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Deftones have announced this year's Dia De Los Deftones, seeing them return to Petco Park in San Diego joined by AFI, Converge and more.

The fest will return to San Diego this November with characteristically diverse bill of openers.

It’s that time of year again: private music makers Deftones have just made the official public announcement regarding the next instalment of their Dia De Los Deftones festival. This time around, the alt-metal icons have curated a monster line-up that brings Converge, AFI, rising heavy outfit Ladrones and more to San Diego, California s Petco Park. The announcement dropped earlier today (June 23rd), in which Deftones confirmed that the seventh instalment of Dia De Los Deftones takes place November 7th. The line-up finds Deftones topping the bill, naturally. The day also features sets from alt-rockers the Neighbourhood, ever-morphing punk unit AFI, rapper Bktherula, hardcore lifers Converge, alt-experimentalist Jehnny Beth, Pesado Flow inventors Ladrones, electropunk Brooklynites Lip Critic and rapper Lustsickpuppy. A pre-sale begins tomorrow (June 24th) at 10 a.m. PT, while the general onsale is this Friday (June 26th) 10 a.m. PT. More info and access to the pre-sale can be yielded by signing up for Deftones’ e-mail list over here. The next Dia De Los Deftones fest is currently one of two North American Deftones appearances set for the rest of 2026. They also perform at the Fort Worth, Texas, edition of Sick New World on October 24th. That said, Deftones also have a handful of European fest shows on deck for the summer, and the info on those dates is here.