Daedalvs are a four-man death metal band from Charlotte, North Carolina, whose debut EP Apotheosis is being released today via Bandcamp, and we’re helping spread the word by providing a full stream of the EP, and a few thoughts about the music.
What Daedalvs dish out is a mammoth, monstrous, skull-fracturing beatdown, a rumbling, crushing avalanche of booming jackhammering bass, clobbering atonal riffs, and thundering drums, overlaid with an effusion of harsh roars and wild, acid-spraying shrieks. But while the music’s brute-force physical impact is certainly one of its main calling cards, it’s not the only one.
The songs are also laced with eerie, dissonant, tension-ratcheting guitar arpeggios that shroud the music in an atmosphere that brings to mind a spreading miasma of unearthly pestilence. Swarming tremolo chords give the songs a seething, blackened energy, and slow, serpentine melodies with an exotic air also surface, lending a bleak, dreamlike aspect to this bone-splintering demolition job.
Apotheosis also includes an instrumental track — “Synthetic Degradation” — that happens to be one of the strongest pieces on the EP.
To grab this EP for yourself, hop over to Bandcamp via the first link below.
https://daedalvs.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/daedalvsnc/
7 Responses to “AN NCS PREMIERE: DAEDALVS — “APOTHEOSIS””
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“God Machine” is killer, I’m definitely giving the rest of the tracks a listen 🙂
Fucking awesome album. Heavy heavy. I really dig the diverse vocals. Whats up with the band name though–weird name.
I believe they pulled the U/V switch and it reads “Daedalus” as in the character from the Greek myths.
He was a builder that made the wax wings Icarus used to fly to the sun and the Labyrinth that housed the Minotaur.
😛
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus
Also, this EP is nasty.
Cool–thanks
Holy shit–just listened to it again–it gets even better with each listen! There is a lot going on in this album. There is death, technical death, and black metal–mixed superbly. I think this might get on my album of the year list.
This is badass, sounds like chelsea grin! Thanks!
Fucking awesome!