DEFTONES To Embark On Club Tour In May

April 7, 2003

DEFTONES will embark on a "guerilla-style" club tour in May to support their self-titled fourth album, due May 20 through Maverick Records. All shows will be announced the day before they're played, so the band can best serve those who need them most.

"There's so many kinds of fans," guitarist Stephen Carpenter explained to Rolling Stone. "You got those diehards who have fucking aneurysms if they can't get in. We're trying to get those guys first. Then they can settle down and enjoy the music with everyone else."

DEFTONES have just completed work on the video for "Minerva", the album's first single, with director Paul Fedor in the California desert just north of the Mexican border.

"We were out in the middle of nowhere," drummer Abe Cunningham said. "There were those huge balloon balls behind us and the desert looked like it was the moon. It was our own personal 'Star Wars'. It was blistering hot, and then the sun went down and the wind picked up. With the temperature change, it turned into an insane sandstorm. Everyone had goggles and got sand everywhere, but it's a small price to pay for rock & roll."

DEFTONES are scheduled to head out on the massive Summer Sanitarium tour with METALLICA, LINKIN PARK, LIMP BIZKIT and MUDVAYNE in early July. The tour concludes on Aug. 9 in Los Angeles.

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