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Demoniac were a heavy metal band from New Zealand[1] formed in Wellington in 1993 by singer and bass player Lindsay Dawson, guitaristSam Totman and Drummer Steve Francis. They later moved to London, UK.[2] Three of the members went on to form DragonForce. Their rather unusual musical style has often been labelled as "blackened power metal".
The group began playing black metal in 1993, adhering to common genre aesthetics such as corpse paint and anti-Christian symbolism. Dawson and Totman adopted the stage names "Behemoth" and "Heimdall" respectively, and were later joined by unknown keyboardist The Magus and Head Like a Hole drummer Mark Hamill as "Adramolech". This line-up recorded Demoniac's first full-length album Prepare for War the following year.
The Magus was replaced by MC Magnus on keyboards before the recording of Demoniac's second album. Stormblade released in 1996 with a slightly more melodic black metal style. Some songs featured white nationalist and anti-gay themes; during a 2014 interview, Totman said that those songs were written ironically and the members were just "having a laugh".[3]
Following the release of Stormblade, Demoniac signed to French label Osmose Productions and toured throughout western Europe on the World Domination Tour, with bands including Dark Tranquillity and Enslaved. At this point, Dawson and Totman decided to stay in England and Hamill left the band. Demoniac recruited Hong Kong-born guitarist Herman "Shred" Li in July 1998, and drummer Matej Setinc in October of the same year. The band distanced itself from black metal stylings and developed a high-speed melodic power metal style, with only Dawson's shrieked vocals remaining from their black metal roots.
In January 1999, Demoniac released their third LP The Fire and the Wind with former Cradle of Filth producer Robert "Mags" Magoolagan. While Dawson had played bass in all of the band's recordings, South African bassist Diccon Harper (ex-Voice of Destruction) was hired to allow him extra freedom during live performances. The band split up at the end of the same year, after releasing the Demons of the Night EP.
Heimdall and Shred went on to form DragonHeart, later renamed to DragonForce. Other Demoniac members have been involved in DragonForce's releases: Harper played bass on their album Valley of the Damned, and Dawson and original drummer Steve Francis performed backing vocals on Inhuman Rampage and Extreme Power Metal respectively.
In 2012, Prepare for War was re-released with new artwork and the previously unreleased track "Throne of Fire", performed by Dawson and Steve Francis with Bulletbelt guitarist Ross Mallon.
^Sanches, Luciana Maria; Rodrigo Monteiro (11 August 2009). "Novidades Musicais". Omelete (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 February 2011.
^"Demoniac: biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
^Kelly, Kim (August 2014). "Confronting Dragonforce About Their Racist, Homophobic Past". Noisey. Vice Media. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
^"Demoniac - Stormblade". Metal Archives. 20 August 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
^"The Fire and the Wind (review)". Sputnik Music. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
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