Biography
Fans of alternative music are well known the name of the American group of Deftones, combining such styles and directions such as Hevi-Metal, Art Rock, post-punk, trip-hop and psychedelia.Such a variety is due to permanent creative experiments, bothering beyond the framework of a certain genre and revealing personal emotions of performers who are not tied to any external factors and borders. Over the years, the Career team has released studio albums that are written under the influence of modern representatives of non-standard art and are based on the works of The Cure, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran.
The history of creation and composition
The history of the Deftones group is connected with the myth on how the 15-year-old teenager from Sacramento, whose name was Stephen Carpenter, got under the car and, being in a wheelchair, mastered the guitar, and then to compensation received from a careless driver, acquired professional equipment and Organized its own musical project.
Embed from getty imagesIn fact, the team, in the 2000s, glorified on an alternative stage, appeared thanks to the children's friendship of future participants of Stephen Carpenter, Eybe Cunningham and Nerino.
Drinking by Skateboarding and the creativity of Anthrax teams, Stormtroopers of Death, Depeche Mode and Metallica, guys first conducted a jam session, and then started regular rehearsals in the garage of the Parental House of Stephen. After some time, for the completeness of the classic composition of the rock band, they hired the Basist Dominica Garcia and recorded several trial demo.
Embed from getty imagesIn the years when Cunningham changed the interests and joined the previously known Team Phallucy, Garcia took the position of the drummer, and the son of the Chinese immigrant became permanent bass guitarist, the full name of which sounded like Chi Ling Dai Cheng.
In 1991, the percussion unit went into the hands of John Taylor, and then returned to the full ownership of Eibe, and as part of Moren, Cunningham, Cheng, Carpenter, the beginning of the group played the first concerts and recorded the demo "(LIKE) Linus", consisting of 4 tracks.
Embed from getty imagesAt the same time, Stephen came up with the name, which became a combination of musical terms, which translated from English meant "cool sounds".
Speaking on the club show in Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the musicians made an impression on the representative of the Maverick Records studio and got the opportunity to demonstrate talent before leadership in Freddie Demanna and Guy Osiery. As a result, at the end of 1994, Deftones signed a contract with label managers and, coming to the semi-professional level, recorded and released a debut album.
Embed from getty imagesDeveloping new elements of the composition and experimenting with sound, the group participants periodically collaborated with session musicians and in 1999 decided that the Keyman Frank Delgado should become a permanent member of the team. Thanks to this, the guys became famous in America and occupied a worthy place in a new metal niche.
In the mid-2000s due to drug problems arising from Vocalist, Neroorn, the group was forced to take a little break and postpone the release of the next album.
Embed from getty imagesThen the musicians coped with the problems and were able to preserve the created team, but they were not able to avoid the consequences of the tragic events that occurred on the Santa Clara's highway, after which the bass guitarist Chi Chen fell into someone and forever dropped out of the team.
However, even in an unconscious state, the talented performer was a full member of Deftones to death on April 13, 2013, and then Puertorikanets Sergio Vega came to his place, who advocated the New York Posthard Cor-project Quicksand.
Music
The professional world of music Deftones plunged after the advent of Adrenaline's debut album, released on October 3, 1995. At first they were lost on a background of a dozen metal projects and faced with the need to spin the disk on their own.With the help of tour, the "sarafined radio" and the Internet distribution managed to create a numerous fan base and achieve solid sales of ADRENALINE, which have reached 220 thousand copies in a year. As a result, the plate fell on the 23rd place in the Billboard Heatseekers rating, and the Teething composition made from the participants of Hollywood stars and became a soundtrack to the Mystemical thriller "Voron-2: the city of Angels."
Inspired by a laudatory review, published on AllMusic website, noted by the professional sound and originality of the drum parties, Deftones began work on the 2nd album dedicated to the death of a famous musician Max Cavalera.
True, being in the studio, the participants did not immediately receive a clear idea of how the conceptual project should be. After spending a lot of time in disputes with producer, the group expanded the functions of the drums and at the expense of this emphasized the unusual vocals of the Moro and the rhythm section performed by Chen and Cunningham.
Thus, the "Around the Fur" plate containing the tracks "My Own Summer (Shove IT)", "Be Quiet and Drive" and "Mascara" and created under the influence of Music Depeche Mode and The Cure received a share of individuality And in 2011, a platinum certificate has earned.
Thanks to the clips on the capital compositions that broadcast in the alternative programs of the popular MTV channel, and the song "My Own Summer", used in the Matrix blockbuster, Deftones recognized the discovery of the metal scene, which united the styles of the new wave and Shuegging without departing from the main genre of Hevi.
Such status provided a group of extensive tours, during the break between which the musicians tried to record a new album. Having spent a lot of months on the composition of texts and melodies, Deftones finally found their own ideal and submitted it called "White Pony".
Positive feedback, which noted the impressive rotation around the corporate style of Tresh-Hevi-Metal, contributed to platinum certification and reprinting the record, where, in addition to the songs "Digital Bath", "Passenger" and "Change (in The House of Flies)", there were bonus tracks " The Boy's Republic "and" Back to School (Mini Maggit) ". In addition, in 2001, for the execution of the "Elite" song, which became a hit from the new album, Deftones received the Grammy Award as the best group in the metal category.
In the future, when an alternative scene was in a state of reducing creativity, the musicians from Sacramento demonstrated progress and creative originality and replenished the discography of the fourth studio record, called without the sizes of "Deftones", and then released the B-Sides & Rarities collection, which included songs written Over the past creative period.
In 2006-2007, some tensions associated with excessive pressure from producers and producing labels arose in the team. Overcoming the crisis, the musicians concluded a contract with the famous Bob Ezrin and recorded the next original and progressive album called "Saturday Night Wrist", fused to the Internet 2 weeks before the official release.
Next time, Deftones faced problems when preparing for recording the sixth studio record "Eros". She had to appear after touring around the cities of North and South America, Europe, Japan and Australia and performances at the events of Taste of Chaos, Family Values Tour and SoundWave Festival. But because of the loss of the bass guitarist Chi Chang, who fell into anyone after the car crash, the musicians took a break in creativity and the album release was postponed indefinitely.
Embed from getty imagesAs a result, instead of the failed release of the project "EROS", the group recorded the "Diamond Eyes" record with singles "Rocket Skates", "Sextape" and "You've Seen The Butcher" and held a tour, during which a limited circulation of silk-screen prints with the latest photos was widespread. Groups with the participation of Chi Cheng.
Then on the eve of the annual holiday Record Store Day Deftones released a collection that included Caverits on the songs "Drive", "The Chauffeur", "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" and "No Ordinary Love", previously performed by the CARS groups, Duan Duran, The Cure and Sade, and 1 thousand copies of the vinyl collection of original compositions written from 1995 to 2011.
In 2013-2015, after the presentation of the Koi No Yokan record, the team members rested from joint creativity, occasionally uniting for stage activities, which included a solo concert in St. Petersburg and participation in the Park Live festival in Moscow. And in 2015-2016, they completed work on the Eighth Studio Album "Gore", at the moment as the last in the creative baggage of Deftones.
Deftones now
In the last interviews, the Deftones vocalist DEFTONES Nino Moreno said that now the musicians are close to the completion of work on a new album, the release of which is scheduled for 2020.
Embed from getty imagesThis time, the compositions created with the active participation of the carpenter and canningham will radically differ from the previous material and become heavier and gloomy.
Some of these fans of the work of American metallers were able to hear at the concerts, which were held in August as part of the Rock Festival in Pasaden and in October at the Grand event Great Stage Park.
Discography
- 1995 - "Adrenaline"
- 1997 - "Around The Fur"
- 2000 - "White Pony"
- 2003 - "Deftones"
- 2006 - "Saturday Night Wrist"
- 2010 - "Diamond Eyes"
- 2012 - "Koi No Yokan"
- 2016 - "GORE"
Clips
- "Engine # 9"
- "Back to School (Mini Maggit)"
- "Hexagram"
- "My Own Summer"
- "CHANGE (IN THE HOUSE OF FLIES)"
- "Bloody Cape"
- "Hole in the Earth"
- "Xerces"
- Romantic Dreams
- "My Own Summer (Shove IT)"
- "Diamond Eyes"
- "STREET CARP"