
When Daemon takes a deep breath in the middle of his latest single, “Vader,” he’s not just marking a pause between his relentless bars. It’s more like a world-weary sigh, the kind you get when you’re the man in black surrounded by a neon-bright world. Daemon lives inside the darkness so he can defeat it. His weapons here are incisive verses, an infectious chopped horn line and the thunder of low-end rumble.