Official solo artist / Cassowary Recordings

D’RELLION

New Zealand-born. Adelaide-based. Australian. Hip-hop with weight behind it — music willing to go into grief, loss, trauma, survival, identity and the things people usually avoid saying out loud.

BornNew Zealand
BasedAdelaide, Australia
Solo soundHip-Hop / Rap
AlsoLead singer · Fractured Nexus
The story

One voice. More than one world.

D’Rellion is the stage name of Daryl — a New Zealand-born artist who built his life and music in Adelaide, Australia. He started making music at 18. What began as a passion became a long-term creative path and eventually a full-time pursuit.

The solo project is rooted in hip-hop, but the writing is not interested in pretending life is clean. D’Rellion can go directly into grief, loss, trauma, pressure, memory, survival and the after-effects people carry with them.

There is still mystery around the artist. Not every scar needs a footnote, and not every song needs to explain itself before it hits.

“The name opens the door. The music tells you what comes next.”
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Solo catalogue

The latest chapter.

Recent releases Yet and Hitting mark the road into the next D’Rellion album. The title stays under wraps for now. The next body of work is coming soon.

What the music carries

Not afraid of the hard subjects.

Grief & lossNot polished into a motivational slogan. Sometimes loss is messy, unresolved and still present.
Trauma & survivalThe music can sit with what happened, what remains, and what it takes to keep moving.
Identity & changeNew Zealand roots, an Australian life, and years of becoming somebody different without erasing where it started.
The other side

Fractured Nexus

D’Rellion is also the lead singer of Fractured Nexus, the Adelaide band project created from his heavier musical instincts. It is not a renamed solo project. It is its own world — nu metal, heavy rock, alternative rock, softer rock and whatever the song needs.

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Daryl / D’Rellion
Solo artist · creator · lead singer of Fractured Nexus

Enter Fractured Nexus →
Two identities

Keep them separate.

D’Rellion is the solo hip-hop artist.
Fractured Nexus is the band.
Cassowary Recordings is the shared home carrying both forward.

The rebrand

Cassowary Recordings.

D’Rellion Studios is now Cassowary Recordings. The rebrand followed a major personal milestone: Daryl — aka D’Rellion — becoming an Australian citizen. Cassowary Recordings is the recording branch under the wider Hue & Queue identity.

Same creative drive. New name. Wider future.

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A branch of Hue & QueueCassowary Recordings carries the music side of the wider creative umbrella.
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