DEFTONES Announce Spring US Headline Tour
By
Larry Petro,
News Monkey
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 @ 1:16 PM
New Album Gore Due Out April 8th
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Multiplatinum, Grammy Award-winning rock band DEFTONES have announced that they will hit the road for a headline US tour beginning May 8th in Charlotte, NC. Tickets go on-sale March 4th at deftones.com.
The band had previously announced spring tour dates, including a March 5th headline performance on night two at Travis Barker's Musink Festival - a three-day tattoo convention, car show, and concert, followed by appearances at this year's SXSW music festival, including a performance at SPIN's 14th Annual Day Party at Stubb's on March 18th. May and June will find DEFTONES appearing at major festivals in the US and Europe, including Carolina Rebellion, Rock On The Range, Rock AM Ring, Rock IM Park and Download, among others as well as a solo-headline play at Wembley Arena. Please see below for all upcoming tour dates.
Tour dates:
- 3.5 - Costa Mesa, CA - Musink Festival
- 3.16 - Mission, TX - Never Say Never Festival
- 3.18 - Austin, TX - SPIN Party at Stubb's
- 3.19 - San Antonio, TX - Lonestar Events Center
- 3.20 - Dallas, TX - South Side Ballroom
- 3.22 - Houston, TX - Revention Music Center
- 3.24 - Lubbock, TX - Lonestar Pavilion
5.8 - Concord, NC - Carolina Rebellion
5.10 - Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
5.11 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
5.13 - Pompano Beach, FL - Pompano Beach Amphitheatre
5.14 - Lake Buena Vista, FL - House of Blues
5.15 - Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival
5.17 - St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Amphitheatre
5.18 - New Orleans, LA - Orpheum Theatre
5.20 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theatre
5.21 - Maryland Heights, MO - KPNT Pointfest
5.22 - Columbus, OH - Rock on the Range
5.24 - Sioux Falls, SD - The District
5.25 - Wichita, KS - Cotillion Ballroom
5.26 - Oklahoma City, OK - Criterion Theater
5.28 - El Paso, TX - Neon Desert Festival
6.3 - London, UK - The SSE Arena Wembley
6.4 - Mendig, Germany - Rock AM Ring
6.5 - Nürnberg, Germany - Rock IM Park
6.10 - Paris, France - Download Festival
6.11 - Derby, UK - Download Festival
6.14 - Cologne, Germany - Palladium
6.15 - Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
6.17 - Aarhus, Denmark - NorthSide Festival
6.18 - Reykjavik, Iceland - Secret Solstice
DEFTONES will release their eighth studio album, entitled Gore, on April 8th via Warner Bros. Records. Gore is available for pre-order at deftones.com. Those who pre-order will receive an instant download of the first single, "Prayers/Triangles". The album was produced by Matt Hyde and DEFTONES.
Says DEFTONES singer Chino Moreno of the album: "Out of respect for Pac, Big, Stevie, Michael, Hendrix, Gore is ONE of the greatest albums not the greatest, just one of."
In addition, the DEFTONES music store will be offering an exclusive and limited edition, 180 gram, double LP vinyl version of Gore. This will be limited to 3,500 foil-stamped and numbered gatefold jackets and is available for pre-order HERE.
Gore tracklisting:
- “Prayers/Triangles”
- “Acid Hologram”
- “Doomed User”
- “Geometric Headdress”
- “Hearts And Wires”
- “Pittura Infamante”
- “Xenon”
- “(L)MIRL”
- “Gore”
- “Phantom Bride”
- “Rubicon”
DEFTONES have released seven albums to date and have sold over 10 million albums worldwide. DEFTONES is vocalist/guitarist Chino Moreno, guitarist Stephen Carpenter, keyboardist/samplist Frank Delgado, drummer Abe Cunningham and bassist Sergio Vega.

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