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Demilich
Demilich at Party.San Metal Open Air 2017
Background information
Origin	Finland
Genres	Technical death metal
Years active	1990–1993, 2006, 2010, 2015–present
Labels	Necropolis
Members	Antti Boman Mikko Virnes Aki Hytönen Jarkko Luomajoki
Past members	Ville Koistinen Jussi Teräsvirta Corpse sds
Website	www.anentity.com/demilich/

Demilich is 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 debut album, Nespithe (1993), featured intricate death metal riffs with extremely low, gurgled vocals in the vocal fry register. The album contained long, complicated song titles and unconventional lyrics which were written in code in the booklet. It was featured in Terrorizer's Secret History of Death Metal, in their list of "The 40 Albums You Must Hear"; they commented: "Even trying to scream your lungs out whilst vomiting a mix of Haggis, outdated goat's cheese and kebab won't do. Tested extensively by Terrorizer's scientific team, we can now safely say that no normal human is capable of reproducing the effect-free vocal madness displayed by Antti Boman on these Finns' sole, totally unique, album."

Demilich played what was believed to be their last show on July 22, 2006, but played at the Jalometalli Metal Music Festival in Oulu, Finland on August 14, 2010.

Demilich reunited for a show at Maryland Deathfest in 2015.

History

Demilich was founded in 1990 by guitarist/vocalist Antti Boman and Mikko Virnes, creating a unique sound of technical death metal in A standard tuning, with extremely low-register vocals. Demilich recorded four demo tapes (some re-used material from previous demos) before creating their debut, Nespithe, in 1993. The band split up shortly after the release of the album due to complications with their record label and the album's profits. Demilich remained inactive until 2005 when they reformed and began playing live shows, as well as writing new material. this material would not be released to the public until 2014. Demilich played what was to be their last show in 2006, yet performed one-off shows in the following years. Upon the release of "20th Adversary of Emptiness, Demilich became active once again, performing live more often, and are currently writing music for an upcoming album.

20th Adversary of Emptiness contains everything Demilich have ever recorded, starting from Regurgitation of Blood demo (1991) and rounding things off with three songs the band recorded during their brief comeback in 2006. The only Demilich full-length album Nespithe has been reissued several times over the years in various guises, but always using the inferior 16-bit CD masters and sometimes brickwalled beyond recognition. For this release the band dug up the original unmastered 24 bit studio tapes for Nespithe and best possible sources for the demo material, and then had Sami Jämsén of Studio Perkele thoroughly clean everything up and create new masters. Nespithe LP is wrapped in the original Turkka Rantanen cover art, lovingly restored, and a new artwork by Mr Rantanen adorns the box itself. For the demo compilation cover the band commissioned new art from renowned underground artists David Mikkelsen and Johnny Maddox, inspired by Demilich lyricals. Mikkelsen's art also comes as a poster in the package, The whopping 44 page Demilich 'zine features a long Q&A session between Olivier 'Zoltar' Badin and Antti Boman plus lyrics, song commentary and a plethora of assorted interviews and reviews spanning two decades.

Discography

Studio album

• Nespithe (1993)

Demos

• Regurgitation of Blood (1991)
• The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition (1991)
• ...Somewhere Inside the Bowels of Endlessness... (1992)
• The Echo (1992)

Compilation albums

• 20th Adversary of Emptiness (2014)
• Em9t2ness of Van2s1ing / V34ish6ng 0f Emptiness (2018)

References

1. Badin, Olivier. Terrorizer's Secret History of Death Metal, "The 40 Albums You Must Hear", page 95, March 2010.
2. "Demilich". Retrieved February 16, 2010.
3. "Deathfest".

External links

• 20th Adversary of Emptiness 2CD pre-order
• 20th Adversary of Emptiness 3LP box pre-order
• Demilich and Nespithe at Allmusic
• Demilich at MusicMight
• Official site of Standard Whore
• Demilich Interview 2005

• Musical groups established in 1990
• Musical groups disestablished in 1993
• Technical death metal musical groups
• Finnish death metal musical groups