One gloomy day I was wandering into a record store, not a task I often put upon myself, and not usually one I expect to bear much fruit for my labour. On this dark and gloomy day (although it was mid summer and awfully bright), I glanced at the so called metal section, and there lo and behold, appeared before my eyes a curiosity of such utter strangeness, that I might never explain. Demigod an old favorite from the dark past, who had stirred around in the early nineties, although I admittedly never discovered them till mid nineties, but a band lost in the shadows, passed on into that that place where bands are unheard from and presumed dead long ago, but yet here was Demigod on shiny new plastic, now what of this? How can this thing be? I thought to myself, Spinefarm hoping for a quick buck must have pressed some demos. and various other stuff on CD. Thinking that was it's nature and keeping in mind my very fine "Unholy Domain" demo, which sadly no longer is in my possession, I thought I must have this, and I payed them their outragous price and went on my way. The inspection of the cover gave me little to no info, except a feeling that this must be a new output. I thought to myself, ohh no not another old great returned from the grave to produce mediocre outputs, and live on past glory. A little web site address gave me a source for further info, and Demigod never broke up, although little is explained of why this long time without word of them, and the CD I had purchased was a new output. I finally dared myself to put it on it starts of quite well albeit a bit more on the melodic side than what I had expected, but still with that deep dark feel which somehow many finnish black and death metal bands pulled off in the early nineties (see Belial, Demilich, Adramalech etc.), as the CD progresses the songs increase in their experimentation. While it works to some degree for me, I would have preffered less melodic experiments, and more brutal death metal, and I know had this not carried the name Demigod, I would have discarded it after the first listen instead of listening more intensely. I must admit it has grown on me, and I can enjoy this CD, but it will never hold a candle to "Slumber Of Sullen Eyes.", and I suppose that is all there is to say about that.

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