History Trivia / Deftones

* BigNameFan: Creator/TitusWelliver of Series/{{Bosch}} fame named the Deftones as one of his favorite bands. He even has a Music/WhitePony tattoo on his right arm.

* BigNameFan: Creator/TitusWelliver of Series/Bosch fame named the Deftones as one of his favorite bands. He even has a Music/WhitePony tattoo on his right arm.

** Chino came to hate the cover photo to ''Around The Fur'', even though the band themselves chose it.

* OldShame: The band feels embarrassed by the cover for ''Around the Fur'', featuring a downward shot of a woman's cleavage.

* OneOfUs: The instrumental track on ''Saturday Night Wrist'' takes its title from the Konami Code. "976-EVIL" is named after [[Film/NineSevenSixEvil a Robert Englund film]]. "This Place is Death" is named after an episode of ''Series/{{Lost}}''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: During the making of ''White Pony'', the record label demanded a more commercial single and complained that the band had "lost their heaviness". Seems like they didn't hear "Elite", then. The result was "Back to School (Mini Maggit)", which has seen significant CreatorBacklash from the band.

* ExecutiveMeddling: During the making of ''White Pony'', the record label demanded a more commercial single and complained that the band had "lost their heaviness." What, they didn't hear "Elite"?. The result was "Back to School (Mini Maggit)", which has seen significant CreatorBacklash from the band.

* DevelopmentHell: ''Eros'', which was recorded and implied to be in between ''Saturday Night Wrist'' and ''Diamond Eyes''. When Chi's accident occurred, the album was instead shelved and was intended to be worked on when Chi were to recover. Unfortunately while Chi did recover for a while, he sadly passed away in 2013. The band has expressed interest in releasing ''Eros'' with Chi's final parts, but it's unknown when that'd be the case. Chino ''did'' release a song from ''Eros'' called "Smile" but was removed by Warner Bros.

* BlackSheepHit: "Back to School (Mini Maggit)", and, to a lesser degree, "Engine No. 9". The band despised the former song from the get-go both because they hated it and because of the circumstances surrounding its inclusion on ''White Pony'' and disavowed it the minute it was recorded; as for the latter, it was never a huge hit, but it ''was'' one of the biggest non-single songs on ''Adrenaline'', not to mention the most straightforward NuMetal song of their career. The band doesn't like it very much at all, but they still play it live just to throw a bone to the really old fans.

* DevelopmentHell: ''Eros'', which was recorded and implied to be in between ''Saturday Night Wrist'' and ''Diamond Eyes''. When Chi's accident album, the album was instead shelved and was intended to be worked on when Chi were to recover. Unfortunately while Chi did recover for a while, he sadly passed away in 2013. The band has expressed interest in releasing ''Eros'' with Chi's final parts, but it's unknown when that'd be the case. Chino ''did'' release a song from ''Eros'' called "Smile" but was removed by Warner Bros.

** Several tracks on ''Diamond Eyes'', particularly "Diamond Eyes" and "976-EVIL", are about Chino's reactions to Chi Cheng's car accident.

** Not to mention Chino himself grew to '''resent''' the NuMetal label. So much that not only did he go on to distance the band from the genre in later works, but also went on to burn bridges with his former peers, such as Music/{{Korn}}. That said, Korn (particularly Jonathan Davis) and Chino have since made amends[[note]]Largely because their feud with was fueled by Chino's well publicized struggle with alcohol and drugs, and he was bitter going through a tough time when it happened[[/note]].

** Not to mention Chino himself grew to '''resent''' the NuMetal label. So much that not only did he go on to distance the band from the genre in later works, but also went on to burn bridges with his former peers, such as Music/{{Korn}}. That said, Korn and Deftones have since made amends [[note]]Largely because their feud with was fueled by Chino's well publicized struggle with alcohol and drugs, and he was bitter going through a tough time[[/note]].

** Not to mention Chino himself grew to '''resent''' the NuMetal label. So much that not only did he go on to distance the band from the genre in later works, but also went on to burn bridges with his former peers, such as Music/{{Korn}}.

* BlackSheepHit: "Back to School (Mini Maggit)", and, to a lesser degree, "Engine No. 9". The band despised the former song from the get-go both because they hated it and because of the circumstances surrounding its inclusion on ''White Pony'' and disavowed it the minute it was recorded; as for the latter, it was never a huge hit, but it ''was'' one of the biggest non-single songs on ''Adrenaline'', not to mention the most straightforward "jumpdafuckup" song of their career. The band doesn't like it very much at all, but they still play it live just to throw a bone to the really old fans.

* OldShame: Chino '''resents''' the NuMetal label. So much that not only did he go on to distance the band from the genre in later works, but also went on to burn bridges with his former peers, such as Music/{{Korn}}.

* OldShame: Chino '''resents''' the NuMetal label.

* OneOfUs: The instrumental track on ''Saturday Night Wrist'' takes its title from the Konami Code. "976-EVIL" is named after [[Film/NineSevenSixEvil a Robert Englund film]]. "This Place is Death" is named after an episode of ''Series/{{Lost}}''.

* OneOfUs: The instrumental track on ''Saturday Night Wrist'' takes its title from the Konami Code. "976-EVIL" is named after [[Film/NineSevenSixEvil a Robert Englund film]]. "This Place is Death" is named after an episode of {{Lost}}.