Stephen Carpenter

55, from Sacramento, California, USA

Artwork for The Crow: City of Angels

Biography

Stephen "Steph" Carpenter (/ˈstɛfən/ STEF-ən; born August 3, 1970) is an American musician, known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative metal band Deftones.

His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings, as well as stock power chords in polyrhythms. Carpenter began his musical career with Deftones playing the traditional six-string guitar. After becoming influenced by such bands as Fear Factory and Meshuggah, he began playing a seven-string guitar in the late 1990s. After Deftones' third album White Pony, subsequent releases would be written with seven-strings, until 2010's Diamond Eyes and 2012's Koi No Yokan, which were written with an eight-string guitar. Starting with 2020’s Ohms, songs have been written with nine-string guitars. Carpenter was ranked 60th in Guitar World's The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists poll.

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Timeline

2026Aged 56

  • Poster for i think about you all the time

    Music

2022Aged 52

  • Poster for Slice!

    Stephen

2021Aged 51

  • Poster for Deftones: Dia De Los Deftones 2019

    Self - Guitar

2016Aged 46

2009Aged 39

  • Poster for Deftones: Live at Area4

    Self

2006Aged 36

  • Poster for Family Values Tour 2006

    Guitars - Deftones

2005Aged 35

  • Poster for Deftones - B-Sides & Rarities DVD

    Self - Guitar

2003Aged 33

  • Poster for Deftones: Live in Hawaii

    Self

2002Aged 32

  • Poster for Entertain Me: A Film About the Deftones

    Self

1998Aged 28

  • Poster for Deftones: Live at Bizzare Fest ‘98

    Self

  • Poster for Deftones Live at The Palladium

    Self

1996Aged 26

  • Poster for The Crow: City of Angels

    Self / Deftones

Year unknown

  • Poster for The Warped Tour Documentary

    Self - Preformer

  • Poster for Deftones - Rock in Rio (2015) - Brasil

    Self