Demilich is a Finnish

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band, which formed in the early 1990s and consists of vocalist/guitarist Antti Boman, guitarist Aki Hytönen, bassist Ville Koistinen, and drummer Mikko Virnes. Their debut album, ''

Nespithe ''Nespithe'' is the only album recorded by Finnish death metal band Demilich. Originally issued by Necropolis Records in 1993, it was reissued in 1996 for the European market by Repulse Records and in 2003 by Century Media. The reissued versio ...

'' (1993), features intricate death metal riffs with unusually low, guttural vocals in the

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. The album contains long, complicated song titles and unconventional lyrics which were written in code in the booklet. ''Nespithe'' 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"The 40 Albums You Must Hear"; they commented: "Even trying to scream your lungs out whilst vomiting a mix of haggis, outdated goat's cheese and kebab won't do.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."Badin, Olivier. ''Terrorizer'''s Secret History of Death Metal, "The 40 Albums You Must Hear", p. 95, March 2010. Demilich played what was believed to be their last show on 22 July 2006 but performed many other shows since then, including appearances at

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and

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History

Demilich was founded in 1990 by guitarist/vocalist Antti Boman and drummer Mikko Virnes, creating a unique

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sound of technical death metal in A standard tuning, with extremely low-register vocals. Demilich recorded four demo tapes (some containing 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. The compilation release ''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

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these original unmastered mixes.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''

'' (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

External links

Official website

Previous website
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' at

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