{"title":"Demilich @ct@if@band-music-9655@","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"demilich-em9t2ness-of-van2s1ing-the-demo-tapes-cd","title":"Demilich - EM9T2NESS OF VAN2S1ING - The Demo Tapes - CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll Demilich demo material plus recordings from 2006 in a snappy double LP package.\u003cbr\u003eCompiled together with the band, this is the ultimate Demilich demo compilation.\u003cbr\u003eIn the late days of the early life of death metal in the early nineties, the death metal\u003cbr\u003e“community” had strayed from an appreciation of the majestic possibilities of sound, and\u003cbr\u003ewere making a mundane product instead. They wanted the most “brutal” sound so the\u003cbr\u003elargest crowd could hear it, consider themselves “extreme,” and go back to work with a\u003cbr\u003ehangover. This made the music escape its tiny audience, but killed off exploration as well. In\u003cbr\u003eaddition, it was defensive and under-confident, feeling its chops lagged behind the rock,\u003cbr\u003eblues and jazz genres. Stagnation struck even as the genre accelerated.\u003cbr\u003eEnter the dark horse, Demilich. These inventive Finns reintroduced amazement at the\u003cbr\u003epossibilities of music. Where most people look at a forest and see wood for sale, a death\u003cbr\u003emetal fan after Demilich sees an intricate organism in itself, with the smallest details\u003cbr\u003ecorresponding to the broadest concepts. The labyrinthine riffs of Demilich corresponded to a\u003cbr\u003eworldview that saw the connection between details as a design, and a design as conferring a\u003cbr\u003epurpose to life, cycling between birth and death as it spelled out the cryptic intricacies of\u003cbr\u003eancient mysteries. Demilich was like finding a submerged city, or discovering a new path\u003cbr\u003ethrough the mountains, or even confronting a glowering enemy on the open plain. It brought\u003cbr\u003erisk, uncertainty, ambiguity and a sense of sublime beauty back to death metal, pulling it\u003cbr\u003eaway from the slump in which it treated itself as a hammer and every listener as a nail.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Nespithe arrived in 1993, most of the response was mostly scornful and disturbed at\u003cbr\u003efirst. Most reacted with a sense of this not being what they expected, therefore it was wrong.\u003cbr\u003eBut a few saw underground metal being given new life through twisting passages of fractal\u003cbr\u003emelody in structures that evolved as the song progressed, creating successive expansions\u003cbr\u003eof meaning which developed the exotic from the mundane and the natural from the bizarre.\u003cbr\u003eUnlike the devotional nature of most pop music, Demilich was esoteric, and required the\u003cbr\u003elistener to discard preconceptions and meet it halfway in order to understand it. Over time\u003cbr\u003emore joined the growing fanbase for Demilich, but metal — and music at large — never really\u003cbr\u003ecaught up with Demilich. Contemporary progressive music seems to thrive on hitting us with\u003cbr\u003ea linear series of contrasting parts but never integrating them into a theme like Demilich\u003cbr\u003ewould have. Many have since imitated it, but none have achieved that dreamlike state in\u003cbr\u003ewhich all is infinite and possibility is around every corner. Nespithe surged ahead of its time,\u003cbr\u003ebut even more importantly, remains ahead of the mindset most people have adopted in this\u003cbr\u003etime. To appreciate Demilich is to have to think about it, and to have to use abstraction to\u003cbr\u003euncover the mysteries writhing within the dark trails through its texture. Demilich saw the\u003cbr\u003ecomplexity of existence as a positive, and not unprofitable and irritating, thing. This musical\u003cbr\u003elandscape was a riddle crafted by the artist, undertaking a transcendent goal. The ultimate\u003cbr\u003efulfillment of the left hand path is to take what is ugly and make it beautiful, and Demilich\u003cbr\u003eundertook that quest, baffling the larger audience. For the next decade the band was almost\u003cbr\u003ereligiously shunned, but now that the ashes have fallen over the church of “extreme metal,”\u003cbr\u003emore are digging through the charred remnants to find the mysterious life of this artform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklist\u003cbr\u003eSIDE A\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction \/ Embalmed Beauty Sleep\u003cbr\u003e2. Two Independent Organisms ? One Suppurating Deformity\u003cbr\u003e3. And the Slimy Flying Creatures Reproduce in Your Brains\u003cbr\u003e4. The Uncontrollable Regret of the Rotting Flesh\u003cbr\u003eSIDE B\u003cbr\u003e1. (Within) The Chamber of Whispering Eyes\u003cbr\u003e2. …and You’ll Remain… (In Pieces in Nothingness)\u003cbr\u003e3. The Cry\u003cbr\u003e4. The Putrefying Road in the Nineteenth Extremity (…Somewhere Inside the Bowels of\u003cbr\u003eEndlessness…)\u003cbr\u003e5. 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