ARTIST: Danava
TITLE: UnonoU
LABEL: Kemado
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 179kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 54m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-02-19
RIP DATE: 2008-02-07
Track List
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1. UnonoU 6:11
2. Where Beauty & Terror Dance 4:13
3. The Emerald Snow of Sleep 7:53
4. A High or A Low 4:41
5. Spinning Temple Shifting 9:52
6. Down From a Cloud, Up From The 8:41
Ground
7. One Mind Gone Separate Ways 13:22
Release Notes:
"Epic sludge riffage and hallucinatory fervor..." - Entertainment Weekly
"The progressive modulation of hard rock penetrates your eardrums like an Ampeg
hurled at you from a sixth floor balcony" - Anthem
"Darkly hypnotic...a chaotic psychmetal brew." - Guitar WorldAlthough
Danava (pronounced DON-UH-VUH) play the type of ferociously intense,
foundation-rattling, rock and roll that might righteously justify some good old
fashioned head-banging, vocalist Dusty Sparkles wants you to know that he
doesnÆt consider his band a metal outfit.
Nor are they prog-rock, or part of whatever ridiculous, wonky sounding
ômovementö someone just came up with to try to lump a bunch of disparate bands
together. Sparkles has as much use for genre tags as folks on the Titanic did
for bottled water. HeÆs not interested in being part of a scene, and heÆs
entirely unconcerned about anyoneÆs reaction to or opinion of his band.
ôWeÆre not trying to fit in anywhere specifically,ö he drawls nonchalantly. ôwe
arenÆt going to do this unless we feel happy about it.ö
Danava might create music for themselves, but theyÆve connected with an audience
hungry for something intelligent, interesting, complex û and heavy. A short
three years after forming somewhat casually in Portland, the band is gearing up
to release their self-titled debut on Kemado Records.
Whether the recordÆs release will catapult them to fame, fortune and headlining
arena tours doesnÆt seem to occupy much space in DanavaÆs collective psyche.
The band is too busy focusing on the long-lost arts of musical composition and
musicianship, as well as delivering the kind of visceral, epic live show that
has already left a broad wake of over stimulated senses and blown minds.
ôItÆs best not to expect anything from us,ö states Sparkles. ôWe donÆt expect
to make the same record twice, or do anything other than what we want to do.
WeÆll either get weirder û or not. We love so many styles of music itÆs
impossible to say where things will go from here. This record came out this
way, but we might all sit down at the keyboards one day and do a record as a
fucking synthesizer quartet.ö
ThatÆs the genius behind Danava û four musicians who strive to combine
creativity and musical skills in unique and unpredictable ways. Maybe the only
thing itÆs safe to expect is that whatever comes next will be as much a surprise
to the band as it will be to its fans.