DEMIRICOUS
Scott Wilson - Guitar
Ben Parrish - Guitar
Nate Olp - Vocals/Bass
Chris Cruz - Drums
Deep
from the bowels of Indianapolis, IN rise Demiricous,
a band that offers up an unrelenting mixture of pure
American metal and thrash. Scott, Nate, and Chris
love old thrash but nothing like that was coming out
anymore so they decided to start a band of their own
on Halloween night 2001. About six month’s later
guitarist Ben, formally of Upheaval (on Eulogy and
Willowtip), was asked to join the band and that’s
when the guys started to get serious about the project.
Fast forward to 2005, the bands self-released EP caught
the attention Metal Blade Records and landed them
the coveted record deal they had been working so hard
to obtain. Since the bands inception they have already
played with the likes of Exodus, Malevolent Creation,
Extol, King Diamond, The Black Dahlia Murder, Obituary,
and played the main stage at the infamous New England
Hardcore and Metal Fest where they won over the audience
with their brand of no frills metal.
On
the bands EP and early demos one could hear some Swedish
melodic death metal influences but as the band grew
and came into their own sound they decided to lean
more towards straight forward metal. Or as the band
puts it, “No fuckin hair dos, ex-girlfriends,
or lame shit… just good fuckin times and raging
metal.” There is almost a raw punk rock vibe
to the new material on the bands debut Metal Blade
Records release One. It’s more about doing what
you want or die trying then about caring what the
new fashion is or if your hair looks just right. “Style-wise
and riff-wise we call our brand of music “Street
Metal" which is totally cheesy but fuck it, it
has to do with tough rippin’ ass riffs and pummeling
drums and having nothing to do with whatever is cool.”
One
was recorded and mixed at Planet-Z studios with Zeuss
(Hatebreed, The Red Chord, Shadows Fall) in June 2005.
“We are just trying to write a solid thrash
album and we hope to add something different to today’s
metal scene with the vocals and everything. I don’t
know what direction we are going in but not a whole
lot of bands are going this direction. We are just
playing the music that we want to hear. Plain and
simple…this is what I want to hear....so I guess
we have to make it ourselves,” states the band.
Once you hear this album you will probably be caught
off guard seeing most younger bands coming out now
a days are not paying homage to old school thrash
and you will definitely walk away thinking you haven’t
heard a record like this a long time. Guitarist Scott
Wilson comments, “I'm an old school motherfucker
and I miss the rage… and the hooks, and the
solos,” and One without doubt delivers all the
rage, hooks, and solos metal heads have been waiting
for. One hits stores on October 4th, 2005 and expect
to see the band touring the US heavily before and
after the release date.
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