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“Tempest” by Deftones
From the album Koi no Yokan (2012)
“Tempest” by Deftones appears on 9 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2012 and 2013. It was first released in 2012 on the album Koi no Yokan. Its best result is #36 on the WCYY Year End Top 50 of 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #154 alternative song of 2012.
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"Tempest" was the second single from Koi No Yokan, the seventh Deftones album, and it premiered on PureVolume in early October 2012 along with a clip of Chino Moreno and Sergio Vega talking the track through. Moreno's lyric plays off the doomsday talk of that year, the Mayan-calendar myths that had the world ending on December 21, 2012.
Nick Raskulinecz produced, Matt Hyde recorded it and added production, and Rich Costey and Chris Kasych mixed. Moreno sings and plays electric guitar beside Stephen Carpenter, with Vega on bass, Abe Cunningham on drums and Frank Delgado on keyboards and sampler. It went to No. 3 on the Mainstream Rock chart, the band's best showing there, topping the No. 9 peak of "Change (In the House of Flies)", and Consequence later ranked it second among the 20 best Deftones songs.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 87 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2012 | 91 |
| 2012 | 85 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2012 | 99 |
| 2012 | 86 | 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL | 97X Top 97 Songs of 2012 | 97 |
| 2012 | 45 | 96.5 The Buzz Kansas City, MO-KS | 96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2012 | 96 |
| 2012 | 80 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2012 | 98 |
| 2013 | 51 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2013 | 99 |
| 2013 | 36 | 94.3 WCYY Portland, ME | WCYY Year End Top 50 of 2013 | 50 |
| 2013 | 68 | 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX | 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2013 | 94 |
| 2013 | 68 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2013 | 88 |
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