Deftones have added more dates to their 2026 UK and European headline tour. Find all the details below.
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The Sacramento metal band had already confirmed a run of UK and European arena shows for early next year, including a stop at London’s O2 in February. In May, they’ll tour in New Zealand and Australia with Interpol.
Chino Moreno and co. are then set to head back to Europe in the summer, before returning to these shores for a headline performance at All Points East presents Outbreak Fest 2026 in the capital. Here, they’ll be joined by the likes of IDLES and Amyl & The Sniffers.
Now, Deftones have announced three more stops on their summer 2026 trek. They’ll take to the stage at Parkbühne Wuhlheide in Berlin on August 18, Dublin’s Irish Museum Of Modern Art on August 25, and Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Showgrounds on August 27.
The latter two concerts will feature IDLES as special guest openers.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT this Friday (November 28) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale from 9am GMT today (Tuesday November 25) if they have signed up, and will receive a code via email.
Deftones are also set to perform at the inaugural Texas edition of US festival Sick New World next year.
Earlier this month, they headlined the 2025 edition of their annual festival, Dia De Los Deftones, in San Diego, California. They debuted more tracks from their 10th and latest studio album, ‘Private Music’, and performed ‘White Pony’ deep cut ‘Street Carp’ live for the first time since 2019.
Over the summer, Deftones played a huge career-spanning gig at London’s Crystal Palace Park – just one day after pulling out of their Other Stage slot at Glastonbury 2025 at the last minute.
In a glowing five-star review of ‘Private Music’, NME wrote: “Rather than just hang off the legacy of the immaculate classics ‘Around The Fur’ and ‘White Pony’, the Sacramento art-metallers have spent the 21st Century boshing out banger after banger as arguably the most reliable band in rock.”
It added: “‘Private Music’ once again finds the band as masters of beauty and brutality rolling over the horizon in one stunning but powerful storm. Batten down those hatches, throw up those horns, and lean in close.”
Meanwhile, Moreno recently looked back on Deftones’ 1997 second album, ‘Around The Fur’, saying it is possibly his “favourite record” of theirs. “That record definitely stood the test of time,” he explained.
Speaking to NME this summer, the frontman said Deftones’ music had always been vulnerable, pointing back to ‘Mascara’ on ‘Around The Fur’ as proof. He also admitted that his confidence to lay himself out in a love song had grown.
