Ephel Duath

'PAIN REMIXES THE KNOWN' AVAILABLE FOR U.S. PRE-ORDER

When it comes to EPHEL DUATH, you can always expect the unexpected. With their upcoming release, Pain Remixes The Known, they have surpassed the unexpected and entered an entirely new dimension.

Deconstructing and rebuilding the tracks featured on their previous effort, Pain Necessary To Know, EPHEL DUATH paints an entirely new portrait on this completely unique release.

EPHEL DUATH takes musicianship to new heights on tour in Europe.

Tracklisting:
01. Hole I
02. Hole II
03. Hole III
04. Hole IV
05. Hole V
06. Hole VI
07. Hole VII
08. Hole VIII
09. Hole IX

News Added: 22/8/07

EPHEL DUATH SET TO REPRESENT MOTSTOY FESTIVAL AT NORWEGIAN ROCK UNION

Italian experimental jazz-metallers Ephel Duath have taken on the honour of representing Norwegian metal festival Motstoy at this year's Norwegian Rock Union (NRF) at the venue Betong in Oslo.
This year the Norwegian Rock Union is celebrating its 25th anniversary and will see a battle of festivals between Motstoy, Inferno, Hole In The Sky and South Of Heaven. On September 7th, Ephel Duath are proudly taking the responsibility of representing Motstoy and will be up against 1349, Entombed and Iskald in the celebratory battle.
This appearance follows the release of Ephel Duath's album 'Pain Remixes The Known', which reworks and remixes 2005's 'Pain Necessary To Know'. The album has already been met by positive reviews, with leading UK magazine Kerrang! stating 'Ephel Duath have the foundations of a perfect slice of discordant electro dub insanity'. Fans can expect the brand new release from Ephel Duath, 'Through My Dog's Eyes' next year.
To find out more about Ephel Duath visit: www.myspace.com/ephelduath.

News Added: 7/8/07

Ephel Duath "Pain Remixes The Known" out now

The latest ambitious release from Italian experimental jazz metallers Ephel Duath finally hits the shops in the UK/Europe today. 'Pain Remixes The known' is a deconstructed and mutated form of 2005's 'Pain Necessary To Know', and looks set to cause a stir in the metal genre and beyond.

Pain Remixes The Known' was remixed by the famed Italian producer Eraldo Bernocchi who has collaborated in the past with the likes of Bill Laswell and Mick Harris. Ephel Duath are currently working on a fresh new album, entitled 'Through My Dog's Eyes', which is set to be a concept album in which a dog depicts his vision of various aspects of life. This is due to be released in 2008.

To find out more about 'Pain Remixes The Known', including links to online retailers visit www.myspace.com/ephelduathpainremixestheknown.
To order straight from the Earache webstore click the links below.

News Added: 23/7/07

EPHEL DUATH BEGIN WORK ON NEW ALBUM 'THROUGH MY DOG'S EYES'

Italian experimental jazz metallers Ephel Duath have begun work on a new album due to be released in 2008. The album, entitled 'Through My Dog's Eyes' is set to be a concept album in which a dog depicts his vision of various aspects of life, from casual things like nightmares or walks to deeper issues such as accepting death and the rules of nature that are unavoidable. The band are currently gathered together, writing and arranging the songs, and guitarist Davide had this to say about the album:
'The preproduction is very promising, and we'll abuse it to grasp and magnify the potential of each track: we are sure that the album will not only please the fans but that it will also bring us new ones'.
Talking about the concept behind 'Through My Dog's Eyes', Davide has also stated that:
'Lyrics-wise, it is a first person narrative in the shape of various short novels. We are in no way attempting to prove any sort of superiority or draw a parallel between man and animal. All we intend to do is capture the essence of how we think dogs see life, hence the use of the first person, and all of this being speculation means that the texts deal with sheer fantasy. We'll push people to think about this concept as an ode to one of the animals with the most humanity in the eyes'.
'Through My Dog's Eyes' will follow the release of the upcoming remix album entitled 'Pain Remixes The Known' which is set to be released on July 23rd. To hear a track from the album head over to www.myspace.com/ephelduathpainremixestheknown. To find out more about Ephel Duath visit: www.myspace.com/ephelduath.

News Added: 16/7/07

Ephel Duath "Hole IV" from "Pain Remixes The Known" on myspace

Ephel Duath have posted an mp3 of "Hole IV" from the upcoming album "Pain Remixes The Known" on their myspace page. www.myspace.com/ephelduath
The "Pain remixes the known" album is a remix album of "Pain necessary to know" which came out in 2006.
Guitarist Davide explains
" The way we designed the previous album, Pain Necessary to Know, left room for a lot of new interpretations, or remixes as is the case here. The initial idea came from Earache's Dan Tobin, and it seduced us straight away.
We were on tour at the time and therefore had enough spare time on the road to discuss about all this and we all arrived to the conclusion that slowing down the BPM of PNTK to a dubbish rythm would be a slight risk that had the potential to become a thrilling experience."
He continues
" Two years ago ambient-dub guru Eraldo Bernocchi contacted us just to congratulate us for our work and ended up inviting us to dinner. Eraldo is a guitar player, producer and electronic musician. He's got more than 20 years of musical career and 75 full lenght albums spanning many different audio and visual projects with artists and musicians from all over the world. Some of his partners and collaborators are Bill Laswell, Mick Harris, Toshinori Kondo, Thomas Fehlmann, DJ Disk and Harold Budd. He scored various soundtracks, just to mention a few "Nirvana" and "Denti" of the Oscar Prize winner Gabriele Salvatores. Among his remixes he counts Almamegretta, Prince Paul/Jungle Brothers, WordSound, Robert Miles, AFA, The Maldoror Project and many others ranging from dub to metal and drum and bass. A brilliant artist basically. So Lucio and I went to Tuscany where he lives and a lot of ideas regarding possible collaboration came up that night. After a few months Eraldo asked us to compose a song with him for the 20th anniversary of his band Sigillum S. The song came out real Pink Floydish, with spoken words as well as the typical Ephel Duath appeal added to the ambiant guitar of Eraldo. Some time went by and our friendship developed, and at some point Dan Tobin's idea for the remix album came up and we immediately thought of Eraldo.
The whole album, Pain Remixes the Known, has been composed by Eraldo in his home studio called The Place with the help of collaborator and singer Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari."

"An Ephel Duath fan knows that the band is shapeless. We think that PRTK is an extremely important experiment that can help the band widen the scope of its fanbase and can surprise whoever is used to our sound. Just listen to it and see for yourself."
Get a taster of the album at www.myspace.com/ephelduath
"Pain remixes the known" is out on July 23rd on Earache records.
Ephel Duath play at Hellfest this weekend in Clisson France (Sunday June 24th on the Gibson stage).

News Added: 20/6/07

EPHEL DUATH work on “Doggie” album

According to Terrorizer Ephel Duath’s next album, which will be released In 2008 AFTER their remix album, is based on trying to give voice to how a dog sees the world.
Front man Luciano George states in the article “I have no problem singing lyrics from the point of view of a dog; when I look into my dog’s eyes I know what he’s thinking.”
Ephel Duath will release a REMIX album of “Pain Necessary to Know” entitled “Pain Remixes the Known” in May.

News Added: 5/2/07

Ephel Duath's drummer talks sheet music on youtube and Ephel Duath report on the tour

Italian Jazz-metallers Ephel Duath are now back home in Italy after their European tour.
"We've just returned home after seventeen hours travelling from Bruxelles to Padua." Davide Ephel Duath's guitarist reports "The first part of the Ephel Duath's Imploding Euro Tour is finished and it's time to reflect.
We have been lucky with nine UK dates and extremely good support band, the math-corers Tangaroa. The tour crew has became a sort of enlarged family, and we have to thanks these five crazy Tangaroa guys for some of the funniest moments of the whole tour. Our favourite shows were at London Underworld, the Bournemouth's Gander and supporting Red Sparowes @ Southampton's Nexus.
Before leaving the Uk we have did a last minute show at the University of Luton with our label mates Biomechanical. That was one hell of a crazy crowd! Yeh!
Then we were off to France and Belgium playing in two very different venues. The Batofar in Paris - an old red boat in the river Seine, and Magasen 4 in Brussels a sort of small musical factory in the centre of the city.
Probably the best two shows of the whole tour for the band's performance, but going to Paris was the strangest and funniest show of the Ephel Duath's Imploding tour.
We want to thank all the people who came out to see us on the tour, we feel a growing support for Ephel Duath and this pushes us to do the best at every occasion.
Up the Ephels!
Thanks,
Lucio, Fabio, Sergio and Davide."

Ephel Duath's new drummer Sergio talks about playing live from Sheet music on a short YouTube clip. Now Ephel Duath are back home they are ready to continue work on their next album.

News Added: 7/11/06

Ephel Duath on youtube live at Camden Underworld

See Eccentric Jazz-metallers Ephel Duath on you tube in two short snippets from Tuesday night's Camden Underworld show:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSI0ShrtmCw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFM_trI8tTs

News Added: 20/10/06

Ephel Duath on www.totalrock.com this afternoon

Ephel Duath with be on the Metal Lunchbox this afternoon on www.totalrock.com about 1pm Uk time talking about their new drummer and forthcoming tour
Catch them live on the following dates:

15.10.2006 UK MANCHESTER Jilly's Rockworld Damnation Festival
16.10.2006 UK WOLVERHAMPTON Little Civic
17.10.2006 UK LONDON Underworld
18.10.2006 UK NOTTINGHAM The Old Angel
19.10.2006 UK BRADFORD Gasworks
20.10.2006 UK BOLTON No.Fifteen - LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE VENUE
21.10.2006 UK RUSHDEN Attik
22.10.2006 UK BOURNEMOUTH The Gander
23.10.2006 UK EXETER Cavern
24.10.2006 UK SOUTHAMPTON Nexus TBC
26.10.2006 UK MIDDLESBROUGH The Crown

31.10.2006 FR PARIS, Batofar
01.11.2006 BE BRUXELLES, Magasin 4

News Added: 10/10/06

Ephel Duath have new drummer

Returning home after 15 hours travelling from Holland, a tired but very happy Davide of Ephel Duath said:
"Our new drummer Sergio Ponti has been astonishing. We are happy we have the fourth Ephel Duath. Sergio Ponti made his debut with us on 28th September he's a fresh talent and he's pushing our sound to new exciting rhythmical perspectives.
Here's some information about our new percussionist: he studied with Mokhtar Samba (Yousson N'Dour,Salif Keita, Richard Bona, Jean Luc Ponty) and Jay Dittamo (Band From Utopia, Junoon). He has played with Mike Keneally (solo artist, Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, Robert
Fripp), Arthur Barrow (Zappa, Giorgio Moroder, Diana Ross, Joe Cocker), Ian Anderson, SFOM Orchestra, Bernardo Lanzetti (PFM) and many others.
He played in two editions of the Los Angeles's NAMM show. He organized clinic tours for Ellade Bandini, Marco Minnemann, Clive Bunker and Horacio Hernandez. Welcome Sergio!"

News Added: 5/10/06

Ephel Duath with Red Sparowes

EPHEL DUATH will be confounding audiences in UK and Europe with their self-styled "intentional discomfort." The band will be playing a series of shows in support of their most recent album, "Pain Necessary To Know", including a London date at the Underworld following on from the Damnation Festival. Tangaroa will be supporting on all dates including Southampton on 24th October where Ephel Duath will be playing with the Red Sparowes.
click here for dates

News Added: 27/9/06

EPHEL DUATH FEATURE ON “SIGILLUM S” ALBUM

Insane Jazz metallists Ephel Duath are currently working on a collaboration with respected Jazz pioneer Eraldo Bernocchi to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of his groundbreaking group Sigillum S.
The album will also feature contributions from long time Bernocchi co-conspiraters Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Raiz, Zu, Xabier Iriondo, Thomas Fehlmann (The Orb), Crisis and many others. Bernocchi looks set to return the favour to EPHEL DUATH when by handling production duties on the next EPHEL DUATH album.

News Added: 2/6/06

EPHEL DUATH confirmed for DAMNATION FESTIVAL

EPHEL DUATH will join earache label mates BIOMECHANICAL at this years Damnation Festival in Manchester.
Damnation Festival takes place across two stages (sponsored by Terrorizer magazine and Jaegermeister) at Jillys Rockworld, Manchester on Sunday October 15th 2006 and so far confirmed along with EPHEL DUATH, and BIOMECHANICAL are Stampin’ Ground, Send More Paramedics, Murder One, Madman Is Absolute, Man Must Die, Axis Of Perdition, Head-On, Evile and Kingsize Blues.
After the recent cancellation of their UK tour EPHEL DUATH are eager to get back to the UK:

"Hi to everyone, here’s Davide Tiso and L.G.Lorusso from the Italian Jazz-Metal combo EPHEL DUATH. We are happy to announce that EPHEL DUATH have been confirmed for the second instalment of DAMNATION FESTIVAL, set to take place October 15, 2006 at Jilly's Rockworld and Music Box in Manchester, England”.
“We can also announce the recent addition of drummer Andrea Rabuini to the group's touring line-up. We invite Manchester to join the asynchronous dance."

Festival spokesman, Gavin McInally, said: "Ephel Duath, Stampin' Ground, Murder One, Biomechanical, Send More Paramedics and both headliners still to be announced... no self-respecting metaller can afford to miss this feast of extreme music!"

Tickets for this second instalment of UK-focussed metal will go on sale APRIL 3rd, priced £15, and will be available from Ticketline, Seetickets, and direct from Jilly's Rockworld and Music Box.
Still available on Earache:
Ephel Duath – ‘Pain Necessary To Know’ ........Biomechanical – ‘The Empires Of The Worlds’

News Added: 31/3/06

‘PAIN NECESSARY TO KNOW’ released on November 7th

EPHEL DUATH frontman DAVIDE TISO has been in touch to give you an insight into where the Italian outfit’s new album ‘PAIN NECESSARY TO KNOW’ is coming from just prior to it’s release on Elitist / EARACHE on November 7thOctober 31st "Pain Necessary to Know represent a fundamental step in our career.
It's a sort of monolith album that in less of 39 minutes offers to the listener all the Ephel Duath faces: there are mirrors, masks, irony and some tears. Jazz and metal too.”
“We have tried to destroy the song structure, offering to the riffs the freedom of contemporary music. Guitars work like an orchestral director, in the meantime bass and drums build and destroy oblique architechtures.
Voice appears and hides itself like a wolf. Pain Necessary to Know will stand in our discography like a sort of lighthouse that will offer us the right direction to the next albums.
With ‘The Painter's Palette’ (Ephel Duath’s previous release) we have offered you a kind present, now we show you a big stone. Climb it with us, arrived to the top it will be funny to jump together."

PAIN NECESSARY TO KNOW
1 New Disorder
2 Vector, third movement
3 Pleonasm
4 Few stars, no refrain and a cigarette (instrumental)
5 Crystalline Whirl
6 I K illed Rebecca
7 Vector
8 Vector, second movement (instrumental)
9 Imploding

Treading the fine line between the sane, jazz-metal confusionists EPHEL DUATH release their latest affront to common decency with the mind melting paradigm that is ‘Pain Necessary To know’ on November 7th
The band will introduce new live drummer Andrea Rabuini at four Italian shows in November.

News Added: 4/11/05

'PAIN NECESSARY TO KNOW'...

Italian experimentalists EPHAL DUATH have recently completed work on the highly anticipated follow up to The Painter's Palette at Studio 73 in Ravenna, Italy. Guitarist DAVDE TISO has been in touch to let you know more about PAIN NECESSARY TO KNOW
I'm so happy to announce you that our new album PAIN NECESSARY TO KNOW is ready. I have the master in my hand and the artwork on my PC! After two years to compose and five months to record, mix and master, you can easily understand my so excite state of mind. The sound is fat and circular but at the same time so cutting. It's brilliant but dirty. There's desert and smelling water. Probably there's Zappa too!

We've also finalized the artwork. Dirty water with medusas in the background. Medusas are perfect to symbolise the title of the album. You can't say you know a medusa if you have not felt around your body a sign of its touch. You can't say you have the slightest idea of what is the better life for you if you don't have around your thoughts the signs of pain. In my opinion pain is necessary to know.

Only through a lot of different pains I've come to understand what is better for me...To play music!

Here's a preview of the cover. Let me know what you think about it! We've also changed some of the running order:

PAIN NECESSARY TO KNOW
1 New Disorder
2 Vector, third movement
3 Pleonasm
4 Few stars, no refrain and a cigarette (instrumental)
5 Crystalline Whirl
6 I killed Rebecca
7 Vector
8 Vector, second movement (instrumental)
9 Imploding

Buy your copy and control yourself. Later my friends, in the next days we'll try to choose from the album a sort of single to offer you as an MP3.
Davide Tiso

News Added: 15/8/05

Studio Update

Ephel Duath, are currently locked in Studio 73 in Ravenna, Italy with their favoured producer, Paso recording the follow up to their acclaimed album ‘The Painter’s Palette’.
The Italian experimentalists new album, tentatively titled, ‘PAIN NECESSARY TO KNOW’ is slated for an October release. Guitarist Davide Tiso is in buoyant mood: “With all drums, bass, guitars and Luciano's vocals in the can all that remains to record are some ‘Exotic and Esoteric’ instruments before mixing begins”. Some potential song titles include: “I Killed Rebecca”, “Few Stars, no refrain and a cigarette”, “Imploding”, “Christalline Whirl”, “New Disorder”, “Pleonasm” and “Vector”, a three part epic.

‘Pain Necessary To Know’ is slated for a late Spring 2005 release

News Added: 1/6/05

Ready to record new album

Italian experimentalists, Ephel Duath, are getting ready to record their follow up to their worldwide acclaimed album ‘The Painter’s Palette’.
The band will go into Studio 73 in Ravenna, Italy on 16th February, to start recording their new album entitled ‘Pain Necessary To Know’, with their favoured producer, Paso who worked previously on ‘Rephormula’ and ‘The Painter’s Palette’.

Mainmain Davide Tiso states “ After a year and half of hard work the drums, bass and guitar of the 9 new songs that will give life to ‘Pain Necessary to Know’ are finally ready. We’re planning on continuing to work on the vocals after the recording of the song's skeleton. The vocal's will have the same importance as that of an additional instrument, and will appear only in the songs where there is the perfect mood for them. ‘Pain Necessary To know’ has been born with an instrumental slant”. He continues “Our live show line up will record the album (drum, bass, guitar, screams). There won’t be any melodical vocals this time as "Pain Necessary To Know" doesn’t need it and there will also be different guest artists contributing on the brass instruments, and piano”. When asked what could be expected from the new material Davide replied “an intelligent use of pain in music!”

‘Pain Necessary To Know’ is slated for a late Spring 2005 release

News Added: 26/1/05

Join the Ephel Duath street and online promo teams

Earache and Ephel Duath have hooked up with X-Taster to offer fans of the band the opportunity to support the band in various ways across the internet and on the street.

Simply visit www.xtaster.co.uk and sign up for the chance to be part of the Ephel Duath army - you'll find the band's micro-site by hitting the PROJECTS section from the menu bar.

Recruits will be rewarded with the chance to get exclusive Ephel Duath items and also meet the band at shows including the current UK tour with Dillinger Escape Plan. Show your devotion to the cause by signing up now - creating your own exclusive X-Taster account is simple and then allows you to spread the word and receive all updates on the band before anyone else!

News Added: 24/11/04

EPHEL DUATH: RANKS IN RENOWNED METAL AUTHOR'S TOP TEN OF '03

Ephel Duath's hair-raising jazz-metal opus 'The Painter's Palette' ranked in the Top Ten on metal author Ian Christe's best-of-2003 list, along with albums from such bands as Voivod and Enslaved. Says Christe:

"Italy's Ephel Duath is a hyperreal fantasy for information-fiend metal fans with broad tastes and short attention spans... Eclectic metal has been on the rise in the past few years, but Ephel Duath are modern masters rising far above the fray."

Christe, a longtime music journalist, is the author of 'Sound Of The Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal', a comprehensive guide to metal, published by publishing giant Harper Collins. 'Sound Of The Beast' itself ranked in numerous best-of lists in 2003, including that of LA Weekly's Greg Burk, who wrote: "['Sound Of The Beast' is] the first book to chart the vector of not just metal's origins, but the myriad mutations through which it continues to infect the planet. Your children will not be spared."

News Added: 16/01/04

EPHEL DUATH MEETS EXTREME RADIO

Hear an interview with Ephel Duath's mainman Davide Tiso on www.extremeradio.co.uk
Friday July 18th - during Nigel & Pete's show from 7pm to 10pm GMT ( 8pm to 11pm CET)
Saturday July 19th - during Nigel & Pete's show from 6pm to 9pm GMT ( 7pm to 10pm CET)
Sunday July 20th - during Nigel & Pete's show from 6pm to 9pm GMT ( 7pm to 10pm CET)
Please note the interview will air during the first hour of the show in each of the above!

And if you're busy over the weekend you'll still be able to catch the interview as it will also be run at random times daily during the rotating playlist for the whole of the following week from the 20th to 25th July.

News Added: 19/07/03

EPHEL DUATH LIVE ON TOTAL ROCK

Davide Tiso, the genius behind Ephel Duath will be interviewed live on Total Rock on Monday 23rd June.
He will be taking time out of recording a session for the station to talk to Larissa (who's standing in for Matt Mason), about the new album, touring and anything else that's in/on his mind!
You might even be able to win tickets to the London show! Check out Larissa's Metal Lunchbox show 12-3pm (UK time) on www.totalrock.com or if you're in the UK via SKY channel 885 or NTL channel 874

and check out the new Ephel Duath site www.ephelduath.net

News Added: 22/04/03

SEE EARACHE VIDEOS ON KERRANG .COM - EPHEL DUATH & SOCIETY 1

The lovely editor at Kerrang.com has decided that more people need to see Earache videos (and we whole heartedly agree!) .. so they will be hosting the brand new Ephel Duath video "The Passage" and Matt Zane & Society 1's infamous "hooks" clip for "Nothing" taken from "Exit Through Fear" released earlier this year.

In addition to the Ephel Duath video, very soon you'll be able to see an interview with the band on kerrang.com. Ephel Duath are being filmed by kerrang.com on their trip to London next week.

If you like the videos and wanna see them on KerrangTV ... tell them!

www.kerrang.com

and check out the new Ephel Duath site www.ephelduath.net

News Added: 22/04/03