DACAST - Dédale

Paris's DaCast came together in 2002, initially seeking a path within crossover metal. They later began experimenting with more intriguing approaches, moving through noise and evolved hardcore, without shying away from forays into world-music. After the demo "The Undertown Experiment", 2006 saw the release of the Ep "Smooth As A Riot", a still-immature work, though not lacking in a good dose of personality. Too little, however, especially when compared, today, to the two sides of the self-produced "Dédale" (recorded live and then mixed at Studio Sainte Marthe with Francis Caste at the controls), a work with which the band makes a prodigious leap forward in codifying an overflowing, progressive math-core.

"Face A" starts off subdued, but it takes little for it to light the fuse and launch into a blender of brutality and rationality. To the typical, listless musings of post-rock, to the grind-noise outbursts that materialize like Naked City regurgitations, to the mathematical architectures that still flare up in the midst of scorching noise-ridden chaos, the band adds inextricable, discordant frenzies in which chaos, rather than being tamed, is detonated with ever shorter fuses. The alert level stays extremely high, even when the music allows itself a few moments to breathe, retreating into the shadows just long enough to catch its breath before thrashing about again like a ferocious beast in a cage far too small to satisfy its boundless hunger for freedom.

This prodigious five-piece, wielding a 7-string guitar and a 5-string bass, hits its creative peak in the twenty minutes of the second side, where the mix is further enriched with Eastern-tinged modulations, postcore beatdowns galore, acid-screamo shrieks, a titanic drum detour escorted by mesmeric, Slint-like recurring harmonics, laconic noir meditations born of Converge-esque climaxes, whirlpools of pure sludge terror, and breathless sprints toward the pitch-black depths of the soul.

A genuine revelation!

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04/12/2012