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Stephen Carpenter
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Cypress Hill Perform With Members of Deftones, System of a Down + More
See a behind-the-scenes clip.
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Deftones’ Chino Moreno Reacts to Stephen Carpenter’s Flat Earth + Vaccine Theories
'I'm surprised he's not more of a meme," says Moreno.
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Deftones’ Stephen Carpenter Addresses Backlash Over Flat Earth + Vaccine Theories
The guitarist did not mean to offend, but hoped to inspire an alternate perspective.