By Jon Wiederhorn, Photo by Jimmy Hubbard

As the men of Alice in Chains, Mastodon and Deftones wrap up the BlackDiamondSkye fall tour, they share horror stories from the road and tell us what essential gear keeps them rolling along.

After surviving the loss of a member and scrapping an album's worth of recordings, Deftones return to form with the alt-metal masterpiece Diamond Eyes.