San Diego Reader

Eric Nunes: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric), Vocals | Matan Chaffee: Bass guitar, Vocals | Kevin Wood: Drums | Victor Baddour: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric), Vocals

Genre: Metal | Hardcore, Punk, Rock

Sound description: Hardcore metal played loud and aggressive enough to make Metallica cover its ears.

RIYL: Slayer, the Misfits, Pantera, Manowar

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Discography

Related Links:

• http://www.daemos.com

• MySpace page · July 19, 2007

Synoposis

Inception: San Diego, 1993

Ex-Band Members: Jason St. Aubin, Bass guitar

Current Status: Their new EP is called <em>Surface</em> and they are planning their next national tour.

Influences: Slayer, Faith No More, Pantera, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Van Halen, Megadeth, Dimmu Borgir, Incubus, the Haunted, In Flames, Korn, At the Gates, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Meshuggah, Misfits, Strapping Young Lad, Death, Manowar, Nevermore, Iced Earth, Amorphis, Morbid Angel, Six Feet Under

Background:

The four-piece band Daemos has been playing San Diego venues since the early '90s, as well as landing slots opening for Judas Priest at L.A.'s House of Blues and for Testament at the Whisky a Go-Go. Guest appearances on local radio stations like KIOZ and San Francisco 's KSJO have elevated interest in the band's website, Daemos.com, which claims to receive over 275,000 hits annually.

The group theorizes that attaching themselves to projects with big-name headliners will reflect some of that fame back on them, which explains their repeated presence performing cover versions on tribute albums like "Megaded" (Megadeth songs -- Daemos plays "Looking Down the Cross") and "SuperCharger Hell" (they do a cover of White Zombie's "SuperCharger Heaven").

"We're really combining two different worlds," according to former bassist Jason St. Aubin. "Our music appeals to the new-school crowd as well as diehard metalers."

Guitarist and vocalist Eric Nunes says "Basically my take on music is that any music style can be good if the musicians like what they are doing. That's not to say that everyone can play well. But those that can and stick to their heart are great in my book. One thing that really pisses me off is a band that is obviously writing and playing music to become rich and/or famous. It makes the rest of us look bad. Plus, if you try to play something that you don't like, it will never sound good. I'm all for having influences. That's great, but you need to grow away from those influences and let your own unique style come through."

He says the band isn't interested in getting signed to a record deal. "The record labels will come around once they see people digging your music. And at that point you can either tell them to fuck off or give you the freedom you deserve." Daemos has apparently said "f-off" fairly often as they remain, after over a decade, unsigned.