{"id":427202,"date":"2026-05-14T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/427202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:43:12","slug":"watch-deftones-frontman-chino-moreno-fell-onstage-while-playing-hole-in-the-earth-in-auckland-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/427202\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Deftones Frontman Chino Moreno Fell Onstage While Playing &#8220;Hole In The Earth&#8221; In Auckland, NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deftones vocalist\/guitarist Chino Moreno took a tumble onstage during his band\u2019s May 13th set at the Spark Arena in Auckland, NZ. The unexpected close encounter with the stage took place 15 songs into the 19-song setlist for that night. Ironically, it also occurred during a performance of \u201cHole In The Earth\u201d \u2014 the lead single from the alternative metal luminaries\u2019 gold-certified fifth studio album \u201cSaturday Night Wrist\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Fan-filmed footage of Moreno\u2018s mishap can be seen below. Moreno has had multiple onstage falls over the years, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2017\/05\/02\/news\/video-deftones-chino-moreno-falling-off-stage-breaking-foot-available\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 2017 misadventure off the stage that saw him break his foot<\/a>. As for this latest onstage slip-up, the 52-year-old took it in stride, quickly recovering and managing to not miss a single beat. He also went on to finish out the remainder of the set without incident.<\/p>\n<p>If Moreno did suffer injury to anything but his pride, he\u2019s at least got a few days to convalesce. The aforementioned show closed out Deftones\u2018 headlining run across Australia and New Zealand. The esteemed group will next be onstage starting Monday, May 18th for a trio of shows across Japan:<\/p>\n<p>05\/18 Tokyo, JPN \u2013 Tokyo Garden Theater<br \/>05\/19 Osaka, JPN \u2013 Zepp Osaka Bayside<br \/>05\/20 Nagoya, JPN \u2013 Comtec Portbase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deftones vocalist\/guitarist Chino Moreno took a tumble onstage during his band\u2019s May 13th set at the Spark Arena&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80547,28914,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-427202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-chino-moreno","tag-deftones","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}