Edinburgh Summer Sessions: Deftones
Multi-platinum GRAMMY Award-winning Sacramento band Deftones have announced an Edinburgh Summer Sessions show at the Royal Highland Showgrounds on Thursday 27th August, with special guests IDLES!
About Edinburgh Summer Sessions: Deftones
| 27th August 2026 | |
| Doors 5pm | |
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Royal Highland Centre Royal Highland Centre Ingliston, Edinburgh West EH28 8NB |
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Deftones’ culture is revered as one of the most fervent that exists—a GRAMMY® Award-winning multi-platinum sonic outlier whose originality and culture prove peerless.
Formed by hometown friends out of Northern California in 1988, the Sacramento band have delivered a succession of seminal releases, sold over 10 million records globally, gathered over 10 billion-plus streams, and inspired generations.
Their catalog encompasses 2000’s RIAA certified 2X-Platinum White Pony—which earned the group’s first GRAMMY®—as well as the RIAA Platinum-certified Diamond Eyes [2010], Koi No Yokan [2012], and Ohms [2020]. The latter marked their fourth Top 5 debut on the Billboard 200.
Their world also notably includes the annual Dia De Los Deftones, an immersive full-day festival experience of music and culture curated and headlined by the band at San Diego’s Petco Park for six iterations so far.
In 2025, they released their 10th full-length LP, private music [Warner Records]. It signals yet another artistic peak and once more affirms Deftones are forever.
Deftones are Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham, and Frank Delgado.
Deftones will be joined by special guests IDLES, one of the most explosive and uncompromising bands in modern rock. Known for blending post-punk with fiercely human songwriting, crowds will be met with the band’s usual combination of intensity and vulnerability.
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