It’s a cult group, rock heroes in Belgium for the past 30 years: dEUS has just released new songs, and a new album, “How To Replace It”, after a ten-year discographic break. With humility but also a great desire to get back on the road.
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In addition to having inspired many Belgian bands for thirty years, dEUS has left an indelible mark on rock. A universe apart, lifted by a deep voice. This voice is always that of Tom Barman, with his intense and lively lyrics, simply happy to find the public with new things to sing to them. “We never had the idea of stopping, he specifieswe just lived, and now we’ll see what the live gives, I’m not 25 anymore, these are not very easy times for people.”
“As we say in Flemish, everyone has to make their bread, so you have to serve yourself first, and as an artist surprise yourself.”
And if dEUS is eagerly awaited by its many fans, with a major tour and a lot of festivals this summer, this album was built in difficult times, between pandemic and romantic breakup. For Tom Barman, paradoxically, all these difficulties fed the texts, he who admitted to having had at the time “broken heart“. Despite everything, it was out of the question to make a marshmallow comeback: “No one wants to come back after ten years with a depressing album!“
“Rock is ideal because even when you’re talking about painful stuff, there’s always this idea of carrying on, of escaping from this shitty stuff, of doing something beautiful.”
A beautiful philosophy for a successful return, it is on stage that we should rediscover why dEUS has been missed so much.
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dEUS, How To Replace It (Pias). Album available. On tour, at the Elysée Montmartre on March 25, June 24 at the God Save The Kouign festival, July 6 in Beauregard or July 15 in Dour (Belgium).
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