DeftoneS AT All Points East

Deftones turned London’s Victoria Park into a wall of sound on Sunday night, closing All Points East presents Outbreak Fest with a blistering 95-minute headline set that stretched across more than three decades of alternative metal.

The Sacramento icons delivered a career-spanning assault, pulling from 1994’s Adrenaline through to 2025’s Private Music, as a capacity crowd of 50,000 packed Victoria Park for the festival’s biggest celebration of countercultural music yet. The night culminated in ‘7 Words’, bringing three decades of Deftones’ genre-defying intensity crashing to a close.

Frontman Chino Moreno paused during the set to thank the crowd, calling it “a wonderful day” filled with “so much good music” and “so many beautiful faces.”

And Deftones weren’t the only ones bringing the heat. IDLES delivered a typically confrontational and cathartic set, while Amyl & The Sniffers kicked up a storm on the East Stage. Rising Liverpool rapper EsDeeKid sparked mass singalongs in the North Arena, joined by Rico Ace, while JPEGMAFIA unleashed his trademark chaos on a heaving East Stage crowd.

The festival’s genre-spanning bill also saw witch house pioneers SALEM make their long-awaited London return after 15 years, complete with a surreal snowstorm inside the blue big top. Japanese selector ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U and electronic experimentalist Blawan pushed the day further into unpredictable territory.

Earlier, Show Me The Body, Basement, Deafheaven and Mannequin Pussy helped set the tone, while emerging acts including Overgrown, VILLANELLE, Reclus.É and Eternal Rin drew packed crowds across the festival’s stages.

What began in 2011 as a DIY hardcore and punk festival in the north of England has grown into one of the UK’s leading countercultural events, with Outbreak now embracing everything from metal and shoegaze to hip-hop, emo and electronic music. Its Victoria Park takeover with All Points East has cemented that expansion on a massive scale.

With Deftones closing out the day in suitably thunderous fashion, Outbreak Fest’s latest London chapter proved that underground culture can command a very big stage — without losing its edge.