cover pix currently down. new post with new rip coming! When I first heard “Metal Massacre”, the first and soon to be legendary compilation LP from California’s “Metal Blade Records”, it wasn’t Metallica or MAlice that struck a nerve immediatly – it was DEMON FLIGHT for whom I fell. Up to this day, whenever I play this to somebody, they would love it or hate it, quite simply. Why? One has got to love this! Everything is unique about DEMON FLIGHT and the majestic guitar riff of “Dead of the Night” (doesn’t this make you tremble???) combined with the high pitched, fever pitched vocals just fucking rule! Would there be such a thing as Rock’n'Roll justice, these guys would receive a lot of praise, at leadt now, a quarter century later.
Apart from the “Metal Massacre” appearance, DEMON FLIGHT only released this 12″EP (with an identical version of named song). You should find the vinyl easily although it has never been repressed (Brian Slagel – what’s up with you?! C’mon!!).
If anybody has more info on the band, please please don’t hesitate to fill in!
Dead of the night.mp3
Search and destroy.mp3
Flight of the Demon.mp3
Nice flashlight, eh?
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worst post ever.
kidding.
timmy
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Tryin’ hard, Timmy, hahaha
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i was just kidding. i hate metal.
timmy
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E… I’m sorry I used some of your bandwidth for that. That vocal, it’s a joke, right? Wow, just totally emasculated. It has to be heard to be believed.
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Hahaha, seems like I struck a nerve with that. I really really love it, it’sso great. Makes me think of posting some more ultra super metal.
Have you heard the swords clanging at the end of “Search and destroy”?
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HA HA HA HA my eyes are filled with tears
!! Thanks Erich!
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I think it rocks! Bizarre, original and gloomy.
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That is good bad music.
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Dont listen to the poseurs! great stuff!!!!
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the first song is really really catchy!
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Oh, maan….I dunno what Brian Slagel was thinking (of course I ask myself the same question when he put out shite like Galagatic Cowboys). They only had one great song. Those “nuts in the vice” vox are horrid!
Still, “Search & Destroy” was the first D.F. song I heard. It’s too bad they didn’t write a few more like it. I heard it on the early Metal Blade comp “Total Destruction” – the first time listening to Slayer and Trouble.
Choice moment of Demon Flight’s “S&D”
“Draw yer sworrdd! ROrrrrrrr!”
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this song has stuick in my head for over 20 years. awesome riff, unmatched falsetto.thanks for the site dude, awesome!
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I agree. Since I first heard the song on Metal Massacre, it has also haunted me. I purchased the E.P when it came out and was horrified by the other two songs on the album, which kinda suck. This group is getting bad reviews on retro metal websites. But reguardless, “The dead of the night” it one of my favorite songs of all time.
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the riff of the “dead of the night” is pretty amazing but what happened to the singer?
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I bought Metal Massacre II/III when it came out in early ’83 at Rebel Records in Santa Rosa.CA (this place was across from Santa Rosa High School,which is the school they filmed exteriors for “Peggy Sue Got Married” and is the same town they filmed “Scream” (first one ) in. I had enough cash that day to either buy this compo tape or Metallica’s “kill ‘em all” on vinyl… Chose the compo!! Never regretted it ’cause now its vastly more rare. Armored Saint,Pantera when they were still “Motley Crue”-Hair metal,and My Personal Fave–Aloha-”Heavy Metal Virgin”
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