Awesome news! Last week Friday the awesome folks at Hilltop Live confirmed that Deftones would be the second international headline at Oppikoppi 2013 Bewilderbeast! The first international headliner to be announced for the festival was Yellowcard.
Deftones have been around since 1988. The band hail from Sacramento in the USA and its current members are Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham, Chino Moreno, Frank Delgado and Sergio Vega. The only former member of the band is Chi Cheng (who was involved in a serious car accident in 2008 and passed away in April 2013).
Deftones have released 7 studio albums to date: Adrenaline (1995), Around The Fur (1997), White Pony (2000), Deftones (2003), Saturday Night Wrist (2006), Diamond Eyes (2010) and Koi No Yokan (2012). Three of their albums have gone platinum and one of their albums have gone gold. They also won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.
Deftones have a distinct sound, but the genre that they fall into is widely debated by critics. Some folks label them as alternative metal, but others have classified them as art rock, experimental rock, nu metal, post-punk, post-hardcore, drone, progressive rock, shoegaze, metalgaze, post-metal, post-grunge, psychedelic rock or rap metal. All this aside, I think it’s safe to say that they’re a loud alternative rock band.
I’m not the biggest Deftones fan, but I’m pretty fond of some of their songs like “My Own Summer (Shove It)”, “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)”, “Change (In The House of Flies)” and “Hole in The Earth”. To give you an idea of their sound, watch the video fro “My Own Summer (Shove It)” (which was also on the soundtrack for the The Matrix) below
Since I have not seen this band live, I’m looking forward to see what Deftones can do on the Oppikoppi 2013 Belwilderbeast stage. I’m pretty sure that it’s going to be an awesome experience. There are a lot of rock fans out there who changed their minds about going to this year’s Oppikoppi after they heard the announcement – so I’m expecting to see some older rockers losing their minds in front of the stage.
Besides the Deftones announcement, the Oppikoppi 2013 organizers have also confirmed that Die See, Vana and The Oh So Serious, Justin Serrao, Carlo Mombeli, Robert Delong, Death by Misadventure and Mango Groove will also be performing this year. I was pretty stoked about the Mango Groove announcement – this 11 piece band have been around for 19 years and I still have not seen them live, guess I’ll have to get my dancing shoes on and clear my throat to sing along during their set.
Oppikoppi 2013 Bewilderbeast is going to be huge, so try not to miss out on it. Tickets cost R650 via the Standard Bank Youth Portal or R800 if bought directly via the Oppikoppi Festival Facebook page. Remember that you can also follow @oppikoppifest via Twitter for updates about the festival.
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