History Music / Deus

* ReferenceOverdosed: The band often namedrops literary, artistic or musical allusions: Music/CaptainBeefheart ("Disappointed In The Sun", named after a quote of Beefheart that after visiting the Creator/VincentVanGogh museum he was disappointed that the sun wasn't as bright and colorful as the ones Van Gogh painted), Music/RickieLeeJones (The line "And I'm in love with Rickie Lee Jones voice" in "Hotellounge"), pop artist Tom Wesselman ("Great American Nude" was named after one of his paintings), ''Film/BadTiming'' ("Bad Timing")

* SoloSideProject: Tom Barman, the band's lead singer released two solo albums, namely "Live" (with Guy Van Nueten) and "That's Blue!", a collection of snippets from interviews with PopArt painters, intercut with music. He has also collaborated with CJ Bolland for their duo solo side project Magnus, which is a dance act. Barman is also a special case, because although dEUS still exists most of the early members have left and went on having solo careers themselves, leaving only Barman and Klaas Janszoons as the permanent members.

dEUS is an AlternativeRock band hailing from Antwerp, UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}. Led by frontman Tom Barman the band makes a kind of music best described as eclectic with influences ranging from punk to jazz. They formed in 1991, starting out as a cover band, but they soon started writing their own songs. Their starting line up consisted of Barman, Klaas Janszoons, Rudy Trouvé, Stef Kamil Carlens and Jules de Borgher. Lots of changes in line-up followed and nowadays [[FaceOfTheBand Barman and Janzoons are the only remaining members from the original line-up.]]

* LongTitle: "Let's See Who Goes Down First", "I Don't Mind Whatever Happens", "What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)", "Fire Up the Google Beast Algorithm."

They surprise released their seventh album ''Following Sea'' in 2012, it features "Quatre Mains", their first song in the French language. They are currently touring in support of the recently released GreatestHitsAlbum ''Selected Songs: 1994 - 2014''.

dEUS is an AlternativeRock band hailing from Antwerp, UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}. Led by frontman Tom Barman the band makes a kind of music best described as NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly with influences ranging from punk to jazz. They formed in 1991, starting out as a cover band, but they soon started writing their own songs. Their starting line up consisted of Barman, Klaas Janszoons, Rudy Trouvé, Stef Kamil Carlens and Jules de Borgher. Lots of changes in line-up followed and nowadays [[FaceOfTheBand Barman and Janzoons are the only remaining members from the original line-up.]]

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: All over the place, though mostly in the 3 ("Put The Freaks Up Front") to 5 ("Morticiachair") range. Some songs (i.e: "The Magic Hour" or "Right As Rain") would be a 1/2, while others ("Suds & Soda", "Sun Ra") are arguably in the 6 or 7 range.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** "Right As Rain" from ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'' was inspired by the death of Barman's father.
** Barman suffered a breakdown in 1998, which almost made him ponder suicide. This inspired "Let's See Who Goes Down First" from ''Music/TheIdealCrash.''

* TitledAfterTheSong: The band was named after a song by Music/TheSugarcubes, "Deus."

[[caption-width-right:348:The band's current line-up.]]

dEUS is an AlternativeRock band hailing from Antwerp, UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}. Led by frontman Tom Barman the band makes a kind of music best described as NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly with influences ranging from punk to jazz. They formed in 1991, starting out as a cover band, but they soon started writing their own songs. Their starting line up consisted of Barman, Klaas Janszoons, Rudy Trouvé, Stef Kamil Carlens and Jules de Borgher. Lots of changes in line-up followed and nowadays [[FaceOfTheBand Barman and Janzoons are the only remaining members from the original line-up]].

!!Discography

!!Current members

!!Past members

!!This band and their music contains examples of:
* AvantGardeMusic: Their first three albums are quite avantgarde, but still accessible enough to be enjoyed by a mass audience. ''My Sister Is My Clock'' is probably their most avantgarde record.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: They are known for their artistically interesting album covers. Not strange, for a group of former art students. The cover of ''Vantage Point'' was designed by Don Lawrence, creator of the comic strip ''[[ComicBook/StormDonLawrence Storm]]''.

* GratuitousLatin: The band's name is Latin for ''God''.

* LongTitle: "Let's See Who Goes Down First", "I Don't Mind Whatever Happens", "What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)", "Fire Up the Google Beast Algorithm".

** Barman suffered a breakdown in 1998, which almost made him ponder suicide. This inspired "Let's See Who Goes Down First" from ''Music/TheIdealCrash''
* ReferenceOverdosed: The band often namedrops literary, artistic or musical allusions: Music/CaptainBeefheart ("Disappointed In The Sun", named after a quote of Beefheart that after visiting the Creator/VincentVanGogh museum he was disappointed that the sun wasn't as bright and colorful as the ones Van Gogh painted), Music/RickieLeeJones (The line "And I'm in love with Rickie Lee Jones voice" in "Hotellounge"), pop artist Tom Wesselman ("Great American Nude" was named after one of his paintings), ''Film/BadTiming'' ("Bad Timing"),...
* RhymingWithItself: From "Suds & Soda":

** "Zea" has a sample from Music/CaptainBeefheart's "The Blimp" from his album ''Music/TroutMaskReplica''.
** "W.C.'s First Draft" contains a sample from Music/FrankZappa's "Little Umbrellas" from ''Music/HotRats''

* TitledAfterTheSong: The band was named after a song by Music/TheSugarcubes, "Deus".

* WordSaladLyrics: Their early albums had songs like these, like "Suds & Soda", "W.C.'s First Draft", "Morticiachair", "Fell Off the Floor, Man",...

* ''Pocket Revolution'' (2005)

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: They are known for their artistically interesting album covers. Not strange, for a group of former art students. The cover of ''Vantage Point'' was designed by Don Lawrence, creator of the comic strip ''[[ComicBookStormDonLawrence Storm]]''.

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: They are known for their artistically interesting album covers. Not strange, for a group of former art students. The cover of ''Vantage Point'' was designed by Don Lawrence, creator of the comic strip ''Storm''.
* EpicRocking: "Gimme The Heat", "Bad Timing","Sun Ra" and "Let's See Who Goes Down First" spring to mind.

dEUS is an AlternativeRock band hailing from Antwerp, Belgium. Led by frontman Tom Barman the band makes a kind of music best described as NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly with influences ranging from punk to jazz. They formed in 1991, starting out as a cover band, but they soon started writing their own songs. Their starting line up consisted of Barman, Klaas Janszoons, Rudy Trouvé, Stef Kamil Carlens and Jules de Borgher. Lots of changes in line-up followed and nowadays [[FaceOfTheBand Barman and Janzoons are the only remaining members from the original line-up]].

In 1992 the band released the EP ''Zea'' which was followed in 1994 by their debut LP ''Music/WorstCaseScenario''. Featuring the classic singles "Suds & Soda", "Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)" and "Via" it was released internationally with a slightly altered tracklist [[note]]The order of the songs was changed around, one song ("Let Go") was deleted, while two songs from ''Zea'': "Right As Rain" and "Great American Nude" were added.[[/note]] to great acclaim. The album's manic intensity and wide [[GenreRoulette variety of genres]] caused difficulty to categorise it for critics, they eventually settled on [[AvantGardeMusic art rock]], something Barman isn't pleased about. It was followed by the experimental EP ''My Sister = My Clock''. Two years later the band released their second LP ''Music/InABarUnderTheSea'' which was once again a critical and commercial success.

* WordSaladLyrics: Their early albums had songs like these, like "Suds & Soda", "W.C.'s First Draft", "Morticiachair", "Fell Of The Floor Man",...
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The band has managed to gain some notable fans over the years, including Gary Lightbody (Music/SnowPatrol), Brian Molko (Music/{{Placebo}}) and Guy Garvey (''Music/{{Elbow}}) who contributed to the documentary "Time Is The State Of My Jeans" (2009).

In 1992 the band released the EP ''Zea'' which was followed in 1994 by their debut LP ''Music/WorstCaseScenario''. Featuring the classic singles "Suds & Soda", "Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)" and "Via" it was released internationally with a slightly altered trackist [[note]]The order of the songs was changed around, one song ("Let Go") was deleted, while two songs from ''Zea'': "Right As Rain" and "Great American Nude" were added.[[/note]] to great acclaim. The album's manic intensity and wide [[GenreRoulette variety of genres]] caused difficulty to categorise it for critics, they eventually settled on [[AvantGardeMusic art rock]], something Barman isn't pleased about. It was followed by the experimental EP ''My Sister = My Clock''. Two years later the band released their second LP ''Music/InABarUnderTheSea'' which was once again a critical and commercial success.

* EpicRocking: "Suds & Soda", "Theme From Turnpike", "Fell Off The Floor, Man", "Bad Timing","Sun Ra" and "Let's See Who Goes Down First" spring to mind.

dEUS is a AlternativeRock band hailing from Antwerp, Belgium. Led by frontman Tom Barman the band makes a kind of music best described as NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly with influences ranging from punk to jazz. They formed in 1991, starting out as a coverband, but they soon started writing their own songs. Their starting line up consisted of Barman, Klaas Janzoons, Rudy Trouvé, Stef Kamil Carlens and Jules de Borgher. Lots of changes in line-up followed and nowadays Barman and Janzoons are the only remaining members from the original line-up.

In 1992 the band released the EP ''Zea'' which was followed in 1994 by their debut LP ''Worst Case Scenario''. Featuring the classic singles "Suds & Soda", "Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)" and "Via" it was released internationally with a slightly altered trackist [[note]]The order of the songs was changed around, one song ("Let Go") was deleted, while two songs from ''Zea'': "Right As Rain" and "Great American Nude" were added.[[/note]] to great acclaim. The album's manic intensity and wide [[GenreRoulette variety of genres]] caused difficulty to categorise it for critics, they eventually settled on ArtRock, something Barman isn't pleased about. It was followed by the expirimental EP ''My Sister = My Clock''. Two years later the band released their second LP ''In A Bar, Under The Sea'' which was once again a critical and commercial success.

Prior to the release of 1999's ''The Ideal Crash'' Carlens and Trouvé had left the band. They were replaced by Craig Ward and Danny Mommens. As a result ''Crash'' was somewhat of a NewSoundAlbum, replacing the manic intensity of the previous two with a calmer and slightly more accesible sound. It spawned one classic single ("Instant Street") and is still very highly regarded. So far it is the only album by the band that wasn't released in the US.

After a [[TenMinuteRetirement brief hiatus]] the band reformed in 2004; de Borgher, Ward and Mommens all left, and were replaced by Stéphane Misseghers, Alan Gevaert and Mauro Pawlowski. The resulting line-up is the one the band has to this day. They released ''Pocket Revolution'' in 2005, followed by ''Vantage Point'' in 2008 and ''Keep You Close'' in 2011. They were all well received, but didn't spawn any big hits, causing the band to somewhat fade into obscurity though they are still popular in TheNetherlands and Belgium.

* ''Worst Case Scenario'' (1994)

* ''In A Bar, Under The Sea'' (1996)
* ''The Ideal Crash'' (1999)

* CreatorBreakdown: Tom suffered a big one in 1998 which almost made him commit suicide. This led to "Let's See Who Goes Down First".
* EpicRocking: Many examples: "Bad Timing","Sun Ra" and "Let's See Who Goes Down First" spring to mind.

* MurderBallad: "Sister Dew" concerns the song's pov character killing a young girl,and confessing this to the titular sister. Whether she's his actual sister or a nun is left ambigous.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Ideal Crash'' was overall more calmer and accessible than their previous albums, though it still has it's manic moments. Later albums zig-zagged between that sound and the old sound, though the sound from ''Crash'' seems to come out on top.

--> It's suds and soda, a brain decoder
--> and can I wait for my decoder

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Prior to the release of 1999's ''The Ideal Crash'' Carlens and Trouvé had left the band. They were replaced by Craig Ward and Danny Mommens. As a result "Crash" was somewhat of a NewSoundAlbum, replacing the manic intensity of the previous two with a calmer and slightly more accesible sound. It spawned one classic single ("Instant Street") and is still very highly regarded. So far it is the only album by the band that wasn't released in the US.

* ''Zea EP''

!!Studio Albums

* MurderBallad: "Sister Dew".

Deus (styled as dEUS) is a AlternativeRock band hailing from Antwerp, Belgium. Led by frontman Tom Barman the band makes a kind of music best described as NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly with influences ranging from punk to jazz. They formed in 1991, starting out as a coverband, but they soon started writing their own songs. Their starting line up consisted of Barman, Klaas Janzoons, Rudy Trouvé, Stef Kamil Carlens and Jules de Borgher. Lots of changes in line-up followed and nowadays Barman and Janzoons are the only remaining members from the original line-up.

* TitleTrack: ''Pocket Revolution'' and ''The Ideal Crash'' have one. ''Worst Case Scenario'' has a close one with "W.C.S. (First Draft)".

* EpicRocking: Many examples: "Bad Timing", "Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)" and "Sun Ra" spring to mind.

* EpicRocking: Many examples: "Let's See Who Goes Down First", "Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)" and "Sun Ra" spring to mind.
* TitleTrack: ''Pocket Revolution'' and ''The Ideal Crash'' have one. ''Worst Case Scenario has a close one with "W.C.S. (First Draft)".

Deus (styled as dEUS) is a AlternativeRock band hailing from Antwerp, Belgium. Led by frontman Tom Barman the band makes a kind of music best described as NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly with influences ranging from punk to jazz. They formed in 1991, starting out as a coverband, but they soon started writing their own songs. Their starting line up consisted of Barman, Klaas Janzoons, Mark Meyers, Rudy Trouvé, Stef Kamil Carlens and Jules de Borgher. Lots of changes in line-up followed and nowadays Barman and Janzoons are the only remaining members from the original line-up.