This week we bring you the 2nd to last installment of episodes covering the final shows of Night Demon's 2014 North American tour opening for the mighty Raven.  You will hear about gigs in Ohio, Chicago, Ft. Wayne, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Raleigh and Atlanta.  As always, we give you anecdotes from the road, stories about the gigs, and audio from the shows themselves, plus blog entries from the mind of Andrew Bansal. Listen at nightdemon.net/podcast or anywhere you listen to...

This week we resume our retrospective of Night Demon's historic 2014 tour of North America opening for the mighty Raven. We take you through all the highs and lows of touring life as the band wound their way through Boise, ID; Salt Lake City, UT; St. Louis, MO; Columbus, OH; Kansas City; MO; Indianapolis, IN; Akron, OH; Toronto, Canada; and Chicago, IL.  For each show, there are recollections, anecdotes and sometimes even live audio clips, narratives from fans who were there, plus the...

This week we continue the narrative of Night Demon's epic 2014 North American tour opening for Raven.  We resume the tale after a successful run of shows in California, as the tour rolls onward through Sparks, Nevada; Ashland, Oregon; Portland, Oregon; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Seattle, Washington.  Highlights include the infamous "Fight Demon" show in Vancouver, the rejection of crew member Andrew Bansal at the Canadian border; and first-time airings of songs like "Screams in the...

This week, we resume our narrative of Night Demon's groundbreaking, transformative 2014 tour with NWOBHM legends Raven. We take you through the California shows on this tour, including gigs in San Bernardino, Orange County, Ventura, Los Osos, Sacramento and San Francisco.  For each performance, you will hear remembrances from the band, live audio, and contemporaneous blog reports by Andrew Bansal. It's a trip down memory lane through the prism of today.  Don't miss it. Become a subscriber...

This week we bring you breaking news from the Night Demon camp.  Deluxe reissues of the band's back catalog (much of which had been out of print for some time) are available now, freshly remastered and with special bonus tracks, unique packaging and color variants.  All three of Night Demon's first three seminal releases - the self-titled EP, Curse of the Damned, and Darkness Remains - are included in the reissue campaign, and are all being reissued through the band's own Night Demon Records...

This week we continue recounting the history of Night Demon's North American Tour in 2014 opening for the mighty Raven.  This week's episode focuses on the historic Whisky A Go Go show in Hollywood, California, with Jarvis and Dusty both stressing how it was the first time they had ever performed at this landmark venue.  We bring you extensive audio from the show, as well as band commentary about how important this gig was, how it honed their perspective to a razor-sharp edge, and how they...

This week we continue our chronicle of Night Demon's historic 2014 North American run with the mighty Raven.  We pick up the story 10 shows deep, as the tour rolls into California.  You will hear about the humbling challenges and karmic rewards the touring bands faced in playing modest venues in San Marcos and Isla Vista. We unearth raw, powerful audio clips of these performances, including a crushing version of "Road Racin'" into "Ancient Evil." Jarvis explains why Night Demon drove hours...

This week, we continue our retrospective of Night Demon's 2014 US tour opening for Raven.  We pick up the narrative with tour dates in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.  Along the way, the guys experience myriad forms of adversity in the form of overnights in Denny's parking lots, long drives, border crossings, and beer-laden interviews.  You will hear about a memorable gig in Las Cruces, New Mexico, of all places, and why the Phoenix/Scottsdale area held particular allure in those...

This week we continue our rewind to Night Demon's experiences opening for Raven on the 2014 ExtermiNation tour of North America.  This week's episode carries us through tour stops in New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, and Little Rock.  You will hear about dive bars, inspirational encounters, long drives, crappy attendance, underground vibes, free pizza, and crazy tour routings. In spite of all the adversity, the band were focused and hungry, living the dream, and thinking big. Become a subscriber...

This week we bring you the fourth installment of our retrospective of Night Demon's first major North American tour, playing with the mighty Raven in 2014.  This episode finds the boys grappling with finalizing their contractual commitments for licensing and distribution of their first album, Curse of the Damned,  Simultaneously, they were preparing for their tour kickoff show in Atlanta, which turned out to be a success despite various technical difficulties.  From there, the tour rolled on...

This week, we continue our narrative of Night Demon's 2014 North American tour with the mighty Raven. In this week's episode, we hear about the triumphs and hardships encountered by the band as they drove from Ventura, CA to Atlanta, GA to pick up the tour.  You will hear about the pivotal importance of Andrew Bansal's tour blog, of aborted tourist plans in Memphis, and why the band missed the first show of the tour in Pompano Beach, FL. The guys also explain how Atlanta provided a warm...

This week's episode delves into the whys and wherefores of Night Demon's inaugural tour of the United States with Raven in 2014. You will hear about crushing financial pressures, myriad hardships leaving the band focused completely on survival, and the welcome addition of Andrew Bansal to the touring party. Despite the difficulties, the Night Demon guys were thrilled because they were finally in the band they wanted to be in, living the dream with 45 shows in 53 days opening for the legendary...

In the fall of 2014, Night Demon launched their first full-scale US / Canadian tour opening for NWOBHM legends Raven for a grueling 45 shows in 53 days. In this week's episode, we explore the circumstances that coalesced to make this tour happen.  You will hear about the band members' love of and respect for Raven, including the memorable tour stop when Brian played drums with them. We cover the band's spring 2014 tour of Europe that actually laid the groundwork for the Raven tour, with...

In 2014, a young, hungry Night Demon had the privilege of opening for legendary horror-punk act Samhain at The Wiltern in Downtown Los Angeles.  In this week's episode, you will hear about Jarvis's love of Samhain, how he first heard of the band, and his track-by-track impressions of their entire discography.  You will also learn how Night Demon landed this show at such an early stage of their career, how they went over, and how they were treated by the mercurial Glenn Danzig. Become a...

In October 2013, Night Demon's career took a massive leap forward when they played a three-show regional run with two of their musical heroes, Diamond Head and Raven.  Last week's episode explained how those shows came to be and how they helped catapult the band forward. This week we explore the three shows themselves: Orange County, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.  You will hear Jarvis and Dusty's remembrances of those gigs, as well as commentary from journalist / future Night Demon tour manager...

This week, we take you back down memory lane to the early days of Night Demon, as they bubbled up from the seedy underbelly of the Los Angeles heavy metal underground. You will hear the context of Night Demon's drummer vacancy being filled by Dusty Squires in a session capacity as the band began recording what became the Curse of the Damned album. Jarvis reminisces about the difficulties of playing shows in LA and the sacrifices they made to get their music heard.  Then he describes how Night...

This episode wraps our six-part series covering Night Demon's Outsider headlining tour of Europe in September 2023.  This week we cover the final half-dozen shows of the tour, including stops in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. For every gig, the band members and crew break down the gig, provide anecdotes of life on the road, and take you inside the highs and lows of each night.  The tour ends in Hamburg, with the band offering reflections on this leg and glimpses of things...

This week we bring you all the highlights of 2023 in a massive 100-minute year in review episode.  We will take you through the initial announcement of the Outsider album, the song-specific episodes, the sadness of Dusty's departure followed by the triumph of Brian's arrival, and glorious moments from the road, including the Hell's Decibels Tour of the USA plus tour stops in Japan, Ireland, Newfoundland, the European headliner tour, and so much more. Late in the year were two killer episodes...

In this week's episode, we continue chronicling Night Demon's September 2023 European headlining tour.  The narrative picks up with a late night, post-gig drive through the German countryside en route to Munich for a Monday night show at the Backstage venue.  You will hear about the band's sweltering performance in a packed house, and the pitfalls of government-imposed sound decibel limiters and woefully substandard band apartments.  From there the tour rolled on to the Escape Metal Corner in...

This week we continue following Night Demon through their September 2023 European tour, including a headlining gig at the Metal Mania Festival in Andernach and a matinee in Bad Oeynhausen.  You will hear the band's musings about how playing the full new album doesn't necessarily work at a headlining festival set, and how they may alter that strategy in 2024. The guys also talk about the struggles of a late-summer heatwave with no A/C and an open-air gig.  From Andernach, the Outsider tour...

This week we continue our coverage of Night Demon's September 2023 headlining run through Europe.  The narrative resumes with the band's gig in Paris, including a bicycle-riding adventure, haute cuisine and more "Empires Fall."  Then the guys take you through a trio of shows in the scorching late summer heat in Germany.  You will hear about an impromptu show at a wedding hall, a missing Hawaiian pizza, a makeup date in Berlin, and a setlist surprise in Music-Hall Weiher.  As always, the...

This week we resume the narrative of Night Demon's fall 2023 European tour.  After a disastrous beginning, the tour settled into a groove with a pair of stellar shows in Germany.  For the first time, the band sold out the Goldgrube venue in Kassel, where they debuted their main tour setlist, played a killer show, and enjoyed a fine Mediterranean meal afterwards.  The next day it was off to Essen to play a packed gig at the Turock, one of Night Demon's favorite venues.  They successfully...

In fall 2023, Night Demon embarked on a European headliner tour in support of the Outsider album.  This episode chronicles the rocky start to that tour.  You will hear about a rainy, disorganized event in Oldenburg, Germany that kicked off the tour, followed by a pyrotechnical disaster in Berlin the following night.  Through all the adversity, the guys remained in high spirits and managed to keep the positive energy flowing.  Surely the tour could only go up from here, right? Become a...

One of Night Demon's most beloved covers ever is their version of the Riot classic "Road Racin'".  In this week's episode, the guys (with an assist from Riot bassist Donnie Van Stavern) break down the history of Riot, including the various eras of the band, Riot's underrated importance to the heavy metal genre, and how the members of Night Demon became acquainted with Riot.  You will hear the circumstances under which Night Demon added "Road Racin'" to their early live sets and their decision...