20 years ago today, Deftones released "Saturday Night Wrist" on Maverick Records.
Making it took a year and a half: sessions with producer Bob Ezrin, Chino stepping away to work on Team Sleep, and every vocal scrapped and recut with Shaun Lopez. It still hit No. 10 on the Billboard 200 and gave us "Hole in the Earth," "Beware," "Cherry Waves" and Serj Tankian on "Mein."
Chino later told Metal Hammer the album was "fragmented in a really bad way." Twenty years on, "Cherry Waves" alone keeps it in the conversation.