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You Can Adopt A Dot On The Cover Of Deftones' New Album Ohms

You can adopt one of the 12,995 dots that make up Deftones' Ohms artwork for a very good cause.

You Can Adopt A Dot On The Cover Of Deftones' New Album Ohms

A new Deftones album is always special, but the band are offering the chance to make their latest effort Ohms even more memorable with the chance to adopt one of the 12,995 dots that make up the record's artwork.

The Sacramento heroes are teaming up with the UC Davis Children’s Hospital and Crew Nation for this excellent charity initiative. Once you've adopted a dot, you "will get to upload a photo of yourself and be part of the Ohms Adopt a Dot digital experience. Adopt a Dot and leave your mark on the Ohms album."

Read this: Deftones' new album Ohms: Everything we know so far

Recently speaking to 105.7 The Point about Ohms' mysterious artwork, drummer Abe Cunningham enthused: “There’s all these weird theories about the eyes and it’s kind of crazy. There’s this picture of Chi [Cheng, late bassist] that people have been putting up that’s kind of this famous one that’s been out there, and they actually laid those eyes on top of there and they match up perfectly. Which is a total coincidence and really kind of trippy though too if you think about it.”

He added that the eyes “have a very sort of ’80s, sort of Prince kind of When Doves Cry video kind of look to them. It was just one of those things but then all these people started lay that picture over these eyes of Chi and it really matches up crazy…”

Adopt your Ohms dot now at this link, and pre-order the album here.

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