By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
A new Latin American tour has been announced by one of the most exciting rock bands on the planet in the last twenty years, and their fans are already exclaiming with excitement and lining up to buy tickets. We're talking about Deftones, Californian group, formed in 1988 in the city of Sacramento, led by Chino Moreno, Deftones, a singer of Latin origin. To date, Deftones has accumulated eight studio albums, two EPs, one compilation album and eleven singles. Specialized critics have made life difficult for themselves trying to label this band, framing it in genres such as alternative metal, post-punk, dream pop, progressive rock, shoegaze and post-metal, among other nomenclatures.
Deftones will perform on May 24th in Bogotá, on the 28th in Santiago de Chile, and on June 1st in Buenos Aires.. Based on this, we have invited journalist friends, musicians and producers to tell us what their favorite song by this group is and why they chose it:
Sylvie Piccolotto (Scatter Records/Rock City). Song: Change (In The House Of Flies): It's my favorite song by a band whose albums I own completely. I've been to at least one show on almost all of their tours. I've always loved their songs, which are both dense and warm at the same time.
Fernando Bautista (The Bad Blood): Song: Knife Party; It was the song that clicked inside my head.
March Morales (Panic Attack). Song: Digital bathIt has the best drum groove I've ever heard. It's a song with many nuances and it transports me to another place as soon as I hear it.
Felipe Arriagada (The Suicide Bitches): Song: Rats!Rats!Rats!: That combination of explosiveness and melancholy is very unique to Deftones.
Álvaro Vargas (Distraction / Alterna Studio): Song: Bored: It's almost impossible to say which one I like best, but I'll choose this one because it was my first heavy cover and also the foundation of how I identify as a guitarist. It was my first cover in drop tuning, and from then on I never tuned to anything else.
Diego López (Contributor to Zonagirante.com): Song: PassengerWhen he left White Pony (2000), I didn't consult the internet at all. I bought the records and that was it. It was a surprise and a great joy to hear Maynard singing with Deftones for the first time.
Amos Piñeros (Ultragen): Song: My own summer: It is delicate and suggestive at the same time as heavy and violent.
Chucky García (Curator of Rock al Parque). Song: Bored: That record (AdrenalineIt's from the mid-90s. At that time, one wanted to feel excited and at the same time marginalized, and when I heard that song, on the one hand, it didn't sound like anything else to me, and on the other hand, I felt that it was talking about that: about self-submitting to a state where one could be happy depressed at will.
Mecchu Leezard (Nuclear Child): Song: Be quiet and drive. This is one of my favorite Deftone songs. It's kind of passive-aggressive; you feel like it's going to explode in your face, but it never quite does. That first part of the lyrics that says «"This town doesn't feel like mine"» I feel like it's being sung to me, or like I could have written it myself. It's like an instant connection I felt with this song. It reminds me so much of a time in my life when all I wanted was to be taken far away from the city I lived in (although, given how things are now here in Venezuela, I still want the same thing). I love this song most of all for the nostalgia it evokes; it reminds me of so many people who are no longer here, of incredible moments. Deftones has that effect on me, making me want to sing their songs on a highway with half my body hanging out the window.
Alejandro Jaramillo (Amniotic). Song: My own summerIt's both powerful and mellow. It has one of the best riffs in rock. Its cadence, its dynamics, the mix, the iconic TU-PA intro, the piccolo snare, the video with the sharks, the background sound textures…everything. According to them, that song defined their sound. This song is perfect.
Roberto Agüero Cendak (Bank Robber and the Women). Song: Back to school: Because of the music video, filmed with a fisheye lens, the skateboards in the school hallway, and that rotten atmosphere we all had to breathe in high school for listening to different music in the '90s. I think after watching it, I spent several winters wearing a wool hat like Chino Moreno. And the music, despite its "depressing" sound, leaves you with a feeling of holding on to what you believe in—great song!
Camilo Cruz (People's Consulate/Tappan) Song: Bored. The combination of a heavy riff with that melodic voice, like a slightly darker grunge.«
Camilo Muñoz (Perpetual Warfare): Song: Lotion. I think this song has that new hardcore style from the '90s that was so characteristic of later bands. The vocal shifts from raspy to melodic sound brutal.
Ana González (Brina Quoya). Song: No Ordinary Love: It's very interesting to hear a pop song, with a neo-soul vibe, originally by Sade, covered by a band like the Deftones. Chino Moreno's vocal interpretation is different but very expressive, renewing the sound of the song while still doing justice to its essence.
Andrés Cardona (Six Pedestrians). Song: Change (in the house of flies): I like the lyrics, which are kind of Kafkaesque, like The Metamorphosis.
Lousy (The Charlie's Jacket): Song: Minerva: It's the result of Deftones' maturation, both lyrically and musically—a more personal song, completely stripped down and far removed from the genre that defined Deftones as a nu-metal band in the nineties. A beautiful song, incredibly melodic and spiritual. In my opinion, it defines the path the band would later take in their career.
Alain Buitrago (Urbeat.com). Song: Be quiet and drive . Back then, I liked the idea that they were in the nu-metal era and didn't rap. I still like it now because I think it defined their style. I find it such a powerful song, and I like that. Powerful in the strict sense of sounding heavy. Lyrically, it seems basic to me, but it could have no lyrics, just screams, and I'd still like it.
Carlos Rosales (Flying Bananas) Song: 7 words. It's the song that got me moving the most as a kid, surfing (or trying to) with my friends. It reminds me of the years when we played that same cover with my first band, with Miguel, Carlos Andrés, and Germán, when we'd cram 50 kids into a room and everyone would lose their minds. It reminds me of hanging out in Seville, of Brisas, of getting drunk at Mazuren and Portales. Three-thousand-peso wine, a skateboard, and Rubens' burgers. It reminds me of a really rough time in my life.
Guido Isaza (Stoner Love). Song: Change (In The House Of Flies): Although Minerva I think it's absolutely beautiful, I feel that Change in the House of Flies It was one of their songs that resonated with me the most. It came out in the summer of 2000, at a time when I'd stopped believing in rock and roll. Besides, they had a sound that was literally refreshing, in terms of temperature. It inspired me to find a band and sing again. Let's just say it restored my faith in rock and roll, that is, the faith within me… That was my Change.
Manuel Estevez (Sono Magazine)- Song: 7 words: After Korn's amazing debut album, I became interested in this kind of music that balanced pop and metal. I found this track and loved it for its aggressive chorus. Deftones seemed to me the most decent band of what later became known as nu-metal, even better than Korn, and more relevant. That existential and dark tone satisfied my taste for the emotional.
Daniel Casas. (Whites). Song: Knife PartyBecause I consider the album White Pony, ...his "masterpiece," and this song represents, on many levels, the way his sound impacts you. The heartfelt way Chino sings, the most punchy and groovy drums metal has today, the deep and heavy sound of his bass and guitar, and, in this song, the female vocals, which are both heartbreaking and beautiful.
Javier Umaña (Orbitarock.com). Song: Change (In The House Of Flies). I love it; this was a song that meant a lot in my youth, and it's also a song that, whenever I hear it, evokes a time of change, where you emerge and are reborn to continue your journey.
Patricio Stiglich Campos (Patricio Stiglich Project) Song: Be quiet and drive.This song reminds me of my teenage years. It's also part of the soundtrack of... Dave Mirra BMX Freestyle, which I played a lot.
Mauricio Colmenares (Silver Revolver). Song: Minerva. The song is a deep, intense, exciting and delicate sandstorm; there is no doubt that it is one of the best despite how atypical it is.
