Demoniac was a heavy metal band from New Zealand formed in Wellington in 1993 by singer and bass player Lindsay Dawson and guitarist Sam Totman. Three of the members went on to form DragonForce. Their rather unique musical style has often been labeled as "blackened power metal".
The group began playing black metal with Dawson and Totman adopting the stage names "Behemoth" and "Heimdall" as well as the genre's defining trappings and symbolism such...
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Demoniac was a heavy metal band from New Zealand formed in Wellington in 1993 by singer and bass player Lindsay Dawson and guitarist Sam Totman. Three of the members went on to form DragonForce. Their rather unique musical style has often been labeled as "blackened power metal".
The group began playing black metal with Dawson and Totman adopting the stage names "Behemoth" and "Heimdall" as well as the genre's defining trappings and symbolism such as corpse paint. The following year the band was joined by The Magus on keyboards and drummer Mark Hamill from the avant-garde rock band Head Like a Hole. This line-up produced the band's first album Prepare for War, after which Magus left Demoniac.
Demoniac's next album was 1996's Stormblade that featured a slightly more melodic and catchier black metal style as well as controversial tracks like "Hatred is Purity" and "Niggerslut". During a 2008 interview with Kerrang, Totman was asked to explain what appeared to be a White Power slant to...
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