Twenty-three dates, 5 May to 20 June. Deftones will open a North American run at the Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas and close it at the RBC Amphitheatre in Toronto, with hardcore band Knocked Loose and Los Angeles shoegaze band julie in support. The announcement came on Thursday, 12 November, five days after the band’s seventh Dia De Los Deftones in San Diego.
The record behind the run is Private Music, the band’s 10th studio album, which arrived in August 2025 and debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. The demand behind it is bigger than one album. Billboard’s figures show Deftones’ yearly US catalogue consumption tripling between 2020-22 and 2023-25, and the band books this run on the back of that growth.
The Run: 23 Dates in Seven Weeks
The route, published by Consequence, starts in Texas with three shows in four days: Dallas on 5 May, San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center on 6 May and Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion on 8 May. It then moves west through Albuquerque, Phoenix and Salt Lake City before reaching California for Wheatland on 16 May and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on 18 May.
After an eight-day gap, the second half begins in Concord, California, on 26 May and heads north to Auburn and Ridgefield in Washington, then east to Kansas City, St. Louis, Atlanta, Charlotte, Clarkston in Michigan, Noblesville in Indiana, Cincinnati, Bristow and Virginia Beach. The last three dates are Camden, New Jersey, on 15 June, Forest Hills Stadium in Queens on 17 June, and the finale in Toronto on 20 June, the only show outside the United States, Dork noted.
Fifteen of the 23 venues carry amphitheatre or pavilion in their names, and the list also takes in the Hollywood Bowl and Forest Hills Stadium. Live Nation is promoting the tour, according to Pollstar.
Two Dates That Stand Out on the Route
The Salt Lake City date on 14 May is not a standalone show. Pollstar lists it as a Kilby Block Party headline set, and the festival announced Deftones as one of its 2027 headliners in October, alongside The Strokes, Jungle, Fontaines D.C., Slayyyter and Lil Yachty, Billboard reported. The three-day event runs from 14 to 16 May at the Utah State Fairpark.
The festival has climbed quickly. Billboard noted that Kilby Block Party grew from a one-day block party in 2019, and that its 2026 edition, topped by Turnstile, The xx and Lorde, drew 16,000 out-of-state visitors who spent nearly $25 million in Utah, according to an impact report from the organisers. The 2027 bill below the headliners includes IDLES, Spoon, Weyes Blood, Hot Chip, Kim Gordon and Two Door Cinema Club, who will play their 2010 album Tourist History in full. For Deftones, the slot puts the run in front of a festival audience a week and a half after the first Dallas show.
Dork singled out two more stops on the route: the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on 18 May and Forest Hills Stadium in Queens on 17 June. They sit on opposite coasts, a month apart, and frame the run’s two halves: the Bowl closes the western leg and Forest Hills is the last US stop before Toronto.
Where Private Music Placed on the Charts
Private Music did not reach No. 1 on the all-genre chart, but it led every rock ranking. It debuted at the top of Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums with 87,000 equivalent album units in the week of 22 to 28 August 2025, according to Luminate figures cited by Billboard.
The singles set a first for the band. Lead single My Mind Is a Mountain debuted at No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs and reached No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay, the band’s first time at the top of that chart. The second single, Infinite Source, also topped Hot Hard Rock Songs. The album was nominated for best rock album at the 2026 Grammys and lost to Turnstile’s Never Enough.
Against the band’s previous album, the gap is wide. Billboard reported that Private Music generated 249,000 album-consumption units in the United States in 2025, while Ohms, released in 2020, took nearly 37,000 in the same year and holds a lifetime total of 294,000. In its first five months, the new record came within 45,000 units of its predecessor’s lifetime total.
The timing matters for this run. Billboard noted that the album arrived in the middle of the band’s 2025 world tour, its first headline tour since 2022, so fans who saw the first half of those dates did not hear the new songs live. Billboard framed the 2027 dates as the chance to hear Private Music live, for some fans for the first time.
The Catalogue Numbers Behind the Demand
The new album is not what drives the bulk of the band’s consumption. In January, Billboard reported, citing sources, that the band had sold most of its music rights to Warner Music Group. The same report put Deftones’ US catalogue at an average of 166,000 album-consumption units a year in 2017 to 2019. The average rose to 416,000 in 2020 to 2022 and to 1.322 million in 2023 to 2025.
The turning point came earlier than the album. In 2022, the band’s US activity climbed 82.6% to 630,000 units, up from 345,000 the year before, Billboard reported. Album sales averaged 41,000 a year in 2017 to 2019, 149,000 in 2020 to 2022 and 391,000 in 2023 to 2025, while on-demand US streams rose from an annual average of 162 million to 378 million and then to 1.3 billion over the same three periods.
The 2025 total was 1.863 million units in the United States, with global streams of almost 2.69 billion, according to that report. Older albums led the year. Around the Fur, from 1997, generated 382,000 US units; White Pony, from 2000, generated 301,000; Private Music generated 249,000; Diamond Eyes reached 240,000 and Koi No Yokan logged 175,000.
Physical formats climbed with the streams. The band’s physical album sales in 2025 totalled 583,000 copies, against 31,000 in 2017, Billboard reported, citing Luminate. Carl Mello, head buyer for Newbury Comics, told the publication that the rise covered “heavy music in general”, with a younger audience finding older records through TikTok. Billboard also listed the band’s touring in 2022 and 2025 among the factors.
The Support Acts on Every Date
Billboard reported that Knocked Loose and julie will open the entire run, and Pollstar’s listing says all dates come with both. The bill pairs a hardcore band with a shoegaze band, two neighbouring sounds for a Deftones audience.
For the two support bands the placement is substantial. Seven weeks in front of amphitheatre audiences is a different scale of exposure from a club tour, and both acts will play every market on the route.
How the Tickets Go on Sale
An artist presale starts on Tuesday, 17 November, at 10 a.m. local time through Ticketmaster, Consequence and Dork reported. Billboard said fans need to register through Live Nation for presale access, with registration closing on 15 November at 10 p.m. local time. Additional presales follow, and the general on-sale opens on Thursday, 19 November, at 10 a.m. local time.
The announcement closes a busy year for the band. Pollstar reported that Deftones played festivals in Mexico, South America, the UK and Europe in 2026, headlined dates in Europe and Australia, and appeared at Sick New World at Texas Motor Speedway. Dia De Los Deftones, held on 7 November at Petco Park, included The Neighbourhood, AFI and Converge on its bill.
What the Run Adds to the Band’s Recent Years
Placed against the catalogue numbers, the 2027 run reads as a band booking to the size of its current audience. Other heavy acts are also lining up North American runs for next year: this site recently looked at how Iron Maiden planned a year off, then added 16 more North American shows.
For Deftones, the next markers are the presale on 17 November and the Kilby set on 14 May, which will be the first time the 2027 run meets a festival crowd. The catalogue figures for 2026, once Luminate’s year closes, will show whether the touring and the older albums kept the curve rising.
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