History Music / Demilich

* OneBookAuthor: Like many Finnish death metal bands of the era, Demilich only released one album before splitting. ZigZagged in that they've since gotten back together and recorded new songs (though not enough for an album), and haven't ruled out the possibility of further new releases.

* LongTitle: Throughout their entire discography, the band has indulged in this. The most JustForFun/{{egregious}} example has to be "The Planet That Once Used to Absorb Flesh in Order to Achieve Divinity and Immortality (Suffocated to the Flesh That It Desired...)".

* WordSaladLyrics: Averted. Contrary to what their music would suggest, Demilich's lyrics usually tell a complete and coherent story. Tying in to this, their [[LongTitle long and bizarre song names]] are actually good summaries of what's going on in each song, lyric-wise.

* BadassBaritone: Antti Boman may have the most badass baritone in all of DeathMetal.

* UpToEleven: ''Nespithe'' was this to death metal at the time. The complexity of the riffs hearken to Music/{{Immolation}}'s ''Here in After''[[note]]Released in 1996[[/note]] or Music/{{Gorguts}}' ''Obscura''[[note]]Released in 1998[[/note]], but both bands were playing more-or-less conventional death metal at the time of ''Nespithe''[='=]s release.[[labelnote:However...]]Gorguts demoed many of the songs from ''Obscura'' in 1993, the year of ''Nespithe''[='=]s release. Then again, Demilich demoed many of the songs from ''Nespithe'' even earlier, so they still did it first.[[/labelnote]] Meanwhile, contemporary technical death metal bands at the time included Music/{{Death}} and Music/{{Atheist}}, who were both rooted in the more jazz-fusion brand of tech-death, and Music/{{Suffocation}}, who, while brutal in their own right, didn't have the same sort of twisting, atonal and atmospheric riffs that Demilich played.

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: While their lyrics lack the over-the-top violence typically found in death metal, they're still bizarre and nightmarish enough to score a 7-9.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A solid 10, similarly to most DeathMetal bands, though they are anything but a typical death metal band. Their vocals are terrifyingly deep, but not especially harsh.

Demilich's style was very unique among early Finnish death metal bands, with an emphasis on chromatic riffs, atonal solos, and wild time signature changes. Their work would lay the foundation for future TechnicalDeathMetal bands.

* AndIMustScream: Much of the lyrical content on Nespithe can be interpreted as this. "(Within) the Chamber of Whispering Eyes" is an obvious example.

Demilich plays a very unique brand of death metal, with an emphasis on chromatic riffs, atonal solos, and wild time signature changes. Unlike most other Finnish death metal bands of the time, Demilich had a very strong [[TechnicalDeathMetal tech-death]] slant to them, that sets them apart to this day.

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: While most DeathMetal groups write Level 11 {{Gorn}}, Demilich generally focuses on blood-free lovecraftian lyrics. They're still rather nasty, though, and therefore score a 7-9.

Demilich is a Finnish DeathMetal band, formed in 1990. They're known for their sole album, 1993's ''Nespithe'', released three years later, which for a long time afterward was an obscure curiosity until the advent of the Internet. Despite them not releasing any new full-length albums since 1993, Antti Boman has said repeatedly that the band has not split, playing a show once every few years. The band's most recent recorded material is on their career-length retrospective ''20th Adversary of Emptiness'', released in 2014, which contains three new songs [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment from 2006]] alongside the band's entire recorded output up to that point.

* LongTitle: Throughout their entire discography, the band has indulged in this. The most egregious example has to be 'The Planet That Once Used to Absorb Flesh in Order to Achieve Divinity and Immortality (Suffocated to the Flesh That It Desired...).'

* OneBookAuthor: Like many Finnish death metal bands of the era, Demilich only released one album before splitting. ZigZagged in that they've since gotten back together and recorded new songs, and haven't ruled out the possibility of further new releases.

* OneBookAuthor: Like many Finnish death metal bands of the era, Demilich only released one album before splitting.

Demilich is a Finnish DeathMetal band, formed in 1990. They're known for their sole album, 1993's ''Nespithe'', released three years later, which for a long time afterward was an obscure curiosity until the advent of the Internet. Despite them not releasing any new full-length albums since 1993, Antti Boman has said repeatedly that the band has not split, playing a show once every few years. The band's most recent recorded material is on their career-length retrospective ''20th Adversary of Emptiness'', released in 2014, which contains three new songs [[ShelfOfMovieLanguishment from 2006]] alongside the band's entire recorded output up to that point.

Demilich is a Finnish DeathMetal band, formed in 1990. They're known for their sole album, 1993's ''Nespithe'', released three years later, which for a long time afterward was an obscure curiosity until the advent of the Internet. Despite them not releasing any new full-length albums since 1993, Antti Boman has said repeatedly that the band has not split, playing a show once every few years. The band's most recent recorded material is on their career-length retrospective ''20th Adversary of Emptiness'', released in 2014, which contains three new songs.

Demilich is a Finnish DeathMetal band, formed in 1990. They're known for their sole album, 1993's ''Nespithe'', released three years later, which for a long time afterward was an obscure curiosity until the advent of the Internet. Despite them not releasing anything new after 1993, Antti Boman has said repeatedly that the band has not split, playing a show once every few years.

* AndIMustScream: Much of the lyrical content on Nespithe can be interpreted as this. '(Within) The Chamber of Whispering Eyes' is an obvious example.

* HarshVocals: Antti Boman is infamous for having one of the most guttural vocals in the entire genre. Unlike most vocalists near Boman's range, all his vocal work is completely natural.

* UpToEleven: ''Nespithe'' was this to death metal at the time. The complexity of the riffs hearken to Music/{{Immolation}}'s ''Here In After''[[note]]Released in 1996[[/note]] or Music/{{Gorguts}}' ''Obscura''[[note]]Released in 1998[[/note]], but both bands were playing more-or-less conventional death metal at the time of Nespithe's release. Meanwhile, contemporary technical death metal bands at the time included Death and Atheist, who were both rooted in the more jazz-fusion brand of tech-death, and Music/{{Suffocation}}, who, while brutal in their own right, didn't have the same sort of twisting, atonal and atmospheric riffs that Demilich played.

* DeathMetal: An oddball in the then-contemporary Finnish death metal scene, where most bands focused on super-dark, bass-heavy and slow, atmospheric riffing, Demilich went for a more upbeat, surreal, and technical angle with deceptively shifting time signatures and tempo shifts.

* UpToEleven: ''Nespithe'' was this to death metal at the time. The complexity of the riffs hearken to Music/{{Immolation}}'s ''Here In After'' or Music/{{Gorguts}}' ''Obscura'', but both bands were playing more-or-less conventional death metal at the time of Nespithe's release. Meanwhile, contemporary technical death metal bands at the time included Death and Atheist, who were both rooted in the more jazz-fusion brand of tech-death, and Music/{{Suffocation}}, who, while brutal in their own right, didn't have the same sort of twisting, atonal and atmospheric riffs that Demilich played.

* WordSaladLyrics: Averted. Unlike the music they play, Demilich's lyrics usually tell a complete and coherent story. Tying in to this, their [[LongTitle long and bizarre song names]] are actually good summaries of what's going on in each song, lyric-wise.

Demilich is a Finnish DeathMetal band, formed in 1990. They're known for their sole album, 193's ''Nespithe'', released three years later, which for a long time afterward was an obscure curiosity until the advent of the Internet. Despite them not releasing anything new after 1993, Boman has said repeatedly that the band has not split, playing a show once every few years.

Demilich plays a very strange brand of death metal, with an emphasis on chromatic riffs, atonal solos, and wild time signature changes. Unlike most other Finnish death metal bands of the time, Demilich had a strong [[TechnicalDeathMetal tech-death]] slant to them, that sets them apart to this day.

Despite them only releasing one finished work, Demilich released a handful of demoes between their founding and Nespithe:

* UpToEleven: ''Nespithe'' was this to death metal at the time. The complexity of the riffs hearken to Immolation's ''Here In After'' or Gorguts' ''Obscura'', but both bands were playing more-or-less conventional death metal at the time of Nespithe's release. Meanwhile, contemporary technical death metal bands at the time included Death and Atheist, who were both rooted in the more jazz-fusion brand of tech-death, and Suffocation, who, while brutal in their own right, didn't have the same sort of twisting, atonal and atmospheric riffs that Demilich played.