DEMONS – Debut New Song

Demons, the heavy, experimental project of longtime Mae guitarist Zach Gehring is back with a new song “Play Acting Virtue”, offering fans a taste of the band’s upcoming album ‘Privation,’ set for release on April 30 via Spartan Records.

Stream the track on Decibel: shorturl.at/gwITV

• ‘Privation’ Release Date: April 30th

Viny Pre-order links

US: https://spr.tn/privation

UK: https://spr.tn/privationuk

Pre-save link: https://orcd.co/privation

“This song was one of the earlier ones written for Privation. I was listening to a lot of Converge, and I still hear the influence applied through our filter. The music was written on an acoustic. It was a block headed riff that came alive when Drew built the drum part. He achieved the perfect balance of chaos and drive. Lyrically, I was caught up on this promise that truth somehow brings freedom, or truth liberates you. I think that can often have the opposite impact. I think the truth is often treated as a sort of shallow poetic device, or an ephemeral enlightenment. But it’s an obligation that never fully subsides.”- Zach Gehring (Vocals/Guitar)

Demons is:

Zach Gehring

Jon Anderson

Drew Orton

Chris Matthews

As a new year ushers in new nightmares, art counters with menacing mechanisms for catharsis and a spillways for aggravation. Norfolk, VA’s Demons return with their blistering second full length, Privation, a distorted and aggressive contribution to a collective ringing of alarms amidst destructive times.

“The title of the record is concerned with loss, deprivation, and lack,” says Zach Gehring (vocals/guitars). “In our context — this is reflective of where we are at personally, culturally, and politically. It’s a structural aspect of our lived experience — and it is particularly aggravated of late.”

Drawing from the spirit of band’s like Metz, Gulch, Converge, Propagandhi, the Demons crew (the aforementioned Gehring, Chris Mathews [vocals/guitar], Jonathan Anderson [bass], Drew Orton [drums]) punishingly delivers ten tracks of raw and confrontational fury, motivated from within a spiraling sociopolitical landscape that evokes critical self-reflection and frustration.

“[We’re] just sad and angry about the very visible fascism, racism, and sexism that, despite having always been present, is particularly alarming when we see it boastfully manifest in places of mainstream leadership,” says Gehring. Additionally, and perhaps more upsetting, is the allegiance so many offer to it. We always want to hope these ugly dimensions are marginalized — but it’s clear they are mainstream. There’s nothing to be happy about, or proud of. It’s all become very grotesque. A malignant 4th level simulacrum.”