Daedric are getting closer to the Light. The Texas metalcore adventurists are about to release their sophomore LP, As the Light Left, and the band have teamed with Revolver to premiere the collection’s fearless first track, “The Other Terror,” along with its striking music video.
The new song follows recent singles “Sand Tiger” and “Undone,” and while some of the album previews thus far have taken on turntable-twisting flavors of early nu-metal, “The Other Terror” contorts itself through a concussively modern arrangement.
Above the world-imploding drum kicks and darkly detuned riffage, vocalist Kristyn Hope weaponizes melodic rasps and monstrous bleghs as dangerous as the “blades” in her mouth — and certainly the big straight sword she’s brandishing in the video (“I think I’ve killed now”).
Speaking with Revolver for an upcoming profile, Hope summed up of the narrative: “There’s the fear in front of you that you can see, and then there’s the fear behind you that you don’t know… and you have to decide whether to face the one that you see or the one that you can’t.”
She added in a statement: “I have lived this album through and through. Every word and every emotion. But most of all, I have endured the inner rage and final decision of ‘The Other Terror.’”
You can check out the track up above via a sword-swinging, snake-skinned video directed by Michael Levine.
Daedric’s As the Life Left is out tomorrow (October 17th) via FiXT, and likewise includes earlier singles “Callous” and “Alien Skin.”
The band recently wrapped up a round of North American tour dates supporting Danish outfit Vola. No further live dates have been announced for the rest of 2025.