Playing With Fire

Djevara

Djevara is a multicultural hardcore punk/alternative metal band, based in North London, that was originally founded in the University of Warwick. The band's first incarnation was initiated by Bass, the ever-since singer, in the form of the self-depreciatingly named 'Suck' - as all the musicians were novices (Bass himself only picking up the guitar just before joining university). Eventually this band became 'Djevara', which Bass explains was taken from an (undisclosed) ancient language, of Eastern or Asian origin, which roughly translates as "a time or place denoting the beginning of justice and the end of intolerance". Djevara were inspired mainly by the alternative rock phenomena of the early 1990s, though the sound evolved from diverse, but very basic, pun… more »