Still the favourite with many Motorpsycho fans, the iconic Demon Box was also their breakthrough album and is a testament to their most drastic period of transition, from being a relatively, but not entirely, straight rock band largely met with indifference, to becoming a band where “shit definitely falls in place”, to quote Tommy Olsson’s liner notes. It’s also, notably, the only album in their vast catalog where Deathprod was a permanent member of the group.
Motorpsycho meld archaic undertones and narrative details with garage rock that spews out all the best riffs, bends strings ‘til they’re permanently in the U shape, and brings the heavy like Satan moving furniture. This thing keeps metamorphosing, unhappy with the last supremely loud…
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…incarnation they’ve only just mastered. From its exuberant acoustic opening into a piece of no frills garage rawk, ‘’Demon Box” develops into “Feedtime”, a doom-edged sword that’s based around a grizzly chug-fest of the highest order.
This re-issue follows those of “Timothy´s Monster” and “Blissard” and has been possible with the kind permission and co-operation of Voices of Wonder.
Disc 1 and 2: “Demon Box” as it appears on the double vinyl edition and as it was envisaged by the band at the time. But the label only wanted to release it as a single CD, meaning that a couple of tracks, much to the bands regret, had to be left out. So this is actually the first ever CD release of the full “Demon Box” album.
Disc 3: The two EPs that followed the album, plus “Home of the Brave”, a live recording previously available on a long deleted compilation.
Disc 4: Various outtakes, live recordings and other rarities, mostly unreleased until now.