Speak of a huge takeoff: in just a short amount of time, De Staat from <city><place>Nijmegen</place></city> has been able to build up a decent live reputation, sign a record deal and get a position as support for dEUS in the <country-region><place><personname>UK</personname></place></country-region>. And all of that while debut Wait the Evolution has yet to be released. ‘Josh Homme humps his boner against the speakers while listening to this record’, reported 3voor12. De Staat consists of five guys with a love for music with deep roots, who recorded an album that sounds weird and familiar, ugly and sexy as well as dead and alive at the same time. It pounds, it clamps and… sometimes it even hurts. But De Staat without any doubt is one of the most promising bands from the <country-region><place>Netherlands</place></country-region> in the years to come.