Demigod was a death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band formed in 1990 in Loimaa

Loimaa

Loimaa is a town and municipality of Finland.It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Finland Proper region. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water...

, Finland

Finland

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. The band's debut album Slumber of Sullen Eyes

Slumber of Sullen Eyes

Slumber of Sullen Eyes is the debut album by the Finnish death metal band Demigod. The album was released in 1992 on the Drowned Productions label. It was out of print for years but has been re-released worldwide by Xtreem Music in 2006. This remastered 2006 version includes the 1991 demo Unholy...

is highly regarded in the heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 community. Terrorizer included it in their list of "40 death metal albums that you must hear", commenting: "It is with this often overlooked classic that one of the greatest love stories of all time unfolded: Florida's pummeling groove me Sweden's buzzsaw guitar work in a union so deliciously evil it could move the hardest of bangers to tears of joy."

History

Demigod were a popular group in the death metal underground of the 1990s; however, despite a steady status and a healthy number of gigs, the band split up in the mid-90s. Demigod re-formed in 1998 and was eventually signed by Spikefarm, a sublabel of major Finnish metal record company Spinefarm, who released the band's second album Shadow Mechanics.

Somewhere between 2002 and 2006, this co-operation came to an end, and the band recorded the follow-up to Shadow Mechanics without a label. The recordings were finished in the summer of 2006, and the album was released by the band's own label, Open Game Productions, in 2007. Since late 2007, worldwide distribution has been handled by the Spanish label Xtreem Music

Xtreem Music

Xtreem Music is an independent Spanish record label, founded after the collapse of Repulse Records in 2002, and managed by Dave Rotten . It mainly produce extreme death metal and black metal bands.- Bands :* Kronos* Avulsed...

, leaving only the Scandinavian market for the band's own label. Xtreem Music has also re-released the debut album, previously long out of print.

According to the band's official website, Demigod has now split up.

Discography

• Unholy Domain (Demo, 1991)
• Slumber of Sullen Eyes
  Slumber of Sullen Eyes
  Slumber of Sullen Eyes is the debut album by the Finnish death metal band Demigod. The album was released in 1992 on the Drowned Productions label. It was out of print for years but has been re-released worldwide by Xtreem Music in 2006. This remastered 2006 version includes the 1991 demo Unholy...
  
  (1992)
• Shadow Mechanics (Spikefarm, 2002)
• Let Chaos Prevail
  Let Chaos Prevail
  Let Chaos Prevail is a 2007 album by Demigod, released on Xtreem Music.-Track listing:# "Not Dead Enough" - 3:55# "Let Chaos Prevail" - 3:46# "Dark Turns Black" - 5:17# "Cult Of Sickness" - 3:59# "God Said Suffer" - 4:22...
  
  (Open Game/Xtreem, 2007)