Photo: Stan of persia
Alan Gualandris
Guitar
Matthieu Hinderer
Vocals // Guitars // Synth
Brice Geiser
Bass
Xavier Almeida
Drums
Julien Ehrensperger
Guitar
NEMEA
It is with great joy and pride that we finally present you a part of our work : “NEMEA”. This long and colourful piece is the first track of our big project “Alkaios”, which we’ll detail in a future post. We hope this preview will make you want to discover more!
- Vocals // Written, composed and recorded at home by Matthieu Hinderer.
- Bass // Composed & recorded at home by Brice Geiser.
- Drums // Engineered by Kevin Galland. // Composed & recorded at Serre 90, La Chaux-de-Fonds by Nicolas Huguenin.
- Guitars // Composed by Alan Gualandris, Mathieu Rubi & Matthieu Hinderer // Recorded at home by Alan Gualandris & Matthieu Hinderer.
- Piano, Synthesizers, Samples & Drum Machines // Composed & recorded at home by Matthieu Hinderer.
- Mixing // Kevin Galland at Studio Mécanique, La Chaux-de-Fonds.
- Mastering // Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studios, Stockholm.
- Track artwork // Brice Geiser
Biography
NevBorn is a progressive metal band (Circa survive, The Ocean, Tesseract, Agent Fresco, …) from Western Switzerland. Although inspired by many different sources, our songs stand out because of their narrative side in the way of a movie soundtrack.
Our first album “Five Horizons” released in 2015 after a few demos was warmly received by the critics and pushed us to go further in our creative process.
In 2017, we tested our audience by releasing “Daídalos” a one-song EP of almost 20 minutes. Despite our fear that a piece of such length would not pass, the critics were on our side.
Thus, “Daídalos” marked a turning point in the history of the band and our way of composing focused on the idea of offering our pieces not as pieces of music, but as a compilation of different chapters of a long story.
Daidalos
Press
- Grind on the Road – 8/10
« A little gem that deserves listening and attention. »
http://www.grindontheroad.com/2017/09/29/nevborn-daidalos/ - Lords of Metal – 78/100
« An EP consisting of one song could be seen as a nice snack, but in the case of Nevborn you can speak of almost twenty minutes of beautiful music. »
http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/nl/reviews/view/id/35463 - Zware Metalen: « More words are not needed than just this: Go and listen! »
https://zwaremetalen.com/albumrecensies/nevborn-daidalos - Metal Brothers: « It’s a band that has it all. They capture the feeling, they transmit emotions, they are not exempt from technique and both in the melody and in the most aggressive passages. »
http://metalbrothers.es/criticas/criticas-internacionales/nevborn-daidalos-2017/ - Hard Sounds – 75/100
« NevBorn attempted (and succeeded) in the task of throwing the conflicting emotions of these historical heroes to disk and turning them into one of the most anticipated records of September »
http://www.hardsounds.it/recensioni/nevborn-diadalos - Toilet to Hell
« It’s very well paced, full of surprises, and leaves you NEEDING more. »
http://www.toiletovhell.com/mini-reviews-from-around-the-bowl-101217/ - Der Daniel ist Cool
« In creative terms, a big hit, guaranteed and rightly will find his friends! »
http://derdanielistcool.de/2017/09/review-nevborn-daidalos/ - ARTNOIR
« Daídalos is filigree, aggressively decorated and a true adventure. Rarely has a dusty story been so rousing and modern packed, rarely can such a long song so quickly convince and captivate. Good job! »
https://artnoir.ch/nevborn-daidalos/ - Reaperzine
« The song flows from one part to the other and unfolds easily. The dark and emotional accents are excellently highlighted. The progressive elements are skillfully combined with dark and aggressive parts, so you can drop yourself for a moment, but destroy the room the next moment. »
http://www.reaperzine.de/review/nevborn-daidalos - Metal Invader – 4/6
« Their sound changes at the right moments, creating the impression that the listener is not just listening a song but observes a metal musical play. The combination between different vocals (alternating between clean and brutal) manages to emphasize the feelings behind the lyrics, with the music following accordingly. Each one prepares us for the other, creating a worthwhile result. »
http://metalinvader.net/nevborn-daidalos/ - Rock Hard
« I personally enjoy listening to the sophisticated instrumental passages with easy prog-metal touch. »
https://www.rockhard.sk/nevborn-daidalos/ - Pit Fire
« A post-metal-alternative-pop-rock-thing with a surprisingly many intermediate tones. »
http://pitfire.net/content.php?ac=cdreviews&id=4564 - Pit of the Damned – 75/100
« Be ready to hear some good from these Swiss. »
http://thepitofthedamned.blogspot.ch/2017/08/nevborn-daidalos.html - Echoes zine – 65/100
« It’s a guitar world at the edge of post-metal, post-hardcore, emotion, atmosphere, and technically interesting gaming that has its charm when it’s all about sticking together. NevBorn can do it without a doubt. »
http://www.echoes-zine.cz/recenze/nevborn-daidalos-ep - Noisey
« NevBorn cleverly twists the changing tempos and tunes that leave no room for monotonous boring and digressions. In short, let yourself be spellbound for 18 minutes, just be careful not to get too close to the sun. »
https://noisey.vice.com/alps/article/yw3nj5/18-epische-minuten-von-metalcore-bis-post-rock-nevborns-ein-song-ep-im-stream - Street Clip
« The epic is so skilfully arranged, and laid out without repetition, that the listener only gradually becomes one when entering the maze with ‘Daídalos’. »
http://www.streetclip.tv/magazine/details/reviews/article/nevborn-daidalos/ - White Room Reviews
« One song that blows everything down, one song that makes the listener tremble with pleasure. What NevBorn does with Daidalos in more than eighteen minutes, many bands can not succeed in three: being and staying fascinating. »
http://www.whiteroomreviews.nl/cdreview/daidalos - Power Metal – 8/10
« During these 18 minutes boredom never comes up, one is caught right from the beginning by the dense atmosphere of the song and can not be let go until the end. »
http://powermetal.de/review/review-NevBorn/Da_dalos__EP_,31136.html - Heavy-Metal
« Daidalos means « work artfully » and comes from the Greek. The ancient Greeks have always known! »
http://heavy-metal.de/?id=37038