Fahrenheit (Chilean band)
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Fahrenheit is a hard rock band from Santiago, Chile, deeply influenced by 1980s and '70s rock legends such us Aerosmith
, Mötley Crüe
and Skid Row. ºFahrenheit is well known in the Latin-American rock scene for its intense on-stage performance, energetic sound and killer guitar solos.
Throughout seven years of career, ºFahrenheit has received positive reviews from the media, along with worldwide exposure through MTV and Much Music, breaking new ground in the yet unexplored Spanish rock market.
The band has played in massive shows in Chile and Mexico, including opening for Evanescence
and “Vive Latino
” festival.
After releasing their debut album “Chain Reaction” through Perris Records, the band decided to develop their music in its native language
and started working in their first Spanish album, “Nuevos Tiempos”, with multi-platinum
producer David Prater, known for his work with Dream Theater
, Firehouse and the Dirty Dancing
movie OST.
With its third album soon to released, the band hopes to keep rising in the Latin rock mainstream. Their third album will be released during late 2009, for free over the internet.
band born in 2001, when guitarist Carlos Otto and bassist Juan Pablo Lewin started composing tunes deeply influenced in 80's glam rock
legends such us Guns n' Roses
, Mötley Crüe and Journey
. Slowly the band began to make its way in a difficult underground scene in Santiago, ruled at the time by a strong "aggro metal" trend. In 2004 they record their first LP album, "Chain Reaction", which got the attention of independent US label Perris Records, distributing the album in the US, Japan
and Europe
.
Even though their debut album received positive reviews from the specialized media and fans of the genre, the band felt the need to evolve in their sound and concept, which at the time was being tagged as a "glam-rock revival". For the recording of their second album they managed to get in touch with producer David Prater, best known for his multi-platinum work with Dream Theater
("Images & Words" and "A change of seasons"), Firehouse ("Firehouse" and "Hold your fire") and 2 hit singles from the "Dirty Dancing
" movie original soundtrack, "Hungry eyes" and "Time of my life".
Against all odds, based on the precariousness of the Chilean musical rock scene, the band pulled their efforts together and found the way to hire Prater to produce their second album. Because there were no precedents of this kind of music in the Latin scene, the band decided to record in their native language, Spanish, and developed a power and modern sound, creating "Nuevos Tiempos".
By the end of 2006, Chilean label "Oveja Negra" signed the band and the name ºFahrenheit began to appear in massive media with their first single "Vuelvo a vivir" being aired on the most popular radio stations in Chile and MTV
.
In January 2007 the band was invited to the biggest Chilean rock festival ever made, "La Cumbre del Rock", playing in front of more than 45,000 people in "Estadio Nacional" of Santiago. Soon after, they release "Inimaginable" which again was airplayed on MTV and played part in the soundtrack of a very popular soap opera
at the time, "Vivir con 10".
The same year the band was invited by Amy Lee's manager, Andrew Lurie, to open for Evanescence at their show in Santiago, after listening to the band's songs in their myspace. This generated interest in the media, which grew bigger because two days later they were playing another historic festival, "Vive Latino
" in Chile, with bands such us Los tres
, Keane, Catupecu Machu
and others.
By the end of the year, they released third single "Nuevos Tiempos", whose videoclip reached the "10+ Pedidos" ranking of MTV and showed a very different concept for Latin rock. From that point on, the band got a media attention not usual for their musical genre: interviews and reviews in the main radios and TV stations
, magazines, webzines, etc. By touring and playing everywhere they could, the band kept on recruiting fans throughout the country.
In 2008 and after a few changes in their line-up, the band releases their fourth and last single, "Euforia", closing the "Nuevos Tiempos" chapter and beginning the creation of their third album, soon to be released during late 2009.
Currently the band resides in Mexico
, country were fellow chilean bands like "La Ley
" and "Los Bunkers
" have been very successful, hoping to broaden horizons for their music and career.
Artwork for the band's album covers has been created by artist Claudio Bergamin
By the end of 2009 the band finishes the recording of its third album, "Caída Libre" (Free fall
), released in three separated EP's for free download on the band's official site. Each section or EP (Extended play
) had the name of the three Newton's laws of motion
.
, Mötley Crüe
, Skid Row, Guns N' Roses
, Van Halen
, Dream Theater
, Iron Maiden
, Metallica
, Aerosmith
, Europe
, Journey
Queen
, Def Leppard
or Bon Jovi
.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
, Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The group was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil...
and Skid Row. ºFahrenheit is well known in the Latin-American rock scene for its intense on-stage performance, energetic sound and killer guitar solos.
Throughout seven years of career, ºFahrenheit has received positive reviews from the media, along with worldwide exposure through MTV and Much Music, breaking new ground in the yet unexplored Spanish rock market.
The band has played in massive shows in Chile and Mexico, including opening for Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording private albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than 17 million copies worldwide...
and “Vive Latino
Vive Latino
Vive Latino is an annual rock music festival held in Mexico City. It is one of the most important rock en español music festivals in Latin America, featuring a great variety of Mexican, Latin and Spanish groups of many genres....
” festival.
After releasing their debut album “Chain Reaction” through Perris Records, the band decided to develop their music in its native language
First language
A first language is the language a person has learned from birth or within the critical period, or that a person speaks the best and so is often the basis for sociolinguistic identity...
and started working in their first Spanish album, “Nuevos Tiempos”, with multi-platinum
RIAA certification
In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Other countries have similar awards...
producer David Prater, known for his work with Dream Theater
Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...
, Firehouse and the Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film features Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach...
movie OST.
With its third album soon to released, the band hopes to keep rising in the Latin rock mainstream. Their third album will be released during late 2009, for free over the internet.
History
ºFahrenheit is a Chilean rockChilean rock
Chilean rock music comes from many decades of evolving musical styles, many of the later conceived artists in the 80's and 90's are highly influenced by artists such as folk musicians Victor Jara and Violeta Parra...
band born in 2001, when guitarist Carlos Otto and bassist Juan Pablo Lewin started composing tunes deeply influenced in 80's glam rock
Glam rock
Glam rock is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the UK in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter...
legends such us Guns n' Roses
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
, Mötley Crüe and Journey
Journey (band)
Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded...
. Slowly the band began to make its way in a difficult underground scene in Santiago, ruled at the time by a strong "aggro metal" trend. In 2004 they record their first LP album, "Chain Reaction", which got the attention of independent US label Perris Records, distributing the album in the US, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
Even though their debut album received positive reviews from the specialized media and fans of the genre, the band felt the need to evolve in their sound and concept, which at the time was being tagged as a "glam-rock revival". For the recording of their second album they managed to get in touch with producer David Prater, best known for his multi-platinum work with Dream Theater
Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...
("Images & Words" and "A change of seasons"), Firehouse ("Firehouse" and "Hold your fire") and 2 hit singles from the "Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film features Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach...
" movie original soundtrack, "Hungry eyes" and "Time of my life".
Against all odds, based on the precariousness of the Chilean musical rock scene, the band pulled their efforts together and found the way to hire Prater to produce their second album. Because there were no precedents of this kind of music in the Latin scene, the band decided to record in their native language, Spanish, and developed a power and modern sound, creating "Nuevos Tiempos".
By the end of 2006, Chilean label "Oveja Negra" signed the band and the name ºFahrenheit began to appear in massive media with their first single "Vuelvo a vivir" being aired on the most popular radio stations in Chile and MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
.
In January 2007 the band was invited to the biggest Chilean rock festival ever made, "La Cumbre del Rock", playing in front of more than 45,000 people in "Estadio Nacional" of Santiago. Soon after, they release "Inimaginable" which again was airplayed on MTV and played part in the soundtrack of a very popular soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
at the time, "Vivir con 10".
The same year the band was invited by Amy Lee's manager, Andrew Lurie, to open for Evanescence at their show in Santiago, after listening to the band's songs in their myspace. This generated interest in the media, which grew bigger because two days later they were playing another historic festival, "Vive Latino
Vive Latino
Vive Latino is an annual rock music festival held in Mexico City. It is one of the most important rock en español music festivals in Latin America, featuring a great variety of Mexican, Latin and Spanish groups of many genres....
" in Chile, with bands such us Los tres
Los Tres
Los Tres is a Chilean rock band composed of four members: a rock/folk singer and three jazzmen. It was one of the noted bands in the Chilean nineties, together with La Ley and Lucybell....
, Keane, Catupecu Machu
Catupecu Machu
Catupecu Machu is an Argentine rock band, usually classified as within Rock en Español. Its current band members are Fernando Ruíz Díaz in voices and guitar; Sebastián Cáceres in bass guitar; Javier "Il Grosso" Herrlein in drums and accordion; and Macabre in keyboards and samplers.-Biography:The...
and others.
By the end of the year, they released third single "Nuevos Tiempos", whose videoclip reached the "10+ Pedidos" ranking of MTV and showed a very different concept for Latin rock. From that point on, the band got a media attention not usual for their musical genre: interviews and reviews in the main radios and TV stations
Television channel
A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...
, magazines, webzines, etc. By touring and playing everywhere they could, the band kept on recruiting fans throughout the country.
In 2008 and after a few changes in their line-up, the band releases their fourth and last single, "Euforia", closing the "Nuevos Tiempos" chapter and beginning the creation of their third album, soon to be released during late 2009.
Currently the band resides in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, country were fellow chilean bands like "La Ley
La Ley
"La Ley" is Spanish for "The Law"*For the Chilean rock band, see La Ley .*For the Argentine publishing company, see La Ley .*For the Spanish-language radio station in Goldsboro, North Carolina, see WYMY....
" and "Los Bunkers
Los Bunkers
Los Bunkers is an alternative rock from Concepción, Chile, formed in 1999 by brothers Álvaro and Gonzalo López, Mauricio Basualto, and brothers Francisco and Mauricio Durán....
" have been very successful, hoping to broaden horizons for their music and career.
Artwork for the band's album covers has been created by artist Claudio Bergamin
Claudio Bergamin
Claudio Bergamin is a Chilean/Italian digital painter and photographer. He works mainly with rock bands creating album covers and visual imagery. His work also includes advertising photography, digital matte painting and comic books....
By the end of 2009 the band finishes the recording of its third album, "Caída Libre" (Free fall
Free fall
Free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it, at least initially. These conditions produce an inertial trajectory so long as gravity remains the only force. Since this definition does not specify velocity, it also applies to objects initially moving upward...
), released in three separated EP's for free download on the band's official site. Each section or EP (Extended play
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
) had the name of the three Newton's laws of motion
Newton's laws of motion
Newton's laws of motion are three physical laws that form the basis for classical mechanics. They describe the relationship between the forces acting on a body and its motion due to those forces...
.
Influences
The band has strong influences from other bands like AC/DCAC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
, Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The group was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil...
, Skid Row, Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
, Van Halen
Van Halen
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...
, Dream Theater
Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...
, Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
, Metallica
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...
, Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
, Europe
Europe (band)
Europe is a Swedish rock band formed in Upplands Väsby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest, guitarist John Norum and drummer Tony Reno. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal and hard rock elements...
, Journey
Journey (band)
Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded...
Queen
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
, Def Leppard
Def Leppard
Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...
or Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...
.
Band members
| (2001–2004) |
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| (2004–2007) |
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| (2007–2008) |
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| (2008-now) |
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Discography
- Chain Reaction (2004).
- Nuevos Tiempos (2007).
- Caída Libre (2009). This album was released divided on 3EPs between December 2009 and March 2010. The three EPs were named as the three Newton's laws of motionNewton's laws of motionNewton's laws of motion are three physical laws that form the basis for classical mechanics. They describe the relationship between the forces acting on a body and its motion due to those forces...
.- EP 1: Fuerza
- EP 2: Inercia
- EP 3: Acción y Reacción
Singles
- King of the night (2004)
- Vuelvo a Vivir (2006)
- Inimaginable (2007)
- Nuevos Tiempos (2007)
- Euforia (2008)
- Sentir (2010)
- Tren a mil (2010)