Deftones

Chino Moreno - Vocals / Guitar
Abe Cunningham - Drums
Chi Cheng - Bass
Frank Delgado - Samples / Keys
Stephen Carpenter - Strings

The Deftones rule.  Again, I was way behind in liking them.  I've been listening to the Deftones for about 2 years now, but they've been around forever.  Let me just say which kind of awards these guys get from me - the cool ass awards. Por ejemplo, they get the award for "Best Song to Have Sex To" with Digital Bath.  Chino has one of the most unique voices in the business, and man it's cool.  He can wail and he can sing, but what he does best is this whisper-type singing and he shrieks lyrics out like he's in some sort of pain, moaning almost.  Man it's cool.  They have some of the sweetest guitar riffs I've heard to date and have awesome Music videos.  They don't play their videos on MTV, but you can download them on Kazaa.  I still don't see why some of you can't understand what Slipknot is saying, they're pretty easy to decipher the lyrics of.  Deftones, on the other hand, is like Guinness.  You have to develop a taste and understanding of them.  It took me close to a year to be able to understand most of the words from one album.  This is one band I'd LOVE to see in concert. (and did see in concert finally in December 2003 -- way after I wrote the page and way earlier than I posted it!)  By the way, they come from Los Angeles and have 4 albums, Adrenaline, Around the Fur, White Pony, and Deftones.

Here are the lyrics for each album
Adrenaline
Around the Fur
White Pony
Deftones