Deftones

Smack dab in the middle of California about halfway between San Francisco and Reno, Nevada is a little town called Sacramento. Along with an unusually high crime rate, "Sacto" is also home to a thriving music scene led by the one, the only, The Deftones.
Formed in the late eighties playing mostly cover tunes of bands like Danzig and Metallica, the Deftones started making up some of their own stuff, with a funk metal sound similar to Primus or Danzig(Biography. http://www.thedeftones.com/bio.shtml). They eventually developed the sound they have now; moody melodic vocals mixed with a thrashing, heavy music. The original line up included Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter, Abraham Cunningham, and bass player Dominic(Biography. http://sacto.cjb.net). The first Deftones line-up didn't include Chi Cheng. Dominic Garcia was their bass player. However, Abe left after about a year to play in a local band called Phallucy. So, Dominic moved to drums and Chi was recruited as the bassist. Soon t...