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Deftones Tease New Music: Post Dates for Mini-Tour
Deftones have posted a tease of a new track titled “Gore” via their official website as well as revealing tour dates for a short tour that will take place this March. While only six dates have been revealed (all taking place in the Southwest of the States), there is a lot of room in between the confirmed appearances to expand the tour.
Vocalist Chino Moreno spoke about the sound of the new album in an interview with BBC Radio 1’s “Rock Show” last Spring, saying:
I think it’s a little more of a heady record. I feel like we’ve gone into the songs and really dissected them. If something sounded a little straight, we took a left turn and made things a little screwy. We just tried something completely opposite, not to sabotage it, but to challenge ourselves and try new things that we haven’t done in the past.
“It definitely feels like we’ve taken a step from our last record. But it’s definitely a DEFTONES record, and it has all the elements that make us who we are. We’re not going out there to change anything, other than just thinking outside the box.
This new album, which will come out April 8th, will be the followup to 2012’s excellent Koi No Yokan.
Tour dates:
MAR 05 MUSINK FESTIVAL Costa Mesa, CA
MAR 16 NEVER SAY NEVER FESTIVAL Mission, TX
MAR 19 LONESTAR EVENTS CENTER San Antonio, TX
MAR 20 SOUTH SIDE BALLROOM Dallas, TX
MAR 22 REVENTION MUSIC CENTER Houston, TX
MAR 24 LONESTAR PAVILION Lubbock, TX
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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