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Album review: Deftones – Private Music
As if a career peak four decades in wasn’t enough, Deftones unleash a top-tier masterpiece on album number 10.
With a few Private Music live debuts, here’s what Deftones played at the opening night of the second leg of their 2025 North American tour.
Deftones have kicked off the second leg of their 2025 North American headline tour.
Coinciding with the release of their 5/5-rated new album Private Music, the band hit Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on August 22, and of course unleashed a few tracks from the record: lead single my mind is a mountain, as well as infinite source and milk of the madonna. Via setlist.fm, the Sacramento superstars also played Entombed from Koi No Yokan for the first time since 2017 – and dedicated it to the recently-departed Brent Hinds – and gave a tour debut to Engine No. 9. Check out the full setlist below.
In our review of Deftones’ latest masterpiece, we said that, “Albums as great as Private Music don’t come along every day – they do, however, appear every few years when Deftones release them. But even in the scheme of one of modern rock’s most consistent and treasured back catalogues, Private Music is in the upper most tier, a record that succeeds where its predecessor didn’t quite. Essentially, then, Ohms walked so that Private Music could run, jump, and soar.”
Deftones’ setlist from Rogers Arena in Vancouver
1. Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
2. My Own Summer (Shove It)
3. my mind is a mountain (live debut)
4. Diamond Eyes
5. Tempest
6. Swerve City
7. Digital Bath
8. Rocket Skates
9. Sextape
10. Around The Fur
11. Headup (with souvenir outro)
12. Entombed
13. infinite source (live debut)
14. Hole In The Earth
15. Change (In The House Of Flies)
16. Genesis
17. milk of the madonna (live debut)
18. Cherry Waves
19. Engine No. 9 (tour debut)
20. 7 Words
Catch the band back across the pond at the following dates next year:
Deftones 2026 tour with Denzel Curry and Drug Church
January
29 Paris, FR – Adidas Arena
30 Brussels, BE – Forest National
February
1 Hamburg, DE – Barclays Arena
3 Munich, DE – Zenith
5 Lodz, PL – Atlas Arena
6 Berlin, DE – Max-Schmeling-Halle
7 Dortmund, DE – Westfalenhalle
9 Stuttgart, DE – Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
10 Amsterdam, NL – AFAS Live
12 Birmingham, UK – BP Pulse Live
13 Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
14 Manchester, UK – Co-Op Live
16 Dublin, IE – 3Arena
18 Cardiff, UK – Utilita Arena
20 London, UK – The O2
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