Defones speaks with RS of “private music”, current moment, Brazil and “Eros”

The drummer Abe Cunningham guarantees that his band is in a “good moment”, cites his favorite songs of the new album and Raça returns for the shows in 2026

Just in the first question of the interview, the drummer of Defon, Abe CunninghamIt makes it clear, even if in a friendly tone: “We have things about what to talk beyond the old songs”. In fact, few bands managed to maintain their sound so current and preserve their relevance, even in new outings, like his.

Tagged incorrectly as naked metal, the American group formed in 1988 is one of the most experimental and inventive names of the genre. While the real representatives of the so called “nudes” were dated, they resisted the test of time. And although the intervals between the albums have become larger, Cunningham and his colleagues followed productive.

Private musicWhich will be launched on Friday 22 by the Replay/Warner (listens to Defones.lnk.to/privatemusic), is the tenth and most recent chapter of this trajectory. Abe, Chino Moreno (voice), Stephen Carpenter (guitar) e Frank Delgado (keyboards), accompanied by the bassist and the member assumed Fred SablanThey offer a slender and accurate disc, with 11 tracks distributed in 42 minutes and a sound that sets an ideal bridge between past, present and future. Gets a result that your two predecessors, Gore (2016) e Ohm (2020), they did not get.

Therefore, Cunningham is not afraid to mention that Defones lives “a good moment”. Invited to highlight a Private music,, cites three soon:

“I love the entire album, but ‘Milk of the Madonna’ It is in this list [de destaques]. Also has “I think of you all the time”more calm, like a ballad. ‘Fonte infinite’ It is also beautiful. “

Maintain the pleasant experience

As mentioned, the interval between the exit of the Defton albums was a little higher over time. Between Private music and the direct predecessor OhmFor five years: the biggest creative gap of the band. Abe Cunningham guarantees that the delay was intentional, since the process of conceiving the new album was marked with intervals.

“Stephen has always complained, ‘Why do you always go? Why not take time together?’ But we preferred to create the album in different periods and places.

Regardless of the gaps, the material was created in the same way as usual: the members come to the study “without many ideas” and, in the words of Abe, “nothing really happens until everyone is playing”. Also Sablan, who is not an official member, because he occupies the vacant place of Who chengHe died in 2013 and never fully replaced – he contributed to the process.

“We are good” old school “in our composition. The texts arrive last. The song must always be firm and be alone first. All very simple. We are brothers, so there have been many fights in the past. Today we communicate better. The most important part is the way we find ourselves, the vibration, do you know? And then the music arrives.”

Eat in Brazil

Of course, the question about the future shows of Defon in Brazil emerged in the chat. He warned that every year he has some voices – flat – on the band that performed here, Abe Cunningham did not hesitate and said:

“[A visita] It will happen very soon. Will be in 2026. “

Perhaps this reassures the movement of the Brazilian netizen. The drummer highlighted the behavior already known to fans here:

“It’s funny, because you see in all comments on Instagram:” Come to Brazil “(” Come to Brazil “), what we love. So, it won’t take us. [desde a última visita, em 2015]. We can’t wait to return. “

If you can’t talk about Defon in Brazil for now, at least you can remember previous trips. Cunningham shared memories the first time in 2001, when they played in the third edition of Rock in Rio. At the time he and his colleagues shared the scene with Hot red chillies, Silverchairamong other attractions.

“It was our first time in South America. We played in Buenos Aires, but that particular show … We had always heard of rock in Rio. This was the original, before it expanded to other cities and became so big. The first day we entered a huge hotel and I was sharing the room with Chino at that moment, on top of the hotel, which was more than 20 floors. There was a large fruit basket. [Risos]”

According to the drummer, the presentation at the Fluminense Festival has so far been the group’s largest career. Concluded:

“We absorbed all those days in Brazil. The show was the greatest we ever made. Iron Maiden It was with us and the image of Britney Spears It was on the display. Are we like “Where’s Britney?” [Risos] It was a first time extraordinary. Other things have happened, but I can’t say it. [Risos]”

What about Eros?

At the end of the conversation, Abe Cunningham was invited to share plans on an album that has never been completed: Eros. Defones worked on the album in question between April and November 2008, when those who Cheng had a car accident that left him in a coma and semi -final until his death in 2013. The project was finally set aside and gave way to do it Diamond eyes (2010), without the involvement of Cheng.

“The album was never completed because those who suffered the accident when we were working on him. We were trying to have a brotherhood and friendship after a long time as a band. It was a very cathartic moment.”

Here is the question he doesn’t want to silence: can fans never feel this material? Until now, only “smile” has been made available to the public. Abe replies:

“There are some very excellent songs, others not so much, so maybe you get out of the EP shape with some of them, I don’t know. I know that people would like to hear because it is the last recording who. But it is not ready. Do you still need a lot of work. So, who knows?”

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Source: Terra

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