Daysend

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Daysend
General information
origin Sydney , Australia
Genre (s) Melodic Death Metal
founding 2002
resolution 2011
Last occupation
Meredith Webster
Wayne Morris
Aaron Bilbija
Mark McKernan
Electric guitar
 Jason Turnbull
former members
Electric bass
 Brad Dickson
Drums
 Matt Lamb
Electric guitar
 Michael Kordek
singing
 Dave Micallef
singing
 Adam Nobilia
singing
 Simon Calabrese
Electric guitar
 Andrew Lilley

Daysend was an Australian melodic death metal band from Sydney that was formed in 2002 and disbanded in 2011.

history

The band was formed in August 2002 from the collapse of the bands Psy.Kore and Deadspawn and consisted of bassist Meredith Webster, drummer Matt Lamb, guitarist Aaron Bilbija, singer Dave Micallef and guitarist Michael Kordek. While they were rehearsing songs that Bilbija had actually written for Psy.Kore, Lamb left the band and was replaced by Wayne Morris. Shortly before their first appearance, which should take place together with the Melbourne band Earth, Micallef left the band. The group then held the performances without a singer. A performance at Metal for the Brain was planned for 2002 , but the festival was canceled. Since the band had still not found a singer, planned performances together with Pungent Stench had to be canceled. In January 2003, Simon Calabrese finally joined the band as the new singer. They then went on tour in Australia with The Haunted in March , before another national tour with Damaged followed in July . Within ten days in October 2003, the debut album Severance was recorded. Two weeks later, we went on tour with Strapping Young Lad , while the song countdown on the radio Triple J was played. The album was released in December 2003 on Chatterbox Records and was produced by DW Norton and Nik Tropiano . After the release, the band went on tour with Skinlab, among others . The phonogram was voted Metal Album of the Year by listeners on the Triple J show Full Metal Racket together with Astriaal's Renascent Misanthropy . In March 2004, the band went on tour with Frankenbok through Australia before they went on tour with Entombed . After appearances with In Flames and Machine Head , a tour with Stronger Than Hate was held in October . In October Severance was released in the US on Metal Blade Records and in Europe on Locomotive Records . For February 2005 appearances on all three Metal for the Brain were planned. Two days before the show in Canberra , Kordek was replaced by Andrew Lilley, who had previously worked at Psy.Kore, Atomizer and Infernal Method, among others . That same month, Bilbja was voted best guitarist at the Australian Heavy Metal Music Awards . After a six-week US tour that began in May, Kordek returned to the band, so Lilley left them again. On the tour, Daysend played together with Otep , Gizmachi, Manntis and Devilinside . On December 10th, a concert was recorded at the Marquee Club for a planned live DVD or CD release. In May 2006, Calabrese left the group and was replaced by Mark McKernan. In early 2007 Daysend signed a contract with Faultline Records , which resulted in the album The Warning released in May . This was followed by an appearance at the Come Together Festival in Sydney in June . After Morris sustained an eye injury at a concert, several appearances had to be canceled before others followed, like in October at the Festival of the Dead . In November, Kordek announced his departure again, which proved to be true after a last appearance in December. Jason Turnbull came in for him. In the same month the album was voted the second best album of the year by the listeners of Full Metal Racket . After appearing in New Zealand in mid-2008 , Dyscord went on tour along the Australian east coast. Local appearances with Judas Priest were planned for September, but they did not take place. Instead, Daysend played with Trivium in August . In May 2011 the band announced their breakup.

style

Martin Wickler from Metal Hammer wrote that the band falls between rock and metalcore . In an interview with him, Calabrese stated that the song Severance Day from the album Severance is about the founding phase. The band is often compared to In Flames and Soilwork . In addition, Calabrese is a fan of Mike Patton , James Hetfield , Killswitch Engage and Unearth . Wickler also reviewed the album in the same issue. The first song, Born Is the Enemy, sounds like a quieter version of Soilwork, before the second song is devoted entirely to Swedish Death Metal . Overall, the group plays modern Swedish death metal, but compared to Swedish newcomers like Cipher System , the songwriting is a bit worse. The singing is a mixture of clear singing and screams . Justin Donnelly of themetalforge.com called Daysend a melodic death metal band in his review of The Warning . McKernan's clear vocals are similar to those of Calabrese, whereas the Screams have his own style. In the song Scars Remain he also made use of spoken word passages. In addition, there are fast riffs , dual harmonies and a thundering drum game in the songs .

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Brian Fischer-Giffin: Encyclopedia of Australian Heavy Metal . Iron Pages Press, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-1-4092-6398-2 , pp. 110 f .
  2. ↑ a b Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on January 8, 2016 ; accessed on January 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockdetector.com
  3. ↑ Daysend. Facebook , accessed January 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Martin Wickler: Daysend . Australian storm troop. In: Metal Hammer . December 2004, p. 77 .
  5. ↑ Martin Wickler: Daysend . Severance. In: Metal Hammer . December 2004, p. 97 .
  6. ↑ Justin Donnelly: Daysend. The Warning. themetalforge.com, accessed January 8, 2016 .