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Rock am Ring and Rock im Park
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The Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals are two simultaneous rock music festivals held annually. While Rock am Ring takes place at Mendig on an old airbase, Rock im Park takes place at the Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg, both festivals are usually regarded as one event with a mostly identical lineup for both festivals. All artists perform one day at Mendig and another day in Nuremberg during the three-day event, there have been minor exceptions in the past years where an artist would be announced for one of the festivals only. However, after a dip in attendance for the 1988 event, in 1991, the festival returned with a new concept, as well as featuring well-known artists, event organizers present lesser known up-and-coming bands to the public. In 1993, Rock im Park took place for the first time in Vienna, for the 1994 event, Rock im Park moved to the disused Munich-Riem airport, and the following year to Munichs Olympiastadion, where it found a home for the 1995 and 1996 event. 1997 Rock im Park moved to Nurembergs Frankenstadion where it was held until the venue was unavailable in 2004 because the stadium was being renovated for the 2006 Football World Cup. Since 2004 the venue moved again to the current Zeppellinfeld, where Rock im Park was since held with the exception of the 2006 festival, the 2007 festival was used in a science experiment to test the effects of large bodies of people simultaneously jumping. The experiment data was used to calculate the result if the entire Chinese population were to jump in unison, the experiment concluded no significant results would come from the theoretical event. After 29 editions of Rock am Ring, the new owner of the Nürburgring decided that the contract wont be extended, the festival continued at another location in 2015. The 2008 festival took place on 6–8 June 2008,91 acts have been officially confirmed. Both festivals were sold out on 1 May, confirmed acts,3 Doors Down,36 Crazyfists, Against Me. Glory of Joanns MySpace profile lists them as performing at Rock am Ring, the headling acts for 2009 were Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, The Prodigy, KoЯn, Marilyn Manson, The Killers, Placebo and Billy Talent. Other bands included 2raumwohnung, Alexisonfire, All That Remains,1, Juliette Lewis, Kettcar, Kilians, Killswitch Engage, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Little Man Tate, Machine Head, Madina Lake, Madness, Mando Diao, M. I. A. The headliners for the 2011 festival were System of a Down, motörhead, The Offspring, Opeth, Periphery, Shinedown, Skrillex, Soundgarden, Tenacious D, The Subways, and Trivium. Headliners, Linkin Park, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Kings Of Leon. 1, John Newman, Karnivool, Klangkarussell Live, Kvelertak, Left Boy, Mando Diao, Marteria, Mastodon, Maximo Park, Milky Chance, Nine Inch Nails, Of Mice & Men, Opeth, Portugal. The Man, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rob Zombie, Rudimental, SDP, Sierra Kidd, Slayer, Suicide Silence, Teesy, Triggerfinger, headliners, Foo Fighters, Die Toten Hosen, Slipknot, Motionless in White. Official Rock am Ring site Official Rock im Park site Ringrocker. com Parkrocker. net Rockpalast – Rock am Ring 2007 Rock am Ring live sets audio files archive, Rockpalast broadcast
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Sacramento, California
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Sacramento is the capital city of the U. S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the portion of Californias expansive Central Valley. Its estimated 2014 population of 485,199 made it the sixth-largest city in California, Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which includes seven counties with a 2010 population of 2,414,783. In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for Time magazine named Sacramento Americas Most Diverse City, Sacramento became a city through the efforts of the Swiss immigrant John Sutter, Sr. his son John Augustus Sutter, Jr. and James W. Marshall. Sacramento grew quickly thanks to the protection of Sutters Fort, which was established by Sutter in 1839, the city was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border. The river was named by Spanish cavalry officer Gabriel Moraga for the Santísimo Sacramento, California State University, Sacramento, is the largest university in the city and one of 23 campuses in the California State University system. University of the Pacific is a university with one of its three campuses in Sacramento. In addition, the University of California, Davis, located in nearby Davis, operates its UC Davis Medical Center, nisenan and Plains Miwok Native Americans had lived in the area for perhaps thousands of years. Unlike the settlers who would eventually make Sacramento their home, these Native Americans left little evidence of their existence. Traditionally, their diet was dominated by acorns taken from the oak trees in the region, and by fruits, bulbs, seeds. In 1808, the Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga discovered and named the Sacramento Valley, a Spanish writer with the Moraga expedition wrote, Canopies of oaks and cottonwoods, many festooned with grapevines, overhung both sides of the blue current. Birds chattered in the trees and big fish darted through the pellucid depths, the air was like champagne, and drank deep of it, drank in the beauty around them. The valley and the river were then christened after the Most Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, John Sutter first arrived on August 13,1839 at the divergence of the American and Sacramento Rivers with a Mexican land grant of 50,000 acres. The next year, he and his party established Sutters Fort, representing Mexico, Sutter called his colony New Helvetia, a Swiss inspired name, and was the political authority and dispenser of justice in the new settlement. Soon, the colony began to grow as more and more pioneers headed west, within just a few short years, John Sutter had become a grand success, owning a ten-acre orchard and a herd of thirteen thousand cattle. Fort Sutter became a stop for the increasing number of immigrants coming through the valley. In 1847, Sutter hired James Marshall to build a sawmill so that he could continue to expand his empire, Sutter received 2,000 fruit trees in 1847, which started the agriculture industry in the Sacramento Valley. In 1848, when gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at Sutters Mill in Coloma and he hired topographical engineer William H
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Alternative metal
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Alternative metal is a music genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. The term has been in use since the 1980s, although it came into prominence in the 1990s, other genres considered part of the alternative metal movement included rap metal and funk metal, both of which influenced another prominent subgenre, nu metal. Nu metal expands the alternative metal sound, combining its vocal stylings and downtuned riffs with elements of genres, such as hip hop, funk, hardcore. They also remarked that alternative metal was originally a style united by its nonconformist sensibility rather than any immediately classifiable sound, one of the main characteristics of alternative metal and its subgenres are heavily downtuned, mid-paced chug-like guitar riffs. However, funk metal bands use a more conventional riffing style influenced by 1980s thrash metal. Alternative metal features clean and melodic vocals, influenced by those of alternative rock, later bands frequently incorporated vocal styles that alternated between clean singing, growls and screaming. Examples include alternative metal bands associated with the nu metal movement, such as Korn and Deftones, jonathan Gold of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1990 Just as rock has an alternative, wing-bands like the Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. -so does metal. Alternative metal is alternative music that rocks, and alternative metal these days can reach 10 times the audience of other alternative rock. Janes Addiction plays an intense brand of 70s-influenced arty metal, so does Soundgarden, in fact, the arty meanderings of Sab and the Zep themselves would be considered alternative metal. Houston Press has described the genre as being a compromise for people for whom Nirvana was not heavy enough but Metallica was too heavy. The first wave of metal bands emerged from many backgrounds, including hardcore punk, noise rock, Seattles grunge scene, stoner rock, sludge metal. These bands never formed a movement or scene, rather they were bound by their incorporation of traditional metal influences. Fudge Tunnels style of alternative metal included influences from both sludge metal and noise rock, other early bands in the genre also came from hardcore punk backgrounds. During the 1980s, alternative metal appealed mainly to rock fans. Several bands associated with the genre denied their status as metal bands, Helmet drummer John Stanier said We fell into the whole metal thing by accident, we always hated it when people mentioned metal in conjunction with us. Saby Reyes-Kulkarni of Pitchfork Media stated bands like Faith No More, Soundgarden, Primus, Helmet, the Rollins Band, and dozens more were initially marketed as quasi-metal acts. This was only possible in a climate where record labels, journalists, many established 1980s metal bands released albums in the 1990s that were described as alternative metal, including Anthrax, Metallica and Mötley Crüe. It resulted in a standardized sound among alternative metal bands, in contrast to the more eccentric
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Experimental rock
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Experimental rock is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. From its inception, rock music was experimental, but it wasnt until the late 1960s that rock artists began creating extended, in 1967, the genre was as commercially viable as pop music, but by 1970, most of its leading players had incapacitated themselves in some form. In Germany, the krautrock subgenre merged elements of improvisation and psychedelic rock with avant-garde, later in the 1970s, significant musical crossbreeding took place in tandem with the developments of punk and new wave, DIY experimentation, and electronic music. Funk, jazz-rock, and fusion rhythms became integrated into experimental rock music. The first wave of 1980s experimental rock groups had few precedents for their sound. Later in the decade, avant-rock pursued a psychedelic aesthetic that differed from the self-consciousness, during the 1990s, a loose movement known as post-rock became the dominant form of experimental rock. As of the 2010s, the experimental rock has fallen to indiscriminate use, with virtually every modern rock band being categorized under prefixes such as post-, kraut-, psych-. Although experimentation had always existed in music, it wasnt until the late 1960s that new openings were created from the aesthetic intersecting with the social. In 1966, the boundaries between pop music and the avant-garde began to blur as rock albums were conceived and executed as distinct, self-taught rock musicians in the middle and late 1960s drew from the work of composers such as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio. In addition, The Quietus Ben Graham described duos the Silver Apples, calling attention to the very recordedness of the album. This would also be reflected in contemporary experimental rock LPs, such as the Beach Boys Pet Sounds and Smile, the Whos The Who Sell Out and Tommy. The Velvet Underground were a group in experimental rock, according to Rosenberg. Peppers inspired a new consideration for experimental rock as commercially viable music, as progressive rock developed, experimental rock acquired notoriety alongside art rock. By 1970, most of the musicians which had been at the forefront of rock had incapacitated themselves. Groups such as Can, Faust, Neu, the ideas of minimalism and composers such as Stockhausen would be particularly influential. During this era, funk, jazz-rock, and fusion rhythms became integrated into experimental rock music, some groups who were categorized as post-punk considered themselves part of an experimental rock trajectory, with This Heat as one of the prominent players. Anderson claims that the no wave scene represented New York’s last stylistically cohesive avant-rock movement, steve Redhead noted the resuscitation of New Yorks avant-rock scene, including artists such as Sonic Youth and John Zorn, in the 1980s. In the late 1980s, avant-rock pursued a frazzled, psychedelia-tinged, blissed out aesthetic that differed from the self-consciousness, the UK shoegaze scene was seen by some as a continuation of an experimental rock tradition
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Nu metal
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Nu metal is a form of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk and grunge. Nu metal bands have drawn elements and influences from a variety of musical styles, Nu metal rarely features guitar solos, the genre is heavily syncopated and based on guitar riffs. Many nu metal guitarists use seven-string guitars that are down-tuned to play a heavier sound, DJs are occasionally featured in nu metal to provide instrumentation such as sampling, turntable scratching and electronic backgrounds. Vocal styles in nu metal include singing, rapping, screaming and growling, Nu metal is one of the key genres of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Nu metal became popular in the late 1990s with bands and artists such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, many heavy metal fans have criticized nu metal, and do not regard it as true heavy metal. Many nu metal musicians have rejected the nu metal label and also have rejected being labeled as heavy metal, Nu metal is also known as nü-metal and aggro-metal. It is a subgenre of alternative metal, MTV states that the early nu metal group Korn arrived in 1993 into the burgeoning alternative metal scene, which would morph into nü-metal the way college rock became alternative rock. Stereogum has similarly claimed that nu metal was a outgrowth of the Lollapalooza-era alt-metal scene. Nu metal merges elements of metal music with elements of other music genres such as grunge, hip hop, funk. Nu metal bands also are influenced by and use elements of genres of metal music such as death metal, rap metal, groove metal, funk metal, alternative metal. Some nu metal bands such as Static-X and Dope made nu metal music elements of industrial metal. Nu metal music is heavily syncopated and is based mostly on guitar riffs, mid-song bridges and a general lack of guitar solos contrasts it with other genres of heavy metal. N its efforts to tune down and simplify riffs, nu-metal effectively drove a stake through the heart of the guitar solo. Another contrast with other metal genres is nu metals emphasis on rhythm, rather than on complexity or mood. The wah pedal is occasionally featured in nu metal music, Nu metal guitar riffs occasionally are similar to death metal guitar riffs. Nu metal bassists and drummers are often influenced by funk and hip hop, respectively, blast beats, which are common in heavy metal subgenres such as black metal and death metal, are extremely rare in nu metal. sound a Mack truck being crushed by a collapsing skyscraper. Some nu metal bands use seven-string guitars that are generally down-tuned, likewise, some bass guitarists use five-string and six-string instruments. Bass guitar-playing in nu metal often features an emphasis on elements such as slap bass, a percussive style of playing in which the thumb slaps the low strings
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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B
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Reprise Records
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Reprise Records /rəˈpriz/ is an American major record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It was mostly inactive from 1976 to 1987 and it is owned by Warner Music Group, and operates through Warner Bros. Reprise Records was formed in 1960 by Frank Sinatra in order to more artistic freedom for his own recordings. Hence, he garnered the nickname The Chairman of the Board, having left Capitol/EMI, and after trying to buy Norman Granzs Verve Records, the first album Sinatra released on Reprise was Ring-a-Ding-Ding. As CEO of Reprise, Sinatra recruited several artists for the label, such as fellow Rat Pack members Dean Martin and Sammy Davis. The original roster from 1961 to 1963 included Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, Nancy Sinatra, Esquivel, the label still issues any Sinatra work recorded while on the label and, after his death in 1998, it had great success with his greatest hits collections. One of the founding principles under Sinatras leadership was that each artist would have full creative freedom. This is the reason why recordings of early Reprise artists are distributed through other labels. In Martins case, his Reprise recordings were out of print for nearly 20 years before a deal was struck with Capitol Records, in 1963, as part of a film deal, Warner Bros. purchased Reprise from Sinatra, who nonetheless retained a 20% interest in the label. Many of the artists on the label were dropped by Warner Bros. Reprise president Mo Ostin was retained as the head of the label, warner-Reprise executives began targeting younger acts, beginning by securing the American distribution rights to the Pye Records recordings by the Kinks in 1964. Reprise would soon add teen-oriented pop acts like Dino, Desi & Billy to the roster, as well, Franks own daughter Nancy Sinatra would be retained by Ostin, becoming a major pop star starting in late 1965. The label moved almost exclusively to rock-oriented music in the late 1960s, rex, the Meters, John Cale, Gordon Lightfoot, Michael Franks, Richard Pryor, Al Jarreau, Fleetwood Mac, Fanny, and the Beach Boys. In 1976, the Reprise label was deactivated by Warner Bros. an unconfirmed explanation for this move is that Sinatra wanted to be the only artist on Reprise, and Young is said to have been the only Reprise act who refused to agree to a change in labels. In late 1985, some copies of the Dream Academys hit single Life in a Northern Town were pressed with Warner Bros. labels bearing a Reprise logo,1986 saw releases bearing Reprise labels from the Dream Academy as well as Dwight Yoakam. Vice President of Promotion Rich Fitzgerald was appointed as label Vice-President and it was formerly home to the Jimi Hendrix and the Barenaked Ladies catalogs in the U. S. When the Bee Gees back catalog was remastered by Rhino Records in the 2000s, neil Young stated in a documentary about his life that Marilyn Manson was turned down by Reprise. In September 2011, several took place at Reprise Records
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Ipecac Recordings
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Ipecac Recordings is an independent record label based in California. It was founded on April 1,1999 by Greg Werckman and Mike Patton in Alameda, originally the label was created for the sole purpose of releasing the first Fantômas album. Since then, they have gone on to other artists like Melvins, Isis, as well as several of Pattons other projects. The label is named after syrup of ipecac, an emetic, or vomit-inducing and its slogan is Ipecac Recordings--Making People Sick Since 1999. Ipecac is distinguished from most labels by their policy of signing bands to only one album contracts, Werckman claims that when starting our label we decided that it did not feel right to “own” the artists on our label. Instead we would rent or license records from artists that we liked, lawyers or businesspeople call us morons for only doing one-record deals, Werckman scoffs. They say, Youre not really anything, then and we like the records we put out. Our job isnt to own any artist, were here to put out the art that people create. Low overhead and no video or promotional cost partnered with very little distribution costs allow for hearty royalties Every six months I send those guys royalty checks and its the way it should be. Even bands that are very successful — when they get royalty checks from us, Ipecac Recordings discography List of record labels Official homepage of Ipecac Recordings Ipecac Recordings on Google+
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Deftones
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Deftones is an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, U. S. Formed in 1988, the band was founded by Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham, during the groups first five years, the bands lineup changed several times, but stabilized in 1993 when Cunningham rejoined the group after his departure in 1990. Cunningham replaced John Taylor, who had replaced Garcia after he had switched to drums in 1990, the lineup remained stable for fifteen years, with the exception of keyboardist and turntablist Frank Delgado being added in 1999. In 2008, Cheng was involved in an accident that ended his stint with Deftones. He has been replaced by Sergio Vega, the band is known as one of the most experimental groups to have come from the alternative metal music scene. Deftones have released eight albums since their inception, after the lineup settled in 1993, the band secured a recording contract with Maverick Records, and subsequently released their debut album, Adrenaline, in 1995. Promoting the album by touring exhaustively with other bands in the scene and their sophomore album, Around the Fur, was released in 1997. The album and its singles reached chart positions, and the album was the bands first to receive certification from the RIAA, the band found even further success with their third album, White Pony, in 2000. It showed a transition away from the earlier sound into a more experimental direction. Its lead single, Change, is the groups most commercially successful single, White Pony was the bands first of three albums to be certified platinum in the United States. Their self-titled fourth album was released in 2003, while the groups mainstream success continued, sales proved to be lackluster compared to White Pony. The follow-up, Saturday Night Wrist, was released in 2006 after a falling out within the band due to creative tensions. Its completion was delayed by personal issues within the band. In 2008, while Deftones were working on an album tentatively titled Eros, as a result, he was left in a minimally conscious state until his death in 2013 of cardiac arrest. During that time, Deftones halted production on Eros and released Diamond Eyes and Koi No Yokan in 2010 and 2012 respectively, in 2016, the band released a followup, titled Gore. When Stephen Carpenter was 15 years old, he was hit by a car while skateboarding, confined to a wheelchair for several months, he began teaching himself guitar by playing along to bands such as Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death and Metallica. Carpenter, Cunningham and Chino Moreno were friends from their childhood, All three went to McClatchy High School in Sacramento and remained friends through the citys skateboarding scene. While Carpenter was a fan of metal, Moreno was also interested in hardcore punk bands such as Bad Brains and post-punk
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Team Sleep
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Team Sleep is an American experimental alternative rock/post-rock group led by singer/guitarist Chino Moreno. Moreno is better known for fronting the Sacramento-based alternative metal band Deftones, other current members include guitarist Todd Wilkinson, turntablist DJ Crook, bass guitarist/keyboardist Rick Verrett, drummer Gil Sharone and bassist Chuck Doom. Team Sleeps music touches on a variety of genres, including pop, trip hop, indie rock, post-rock, shoegaze, ambient music, psychedelic music, lo-fi music. Team Sleep started when Moreno and his friend Todd Wilkinson bought a cassette tape Portastudio-type four-track recorder in 1994 and they continued this collaboration through the first two Deftones albums, though on a rather casual basis. Wilkinson said, We were never going to make a record, I was just sitting at home, playing guitar, and I started recording some stuff. It was never trying to play shows, record in a studio. I had never been in a band, and I never wanted to be—we were just good friends, DJ Crook, a long-time friend and roommate of Deftones turntablist/keyboardist Frank Delgado, added beats and turntables to Teenager, a song featuring glitch and trip hop influences. Originally intended as a Team Sleep song, Teenager was ultimately included on White Pony and their early live set included a loose cover of the Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High, among others. A full albums worth of material was finished in 2002–03, the instrumental song The Passportal was included on The Matrix Reloaded, The Album, the April 2003 soundtrack album for the film The Matrix Reloaded. Singers Mike Patton and Melissa Auf der Maur were involved in recording sessions, singers Rob Crow and Mary Timony were the only vocalists other than Moreno to appear on the album. The debut album contained five of the original tracks, three of those were heavily reworked. In October 2004, DJ C-Minus premiered the Team Sleep demo Cambodia while opening for Deftones at a concert at House of Blues in West Hollywood, the title of this song, which was co-written with producer Greg Wells, was later changed to Ever. The official Team Sleep website appeared in early 2005 and included songs, Team Sleep was finally released on May 10,2005, to mostly positive reviews. The best part about it is having completion of something youve been working on and its fun, working with different people, everybody works differently. When I have time off from music, I want to other music. Thats what I do, thats fun, thats what makes me happy. Notably absent from the debut album were Mercedes, Apollonia, Iceache, Death by Plane, Solid Gold, Acoustic One. The demo of Cambodia was revamped and appeared on the album in the form of Ever, following Team Sleeps first release, the band toured and began posting various demos on their MySpace page
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Palms (band)
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Palms is an American post-metal supergroup that formed in 2011. The group features Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno and three members of the post-metal band Isis, bassist Jeff Caxide, drummer Aaron Harris and guitarist Bryant Clifford Meyer, after the demise of Isis in 2010, Caxide, Harris and Meyer decided they wanted to continue making music together. Moreno, a longtime Isis fan, joined later, saying, I am excited to combine my sense of creativity with theirs, and to have fun doing so. Palms also proved to be an outlet for Caxide, Harris, Caxide said, I think a lot of people are expecting this to sound like Isis with Chino singing. Thats not what this is, because thats not exciting, the former Isis members intentionally strayed away from the compositional methods of their former band. Caxide said, When we were writing songs, I was coming up with ideas that I would never have presented to Isis. I dont want to call this pop music, but its more in that vein than anything Ive ever done, Harris recorded and mixed the album. Harris recorded his drum tracks at Joe Barresis House of Compression studio, in July 2013, Palms performed four shows in California in support of their debut album. Palms released a video for Future Warrior in September 2013. On May 27,2014, a remix of Antarctic Handshake by iconAclass/deadverse was released by Ipecac Recordings, on June 27, the band announced a 2014 fall tour of the Southwest
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Screaming (music)
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Screaming is an extended vocal technique that is mostly popular in aggressive styles of Western popular music including many styles of heavy metal and some styles of punk rock and industrial. In metal, the death growl vocal technique is also popular. Intensity, pitch and other characteristics vary between different genres and different vocalists, the first significant example of an actual scream in an opera is in Alban Bergs Wozzeck, where the eponymous character screams Murder. Murder. in the scene of Act III. Even more strikingly, Bergs unfinished Lulu, written mainly in 1934, in Mascagnis 1890 Cavalleria rusticana the final line Theyve murdered Turiddu. is spoken, not sung, and often accompanied by a scream. Composers who have used shouting or screaming in their works include Luciano Berio, George Crumb, Gyorgy Ligeti, Meredith Monk and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The use of vocals in choral and orchestral works continues today in some productions such as film scores, mainstream examples include some works by Don Davis. Experimental music genres often feature screamed vocals if vocals are employed in the music, the song Paralyzed by the outsider musician the Legendary Stardust Cowboy is a prime example of the use of screaming vocals in experimental music. Noise music is notable for screamed vocals, examples being the noise artist Masonna. Kansas City blues musicians began shouting in order to be heard over music in the loud dancehalls, the shouted vocals eventually became a characteristic for these bands. Key members of this movement include Big Joe Turner and Howlin Wolf, one of the first known songs to utilize screaming vocals is said to be Screamin Jay Hawkins I Put a Spell on You. Rock and roll employed occasional brief screaming bits, in the 1950s, one principal screamer was Little Richard, beginning with his Tutti Frutti. By the 1960s, the first take of John Lennonss recording of Twist and Shout for Please Please Me was the take, since Lennons voice was torn up. Lennon, inspired by Arthur Janovs Primal Scream therapy, screamed in his later songs Mother, thrash metal was influenced both by heavy metal and by hardcore punk, the latter of which often incorporated shouted or screamed vocals. The first instance of screaming used as a constant delivery of lyrics was Chuck Schuldiner of the band Death, musicologist Robert Walser notes, The punk influence shows up in the musics fast tempos and frenetic aggressiveness and in critical or sarcastic lyrics delivered in a menacing growl. More recent bands within metals various subgenres, such as Carnifex, are known for making use of variations of both screaming and growling. Screaming in some subgenres of metal music is typically demanding. The death growl is common in death metal, separate forms of extreme metal vocalization can be found in black metal, which has a higher-pitched sound, and deathcore, which uses either a low growl or a high pitched scream
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Tenor
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Tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is one of the highest of the male voice types. The tenors vocal range lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, and A4, the A above middle C, in solo work, this range extends up to C5, or tenor high C. The low extreme for tenors is roughly A♭2, at the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to two Fs above middle C. The tenor voice type is divided into the leggero tenor, lyric tenor, spinto tenor, dramatic tenor, heldentenor. The name tenor derives from the Latin word tenere, which means to hold, in medieval and Renaissance polyphony between about 1250 and 1500, the tenor was the structurally fundamental voice, vocal or instrumental. All other voices were normally calculated in relation to the tenor, until the late 16th century introduction of the contratenor singers, the tenor was usually the highest voice, assuming the role of providing a foundation. It was also in the 18th century that tenor came to signify the male voice that sang such parts, thus, for earlier repertoire, a line marked tenor indicated the parts role, and not the required voice type. Indeed, even as late as the century, partbooks labelled tenor might contain parts for a range of voice types. The vocal range of the tenor is one of the highest of the voice types. Within opera, the lowest note in the tenor repertoire is probably A♭2 in Rossinis rarely performed La donna del lago in the role of Rodrigo di Dhu. Within more frequently performed repertoire, Mime and Herod both call for an A2, a few tenor roles in the standard repertoire call for a tenor C. Some of the few top Cs in the operatic repertoire are either optional or interpolated by tradition. However, the highest demanded note in the standard operatic repertoire is D5. Some operatic roles for tenors require a darker timbre and fewer high notes, in the leggero repertoire, the highest note is F5, therefore, very few tenors can, given the raising of concert pitch since its composition, have this role in their repertoire without transposition. Within the tenor voice type category are seven generally recognized subcategories, leggero tenor, lyric tenor, spinto tenor, dramatic tenor, heldentenor, Mozart tenor, Also known as the tenore di grazia, the leggero tenor is essentially the male equivalent of a lyric coloratura. This voice is light, agile, and capable of executing difficult passages of fioritura, the typical leggero tenor possesses a range spanning from approximately C3 to E♭5, with a few being able to sing up to F5 or higher in full voice. In some cases, the chest register of the leggero tenor may extend below C3, voices of this type are utilized frequently in the operas of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and in music dating from the Baroque period. Leggero tenor roles in operas, The lyric tenor is a warm voice with a bright, full timbre that is strong but not heavy
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Hit Parader
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Hit Parader was an American music magazine that operated between 1942 and 2008. A monthly publication, it was a popular music title until the 1980s. The magazine reached its peak during the 1980s as heavy metal music achieved high levels of popularity, Hit Parader was launched in 1942 by Charlton Publications, based in Derby, Connecticut. Along with Billboard, Down Beat and Song Hits, it was among the first, consistent with its title – which referred to the pre-music charts hit parade – Hit Parader began as a popular-song lyric newspaper. It continued to reproduce the words to contemporary songs until that practise became financially prohibitive in the mid 1970s, for much of the 1960s, Jim Delehant worked as a staff writer and editor for the magazine. According to his recollection, it covered an extremely boring music scene before the emergence of groups such as the Beatles. In addition to Delehants contributions, Hit Parader subsequently published articles by music journalists Ellen Sander, Keith Altham, over the following decade, its contributors included Nick Logan, Barbara Charone, Lenny Kaye, Jonh Ingham and Alan Betrock. The magazine typically featured song lyrics, album reviews, interviews, fan mail, bits of trivia on popular rock acts, in 1984, the magazine began to focus mainly on the hard rock and heavy metal genres. Over the ensuing decade, it became a heavy metal publication, providing extensive coverage of the eras popular acts, including Motley Crue, Quiet Riot, Def Leppard, Ratt. Charlton sold off Hit Parader before the company went under in 1991, rather than an exclusive, the interview turned out to be a transcript from a Howard Stern radio-show telephone interview with the two musicians. Rose and Bach both claimed that Hit Parader editor Andy Secher was misleading his readers with such tactics, ive never taken any of this that seriously. Hit Parader isnt the New York Times … its a frikkin fanzine, the magazine closed down following the publication of its December 2008 issue. During its years of operation, Hit Parader also published issues dedicated to Top 100 lists, such as Top 100 Metal Bands, Top 100 Guitarists, Top 100 Vocalists and Top 100 Bassists & Drummers
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Mexicans
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Mexicans are the people of the United Mexican States, a multiethnic country in North America. Mexicans can also be those who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity, the Mexica founded Mexico-Tenochtitlan in 1325 as an altepetl located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. It became the capital of the expanding Mexica Empire in the 15th century, at its peak, it was the largest city in the Pre-Columbian Americas. It subsequently became a cabecera of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, today the ruins of Tenochtitlan are located in the central part of Mexico City. In 2015,21. 5% of Mexicos population in Mexico self-identify as being indigenous, there are about 12 million Mexican nationals residing outside of Mexico, with about 11.7 million living in the United States. The larger Mexican diaspora can also include individuals that trace ancestry to Mexico, the Nahuatl language was a common tongue in the region of modern Central Mexico during the Aztec Empire, but after the arrival of Europeans the common language of the region became Spanish. Mexicano is derived from the word Mexico itself, in the principal model to create demonyms in Spanish, the suffix -ano is added to the name of the place of origin. Another hypothesis suggests that Mēxihco derives from the Nahuatl words for Moon and this meaning might then refer to Tenochtitlans position in the middle of Lake Texcoco. The system of interconnected lakes, of which Texcoco formed the center, had the form of a rabbit, still another hypothesis suggests that it is derived from Mēctli, the goddess of maguey. The term Mexicano as a word to describe the different peoples of the region of Mexico as a group emerged in the 16th century. In that time the term did not apply to a nationality nor to the limits of the modern Mexican Republic. The document stated, el venturoso descubrimiento que los Mexicanos han hecho, Mexican politicians and reformers such as José Vasconcelos and Manuel Gamio were instrumental in building a Mexican national identity on the concept of mestizaje. The word has somewhat pejorative connotations and most of the Mexican citizens who would be defined as mestizos in the sociological literature would probably self-identify primarily as Mexicans, in Chiapas the word Ladino is used instead of mestizo. White Mexicans are Mexican citizens of full European descent, another group in Mexico, the mestizos, also include people with varying amounts of European ancestry, with some having a European admixture superior to 90%. Because of this, the line between whites and mestizos has become rather blur, and the Mexican government decided to abandon racial classifications. Intermixing would produce a group which would become the majority by the time of Independence. However, at its height, the immigrant population in Mexico never exceeded twenty percent of the total. Many of these came with money to invest and/or ties to allow them to become prominent in business
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Chinese people
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The Han Chinese, Han people or simply Han are an ethnic group native to East Asia. They constitute approximately 92% of the population of China, 95% of Taiwan, 76% of Singapore, 23% of Malaysia, Han Chinese are the worlds largest ethnic group with over 1.3 billion people. Similarly, the Chinese language also came to be named the Han language ever since, in the Oxford Dictionary, the Han are defined as The dominant ethnic group in China. In the Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania, the Han are called the dominant population in China, as well as in Taiwan, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the Han are the Chinese peoples especially as distinguished from non-Chinese elements in the population. The name Hanzhong, in turn, was derived from the Han River, which flows through the regions plains. The river, in turn, derives its name from such as Tianhan, Yinhan, Xinghan or Yunhan, all ancient Chinese poetic nicknames for the Milky Way. This gave rise to a commonly used nowadays by overseas Chinese for ethnic identity – Huaren. The term is used in conversation and is also an element in the Cantonese word for Chinatown. The vast majority of Han Chinese – over 1.2 billion of them – live in areas under the jurisdiction of the Peoples Republic of China, where they constitute about 92% of its population. Han Chinese also constitute the majority in both of the administrative regions of the PRC—about 95% and 96% of the population of Hong Kong and Macau. There are over 22 million Han Chinese in Taiwan, they began migrating from the coastal provinces of mainland China to Taiwan during the 13th to 17th century. At first, these migrants chose to settle in locations that bore a resemblance to the areas they had left behind in mainland China, hoklo immigrants from Quanzhou settled in coastal regions, and those from Zhangzhou tended to gather on inland plains, while the Hakka inhabited hilly areas. Clashes between these groups over land, water, and cultural differences led to the relocation of some communities, of about 40 million overseas Chinese worldwide, nearly 30 million live in Southeast Asia. They are collectively called Nanyang Chinese, according to a population genetic study, Singapore is the country with the biggest proportion of Hans in Southeast Asia. Up until the past few decades, overseas Han communities originated predominantly from areas in southern China, christmas Island has a Chinese majority at 70%, large Chinese populations also live in Malaysia and Thailand. Prior to the 1965 split, Malaysia and Singapore used to have the largest overseas Chinese population in the world and this position has since been taken by Thailand. The prehistory of the Han ethnic group is closely intertwined with both records and mythology. Han Chinese trace their ancestry from a confederation of late neolithic/early bronze-age agricultural tribes that lived along the Guanzhong, the Yellow Emperor is traditionally credited to have united with the neighbouring Shennong tribes after defeating their leader, Flame Emperor, at the Battle of Banquan
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C. K. McClatchy High School
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McClatchy High School is a high school in the Sacramento City Unified School District. It is located in the Land Park area of Sacramento, California, established in 1937, it is the oldest operating high school in the district having succeeded crosstown rival, Sacramento High School, following its closure in 2003. McClatchy High School boasts over fifty clubs and over 50,000 alumni, population growth in the city of Sacramento during the 1930s prompted the construction of C. K. McClatchy Senior High School, the second high school. Construction financing came from sources as well as the Works Progress Administration. The schools design was done by local firm of Starks and Flanders, whose existing portfolio included downtown landmarks such as the Elks Temple. On May 20,1937, local dignitaries and students from the junior high schools gathered to watch the laying of the school’s cornerstone bearing the name of C. K. McClatchy, the editor and owner of The Sacramento Bee. On September 19,1937, the school was officially dedicated, sitting on 30 acres, the school included a shooting range, and a band room complete with soundproof practice rooms as well as dressing and music rooms near the auditorium. A nurse’s suite with bathrooms and a sun porch and a garden with central fountain in the Moorish style were also features of the new campus. The school is an architectural hybrid, according to the application for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, CKM “shares the pared down, stylized design typical of many WPA projects. Moderne in its massing and simplicity of line, it carries stylized elements of Classical Revival—perhaps more accurately, many local, state, national, and international figures have graduated from CKM. Current enrollment is around 2,400 students, in 2002, the school was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places. McClatchys newspaper, The Prospector, has been serving students for 75 years, McClatchy High School began to be recognized as a California Distinguished School. Since then, McClatchy continues to be unique among California high schools by “beating the trends. ”CKM’s school-wide measure of achievement—the Academic Performance Index —jumped 32 points to 745 in 2008, an additional 11 points in 2009 to 756, and the trend is expected to continue. The Air Force Junior Recruitment Officer Training Corps works with students who desire to develop leadership potential, the open-enrollment program provides a scholastic program in the areas of aerodynamics, science, history and cultural awareness. The Criminal Justice Academy is offered through a partnership with the Sacramento Police Department, students study the basic course materials used by those in training to be police cadets. Additionally, the curriculum covers investigative procedures, forensic science, physical training, the Humanities and International Studies Program was founded in 1985
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Abe Cunningham
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Abraham Benjamin Abe Cunningham, is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the alternative metal band Deftones. Abe Cunningham was born in Long Beach, California, when he was young, his family moved to Sacramento. He first started drumming in his teens playing the drums for his band Phallucy in the early 90s. During this time, he drummed for the Deftones on the side. At the time when he started learning drums, he learned how to play guitar. Abes father, Sid, was also a musician and an influence for Abe before his untimely passing. His influences include Stewart Copeland, Ginger Baker and Mitch Mitchell, however, he does use a double bass pedal as part of his kit, as seen in various drum magazines. A BBC reviewer has praised his style for displaying the assured expressiveness of a musician whose abilities stretch further than most metal-scene sticksmen, Cunningham has been a long time endorser of Tama Drums and Zildjian Cymbals, and for most of his career, has played the same setup. He has been featured in ads for Tama and Zildjian. He has his own model, the Abe Cunningham TX916W Autograph Model. As of 2016, he is now an endorser of Vater drumsticks, NAMM2017 revealed his new signature sticks, the model is called Cool Breeze and has the same specifications as the previous one. Abe lives in Sacramento, California with his family and he has two sons with his ex-wife, Annalynn Seal, Sidney & Daniel. Annalynn made a guest appearance on MX singing along with Chino Moreno
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Stephen Carpenter
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For the director and writer, see Stephen Carpenter. For the limnologist, see Stephen R. Carpenter, Stephen Stef Carpenter is an American musician, known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the rock band Deftones. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings, as well as power chords in poly-rhythms. Carpenter began his career with Deftones playing the traditional 6 string guitar. After becoming influenced by bands as Fear Factory and Meshuggah. After Deftones third album White Pony, subsequent releases would be written with seven strings, until 2010s Diamond Eyes and 2012s Koi No Yokan and he was ranked 60th in Guitar Worlds The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists poll. Stephen Carpenter was born on August 3,1970 in Sacramento, California, to an American father and he has a sister named Marci. He grew up in the Sacramento area and pursued many hobbies, when Carpenter was 15 years old, he was hit by a car while skateboarding. He used a wheelchair for several months and it was at this point that he began teaching himself guitar by playing along with bands such as Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death and Metallica. Carpenter attended McClatchy High School with future bandmates Chino Moreno and Abe Cunningham and they were childhood friends and remained friends through the skateboarding scene in Sacramento. When Moreno found out Carpenter played guitar, he set up a jam session with Cunningham and his relationship with Deftones lead singer and bandmate Chino Moreno has been recorded as being fraught at times. Apparently, recording of Saturday Night Wrist was protracted due to their warfare and he is Testament singer, Chuck Billys, first cousin. Carpenter has stated that he listens to hip hop, but outside of hip hop, Meshuggah, Fear Factory, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax. He has also stated that his album of all time is Chaosphere by Meshuggah, saying, The most brutal record Ive heard. It left me wondering where the hell Id been the whole time, while recording Deftones Diamond Eyes, he claimed that the only artist he listened to was American rapper Tech N9ne. Carpenter is a member of the instrumental project Sol Invicto. The band released its debut EP, Initium in 2011 for free, the bands second EP, Initium II was released in 2013 via the bands official SoundCloud page. The final instalment of the Initium series was released late 2016, the groups music is only available to fans via their private mailing list The Sol Invicto Comiti
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Adrenaline (album)
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Adrenaline is the debut studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones, released in 1995 by Maverick Records. A hidden track on the album, Fist, was produced by Ross Robinson, regarding the recording, drummer Abe Cunningham said, At the time we did the first record – which I really like and think is good – you can tell the band was really young. Wed been playing most of songs for quite a while. Frontman Chino Moreno felt that Adrenaline was recorded really fast,7 Words was released as the first single from the album on December 17,1995. Bored was issued as the single on April 4,1996. Music videos were released for 7 Words, Bored, Root,9, the latter song was also featured in the film Law Abiding Citizen. In 1995, Jon Wiederhorn of Pulse stated Adrenaline pitches between gloom-saturated melodies and explosive riffs, lashing out like a sleep-deprived paranoiac awakened by noisy neighbors. The rhythms are crisp and crafty and the vocals resonate both fury and sensitivity in a way similar to, but far more blatantly metallic than Nirvana. Critic Katherine Turman wrote in January 1996 that If this is heavy metal is evolving into. He also noted there is a bit of sameness in Chino Morenos whispered vocal melodies. In the book The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal, author Essi Berelian wrote that the album stands as one of the best examples of nu-metal. In critic Tim Karans 20th anniversary assessment for Diffuser, he wrote, For those who were swept up in the burgeoning movement, Adrenaline was a landmark. While the album was unsuccessful, extensive touring and word-of-mouth promotion built the band a dedicated fanbase. When asked what he attributed the success to, bassist Chi Cheng responded, One word. Weve been together for almost eight years, on the road for two and we do it with honesty and integrity – and the kids can tell, the album was certified gold by the RIAA on July 7,1999 in recognition of 500,000 units sold. It was eventually certified platinum on September 23,2008 in recognition of 1,000,000 units sold, note Fist is currently misspelled First on several digital editions, as well as Japanese copies. On Rhapsody, it is oddly titled Opus 11, Deftones Chino Moreno – lead vocals Stephen Carpenter – guitar Chi Cheng – bass, backing vocals Abe Cunningham – drums
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Around the Fur
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Around the Fur is the second studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones, released in 1997 by Maverick Records. The songs My Own Summer and Be Quiet and Drive were both released as singles with accompanying videos and it was their first RIAA-certified album, certified gold in June 1999, with predecessor Adrenaline also certified gold a few weeks later. The album was certified platinum on June 7,2011. On Around the Fur, Deftones shifted away from the sound of their debut, using elements of such as new wave. The album has also described as alternative metal, nu metal. Around the Fur was the album to feature Frank Delgado under additional personnel. The song Headup featured additional vocals by Max Cavalera of Soulfly and it was written by Cavalera and Deftones singer Chino Moreno as a way of venting some of their pain over the loss of Dana Wells, Cavaleras stepson and Chinos friend. The band name Soulfly was taken from a portmanteau invented for the song, while the albums lyrics were included in the booklet, not every single word was printed. A good example is the song Lhabia, In the verses, there is also one verse missing from the song Headup. The album cover was shot by photographer Rick Kosick during a party in Seattle where the band was recording. Upon seeing the photo of a woman, the band decided that they wanted to use it as the album cover. Kosick was unsure who the woman was, so the band had to find and track her down to obtain permission to use the photo, Moreno has since expressed his dislike of the cover, calling it horrible. When we went in to make this record, we didnt have a set idea of what we wanted to come out with. However, he felt that the fell into place once the band had settled into the studio. The band expanded its sound, spending time with producer Terry Date. Abe Cunningham varied his drum sound and experimented by using different types of drums on almost every track. The album was praised for its dynamics, the flow of the tracks, Morenos unusual vocals. The album was anticipated, and propelled the band to fame in the alternative metal scene on the strength of radio and MTV airplay for the singles My Own Summer and Be Quiet
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
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My Own Summer (Shove It)
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My Own Summer is a single by American alternative metal band Deftones, their first to be taken from the album Around the Fur. It was released in 1997 by Maverick Records and it was Deftones first charting single, reaching number 29 in the UK Singles Chart. The song has described as alternative metal and nu metal. The video for My Own Summer, directed by Dean Karr, begins with a clip of a cage falling into the sea and it then moves to footage of the band playing on a set of floating anti-shark cages. Eventually, a shark appears and is seen to be eating a piece of meat, at the end of the video, frontman Chino Moreno falls into the water and the video fades out. An interview with Moreno that takes place during the filming of the video was included on the DVD release of B-Sides & Rarities, a version of the song was featured on the soundtrack of The Matrix. All lyrics by Chino Moreno, except My Own Summer and Lotion, by Chino Moreno, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
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Be Quiet and Drive is the second single released from the American alternative metal band Deftones second album, Around the Fur. It was their first single to chart on the US charts, peaking at number 29 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, although it was a more modest hit than the follow-up, Change, it was included in the game Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX, released in 2000. An acoustic version appeared on the soundtrack to the film Little Nicky and this version, which featured Adam Sandler, the star of the movie, as well as Jonah Matranga of Far, was also included on the Deftones B-Sides & Rarities album. A video was filmed to accompany the release, directed by Frank W. Ockenfels III. Stylistically, the song was described as metal, nu metal. The song was featured in the game Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX as a music track. Be Quiet and Drive at Discogs
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White Pony
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White Pony is the third studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones, released on June 20,2000 by Maverick Records. White Pony is also their album to date. The album was certified platinum by the RIAA on July 17,2002, the album includes three successful singles as well as the 2001 Grammy Award-winning track for Best Metal Performance, Elite. White Pony was also the first album to feature Frank Delgado as a member of the band on turntables. Delgado had worked previously with the band as a featured guest on Around the Fur and Adrenaline, producing sound effects on some songs. After a break from touring, the band spent four months in the writing and recording White Pony with producer Terry Date. Frontman Chino Moreno explained that the majority of time was spent trying to write songs. Despite being pressured to release the album sooner, the decided to take their time making the album. Bassist Chi Cheng explained, We didnt feel like we had anything to lose, so we made the record we wanted to make. Moreno did not have a lyrical theme in mind, but made a conscious decision to bring an element of fantasy into his lyrics, explaining. I made up a lot of lines and some dialogue. I took myself out of it and wrote about other things. Once I did that I was able to sing about anything I wanted to, there’s a lot of stuff on this record that people are going to question me about, and I can just remove myself from it. Although the band initially did not intend to include guest musicians on the album, it featured vocals by Maynard James Keenan on Passenger. The albums lyrics were included in the CD booklet, with explicit language noted with phonetically similar words, for example, on Street Carp, the lyric Now take it home and fuck with it was written as Now take it home and have fun with it. Stylistically, White Pony blended the bands metal sound, influenced by bands such as Tool, Faith No More and Nine Inch Nails. The original opener for the album, Feiticeira, lacks conventional song structure and builds over a background of guitars, Moreno discussed the lyrics to the song, The name Feiticeira is some Portuguese name that I read in a magazine and just liked. Its based on the scenario of being taken captive, I want that people who listen to it feel like they are the ones in the situation
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Frank Delgado (American musician)
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Frank Delgado is an American musician. He samples and plays keyboards and turntables for Deftones and he was a guest performer on several songs on the groups first and second albums, Adrenaline and Around the Fur, and was formally inaugurated into the group just before their third release White Pony. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was not uncommon for rock or heavy metal groups to have a DJ. However, Delgado stood apart from the due to his creativity. Instead, he tends to use turntables as a sampler to integrate subtle sounds and textures into the music, remisicent of electronic music, ambient, with the bands fourth album, Deftones, Delgado began to put more emphasis on keyboards and synthesizers as part of his repertoire. Delgado has also commented that he creates his own samples, rather than use pre-recorded sample banks or borrowing sounds from other artists. Delgado is also in a DJ collective known as the Decibel Devils together with DJ Crook, who is involved in Team Sleep. Deftones Official Site Deftones MySpace Decibel Devils Official Site Decibel Devils MySpace Deftones Interview With Frank Delgado and Abe Cunningham
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New wave music
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New wave is a genre of rock music popular from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with ties to 1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from smooth blues and rock and roll sounds to create pop music that incorporated electronic and experimental music, mod, initially new wave was similar to punk rock, before becoming a distinct genre. It subsequently engendered subgenres and fusions, including synth-pop, college rock, common characteristics of new wave music include the use of synthesizers and electronic productions, the importance of styling and the arts, as well as diversity. In the mid-1980s, differences between new wave and other genres began to blur. New wave has enjoyed resurgences since the 1990s, after a rising nostalgia for several new wave-influenced artists, subsequently, the genre influenced other genres. During the 2000s, a number of acts explored new wave and post-punk influences, such as the Strokes, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand and these acts were sometimes labeled new wave of new wave. The catch-all nature of new music has been a source of much confusion. The 1985 discography Whos New Wave in Music listed artists in over 130 separate categories, the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock calls the term virtually meaningless, while AllMusic mentions stylistic diversity. New wave first emerged as a genre in the early 1970s, used by critics including Nick Kent and Dave Marsh to classify such New York-based groups as the Velvet Underground. It gained currency beginning in 1976 when it appeared in UK punk fanzines such as Sniffin Glue and newsagent music weeklies such as Melody Maker and New Musical Express. In November 1976 Caroline Coon used Malcolm McLarens term new wave to designate music by bands not exactly punk, the term was also used in that sense by music journalist Charles Shaar Murray in his comments about the Boomtown Rats. For a period of time in 1976 and 1977, the new wave. By the end of 1977, new wave had replaced punk as the definition for new music in the UK. As radio consultants in the United States had advised their clients that punk rock was a fad, like the filmmakers of the French new wave movement, its new artists were anti-corporate and experimental. At first, most U. S. writers exclusively used the new wave for British punk acts. Music historian Vernon Joynson claimed that new wave emerged in the UK in late 1976, in the U. S. the first new wavers were the not-so-punk acts associated with the New York club CBGB. CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, referring to the first show of the band Television at his club in March 1974, said, furthermore, many artists who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed new wave. A1977 Phonogram Records compilation album of the same name features US artists including the Dead Boys, Ramones, Talking Heads, New wave is much more closely tied to punk and came and went more quickly in the United Kingdom than in the United States
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Dream pop
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Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock and neo-psychedelia that developed in the 1980s. The style is typified by a preoccupation with atmosphere and texture as much as melody, the AllMusic Guide to Electronica defines dream pop as an atmospheric subgenre of alternative rock that relies on sonic textures as much as melody. Common characteristics are breathy vocals and use of effects, often producing a wall of noise. Dream pop tends to focus on textures and moods rather than propulsive rock riffs, lyrics are often introspective or existential in nature. In the view of music critic Simon Reynolds, dream pop celebrates rapturous and transcendent experiences, often using druggy, according to Rachel Felder, dream pop artists often resist representations of social reality in favor of ambiguous or hallucinogenic experiences. The term dream pop, which is thought to relate to the immersion in the experienced by the listener, was coined in the late 1980s by Alex Ayuli to describe the music of his band A. R. It was later adopted by Simon Reynolds to describe the nascent shoegazing scene in the UK, in the 1990s, dream pop and shoegazing were interchangeable and regionally dependent terms, with dream pop being the name by which shoegazing was known in America. Reynolds described dream pop bands as a wave of hazy neo-psychedelic groups, rolling Stone also described dream pop as originating with the early 1980s work of Cocteau Twins and their contemporaries. PopMatters noted an evolutionary line from gothic rock to dream pop, ambient pop music was described by AllMusic as essentially an extension of the dream pop that emerged in the wake of the shoegazer movement, distinct for its incorporation of electronic textures. According to N. George Harrisons 1970 album All Things Must Pass, with its Wall of Sound and fluid arrangements, led music journalist John Bergstrom to credit it as an influence on dream pop
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Trip hop
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Trip hop is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. Trip hop can be highly experimental and it was pioneered by acts like Massive Attack, Tricky, and Portishead. Trip hop achieved commercial success in the 1990s, and has described as Europes alternative choice in the second half of the 90s. DJs, MCs, b-boys and graffiti artists grouped together into informal soundsystems, Bristols soundsystem DJs, drawing heavily on Jamaican dub music, typically used a laid-back, slow and heavy drum beat. Bristols Wild Bunch crew became one of the soundsystems to put a spin on the international phenomenon, helping to birth Bristols signature sound of trip hop. As the hip hop scene matured in Bristol and musical trends evolved further toward acid jazz and house in the late 1980s, another influence came from Gary Clails Tackhead soundsystem. Clail often worked with former The Pop Group singer Mark Stewart, produced by Adrian Sherwood, the music combined hiphop with experimental rock and dub and sounded like a premature version of what later became trip hop. In 1993, Kirsty MacColl released Angel, one of the first examples of the crossing over to pop. In the 1990s, Janet Jackson brought trip hop into the American charts with the song If, several songs on her Janet. and The Velvet Rope used this genre of music, Songs like Got Til Its Gone and You. Massive Attacks first album Blue Lines was released in 1991 to huge success in the UK, Massive Attack released their second album entitled Protection in 1994. The term trip hop was coined that year, but not in reference to anything on the Massive Attack albums, in 1993, Icelandic musician Björk released Debut, produced by Wild Bunch member Nellee Hooper. The album, although rooted in four-on-the-floor house music, contained elements of trip hop and is credited as one of the first albums to introduce electronic music into mainstream pop. She had been in contact with Londons underground electronic music scene and was involved with trip hop musician Tricky. Björk embraced trip hop even more with her 1995 album Post by collaborating with Tricky, homogenic, her 1997 album, has been described as a pinnacle of trip hop music. 1994 and 1995 saw trip hop near the peak of its popularity, with such as Howie B, Naked Funk. The period also marked the debut of two acts who, along with Massive Attack, would define the Bristol scene for years to come, in 1994 Portishead, a trio comprising singer Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley, released their debut album Dummy. Their background differed from Massive Attack in many ways, one of Portisheads primary influences was 1960s and 1970s film soundtrack LPs, nevertheless, Portishead shared the scratchy, jazz-sample-based aesthetic of early Massive Attack, and the sullen, fragile vocals of Gibbons also brought them wide acclaim. In 1995, Dummy was awarded the Mercury Music Prize as the best British album of the year, Tricky also released his debut solo album Maxinquaye in 1995, to great critical acclaim
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Change (In the House of Flies)
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Change, often referred to as Change, is a song by the American alternative metal band Deftones, released as the first single from their third album, White Pony, in June 2000. It remains their most commercially successful single to date, peaking at No.3 in Billboards Modern Rock Tracks chart, No.9 in the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the song was featured on the Muchmusic compilation album Big Shiny Tunes 5. The song has described as alternative rock. The music video, directed by Liz Friedlander, features the playing at a party. The people attending have apathetic looks and wear animal masks, the video was shot from May 30–31,2000 at a Hollywood, California estate. An acoustic version appeared on the MTV The Return of the Rock, Vol.2 compilation, the EBM/industrial group Ayria recorded a cover of the song for the special 2CD version of their 2008 Hearts for Bullets album. Alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin performed a cover of this song during the spring leg of their 2008 tour. The post-grunge/alternative metal band Seether performed a cover of this song for SiriusXM in 2014. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Digital Bath
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Digital Bath is a song by the American alternative metal band Deftones from their third album, White Pony. It was released as a promotional single, digital Bath features a variety of effects and sampling. The verse is composed of echoed guitar chords and soothing, whispered vocals, the song also features a high vocal pitch from Chino Moreno virtually unheard in other Deftones material. Moreno stated that despite the prettiness of the song, its actually about electrocuting a girl in a bathtub, a music video for the song was directed by Andrew Bennett. Digital Bath was performed live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on February 9,2001, the song was played over the end credits of the 2001 horror movie Soul Survivors. English mathcore band Rolo Tomassi did a version for the Kerrang. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Back to School (Mini Maggit)
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Back to School is a song composed by the American alternative metal band Deftones. It is a version of the song Pink Maggit from the bands 2000 album White Pony. Shortly after the initial release, in a contentious move by the bands label, Maverick Records. The songs style has been described as nu metal as well as rap rock, Back to School was released as both a single and as an EP package, the single was released shortly before the EP. Vocalist Chino Moreno, This album right here is not the album that we turned in to the label, as far as were concerned, the first edition was the record. Then, they talked us into re-releasing it with another song on it, and its not like Im against the song or whatever, when this version came out, a little part inside all of us felt like, Fuck. And I know that a lot of our fans felt bad about it too, the band also specifically regretted the presence of Back to School on the re-release of the album, as Moreno stated in an interview with German rock magazine Visions, Back to School was a mistake. A calculated song, that had built up with only one aim in mind. Back to School was released because I was an idiot, months later, after White Pony was released, they wanted us to do a new version of Pink Maggit. They said we lost our heaviness, and there were no singles on the album. First, I wanted to stick this idea up my ass, and so I rapped a hip hop part on that song, we shortened it and half an hour later, the hit-single was ready to roll on
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Elite (song)
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White Pony is the third studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones, released on June 20,2000 by Maverick Records. White Pony is also their album to date. The album was certified platinum by the RIAA on July 17,2002, the album includes three successful singles as well as the 2001 Grammy Award-winning track for Best Metal Performance, Elite. White Pony was also the first album to feature Frank Delgado as a member of the band on turntables. Delgado had worked previously with the band as a featured guest on Around the Fur and Adrenaline, producing sound effects on some songs. After a break from touring, the band spent four months in the writing and recording White Pony with producer Terry Date. Frontman Chino Moreno explained that the majority of time was spent trying to write songs. Despite being pressured to release the album sooner, the decided to take their time making the album. Bassist Chi Cheng explained, We didnt feel like we had anything to lose, so we made the record we wanted to make. Moreno did not have a lyrical theme in mind, but made a conscious decision to bring an element of fantasy into his lyrics, explaining. I made up a lot of lines and some dialogue. I took myself out of it and wrote about other things. Once I did that I was able to sing about anything I wanted to, there’s a lot of stuff on this record that people are going to question me about, and I can just remove myself from it. Although the band initially did not intend to include guest musicians on the album, it featured vocals by Maynard James Keenan on Passenger. The albums lyrics were included in the CD booklet, with explicit language noted with phonetically similar words, for example, on Street Carp, the lyric Now take it home and fuck with it was written as Now take it home and have fun with it. Stylistically, White Pony blended the bands metal sound, influenced by bands such as Tool, Faith No More and Nine Inch Nails. The original opener for the album, Feiticeira, lacks conventional song structure and builds over a background of guitars, Moreno discussed the lyrics to the song, The name Feiticeira is some Portuguese name that I read in a magazine and just liked. Its based on the scenario of being taken captive, I want that people who listen to it feel like they are the ones in the situation
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Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance
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The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for works containing quality performances in the heavy metal music genre. The ceremony was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, the NARAS recognized heavy metal music artists for the first time at the 31st Grammy Awards. The category was presented as Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental. Jethro Tull won that award for the album Crest of a Knave, beating Metallica and this choice led to widespread criticism of the NARAS, as journalists suggested that the music of Jethro Tull did not belong in the hard rock or heavy metal genres. In response, the NARAS created the categories Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance, Metallica won in the first three years. The awards were presented for the song One, a version of Queens Stone Cold Crazy. As of 2011, Metallica holds the record for the most wins in this category, the bands Black Sabbath, Nine Inch Nails, Slayer, and Tool have each received the award twice. The bands Ministry and Anthrax hold the record for the most nominations without win, ^ Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year. List of Grammy Award categories Timeline of heavy metal music Official site of the Grammy Awards
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Godsmack
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Godsmack is an American rock band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The band is composed of founder, frontman and songwriter Sully Erna, guitarist Tony Rombola, bassist Robbie Merrill, since its formation, Godsmack which has resulted in six studio albums, one EP, four DVDs, one compilation album, and one live album. The band has had three consecutive albums on the Billboard 200. The band also has 20 top ten rock radio hits, including 15 songs in the top five, a record number of top ten singles by a rock artist. Since its inception, Godsmack has toured on Ozzfest on more than one occasion, Godsmack has sold over 20 million records in just over a decade. In honor of the success and the release of their sixth studio album, 1000hp. In February 1995, Sully Erna decided to start a new band as the singer after playing the drums for more than 23 years. His new band, The Scam, formed with Erna on vocals, Robbie Merrill on bass, local guitarist and friend Lee Richards on guitar, the Scam quickly changed its name to Godsmack, after recording one demo. The newly formed band started playing small bars in their hometown of Boston, locally popular songs such as Keep Away and Whatever soon brought them to the top of the hit charts in the Boston/New England area. The name stuck and they went by Godsmack from then on and we were aware of the Alice in Chains song but didnt really think much about it. In 1996, Tony Rombola and Joe DArco joined Godsmack as the guitarist and drummer, after Richards left upon learning he had a six-year-old child, in the same year, the band entered the studio for the first time, recording its first CD titled All Wound Up. The CD was recorded in just three days for $2,600, for the next two years, the band played throughout the Boston area. Eventually Godsmacks CD landed in the hands of Rocko, the night-time DJ for Boston radio station WAAF, the radio station put Keep Away into heavy rotation and the song rose to the number one spot at the station very quickly. Newbury Comics, a New England record store chain, agreed to sell the CD on consignment, shortly after the success of Keep Away, Godsmack went back into the studio and recorded a single titled Whatever, which became the new local favorite on WAAF. In an interview Sully Erna stated, We had been selling maybe 50 copies a month at the time WAAF picked up the album, All of a sudden we started moving over a thousand records a week. I was doing all this from my bedroom, after years of grinding away, things finally started taking off. In mid-1998, Universal/Republic Records signed the band to their label, Joe DArco was dismissed from the band. He was replaced by former drummer Tommy Stewart, who returned after expressing a desire to be in the band again, the bands first studio recording All Wound Up was re-mastered, and the finished self-titled debut CD album Godsmack was released to the public six weeks later
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Puddle of Mudd
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Puddle of Mudd is an American rock band formed in 1991. To date, the band has sold seven million albums and has had a string of No.1 mainstream rock singles in the United States. Their major-label debut Come Clean has sold five million copies. Puddle of Mudd was formed on September 13,1991, in Kansas City by Wes Scantlin, Jimmy Allen, Sean Sammon, in order to get to their practice space, the band had to walk through a pile of shit. The groups first album, Stuck, was released in 1994 on V&R Records, the album was produced by the band and E. J. Rose, and was recorded at Red House Studio in Lawrence, minus Jimmy Allen, the group released a second album, Abrasive, in 1997 on Hardknocks Records. It had eleven tracks, all written by the band, three of which would make it on to Puddle of Mudds first major label release. Differences of opinion and other led to the break-up of the original Puddle of Mudd by early 1999. Kenny and Sean were still in the band, and Wes had gone out as a DJ for his girlfriend, scantlins big break in the music business came after a copy of his demo tape was delivered to Fred Durst. Durst contacted Scantlin, and after hearing that his band had broken up, One of the first people Scantlin met upon arriving in California was Doug Ardito, an intern at Interscope Records. When Scantlin found out about Arditos bass playing, they decided to work together and they were still in need of a guitarist and drummer. Fred Durst decided to contact a guitarist he knew from his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida, Paul Phillips, after getting the call from Durst, Paul decided to try out for Puddle of Mudd and was accepted, choosing to leave college in order to join. The band held auditions for a new drummer and selected Greg Upchurch, Puddle of Mudd released its major-label debut album Come Clean on August 28,2001. The lead single from the album, Control was successful and it was also the theme song for WWEs Survivor Series 2001, which was critically acclaimed. The song was used in the game Ace Combat 5. Drift & Die co-written by Jimmy Allen was also released as a single spending six weeks at the No.1 on the Mainstream Rock Chart. The fourth single, She Hates Me co-written by Jimmy Allen was released in late 2002, Allen and Scantlin won the ASCAP award for most played rock song of the year. Puddle of Mudds follow up, Life on Display, spawned three singles Away From Me, Heel Over Head, and Spin You Around, although shortly after its release, the record was certified gold and to date, has sold over 706,000 copies
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Deftones (album)
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Deftones is the self-titled fourth studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones. It was released on May 20,2003 by Maverick Records and it was the bands final album produced by Terry Date, whose collaboration with Deftones dated back to their 1995 debut, Adrenaline. Originally titled Lovers, the album was given an eponymous title because singer Chino Moreno considered Lovers too obvious in relation to the context of its material. Deftones was the last album produced by Date, who had collaborated with the band since Adrenaline, the bands slow writing and recording pace frustrated Date, as well as their lack of previously composed material when they entered the studio. A leaked track list from a prior to the albums release featured Needles & Pins as the opener, under the title Aria, The song title. Deftones is an album, with songs spanning many different ideas in diverse genres. It has a different feel than prior efforts, due in part to Frank Delgado leaving his turntables behind and instead focusing on playing keyboards. Most of the songs make extensive use of the bands low G# tuning and Morenos high screams. On the other hand, the track Lucky You is a dark, soft, trip hop-influenced piece featuring DJ Crook from Morenos side project Team Sleep, a grand piano and toy piano were featured in the mournful Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event. In addition to influences, significant shoegaze elements have been noted on the album. Deftones produced two singles, Minerva and Hexagram, music videos were shot for both singles as well as the track Bloody Cape. The latters video was available on the bands official website for one day. As the lead single, Minerva featured a melodic, commercially viable sound, in contrast, the extreme heaviness of Hexagram landed it on shows such as Uranium and Headbangers Ball. Deftones was well received by critics, earning a rating of 74 on Metacritic. Q praised the album, giving it 4.5 out of 5 stars, stating, In a genre considered creatively bankrupt, rolling Stone stated, This is metal that crushes, then soothes, collapses, then soars. Deftones just blows open the possibilities, in contrast, reviewers from sites such The A. V. Club and AllMusic gave the album positive scores but criticized the band for returning to their style, instead of the more soft and artistic style of its predecessor. Playlouders mixed review praised the musicianship, but criticized Morenos high
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B-Sides & Rarities (Deftones album)
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B-Sides & Rarities is a compilation album by alternative rock/metal band Deftones, consisting of a CD and a DVD. The CD compiled previously released and unreleased B-sides, while the DVD featured multimedia content and it was released in 2005 by Maverick Records. B-Sides and Rarities is an overall resounding effort by perhaps the smartest members of the now moribund Nü-Metal genre,7 Words Bored My Own Summer Be Quiet and Drive Change Back to School Digital Bath Minerva Hexagram Bloody Cape Engine Number 9 Root
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Saturday Night Wrist
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Saturday Night Wrist is the fifth studio album by the American alternative metal band Deftones. It was released by Maverick Records on October 31,2006, despite early contributions that were later scrapped, Saturday Night Wrist marked the departure of mainstay Deftones producer Terry Date. It was their last released album to feature bass player Chi Cheng before his car accident in 2008, Saturday Night Wrist was the product of an arduous and stressful creative process lasting roughly two years and straining relationships within the band. Complicating matters, and inspiring many of the songs, were frontman Chino Morenos drug addictions. The final result was an album met with critical praise, in early 2004, Maverick Records told Deftones they needed to head into the studio due to the lackluster sales of the bands self-titled effort. They began pioneering ideas for a new album at their studio, The Spot, in Sacramento, Deftones spent most of the summer there, resulting in an albums worth of material that Moreno described as straight evil music. They then began searching for a producer and started recording and they initially considered enlisting Ken Andrews of Failure and Ric Ocasek of The Cars, but to no avail. They then worked with Dan the Automator for about a week, according to guitarist Stephen Carpenter, during collaboration with Dan, Deftones seemed to be pursuing the more technical, math metal-based elements of the bands sound. After some deliberation, however, Moreno and drummer Abe Cunningham successfully pushed for working with producer Bob Ezrin, recording of the album began in November 2004. During the sessions, tensions mounted within the band and between singer Moreno and producer Ezrin, Moreno eventually jumped ship to continue work on his side project Team Sleep while the rest of the band continued recording. The Ezrin sessions concluded before Christmas and the band relocated back to their base in Sacramento to take a break. In early 2005, Deftones started tweaking the Ezrin material with Virtue at their studio The Spot, Moreno decided to take a break from recording in the spring to tour with Team Sleep, who were also releasing their long-awaited debut album. The rest of the band, while anxious to finish the album, during the hiatus, Deftones released a 10-year anniversary CD/DVD titled B-Sides & Rarities on October 4,2005. It included one of the songs from the Virtue sessions, a cover of Wax, in late 2005, Moreno met with Date to help record vocals for some of the remaining tracks. The band also managed to record a cover of John Lennons Jealous Guy for Amnesty International as well as an iTunes exclusive cover of The Cars Drive. In early 2006, all recorded vocals were scrapped and the band started working on the album again with longtime friend Shaun Lopez acting as producer. Finally, with all recording finished in April 2006, the album was mixed by Ryan Williams, the album featured musical contributions from Annie Hardy of Giant Drag and Serj Tankian of System of a Down, the latter also contributed to the writing of one song, Mein. Carpenter stated in interviews that a significant portion of the songs were based on ideas by Morenos ideas and that Pink Cellphone, minus Hardys vocals, was all Chino
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Eros (Deftones album)
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Eros is the working title of an unreleased album by American alternative metal band Deftones with tentative release dates in 2008 and 2009. The November 2008 car accident of bassist Chi Cheng forced the band to hold off on releasing the album. With Cheng in a coma, Deftones recruited former Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega, in the years that followed, the band has had mixed feelings about finishing and officially releasing Eros at some point down the road. Beginning with the process and subsequent rigorous touring schedule to promote Deftones 2000 album White Pony. This tension carried over to the recording of the fourth studio album, Deftones, in 2003. Deftones were not pleased with the album created and did not tour much in support of it. In the middle of recording Saturday Night Wrist, singer Chino Moreno went on a tour with his side project Team Sleep. Deftones were on the verge of breaking up due to the personal lives of each member both inside and outside of the band. This time period in the chronology is referred to by Deftones as the Dark Days. Prior to the tour in support of Saturday Night Wrist, a meeting was held with Deftones, when asked if the members still wanted to continue as a band, the answer was a unanimous, Fuck yeah we do, which resulted in a huge powwow and hug session. This meeting was a turning point for band morale. During their tour with The Fall of Troy, Deftones set up a room each night to jam together as a whole band. In October 2007, Deftones returned to their home in California and revamped their studio, according to Carpenter, the studio became more of a clubhouse or treehouse with a studio in it. The band built a bar in the studio and would go there to drink, play cards, Deftones used their pre-production time as therapy to vent about their lives in a positive environment. At this time, several members were going through divorces, custody battles over their children, money issues and other problems. By the end of October, Deftones had written half of an album, the working title of Eros was announced in January 2008. The tentative title stemmed from a joke between the band members. Drummer Abe Cunningham stated that while touring Germany, Thered always be some sort of German porn, and they would say, Eros. it was just kind of funny
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Chi Cheng (musician)
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Chi Ling Dai Cheng was an American musician and poet, best known as the bassist for the American alternative metal band Deftones. His career ended in 2008, when he was involved in an automobile crash in Santa Clara. After the crash, he remained in a state before dying of a cardiac arrest in April 2013. After Chengs hospitalization, Deftones friend Sergio Vega became the bands full-time bassist, Cheng was born in July 1970 in Stockton, California, to Jeanne and Yin Yan Cheng. His father, a prominent Stockton cardiologist, was a Chinese immigrant, Cheng graduated from Tokay High School and attended California State University in Sacramento, enrolling in 1989. He worked on campus, wrote poetry, and played with his band Deftones during the course of his education, Cheng was studying English at Sacramento State when he joined Deftones. He would continue on as a poet and spoken word artist through his career with the band and he also authored an anthology of poetry titled The Bamboo Parachute, which was released in 2000 as a spoken word album. Cheng gave proceeds from the CD to various charities and to buy instruments for kids in the Sacramento area. Cheng was a practicing Buddhist and maintained an interest in Taoism and Shamanism, in addition to his conversion to Buddhism during his university years, he also became a vegetarian. Cheng had one son, Gabriel Cheng, from a previous marriage, Cheng was seriously injured in an automobile crash in Santa Clara, California, on November 4,2008. Cheng was traveling with his sister, Mae, when their vehicle flipped three times after hitting another car going 60 mph, Cheng, who was in the passenger seat, was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle. Mae was wearing a seatbelt and sustained minor injuries and she attended to Cheng, holding his head until two off-duty EMTs, who happened to have their medical equipment, rendered aid. They were able to insert a tube into Chengs throat to help him breathe until the ambulance arrived, the crash left Cheng in a coma. In February 2009, Deftones announced that they would perform as scheduled at the Bamboozle Left music festival in April, Vega has since performed and recorded regularly with Deftones, including on the 2010 album Diamond Eyes, Koi No Yokan and its follow-up Gore. On April 26,2009, Cheng was readmitted to ICU following a near-fatal septicemia infection, he survived the infection following treatment and was released from ICU about a week later. Following the release, a rumor started to spread in early May that Cheng had awakened fully from his coma but this was denied on oneloveforchi. com, stating that Cheng is in a semi-conscious state. On August 18, Cheng underwent surgery to replace a bone flap in his skull that had been removed after the crash, in order to relieve intracranial pressure. Oneloveforchi. com was created in March to help raise funds for Cheng and his medical expenses and it is also a place where fans can read personal blogs and comments from the Cheng family, and record a message that will be played to Cheng to further speed his recovery
