Deavar, the Cologne-based trio, kicks off 2025 with their third album, SUB ROSA,
evolving their Doom Grunge sound with melodic uptempo bursts and lo-fi
textures. Building on their previous releases, they capture the raw energy of the
2020s with intense and rat-drenched riffs, unapologetic lyrics, and a relentless
DIY spirit.
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While kicking off 2025 as their third year in their band's history, the Cologne-
based trio Daevar announces their third studio album, SUB ROSA. Never slowing
down in their musical output and live performances, Daevar continues to redefine
their sound in the so-called pocket of Doom Grunge. With SUB ROSA, the trio
expands their cloudy lo-fi soundscape with fresh invigorating uptempo bursts
and bountiful, melodic songwriting.
Building on their previous releases Delirious Rites (2023) and Amber Eyes (2024),
Daevar has shaken up the stale pouch of traditional stoner doom structures by
capturing the empowering and brutally honest zeitgeist of living in the 20s. This
vibrating, spinning era serves as a catalyst for the swirling melodic riffs and
soaring, expansive vocals that define the seven anthems of SUB ROSA. With
Pardis Latifi's blunt, unapologetic lyrics addressing crushing inequities, grotesque
inhumanity, and the growth of independence—especially inspired by J.D.
Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye—Caspar Orfgen elevates his riffs to a more
frenetic and melodic level, while maintaining his gritty, rat-drenched roots and
razor sharp, cutting solo sound. All of this is framed by the Grohl-esque
drumming of Moritz, who guides you like a steady, weathered hand through the
raw atmosphere of SUB ROSA, capturing the anxiety of the 2020s.
This hook-laden time capsule of SUB ROSA was once again produced and
recorded by Jan Oberg at Hidden Planet Studio and released by The Lasting
Dose Records. Oberg’s studio has evolved into Berlin's own "Space Needle" for
the young trio, which blends the feverish grunge drive of Nirvana with the dark,
brooding essence of doom.
This whole project of Daevar performing and writing music is build upon love
and compassion to the friendship of Pardis, Moritz and Caspar. It goes without
saying that this enthusiasm is fueled by a true workaholic mindset and a strong
DIY ethic. While Caspar handles the design of all the striking artwork for their
releases and merchandise - Moritz creates the visually arresting and atmospheric
video content for the music videos and live visuals, inspired by Pardis' captivating
lyrical storytelling and the ethereal, mood-setting, lullaby-like atmosphere the trio
crafts with their music.
Teaming up with the booking agency Sound of Liberation in 2023, Deavar played
the crème de la crème of genre festivals in 2024, including Freak Valley Festival,
Desertfest Berlin & Antwerp, Up In Smoke, Keep It Low, Stoned From the
Underground and so on. They also seized every opportunity to perform in
intimate clubs, embarking on an extensive, whirlwind tour and playing their first
international shows. In 2025, Deavar will be hitting the road once again with two
European tours and appearances at festivals across the UK, Portugal, Poland, and
beyond, further solidifying their reputation as one of the hardest-working and
most ambitious acts in the doom pocket.
DAEVAR are here to shake up the stoner/doom-metal scene with a menacing lo-fi
sound and a fresh set ideals. Somewhere between Sleep and Paradise Lost this
mysterious trio have found a pocket that is completely their own. Like a ghostly
transmission through the snowy static, Delirious Rites sees the mysterious hand of
DAEVAR reach out to grip the soul of whomever is ripe for the taking.
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DAEVAR are here to shake up the stoner/doom-metal scene with a menacing lo-fi
sound and a fresh set ideals. Fronted by the enigmatic Pardis (bass, vocals) and
completed by Caspar (guitars) and Moritz (drums), DAEVAR serve up moody
anthems inspired by what really happens in the world, rather than singing about the
sweetness of the leaf or spreading eternal gloom. The young trio from Cologne
have recorded five atmospheric slow-burners at Hidden Planet Studios with Jan
Oberg, who oversaw production and helped the band create a deceptively complex
sound. Washed in an ocean of crunchy fuzz, Delirious Rites drowns the listener in a
raw conflation of gritty textures and exalting melodies.
Album opener «Slowshine» is an astonishingly raw punch to the ears, ripping open
the carefully produced atmospheric opening with the crushing sound of bass and
guitar merging together in a haze of lo-finesse. «Leviathan» gives further insight in
the intricacy of the DAEVAR sound, opening with a lone crusty guitar glued
together by feedback to elementary tribal drumming of Moritz. Then, like flesh
enfolding the talons of an eagle, like a hand clenching the hilt of sharpened sword,
the fuzzy bass grips around the raw and gritty guitar, reinforcing it and rendering it
powerful.
Driven by this punchy guitar and bass-combination, DAEVAR plough through five
moody stoner-doom anthems dissecting consequential themes like enforced
disappearance, sleep paralysis and female empowerment. The depth of Delirious
Rites is ready to unfold itself with songs inspired by the work of political philosopher
Thomas Hobbes and quotations from Iranian psychedelic rock anthems from the
70s. Somewhere between Sleep and Paradise Lost this mysterious trio have found
a pocket that is completely their own. Like a transmission through the snowy static,
like a ghost through the wire, Delirious Rites sees the mysterious hand of DAEVAR
reach out to grip the soul of whomever is ripe for the taking.
