish up the vocals.”
But the vocalist said he didn’t want to “put a definite timeframe” on the album’s release, adding: “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.”
