What is this chord called?

[Mso872]

The chord I'm referring to I've gotten a very good ear for years ago when Deftones started becoming popular and used it a lot, and most recently in a lot of contemporary sort of rock and metal music like animals as leaders. I don't know how to name it but it is like taking a power chord, and instead of playing the 1 5 1 you raise the last note (the last 1) 2 intervals, sort of like a mirrored diminished triad. Anyone have any information on this chord? Thank you

[max_power]

It's just a sus2 chord. The voicing you're talking about is this one:

--x--
--x--
--x--
--9--
--7--
--5--

The voicing is R, 5, 2. It's a triad with the 2 substituting for the 3. The one voiced above is an Asus2 chord (sometimes written as just Asus).

They've been used a lot since the 80s in alternative rock type stuff, especially for riffs. You can hear it pretty clearly in the riff for Message in a Bottle by the Police, and in the riffs for Satellite and Warehouse by the Dave Matthews Band.

[Mso872]

Yes exactly, it is also used in that song. In one of my bands, one of my bandmates uses the chord frequently so thats why I was thinking about it