DEFTONES Announce May/June 2027 North American Tour

DEFTONES have announced a 2027 North American tour with special guests KNOCKED LOOSE and JULIE.

Tickets will be available beginning with an artist presale on November 17 at 10 a.m. local time. Fans can sign up here to gain access to the presale — with a registration period open now through November 15 at 10 p.m. PT. Additional presales will run ahead of the general on-sale, beginning November 19 at 10 a.m. local time at LiveNation.com.

2027 tour dates:

May 5 - Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion
May 6 - San Antonio, TX @ Frost Bank Center
May 8 - Houston, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Sponsored by Huntsman
May 10 - Albuquerque, NM @ First Financial Credit Union Amphitheater
May 12 - Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
May 14 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party*
May 16 - Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheatre
May 18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
May 26 - Concord, CA @ Toyota Pavilion at Concord
May 28 - Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre
May 29 - Ridgefield, WA @ Cascades Amphitheater
Jun 2 - Kansas City, MO @ Morton Amphitheater
Jun 3 - St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater
Jun 5 - Atlanta, GA @ Scana Energy Amphitheatre at Lakewood
Jun 6 - Charlotte, NC @ Truliant Amphitheater
Jun 8 - Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre
Jun 9 - Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center
Jun 11 - Cincinnati, OH @ The Farmer Music Center
Jun 12 - Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
Jun 14 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
Jun 15 - Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
Jun 17 - Queens, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
Jun 20 - Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre

DEFTONES' latest album, "Private Music", arrived in August 2025 via Reprise/Warner.

DEFTONES notably recorded and co-produced "Private Music" in various locations in California, including Malibu and Joshua Tree, as well as Nashville, Tennessee with Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz. It marks their third collaboration with Raskulinecz who had previously helmed "Diamond Eyes" (2010) and "Koi No Yokan" (2012).

In early 2025, DEFTONES launched their first North American headline tour since 2022 produced by Live Nation, and it proved to be their most significant and successful yet. DEFTONES saw 100% sellout business of an extensive arena run, including legendary venues such as Madison Square Garden in New York, TD Garden in Boston, and even a two-night stand at Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Of the latter, Los Angeles Times raved, "DEFTONES have never been bigger, or more definitional for what young people want out of heavy music in all its gradients. A band ahead of their time for 30 years and counting."

Formed in Sacramento, California in 1988, DEFTONES have always defined boundless creativity in the music space. Across nine studio albums, they have carved out an unmistakable sonic identity — ferocious yet dreamlike, while making space for constant refinement and surprise. Now, decades on from the groove-forward sound of their era-defining debut, "Adrenaline", and following a long line of masterpieces including 2000's "White Pony", 2010's "Diamond Eyes" and 2020's "Ohms" — an album that earned them their second and third Grammy nominations — they return with one of the most focused statements of their career: "Private Music". Joining the band's creative core of Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham and Frank Delgado (as well as touring bassist Fred Sablan, who appears on the album) is Raskulinecz. The result is a lean, masterfully paced 11-song set that plays like a new DEFTONES benchmark. Meditating on the beauty and peril of nature, the challenge of cultivating a positive mindset and visions of a journey beyond the physical realm, private music showcases DEFTONES at their most evolved. At once a psychedelic voyage and a skull-rattling wallop, it's the latest peak in a catalog filled with immersive, emotive triumphs.

Photo credit: Jimmy Fontaine