Demon Hunter (album)
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| Studio album by Demon Hunter | ||||
| Released | October 22, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | June - August 2002 | |||
| Studio | The Black Dungeon | |||
| Genre | Nu metal,metalcore, alternative metal | |||
| Length | 38:41 | |||
| Label | Solid State | |||
| Producer | Aaron Sprinkle | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Cross Rhythms |   |
| Exclaim! | Favorable |
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Demon Hunter is the eponymous debut album by American metalcore band Demon Hunter, released through Solid State in 2002.
The album was recorded in Drop C tuning. All of Demon Hunter's subsequent releases would be dropped even lower to Drop B. Industrial vocal elements are also featured in various songs.
The band joined Extol on tour in the summer of 2003.
Demon Hunter's first single, "Infected," had a music video which debuted on MTV2's Extreme Rock and found considerable airplay on Fuse TV's Uranium. The intense video revolves around two subjects; one, vocalist Ryan Clark, is shown using an extravagant dagger to carve the word "HELP" into a tree in the pouring rain. The second subject is a white collared man at a desk who is overcome with extreme panic for ambiguous reasons. He finally falls to the floor after repeatedly typing "help" on his monitor. Given Demon Hunter's overt Christianity, the video could be seen as people reaching out for a savior in their time of desperation. "Infected" would later be featured on the compilation album MTV2 Headbangers Ball.
The band members are not credited in the album's liner notes. Clark explained this by citing the fact that Demon Hunter's members have been in previous groups and that they wanted the band to initially rely solely on its music. The Demon Hunter booklet features four 'chapters' of sorts. When asked about this, Clark responded:
Demon Hunter received overall positive reviews. Allmusic's Alex Henderson described it as "an album in which moments of intense brutality are followed by hauntingly melodic passages." He commended the band for its "complimentary" use of intensity and melody and noted the album as "imperfect" yet "interesting." Such comments have been echoed in other small-form media reviews. Demon Hunter has stylistically been compared to Slipknot, particularly in the vocals department, as well as more intense nu metal groups.
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