Deftones News

Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda, Metallica bass player Robert Trujillo and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee were among the surprise guests who performed with Deftones at two benefit gigs the band did in Hollywood on Thursday and Friday to raise money for stricken bassist Chi Cheng.

The Deftones held a two day extended super jam at the Avalon on Thursday and Friday to raise money for their bass player Chi Cheng, who has been in and out of a coma since a serious car accident on November 4, 2008.

Robert Trujillo , Dave Lombardo , Shavo Odadjian , Daron Malakian and Mike Muir are among the guest musicians who performed with the DEFTONES last night at the second of two benefit shows for DEFTONES bassist Chi Cheng .

Caption: Motley Crue the original Sunset Strip masters of metal and mayhem, bring their Saints of Los Angeles Tour to Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, Florida .... MOTLEY CRUE rocker TOMMY LEE, LINKIN PARK frontman MIKE SHINODA and rap group CYPRESS HILL were among the stars who joined the DEFTONES at a benefit ...

MOTLEY CRUE 's Tommy Lee , THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN 's Greg Puciato , LINKIN PARK 's Mike Shinoda , XZIBIT and CYPRESS HILL are among the guest musicians who performed with the DEFTONES last night at the first of two benefit shows for DEFTONES bassist Chi Cheng .

Metallica, Slayer and others are donating memorabilia to an upcoming charity auction to help a friend.

Video footage of Chino Moreno from the DEFTONES laying down tracks on the new METHODS OF MAYHEM album at MOTLEY CRUE drummer and METHODS OF MAYHEM mastermind Tommy Lee 's recording studio called The Atrium in Calabasas, California can be viewed below.

Sacramento's DEFTONES has issued the following update: "On November 2nd, 2008 our bass player and brother Chi Ling Cheng was involved in a horrific car accident which has left him in a semi-conscious state.

Sacramento, California's WILL HAVEN has been rejoined by vocalist Grady Avenell .

The Deftones have two albums wrapped up, and one's ready to for release toward the end of the year.

Rating: 3 It was 25 minutes after the Deftones' show had started, and the only noise in the club was coming from the floor.

It wasn't so long ago that 19-year-old pop-country sensation Taylor Swift was actually in school, so it's not a surprise she'd write a song that convincingly captures the feeling of starting a new school year.

Slipknot and Deftones will spend October touring together throughout the western United States and Canada.

Deftones frontman Chino Moreno was interviewed by NME.com this past weekend at the U.K.'s Leeds Festival, where he said that the band continues to hope that bassist Chi Cheng will regain consciousness and rejoin them in the future.

Despite the lack of a traditional rock headliner this year, Friday at Reading packed enough hard-edged acts to satisfy yours truly.

Vocalist Chino Moreno and turntablist/keyboardist Frank Delgado of Sacramento's DEFTONES were interviewed prior to the band's August 21, 2009 performance at the Area 4 festival in LA1 4dinghausen, Germany.

The year 2009 has been a decent one for all the flavors of rock you might savor.

Deftones have reportedly dedicated their new album to their bassist. Chi Cheng, who was severely injured in a car accident, has been in a coma since November.

We were sitting on Jazheel's bed, feeling defeated: Two $85 tickets to Metallica's Summer Sanitarium 2003 tour - with Deftones, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and Mudyvane - and no way to get to Orlando.

The Great Rock News Report 07.01.09 Posted by Daniel Wilcox on 07.01.2009 Paramore reveal new album details, Metallica set live DVD release, Fall Out Boy done, or not, Deftones scrap Eros , updates on Every Time I Die, Panic at the Disco, Breaking Benjamin, Kittie, Blink-182, The Killers, All Time Low and more, plus, a tribute to the incomparable ...