Danava (pronounced DON-UH-VUH) play the type of ferociously intense, foundation-rattling, rock and roll that might righteously justify some good old fashioned head-banging, vocalist Dusty Sparkles wants you to know that he doesn't consider his band a metal outfit.

Nor are they prog-rock, or part of whatever ridiculous, wonky sounding "movement" someone just came up with to try to lump a bunch of disparate bands together. Sparkles has as much use for genre tags as folks on the Titanic did for bottled water. He's not interested in being part of a scene, and he's entirely unconcerned about anyone's reaction to or opinion of his band.