Demilich
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Demilich biography
DEMILICH was a death metal band from Finland, which formed in the early 1990s and consisted of vocalist/guitarist Antti Boman, guitarist Aki Hytönen, bassist Ville Koistinen and drummer Mikko Virnes.Their lone album, 1993s Nespithe, featured what many considered an unconventional combination of intricate death metal riffs with extremely low, gurgled vocals. The album also gained recognition for its long, complicated song titles and bizarre, unconventional (for death metal) lyrics, which were written in code in the booklet. It has developed a cult following, particularly in the U.S., with some fans and critics proclaiming it one of the best technical death metal albums of all time.DEMILICH played their last show on July 22, 2006.The bands demo song, "Embalmed Beauty
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DEMILICH was a death metal band from Finland, which formed in the early 1990s and consisted of vocalist/guitarist Antti Boman, guitarist Aki Hytönen, bassist Ville Koistinen and drummer Mikko Virnes.
Their lone album, 1993's Nespithe, featured what many considered an unconventional combination of intricate death metal riffs with extremely low, gurgled vocals. The album also gained recognition for its long, complicated song titles and bizarre, unconventional (for death metal) lyrics, which were written in code in the booklet. It has developed a cult following, particularly in the U.S., with some fans and critics proclaiming it one of the best technical death metal albums of all time.
DEMILICH played their last show on July 22, 2006.
The band's demo song, "Embalmed Beauty Sleep", was covered by the German death metal band Fleshcrawl
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Discography
Albums
Nespithe
- Label: Necropolis
- Released: 1993
- 1. When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water (lyrics)
- 2. The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son of Fourteen Four Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed) (lyrics)
- 3. Inherited Bowel Levitation - Reduced Without Any Effort (lyrics)
- 4. The Echo (Replacement) (lyrics)
- 5. The Putrefying Road in the Nineteenth Extremity (...Somewhere Inside the Bowels of Endlessness) (lyrics)
- 6. (Within) The Chamber of Whispering Eyes (lyrics)
- 7. And You´ll Remain... (In Pieces of Nothingness) (lyrics)
- 8. Erecshyrinol
- 9. The Planet That Once Used to Absorb Flesh in Order to Achieve Divinity and Immortality (Suffocated to the Flesh That it Desired) (lyrics)
- 10. The Cry (lyrics)
- 11. Raped Embalmed Beauty Sleep (lyrics)
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Demo / Promo
Regurgitation of Blood (demo)
- 1. Uncontrollable Regret of the Rotting Flesh
The Four Instructive Tales ...of Decomposition (demo)
- 1. Introduction / Embalmed Beauty Sleep
- 2. Two Independent Organisms -> One Suppurating Deformity
- 3. And the Slimy Flying Creatures Reproduce in Your Brains
- 4. The Uncontrollable Regret of the Rotting Flesh
...Somewhere Inside the Bowels of Endlessness...(demo)
- 1. (Within) the Chamber of Whispering Eyes
- 2. ...And Youll Remain... (in Pieces in Nothingness)
- 3. The Cry
- 4. The Putrefying Road in the Nineteenth Extremity (...Somewhere Inside the Bowels of Endlessness...)
- 5. Inherited Bowel Levitation - Reduced without Any Effort
The Echo (demo)
- 1. egasseM neddiH A - ortnI
- 2. The Echo (Replacement)
- 3. Erecshyrinol
- 4. The Sixteenth Six-tooth Son of Fourteen Four-regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed)
- 5. The Cry
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