Sacramento indie metal kings Deftones have extended their tour right to our doorstep, playing Rogers Place on Aug. 24.
The innovative and experimental band sometimes dubbed the “Radiohead of metal” has in its 37 years strayed into everything from trip hop to funk, dream pop to psychedelia, but is best known for the soupy, slow-burn Change (In the House of Flies), the wispy then face-kick thrash of My Own Summer, the swirly-drunken Mascara and of course that bikini album cover of 1997’s stratosphere-rising Around the Fur, followed by White Pony in 2000 — which netted the band a Grammy for Best Metal Performance for the song Elite.
With nine albums, they’ve sold over 10 million albums around the world, streamed 8.3 billion times.
Frontman Chino Moreno, guitarist Stephen Carpenter and drummer Abe Cunningham are all childhood friends and Deftones OGs still with the band for those into endurance and continuity, which can likely be attributed at least in part to the fact the band never stays exactly in one place, always willing to push into strange new dimensions.
Keyboardist Frank Delgado has also been around since guesting way back on the first album.
Phantogram and The Barbarians of California open the show up, general on-sale tickets 10 a.m. Monday, with pre-sales 10 a.m. Friday.
Beaumont Music Festival unveils lineup
Meanwhile, Beaumont Music Festival has announced the lovely Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and iconic Canadian rock band 54-40 as its Friday and Saturday night headliners.
Taking place in Beaumont’s Four Seasons Park June 20 and 21 — same weekend as North Country Fair up by Driftpile and Sled Island down in Calgary — BMF in its 18th iteration claims the title of longest-running 100 per cent all-Canadian music festival.
Friday will also feature Five Alarm Funk, Jeremy Fisher and Shaguar.
Saturday — a CanRock celebration — will see The Grapes of Wrath, ODDS and RadioActive join the fun.