Private Music (album)

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Private Music
Deftones - private music.jpg
Cover featuring a white corn snake. Select editions feature a purple background.
Studio album by
Deftones
ReleasedAugust 22, 2025 (2025-08-22) [1]
Studio
  • Amaraycan (North Hollywood)
  • Dead Aunt Thelma's (Portland)
  • EastWest (Hollywood)
  • Rock Falcon (Nashville)
  • Sienna (Nashville)
Length42:22
Label
Producer
Deftones chronology
Ohms
(2020)		Private Music
(2025)
Singles from Private Music
  1. "My Mind Is a Mountain"
    Released: July 10, 2025
  2. "Milk of the Madonna"
    Released: August 8, 2025 [2]

Private Music (stylized in all lowercase) is the tenth studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones. It was released on August 22, 2025, through Reprise and Warner Records. [3] [4] It was preceded by two singles, "My Mind Is a Mountain" and "Milk of the Madonna". The album was produced by Nick Raskulinecz, who previously worked on the band's albums Diamond Eyes (2010) and Koi No Yokan (2012). [1]

Contents

In addition to group members Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham, Frank Delgado and Chino Moreno, Deftones' touring bassist Fred Sablan appears on the album. [5] The band's first studio album since 2020's Ohms , Private Music marks the longest release gap between two Deftones albums.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.5/10 [6]
Metacritic 90/100 [7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [8]
Clash 9/10 [9]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [10]
Kerrang! 5/5 [11]
The Line of Best Fit 9/10 [12]
Louder Than War Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Metal Hammer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [14]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [15]
Pitchfork 7.6/10 [16]
Sputnikmusic 4.4/5 [17]

Private Music was met with widespread acclaim from music critics upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 91, based on eleven reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [7]

Track listing

Track lengths taken from Qobuz. [18]

All lyrics are written by Chino Moreno; all music is composed by Deftones (Abe Cunningham, Moreno, Frank Delgado, Stephen Carpenter, and Fred Sablan).

Private Music track listing [19]
No.TitleLength
1."My Mind Is a Mountain"2:50
2."Locked Club"2:52
3."Ecdysis"3:28
4."Infinite Source"3:32
5."Souvenir"6:10
6."CXZ"3:12
7."I Think About You All the Time"4:08
8."Milk of the Madonna"4:08
9."Cut Hands"3:01
10."~Metal Dream"3:02
11."Departing the Body"5:59
Total length:42:22

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. [20]

Deftones

Additional contributors

Charts

Chart performance for Private Music
Chart (2025)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [21] 3
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [22] 3
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [23] 2
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [24] 4
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [25] 6
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [26] 20
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [27] 4
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [28] 10
French Albums (SNEP) [29] 5
French Rock & Metal Albums (SNEP) [30] 1
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [31] 5
German Rock & Metal Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [32] 2
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [33] 2
Icelandic Albums (Tónlistinn) [34] 9
Irish Albums (OCC) [35] 12
Italian Albums (FIMI) [36] 20
Japanese Digital Albums (Oricon) [37] 17
Japanese Download Albums ( Billboard Japan ) [38] 21
Japanese Western Albums (Oricon) [39] 19
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA) [40] 29
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [41] 2
Norwegian Albums (IFPI Norge) [42] 39
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [43] 4
Scottish Albums (OCC) [44] 2
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [45] 25
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [46] 4
UK Albums (OCC) [47] 2
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [48] 1
US Billboard 200 [49] 5
US Top Rock & Alternative Albums ( Billboard ) [50] 1

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  2. ↑ Dunworth, Liberty (August 8, 2025). "Listen to Deftones' thunderous new single 'milk of the madonna'". NME . Archived from the original on August 24, 2025. Retrieved August 26, 2025.
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  4. ↑ Rossignol, Derrick (July 10, 2025). "Deftones Are Officially Returning With Private Music, Their First Album In Five Years". Uproxx. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
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