Widgetize this page

Daath

Official Site • Latest Ecard • MySpace • YouTube

1 2

News Feed

10.06.2008

NEW SITE CHANGES!

You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.

A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!

Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).

The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?

Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.

Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!

We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.

Please feel free to leave comments here below!

Cheers!

Jeremy Rosen

Tags: 3 Inches Of Blood, 36 Crazyfists, Airbourne, Amanda Palmer, Annihilator, Anyone, Believer, Biffy Clyro, Biohazard, Black Label Society, Black Stone Cherry, Brujeria, Carnivore, Cavalera Conspiracy, Chimaira, CKY, Coal Chamber, Cynic, Daath, De Novo Dahl, Death, Defiance, Deicide, DevilDriver, Dirty Americans, Disincarnate, Dislocated Styles, Dommin, Doubledrive, Downer, DragonForce, Dream Theater, Dresden Dolls, Dry Kill Logic, Earth Crisis, Exhorder, Fear Factory, Five Pointe O, Floodgate, Front Line Assembly, Gang Green, Glassjaw, Gorguts, Gruntruck, Hatebreed, Ill Nino, Infernal Majesty, Jerry Cantrell, Junkie XL, Karma To Burn, Kemuri, Killswitch Engage, King Diamond, Life Of Agony, Machine Head, Madball, Madina Lake, Malevolent Creation, Megadeth, Mercyful Fate, Misfits, Murderdolls, Mutiny Within, Nailbomb, New York Dolls, Nickelback, Nightwish, Obituary, Opeth, Pestilence, Port Amoral, Red Tape, Roadrunner United, Rockstar Mayhem Festival, Rumblefish, Sammy Hagar, Sanctity, Sepultura, Shockwaves Skull Sessions, Sinch, Slipknot, Soulfly, Spineshank, Steadlür, Still Remains, Stone Sour, Suffocation, The Agony Scene, The Cult, The Parlor Mob, The Wombats, The Workhorse Movement, Theory of a Deadman, Thornley, To My Surprise, Trivium, Type O Negative, Vision Of Disorder, Wednesday 13, Whiplash, Within Temptation, new site features
Comments: Show (0) Comments | Permalink
Share: Share This News Story |

08.18.2008

DEVILDRIVER HIRES DAATH'S KEVIN TALLEY

DEVILDRIVER frontman Dez Fafara, has issued the following update:

"An experienced touring and session drummer in the metal scene, Kevin Talley will be joining us for Ozzfest. Talley recently finished a new record with his current band DAATH, due out this fall. He has recorded and/or toured with DYING FETUS, CHIMAIRA, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, THE RED CHORD, HATE ETERNAL, M.O.D., MISERY INDEX and SUFFOCATION."

Check out the drumming extraordinaire doing his thing below.

Tags: Daath, DevilDriver, Daath, DevilDriver, Dying Fetus, Hate Eternal, Kevin Talley, M.O.D., Misery Index, Suffocation, the black dahlia murder, The Red Chord
Comments: Show (3) Comments | Permalink
Share: Share This News Story |

1. 666 MAGGOT SAID...

awesome drummer, but this is old news already.

August 21, 12:06 PM

Posted by:

666 maggot

» Add a comment
Report Abuse
close comments

2. HELLCIUS SAID...

WHERE THE HELL IS DEVILDRIVER NOW?????? WE WANT SOME NEWS!! VIDEOS, SINGLES, WHEREVER BUT PUT SOME NEWS!!!! by the way, i love theyr version of WASTED YEARS from IRONMAIDEN.

September 10, 3:27 PM

Posted by:

HELLCIUS

» Add a comment
Report Abuse
close comments

3. JOEY MERCER SAID...

very good...DEVILDRIVER COME TO VANCOUVER AND DONT MAKE IT 19+ FOR ONCE!!! ...i really want to see a show but I'm a couple years to young...play somewhere other than the Commodore

September 10, 7:38 PM

Posted by:

Joey Mercer

» Add a comment
Report Abuse
close comments

08.07.2008

EMIL FROM DAATH TALKS GUITARS

Gear talk + Women = You drink alone.

"There have been quite a few comments posted on various websites and message boards concerning Daath's gear and tuning. Hopefully, this blog will inform without scaring away every female in the general vicinity.

This is Brian. He co-owns and runs Elite Music Sales in Montgomery, Alabama. He's pretty much my go-to guy for everything guitar. Not only is he an incredible guitar tech, he's also an amazing player as well as an asshole that makes me laugh a lot.

I generally stop in atleast once between tours. This visit I'm having my 1980 West Street LTD setup, and changing the pickups in my Silverburst Standard.

Not too long ago Winn Krozack and Grover Duvall at PRS guitars dropped this beast on me. At the time I had the idea of doing something different with Daath other than my spruce hollowbody. I wanted something that was equally as organic, but a solid body. I enjoy hearing very non-metal solo tone over an obviously gated/overdriven rhythm. I didnt know exactly what to expect with the West Steet LTD, and the end result was the majority of the solos on The Concealers.

I like to call this finish "Ghetto Sparkles," because I live in a fucking trash can.

The Standard before the pickup change. Yes, that really is Ranch Dressing..

Eyal and I both play 10-46 gauge strings tuned C G C F A D (Drop C). A lot of people get a little caught off guard when I tell them the gauge of strings we play. Just like any other tuning, a guitar is going to respond best by being played with a proper setup. Instead of using extremely thick strings or a hybrid set to compensate for the tone of looseness, I have Brian pay close attention to string height and neck adjustment. It's a balancing act, if you will. My necks are slightly straighter than usual, and in my opinion, low string action is a bigger tone killer than smaller string gauge.

It's safe for me to say that the SC 245 Bass is one of the best neck pickups I've heard in years.

Here I am trying out a couple of different models.

That sums it up. The standard sounds great. Inquiring about pickups is almost like watching the food network and having some crazy-ass like Rachel Ray explain to you how something tastes. Like taste, it's kind of hard to explain sound. In my limited experience it's usually good or bad. The only problem is that I won't settle for anything in between. Fortunately for me, I get great help with the quest for tone from all of the wonderful people at Paul Reed Smith Guitars.

You can hear these guitars and how they sound on our soon to be released The Concealers.

-Emil"

Tags: Daath, Daath, Rachel Ray, The Concealers
Comments: Show (1) Comments | Permalink
Share: Share This News Story |

07.28.2008

DAATH ALBUM GETS RAVE REVIEW

Check out what Mark Lewis, engineered and mixed the ablum, had to say about it in the latest installment to the Daath Myspace blog HERE.

It goes a little something like this..."The DÅÅTH record, what can I say? FUCK! Its amazing man..." Head over to the blog to read more.

Tags: Daath
Comments: Show (1) Comments | Permalink
Share: Share This News Story |

07.22.2008

EYAL FROM DAATH GETS HIS MYSPACE BLOG ON

Emil and Eyal from Daath have contributed guest solos to the Austrian Death Machine record.

"If you're wondering what that is just know that ADM is Tim Lambesis's (As I lay Dying) amazing tribute to everyone's favorite Austrian and governor of the great state of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

-Eyal"

Read more about this news on Daath's Myspace Blog here.

Tags: Daath, As I Lay Dying, Austrian Death Machine, Daath
Comments: Show (2) Comments | Permalink
Share: Share This News Story |

Want more? View the news archive »

Extreme metal with a purpose, Daath is poised to emerge as one of the most exciting new bands of 2007 with its Roadrunner debut, The Hinderers. Fusing elements of death, thrash, and black metal with technical virtuosity and a decidedly Atlanta groove, the 13 songs comprising The Hinderers showcase the crushing power of this Georgia six-piece.

Daath is a Hebrew word meaning knowledge, referring to a knowledge not regularly attained by the masses. Says keyboardist and conceptualist Mike Kameron, "On a mental level, Daath acts as a doorway between instinct and intellect, and in our opinion the struggle between those two aspects of mind is what causes most of the ills in the world."

Daath is atypical of extreme metal bands, not just making heavy music to make heavy music. There is a purpose beyond the headbanging. "Basically," says guitarist Eyal Levi,"We're exploring the inverted tree of life. It's a Kabalistic concept. There are thirteen points on the tree and each one of the songs is representative of the points. Mike will research the attributes for each one of those points and then we figure out what the theme is and write the lyrics based on that. The music is lots of back and forth... we're not one of those bands that gets together and jams. I'll write, Mike will write and then we'll get together and try to make things happen, but it's definitely a team effort. Everyone has to like what we're doing or we don't do it."

Mike adds, "The theme of the album is the sum of all self-defeating views which keep us from rising above the norm. We're all dealing with it and we all have things we've gotta get through in our lives, which are completely internal in order to improve and move on. We've all gone through it in this band and this represents where we're at. But we're definitely not a religious band or anything like that - it's about exploration. It's an ongoing process. A struggle. Mainly we're just using the tree of life as a framework for psychological exploration and exploring esoteric themes associated with the tree of life."

Eyal describes the band's unique sound as versatile. "We all have a lot of influences. I started playing the violin when I was four, and I listened to everything from Gustav Mahler to The Doors to Aphex Twin. I don't think that we're traditional death metal. I would say that we're progressive extreme music. We draw from various styles of extreme music - death, black, doom, whatever... we throw in electronica, we throw in orchestral, we throw in some classic rock. We're definitely not sticking to death metal. We're not limiting it. We're always trying to grow, and we already decided which aspects of our sound we want to emphasize more. Our goal is to add new elements with each record, and hopefully we'll always be doing something that people like."

The band is pushing the boundaries of traditional death metal. There is a lot of groove to the songs on The Hinderers, notably on "Subterfuge," "From The Blind" and "Ovum." "That's probably just because we're from Atlanta, you know?" Eyal laughs. "I think that's got a lot to do with it. We like music that grooves, and I think one of the main problems with extreme metal is that there's no real groove to it. That is what keeps it from going to wider audiences. For example, with 'Subterfuge' I specifically wanted that song to be 'Atlanta death metal' to bring a crushingly heavy groove that would make people's heads nod, but to also incorporate some very ethereal parts and then a bad-ass solo!"

Daath was started by Eyal Levi, Mike Kameron and Sean Farber, who have been playing in bands since they were in high school. The three friends attended school at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. Eventually, the guys left school to concentrate full-time on making music as the project which would become DAATH proved far too promising.

The Hinderers was produced by James Murphy (Disincarnate ex-Death, Testament, Obituary) and co-produced by Daath. James and Eyal engineered the record with the help of Andy Sneap, while Colin Richardson mixed the album for them. Eyal says on working with the pair, "Colin and Andy are two dudes that I wanted to work with at some point in time in my music career... taken care of on this album. It just goes without saying what an excellent experience this has been."

All upcoming tour dates

Date	Venue	Address	Other Info

Roadrunner Discography

Format: CD
Release Date: 07.17.2007

Download from iTunes

Dead on the Dancefloor [Digital EP]

Daath's Roadrunner debut, The Hinderers, isn't just one of 2007's most brutally inspired&nbspmetal releases,&nbspit's also one of the most eclectic, and no track more so than the techno-inflected &quotDead on the Dancefloor."&nbspThis track has now been given a remix by former Nine Inch Nails man, Danny Lohner, so we're making it available for download from your digi-retailer of choice, along with The Hinderers' version of &quotFrom the Blind" and previously unreleased outtake, &quotInversion," just in time for Daath's&nbspparticipation in this year's Ozzfest.

Tracks:

Track Listing:
1. Dead on the Dancefloor [Pyrexia Mix] *
2.&nbspInversion *
3.&nbspFrom The Blind

* Previously unreleased

Format: CD
Release Date: 03.20.2007

The Hinderers

Extreme metal with a purpose, Daath is poised to emerge as one of the most exciting new bands of 2007 with its Roadrunner debut, The Hinderers. Fusing elements of death, thrash, and black metal with technical virtuosity, the 13 songs comprising The Hinderers showcase the crushing power of this Georgia six-piece.

Tracks:

1. Subterfuge [ listen/comment ]
2. From The Blind
3. Cosmic Forge
4. Sightless
5. Under A Somber Sign
6. Ovum
7. Festival Mass Soulform
8. Above Lucium
9. Who Will Take The Blame?
10. War Born (Tri-Adverserenade)
11. Dead On The Dance Floor
12. Blessed Through Misery
13. The Hinderers

Video Feed Music Feed

Wallpapers

1024x768

800x600

1024x768

800x600

All current galleries

Ozzfest 2007

See Daath at the 2007 Ozzfest (photos courtesy of LadyLush)

Launch the gallery

Summer Slaughter Atlanta

Photos by Adrienne Darnell and Shawn Elmore

Launch the gallery

MetalFest 2007

Daath at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival 2007 courtesy of Aub Driver.

Launch the gallery

Miscellaneous

Launch the gallery

The Hinderers Photo Shoot

Launch the gallery

Latest Album:

Dead on the Dancefloor [Digital EP]

Buy Digital

Share This Content

Road Runner Records

Daath

NEW SITE CHANGES!

Add Your Comment