D-A-D

Booking Agent

Jörg Düsedau
schroerg@dragon-productions.com

Germany

Biography

D-A-D emerged strengthened from a widely celebrated anniversary year, carrying one of the best albums of their career, a renewed belief in the future and a desire to tour the world.

According to old superstition, the number thirteen is synonymous with bad luck – but not for Denmark’s greatest rock band, D-A-D. With their thirteenth album, Speed Of Darkness, Jesper Binzer (vocals, guitar), Jacob Binzer (guitar), Stig Pedersen (bass) and Laust Sonne (drums) didn’t just return with their former power intact; they released one of the strongest albums of their entire career. Not bad for a band that celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2024.

Critics received the album with overwhelming enthusiasm, and the audience agreed – Speed Of Darkness shot straight to the top of the Danish charts. Sweden followed suit, giving the band its best chart position in 30 years, while the album also became D-A-D’s most popular release ever in Germany.

At the same time, an exhibition at the National Museum in Copenhagen celebrating the band’s first 40 years became such a success – with thousands of excited visitors – that not even a world-famous Danish fairytale poet could have written a better ending to the anniversary year.

D-A-D rode into 2025 on a wave of energy, love and hunger for more. But the band members know that success comes with responsibility, and they constantly remind themselves – and one another – that they must continue to fight: not just to satisfy their fanbase but also to keep the work exciting for themselves. Routine must never creep in; status quo is a no-go. For that reason, D-A-D also spent part of 2025 visiting cities, among others in Eastern Europe, where they had never performed before.

“It’s always great to play somewhere you’re not used to playing, because then it’s new for us too, and that gives us energy. But it also places certain demands on us to play smaller venues where we’re closer to the audience, where all the stage décor is stripped away and we have to convince people that this is great,” says Laust Sonne. He adds: “Whether there are 300 or 30,000 people at a show doesn’t matter; D-A-D plays for the ones who showed up, and we always give 100 percent. That’s an internal agreement. The audience paid for a ticket and came to have a good experience, and we have to deliver that. That’s the whole thing.”

D-A-D are capable of performing both small and large concerts, and 2025 has had it all: intimate club shows, stadium performances and festival appearances. They returned once again to Australia with sold-out concerts in the country’s four largest cities – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth – and later revisited several of Europe’s largest and most popular rock and metal festivals, such as Sweden Rock in Sweden, Hellfest in France and Wacken Open Air in Germany.

That is already in the past for D-A-D, who are once again looking forward, but Jesper Binzer, Jacob Binzer, Stig Pedersen and Laust Sonne will never forget it, because it was both a wonderful and remarkable year. Very few bands manage to stay together for 40 years without a break – and even fewer do so while remaining one of the country’s best and most popular rock bands, with an even larger audience abroad. According to Stig Pedersen, it is more than that:

“Turning 40 as a band is completely insane in itself. We’re basically a social experiment!”