Demigod are a Finnish
death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, feat ...
band formed in 1990 in
Loimaa
Loimaa (; historical sv, Loimijoki) is a town and municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is ...
, Finland. The band's debut album ''
Slumber of Sullen Eyes'' is highly regarded in the
heavy metal community. ''
Terrorizer
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'' included it in their list of "40 death metal albums that you must hear", commenting: "It is with this often overlooked classic that one of the greatest love stories of all time unfolded: Florida's pummeling groove meets Sweden's buzzsaw guitar work in a union so deliciously evil it could move the hardest of bangers to tears of joy."
History
Demigod was a popular group in the death metal underground of the 1990s; however, despite a steady status and a healthy number of gigs, the band split up in the mid-90s. Demigod re-formed in 1998 and was eventually signed by
Spikefarm, a sublabel of major Finnish metal record company
Spinefarm
Spinefarm Records is a Finnish independent record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists. It is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.
History
Spinefarm Records was originally founded in 1990 by Riku Pääkkönen as a mail-order distrib ...
, who released the band's second album ''
Shadow Mechanics''.
Somewhere between 2002 and 2006, this co-operation came to an end, and the band recorded the follow-up to ''Shadow Mechanics'' without a label. The recordings were finished in the summer of 2006, and the album was released by the band's own label, Open Game Productions, in 2007. Since late 2007, worldwide distribution has been handled by the Spanish label
Xtreem Music
Xtreem Music is an independent Spanish record label, founded after the collapse of Repulse Records in 2002, and managed by Dave Rotten. It mainly produces extreme metal and black metal bands.
On April 11, Xtreem Music announced that Iranian de ...
, leaving only the Scandinavian market for the band's own label. Xtreem Music has also re-released the debut album, previously long out of print.
Xtreem Music
In 2012, Esa Linden and several of the other "Slumber of Sullen Eyes" members took part in several reunion shows. After the string of shows was brought to a close, the band intended to begin writing another album.
Members
Current
*Esa Lindén - vocals (1990-1994, 1997-2001, 2010-present), guitar (1990-1993)
*Jussi Kiiski - guitars (1991-2008, 2010-present)
*Tuomas Karppinen - guitars (2007-2008, 2010-present)
*Sami Vesanto - bass (1993-2008, 2010-present)
*Tuomo Latvala - drums (2002-2008, 2010-present)
Former
*Seppo Taatila - drums (1990-2002)
*Tero Laitinen - bass (1990-1993), guitar (1994-2007)
*Mika Haapasalo - guitar (1992), vocals (1994-1997)
*Tuomas Ala-Nissilä - vocals (2001-2008)
*Ali Leiniö - vocals (2001)
Timeline
Discography
* '' Unholy Domain'' (Demo, 1991)
* '' Slumber of Sullen Eyes'' (1992)
* '' Shadow Mechanics'' (Spikefarm, 2002)
* '' Let Chaos Prevail'' (Open Game/Xtreem, 2007)
References
External links
Demigod's official site
Finnish death metal musical groups
Finnish heavy metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 1990
Musical groups disestablished in 2008
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