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• “Beautiful” is how DEFTONES vocalist and guitarist Chino Moreno describes the new DEFTONES album Diamond Eyes in conversation. “We have no problem being beautiful.” Beautiful is a term that hardly any normal rock band with hard riffs would use, but in the end, the DEFTONES are not a ‘normal’ hard rock band. As kids they schooled themselves on Anthrax, The Smiths, Pantera and The Cure, skateboarding and “The Smurfs,” after high school they mixed trip hop with thrash in a band format, melodic vocals with debauched echo chambers and, yes, the beautiful with the ugly. They crossed genre boundaries and mocked the simplifying iPod categorization la “Heavy Metal”, “Hard -Rock” and “Alternative”. This is exactly what made them chart-toppers and headliners in equal measure. But more than that, DEFTONES have held it together throughout the