Promo photo of the band courtesy of Reprise Records.

The Deftones and the Refused will play the Freedom Hill Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights on August 12. Tickets for the eardrum-crushing event will go on sale this Friday, April 1 at 10 a.m. 

This show is part of a string that were just announced, which tack onto another bunch of gigs the band already revealed for summer. It’s going to be a busy year for the beloved alt-metal Deftones, who are one of the most critically acclaimed heavy acts out there, and with good reason.

Thankfully for us, the supercharged, post-Fugazi sounds of the Refused will bolster the Deftones’ nimble badassery.

This article appears in Mar 23-29, 2016.

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Metro Times music editor Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance at age sixteen with money saved from mowing lawns in Florida. He's since written...

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