The Beat Surrender

I have listened to Danava’s album many times and I really thought a lot of it. To me they sound a little like ‘Pink Floyd’ and some old rock band mangled together. There are some very strange synth noises that just really add that something extra. I did a review for Turbowolf recently and was not impressed with their uninventive use of strange synth additions, but ‘Danava’ do it in a cool ‘Floyd’ sort of a way.

The Oregon band were supporting ‘Witchcraft’ on this night so didn’t have a large set to begin with. Rios took ages to open, having me stand around in anticipation. By the time everything was all set up, ‘Danava’ had a reduced set, being the first on, so the headlining band didn’t lose any time. After listening to the album I was hoping for more than the three songs, but sh*t happens.

They played brilliantly. All the crowd were tapping their feet and swaying their long hair (male and female!). As with any live band that is worth any thing, their songs were pretty much the same as the album. I always like to wait until I’ve listened to a band live before I decide they are on my favourites list, they made it!

I must admit that the lead singer’s voice goes right through me but the music is fantastic. The live version is better.
The songs are all epic. The longest one on the album is easy over ten minutes. Which explains why there was only three songs in their set. With most epic songs there is usually a point where you start to think ‘omg, is this ever gonna end. ‘Bryan Adams – I’ll do anything (to make this stop)’ usually comes to mind after anything above four minutes. They manage to keep me entertained through songs lasting six, seven minutes. Even though some of the same rifs, drum beats and lyrics are repeated in the same songs, they are needed so you can hear the beauty again.

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