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The Engine Shed, Lincoln 12 April 2007
Review by Dan45 Photos by Tom Cassidy
Promoting their new release 'Saturday Night Wrist' (named after the drunken complaint of falling asleep on ones arm), they at once hammered two chords into unconsciousness with 'Hole In The Earth' before swaying into a similarly destructive 'Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)'. 'Nosebleed' impressed with electronic atmospherics and damaged punk rock, sounding more and more like Radiohead as the song progressed, and fans favourite 'My Own Summer' demonstrated their strength and intent with a master class in tension and release. Amusingly, so as not to take themselves too seriously, they almost broke into a version of Elvis' 'Blue Suede Shoes' with Moreno pulling off a more than convincing impersonation of 'The King', but soon had better ideas playing a brutal version of 'Xerces' with some engaging keyboard playing from Frank Delgado.
Interestingly, the band appeared to sound at their best when Frank Delgado left the stage, taking with him his electronic atmospherics, and leaving Chino Moreno fronting a more natural, alive and more ferocious four piece of vocals, guitar, bass and drums. Abe Cunningham was inventive and dynamic behind the drum set, making terrific use of a single octoban but only once, at the end of the set during '7 Words', showed what he really can do besides grooving superbly on medium tempos. Chi Cheng supplied us with grunts and shouts, as well as acrobatically hurling his growling detuned bass around his neck. Guitarist Stephen Carpenter
Their songwriting never quite convinced, but this is a band that gets by on sonic sleight of hand as colossal riffs and '7 Words' saw the band climax to a catastrophic frenzy. Metal fans found much to satisfy them here, while equally there were traces of hypnotic, blissed out trance and angry punk rock. Considering complaints aimed at The Engine Shed for being too quiet a venue, the volume of the band was agreeably loud, playing a set that smashed and soothed in equal amount. Maybe the overall pace of the set was too sluggish, but their sludgy, stoned rock had the right amount of angst and aggression to overcome any complaints of tempo . While not quite having the depth of their studio output, deftones live certainly gave an excellent approximation of it.
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'Alright Lincoln' said Chino Moreno, front-man of Californian rock band Deftones as he stood on top of his specially constructed ego ramp. The formalities over, he and his band (Stephen Carpenter, guitar, Frank Delgado, keys, samples, Chi Cheng, bass, vocals and Abe Cunningham, drums) started the serious business of projecting their music to an eager, if thin on the ground crowd at The Engine Shed. 
displayed some monstrous riffing and as my excellent associate Tom keenly observed, the band were remarkable for their lack of 'shredding'. Seemingly, this is what deftones do so well, building layers of sound and tone, while Moreno weaves howling melodies into it, although at times his effected high pitched screams sounded more like a tortured Jimmy Somerville than a bona fide rock singer, his guitar playing displayed why it only gets a limited showing. This page was last updated Monday, 11 January 2010
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