Darediablo is an instrumental trio that employs guitar, drums, and keyboard, including Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes, to kick out deceptively complex riffs, angular solos, and atmospheric harmonics. On Feeding Frenzy, the band manages to present an interesting combination of progressive stoner fusion. The thing I like about progressive music is the musicality, but I find that it tends to get overblown into just large wank-a-thons of bloated solos. That is not a problem with Darediablo, as they do not pump out excessive solos, letting the strengths of the songs to be exposed not merely as a set of complex chords to endlessly solo over. Plus, this is an instrumental album so there's nary a lyric of elves, magicians, and pipers. Highlights include the stoner rock of "Behold the Panther Stone" and the strutting funk of "Celebrity Shark Week," which builds to a rock/groove conclusion compared to if Queens of the Stone Age jammed with Medeski, Martin, & Wood.

Darediablo is certainly an interesting band to listen to. I think the band made a good decision in emphasizing the "rock" part of the prog-rock combination. Both prog and jam band fans will love this album.

Feeding Frenzy's thrusts are unrelenting: Jake Garcia's thick, angular riffing may evoke lots of fond (if repressed) Deep Purple memories, and all three have chops-y tendencies that could be considered sorta prog. But Feeding Frenzy is more of a beer-in-plastic-cups party than a studied meditation, and the music is jumpy enough to get anyone dancing-- even if all your moves are preemptively restricted to fist-pumping and head-bobbing. Darediablo still nobly transcend every other meatheaded hard rock clich� by consistently pushing out thick, unadorned, intellectual rock and roll-- complete with compelling grooves, unremitting force, and lots of opportunities for bookshelf-shaking blasts.