Dacast – Dédale (2012)

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Delivering a punishing aural assault of 35 minutes, today we have Dacast and their sophomore release “Dédale”. This French experimental band combines almost everything you can imagine in a ‘heavy as fuck’ package that is truly genius and totally deranged at the same time. With parts of Deathcore to brilliant Math Metal and Progressive sections, this monolithic release has something for everybody.

With a very bizarre retro cover that pretty much describes how the music sounds, this release is totally unique and quite disturbing. The band’s in your face style is quite brutal, but what makes us even more uneasy is how amazing the band is a going from a proggy section to a balls-to-the-wall Deathcore passage and back into some Jazzy stuff. This release is split into two sides, each one as crazy and chaotic as the other, but with an underlying technical brilliance that is unrivaled.

Side A, or the first 15 minutes, starts very mellow and slowly grows into heavy Deathcore riffs and hellish vocals. The chugging riffing is quite fitting of a very brutal release, but there are very cool passages that are more technical than devastating. The band switches back and forth between aggression and musical wizardry with excellently crafted tempo changes. At first this album seem extremely chaotic and totally odd, but the more you listen to it, the more you discover its beauty.

Side B starts with some intricate bass guitar work and a very ‘mellow’ approach. This side is a bit more experimental and trippy, but the band’s brutal essence is always present. Part of this release around the 20-minute mark sound a bit like Neurosis meets The Dillinger Escape Plan… on crack. The members of this band are extremely talented musicians and they are not afraid of showing this with epic compositions that ooze creativity and technical prowess.

Overall, “Dédale” is one hell of a ride that only gets better with time. While we initially got totally weirded out by this album, the more we listened to it, the more we enjoyed it. Dacast has some truly talented musicians on its ranks, and the band manages to create excellent extreme compositions that never sacrifice technical abilities or brutality in order to sound ‘ordinary’. If you like your music very aggressive and very well crafted, go over to the band’s site a pick up a copy of this excellent release.

Band: Dacast Album: Dédale
Label: Self-Released

Release: 2012

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Genre: Progressive/Technical Experimental Metal

Country: France

Rating: 87/100
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