Svart Records is proud to announce the release of Demon Head's Through Holes Shine The Stars, in black, limited trans-violet and blue/turquoise vinyl editions, and CD- and C-cassette formats. The album is the fifth full-length from the band that celebrated its ten years of existence last year, and it is undoubtedly another milestone on its tireless - and very own - path through the wilderness. It is a deeper, darker well of tones and melodies than before while being significantly more extroverted than its last releases. All in the seemingly effortless, strangely catchy, and unique manner that Demon Head has become known for.
The eight songs were written collectively during several concentrated sessions from 2019–2022 and recorded entirely by the band themselves from October 2022 to March 2023 in their studios in Copenhagen and the west coast of Ireland. Guitarist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist producer, Birk Gjerlufsen Nielsen expands on the process: "This long and careful process has allowed us to reach a balance between structural precision and artistic expansion, melodic simplicity, and compositional depth. It feels like we've uncovered every possibility within each of these songs without losing track of the original nerve".
In continuation of previous collaborations, Demon Head has mixed the album with the legendary engineer and producer Flemming Rasmussen (Metallica, Morbid Angel, Ensiferum, etc.) in Sweet Silence Studios. Vocalist and recording engineer Marcus Ferreira Larsen remarks: "Like any true master Flemming has created a direct and hard-hitting, transparent mix that does nothing but enhance what is already communicated in the compositions and the performance. He helped us place everything in the landscape that we've carved through recording everything ourselves once again".
The determined musical exploration that Demon Head has practised since the very beginning is not yet over but might suggest that a new era has begun. Vocalist and lyricist Marcus Ferreira concludes on the collective drive behind the work on this record: "These eight new songs are like a prism of despair through which we try to convey a state of liminality, where moments of faint hope urgency rub shoulders with bursts of surreal and playful absurdity, all cast against the background of despair as void as the night sky through which these stars shine". Link
Demon Head - Burning Arrows tour:
26.09 Montpellier, FR - Secret Place
27.09 Barcelona, ES - Sala Upload
28.09 Auzas, FR - L'Homme Sauvage Festival
29.09 Paris, FR – Le Klub
30.09 London, UK - New Cross Inn
01.10 Brussels, BE - La Brasserie de la Source
02.10 Dresden, DE - Chemiefabrik
03.10 Drachten, NL - Iduna
04.10 Aarhus, DK - HeadQuarters
05.10 Stockholm, SWE - Geronimo's FGT
06.10 Copenhagen, DK - Pumpehuset: Through Holes Shine the Stars release show w/ Spiracle & Scimitar
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