Album Notes

"The organ-drenched brand of '70s metal is the most obvious antecedent of Darediablo, a New York City outfit that combines heavy rock with crisp rhythmic work and unexpected shifts. Their third full-length CD, Bedtime Stories, is not for the faint of heart. From the thumping opener, "Sigurd the Dragon Slayer," to the dynamic closer, "Shipping & Handling," the album rocks out relentlessly. And make no mistake, this is a rock band. Those looking for head-in-the-clouds noodling should go elsewhere."
-- JamBase.com, September 2002

"The instrumental sledgehammer that is this band . . . keeps its feet firmly grounded in rumbling TNT-charged energy, but nevertheless gets a nod from the experimental school of noisemaking. No wonder Darediablo draws such a crowd."
-- NYRock.com, May 2002

"This mostly instrumental rock trio . . . rock with more power and finesse than most bands twice their size and wattage."
-- Village Voice, 26 February 2002

Darediablo started out as a kind of mish-mosh of hard rock, jazz, and stoner rock, but has managed to focus these sounds into a style that's particularly suited to the instruments: guitar, bass, and double-neck, Fender Rhodes and Hammond Organ pumped through a wall of effects and distortion, and drums handled with an innate sense of rock and rhythmic subtlety.

We take it as a good sign that neither we nor any of our fans can describe our sound. We hear a lot of "kind of like Foo Fighters and AC/DC without vocals," and "like Pink Floyd, but with power chords." Whatever works for you, we say.

You can also hear us in soundtracks. Darediablo has appeared in many television series and features:

* SORORITY LIFE (MTV, 2002)
* DOWN LOW: LIFE IN THE D-LEAGUE (ESPN, 2001-02)
* SPORTS CENTURY (ESPN, 2002)
* THE LIFE (ESPN, 2000-01)
* THE WILD ONION (ESPN, 2001)