"Thirty-one years on from the release of their debut album, they find themselves, as frontman Chino Moreno has put it, literally bigger than we've ever been. Between the release of 2020's Ohms and last year's Private Music their monthly listener figures on Spotify surged from two million to 17 million. The 15,000-capacity venue where they open their UK tour is accordingly heaving."
"Whatever the reason, you can see its effects in the Birmingham crowd: grizzled battle jacket-clad metalheads and people visibly old enough to remember the release of Deftones' 1997 breakthrough Around the Fur rub shoulders with tweenage goths, any putative parent-scaring qualities about their look - boys in makeup, girls in tights festooned with pentagrams - undermined by the fact that they're actually here with their parents."
Deftones have experienced a dramatic commercial resurgence, with monthly Spotify listeners jumping from two million to 17 million between the release of 2020's Ohms and last year's Private Music. TikTok virality has driven renewed interest, pushing older fanbase members and new, younger listeners to attend large-capacity shows where setlists feature tracks popular on the app such as Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) and Cherry Waves. Fan theories for the revival include emo-rap sampling and a sexually charged online aesthetic dubbed hornycore. Concert visuals draw on avant-garde imagery while the band's sound retains heavy riffs and hip-hop-influenced rhythms.
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