Danishmendt is a French band born in 2004. Their first line-up recorded a live demo. After a few months, new musicians joined, since then, Danishmendt released an Ep, L’Homme est un animal qui a trahi in 2006 and an album, Eaux-Fortes, in 2007.

"Try to imagine an up-tempo Khanate playing heavily drugged-out Thorns covers, or a rusted, scrapyard Meshuggah, at their most psychedelic, trapped and flailing in a hall of mirrors and you’ll be some way toward approximating the sound made by these five deviants. Kin to such degenerates as Gnaw, Axis Of Perdition and fellow countrymen Celeste, Danishmendt are a pulsing, throbbing black hole of bleakly kaleidoscopic riffs, hoarse, phlegm-spattered vocals and hissing, dreadful dark ambience."

http://www.roadburn.com/2010/11/album-of-the-day-danishmendt-un-passe-aride/