30th December 2012: Deva Voodoo Spells launched their new album, Dangerous Knowledge, at Lust KL. Here’s Love Me Butch soundchecking. Rather interestingly shaped stage, this.
The lounge upstairs.
Opening were some friends, including Oh Chentaku (with Alang on drums this time.)
If you’re wondering why the color and look is different, I figured that Adobe Camera RAW would do a better job at the tricky color cast this time.
Myo swaps out his SG for an acoustic guitar. Little did I know I’d seen him in Sky Juice Coffee!
Project E.A.R., with members of Pop Shuvit…
…and rappers.
More rappers, that is.
DJ Uno on the decks.
Syahrul of Love Me Butch.
Gotta love the disco ball lighting.
At a sixth of a second I managed to capture the movement of the disco lights.
This, at half of a second.
Then came the highlight – Deja Voodoo Spells! Here’s Rithan, guitar shredder, Ibanez ambassador, guitar teacher, amplifier builder and now composer of a 20 minute, 20 second long progressive metal opus called Dangerous Knowledge, which he played for us.
Ainol, the shirtless drummer.
Mie, 5-string bassist who has a knack for tapping.
The whole album has only one song, Dangerous Knowledge, but it’s actually made of a few parts.
We of course cheered for an encore, and they obliged with Rock N Roll (off their second album, Bite), a cover of Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody and a tease of the intro lick to Pantera – Cowboys From Hell.
DJ Rahul of One Buck Short closed the show.
The album was sadly not available yet, but it was released in January 2013. It came autographed with a book in PDF format and the song in WAV and MP3 format.
From the PDF I was able to plot which part of the song was which. Later I found they posted a music video with the titles, confirming most of the parts:
00:00 Battle In The Clouds
00:38 Timewave Zero
03:02 De Honesta Disciplina
05:26 Year 3797
07:00 Liberation
09:32 The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
11:38 Siro’s Rain
14:27 Yesterday’s Tomorrow
The video does not identify Rose Pill, but my earlier guess was at the 5:41 mark.
I’d still say you should get the USB thumb drive album – it’s pretty unique, and it lights up in red when you plug it in. They’ve saved you the trouble of ripping it from audio CD, too! I like how the PDF format allows for what would have been a thick book and not a booklet. Head over to their website to get one!
Also, I hereby declare my backlog of gig posts to be 1 year delayed now, having cleared all of 2012 (and I did not shoot any gigs until 15th January 2013.)