But by the summer of ’88, all that gear is gone and the kid, barely eighteen, is forced to beg and borrow the kit crammed into his mom’s garage. Truth is, he did get hit – and he did buy equipment with the money he got paid. In decades to come, legend will say that all this gear, all this racket, was paid for with the money the kid, Stephen Carpenter, was awarded after being hit by a drunk driver when he was fifteen. Death Angel riffs, Metallica riffs, riffs of the kid’s own invention all come roaring from a wall of amplifiers, connected remotely to the guitarist on the porch. A few metres away, out of a small, locked garage, the most unholy noise is being blasted down the street. Outside a small house, a teenage kid is sitting on his porch, a guitar across his lap. To celebrate the release of 2016's Gore, we look back on the story of Diamond Eyes, the 2010 album that helped them push past their most challenging years. Now, at the dawn of a new album, Deftones are standing tall. They’ve fought tension, tragedy and the vices of success. Today they are a global rock force that continues to blast through boundaries imposed by genre tags. In the late '80s Deftones were just a bunch of friends - some skater kids from Sacramento who came together to create sound. As Deftones release their 2016 album, Gore, we look back on the story of Diamond Eyes, the 2010 record that helped them push past tragedy.

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