This coming August will mark the 10-year anniversary of when we released our debut album, Draconian Winter. As a result, we found it very appropriate to revisit the songs from that era at our recent hometown show in Redwood City. This is what Defeated Empire sounds like in 2024.
Thank you for your continued support! New music is on the way!
On October 11, we celebrated the 4-year anniversary release of Heavenly Skies! We are so grateful for everyone who has listened to this album, told their friends about it, and rocked out with us at a gig!
We’ve had a blast playing these songs these past few years, but we think it’s about time for a new album. We are slowly transitioning into new-album-recording-mode and can’t wait to share these new songs with you!
But first, lets revisit the Heavenly Skies era with these promo pics from 2019.
We will be playing a second gig this coming weekend! On Saturday, May 6th, we will be playing at the X Bar in Cupertino with one hell of a stacked lineup. The show starts at 6:30pm and we’re first, so get there early to catch our set!
Springtime Asylum Tour 2023
Saturday, May 6th
Homestead Bowl & The X Bar
Doors 5:30pm/Show 6:30pm
ALL AGES
$20 Presale/$25 Day of Show ($5 surcharge for under 21)
-Harakiri for the Sky
-Ghost Bath
-Unreqvited
-Wolf King
-Dawn of Ouroboros
-Crepuscle
Eligio has officially joined the ENGL Amps family!
ENGL has been part of our history since our debut album. We used a Fireball 100 on Draconian Winter and a Savage 120 on Heavenly Skies. Now that both our axemen are playing ENGL rigs, you will absolutely be hearing crushing ENGL tones on all future Crepuscle releases and live performances.
We humbly thank the ENGL team for their warm welcome and look forward to many years of inspiration and collaboration!
It is time to break the silence and make our way back to the stage after a nearly 2.5 year hibernation! Catch us on day 1 of Two Nights of Terror, a two-day event hosted by Creator Destructor Records at the X Bar in Cupertino, CA.
We hope to see you there!
Day 1 Lineup:
Crepuscle
Cartilage
Upon Stone
Doomsday
Darkness Everywhere
Mutually Assured Destruction
(Click the link below to purchase tickets)
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5364445
It was an honor participate in Equilibrium’s 20-Year celebration alongside so many great musicians! Check out this special arrangement of Equilibrium’s classic party anthem “Met”. We appear at around 3:12 but make sure you watch the entire video to catch everyone’s contribution.
We also thought it would be fun to reimagine the chorus with elements we like to include in our music. The Crepuscle tribute version can be viewed below.
Heavenly Skies was released two years ago this month and we could not think of a better way to celebrate the occasion than by posting a playthrough of our axemen punishing their picking hands with this playthrough.
We are so happy to see that so many metalheads around the world are still headbanging to these songs and many are still discovering this album. We will get back to the stages soon enough to resume proper promotion of the album but until then, we hope you don’t mind seeing our boys post a few more playthroughs.
Gear Used
Cameron's Guitar: ESP RS-II (Roope Latvala Signature)
Eligio's Guitar: -ESP E-II M-II NT Black Turquoise Burst with Seymour Duncan Pickups
Amp Used: ENGL Fireball 100
Tuning: D Standard (DGCFAD)
Drums were recorded and mixed by Nick Loiacono at Fang Studios in San Mateo, CA.
We have returned to break the silence with a new guitar playthrough for our song “Severed”.
We hope you you enjoy!
Gear
Cameron's Guitar: ESP RS-II (Roope Latvala Signature)
Eligio's Guitar: ESP E-II Arrow with Seymour Duncan Pickups
ENGL Fireball 100
Tuning: D Standard (DGCFAD)
Drums recorded and mixed by Nick Loiacono at Fang Studios in San Mateo, CA.
We have another guitar playthrough for you! This one is for our track “Elapsing Eternity” from our album Heavenly Skies.
We hope you you enjoy!
Gear
Cameron's Guitar: ESP LTD Alexi-600 Greeny w/EMG pickup
Eligio's Guitar: ESP E-II Arrow with Seymour Duncan Pickups (Sentient in the neck, Custom 5/SH-14 in the bridge)
Tuning: D Standard (DGCFAD)
Drums recorded and mixed by Nick Loiacono at Fang Studios in San Mateo, CA.
It has been nearly 10 months since we last set foot on a stage. Since there is no telling when we will be able to play a gig again, we decided to relive the one show we played after the album’s release by putting together another live video.
This was truly a night to remember and we are so glad we did our best to document the occasion so that we could share these moments with the world.
We can’t wait for this pandemic to be over so we can get back to headbanging with all you metalheads again!
Filmed on December 21st, 2019 at The X Bar in Cupertino, CA.
Footage provided by Michael Beltran, Jamie Edward Gajewski, and Jb Schuler.
Edited by Eligio Tapia
Heavenly Skies was released exactly one year and one day ago! Time sure does seem to fly!
We are still incredibly proud of this album and are ever thankful for everyone who has supported us this past year! We wish we could be playing these songs on stages all over but 2020 hasn’t gone exactly according to plan. Hopefully everyone is staying safe and healthy so we can resume heavy metal activities when the time is right!
If you have just recently discovered us or stumbled on this website, you can check listen to Heavenly Skies on your preferred streaming platform or on this website by clicking here.
We happily present our playthrough for “Fault Line” from our latest album, Heavenly Skies! If you want to see how Cameron and Eligio play this song, check out this video!
Crepuscle proudly plays ESP guitars.
Cameron's Guitar: ESP RS-II (Roope Latvala Signature)
Eligio's Guitar: ESP E-II Arrow with Seymour Duncan Pickups (Sentient in the neck, Custom 5/SH-14 in the bridge)
Tuning: D Standard (DGCFAD)
Enjoy!
We are proud to finally present to you our video for “In the Winds of Glory” from our new album, Heavenly Skies!
We knew our Heavenly Skies gig in December was going to be one hell of a party so we wanted to do our best to immortalize the evening by capturing as much as possible so we could share the madness with the world!
We raise our horns to our Bay Area battalion who heeded the call and showed up full-force as well as our reinforcements who traveled from Florida, Washington, Oregon, and Canada to join us!
Enjoy!
