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, and the cassette release features a blue 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)
Genre
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 [4]

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. [5] [6] 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] It is the band's first album to feature Fred Sablan on bass. [7] The band's first studio album since 2020's Ohms , Private Music marks the longest release gap between two Deftones albums. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards.

Contents

Background

Private Music marks the first Deftones album since 2010's Diamond Eyes not to feature bassist Sergio Vega, who left the band in 2021. He was replaced by Fred Sablan a year later. [8] Moreno performed most of the guitar parts on Private Music due to Stephen Carpenter’s health problems which were later diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. [9] Private Music has been described as alternative metal [10] and shoegaze. [11]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.4/10 [12]
Metacritic 90/100 [13]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [14]
Clash 9/10 [15]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [16]
Kerrang! 5/5 [17]
The Line of Best Fit 9/10 [18]
Louder Than War Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [19]
Metal Hammer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [20]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [21]
Pitchfork 7.6/10 [22]
Sputnikmusic 4.4/5 [23]

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 90, based on fourteen reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [13] Additionally, DIY said that track "Metal Dream" "embodies the ebb and flow most, taking the frontman back to the verge of nu metal rap with remarkable precision, far from cliche or pastiche, and paired with an ever-mesmerising chorus."

Track listing

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

Private Music track listing
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 the album's liner notes [24] and Tidal. [25]

Deftones

Additional contributors

Charts

Chart performance for Private Music
Chart (2025)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [26] 3
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [27] 3
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [28] 2
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [29] 4
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [30] 6
Croatian International Albums (HDU) [31] 1
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [32] 20
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [33] 4
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [34] 10
French Albums (SNEP) [35] 5
French Rock & Metal Albums (SNEP) [36] 1
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [37] 5
German Rock & Metal Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [38] 2
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [39] 2
Icelandic Albums (Tónlistinn) [40] 9
Irish Albums (OCC) [41] 12
Italian Albums (FIMI) [42] 20
Japanese Digital Albums (Oricon) [43] 17
Japanese Download Albums ( Billboard Japan ) [44] 21
Japanese Western Albums (Oricon) [45] 19
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA) [46] 29
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [47] 2
Norwegian Albums (IFPI Norge) [48] 39
Polish Albums (ZPAV) [49] 8
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [50] 4
Scottish Albums (OCC) [51] 2
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [52] 13
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [53] 25
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [54] 4
UK Albums (OCC) [55] 2
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [56] 1
US Billboard 200 [57] 5
US Top Rock & Alternative Albums ( Billboard ) [58] 1

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  2. ↑ "Review: 'Private Music' Is A Deftones All-Timer". Forbes . August 22, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Deftones Persisted for Decades. A New Generation Is Feeling the Noise". The New York Times . August 20, 2025.
  4. ↑ 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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  9. ↑ Borg, Janelle. ""We got off stage, he came up to all of us and was like, 'You guys, I'm really sorry that I played so bad'": Chino Moreno opens up on how Stephen Carpenter's health problems forced him to play more guitar on Deftones' new album". Guitar World. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
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