Album Notes

Finally, Stockholms best kept secret release their long awaited album and return with a vengeance! "Ace In The Hole" is "Demons" third studio album after 2002s "Stockholm Slump", and the first release since 2004s retrospective collections "Demonology", the double cd R!ot In Japan and the EP (Her Name Was) Tragedy from 2006.

"Ace In The Hole" will be a bit of a comeback for "Demons" after five years between proper fullength studio albums. It will also be the debut for the band as a trio. Here they have, with confidence, refined their passionate mix of punk rock, garage and power pop into something very personal.

Working as a trio has allowed "Demons" to evolve and experiment without losing the edge. The songs have a more important role and the band has their patented energy intact. Influences that range from rhythm & blues, soul and country has been incorporated their own way.

"Demons" has often been in the shadow of, and undeservedly so, been compared to other contemporary rock bands in similar genres. More truthfully they been the inspirators rather than themselves been inspired by these. The members musical roots in punk and garage rock go back to their childhood and early teens at the end of the 80s/beginning of the 90s. After numerous tours in the USA and Europe (and one in Japan!) the facts are clear. "Demons" has always been their own, both musically and philosopically.


Most rock bands today record with simple digital aids that hide musical errors and bad performances. The norm has become to cut and paste and correct until what remains is a "perfect" flat sound without any soul or warmth to it. These days records are produced in a way that is quite the opposte of how the artist sound in reality. "Demons" and Alaska Productions are proud of doing things the other way. On "Ace In The Hole" there are no digitally moved beats, no autotune or other cheap producers tricks. Both analogue and digital techniques has been combined. It sounds like it happened to sound and it sounds like it SHOULD!

Together with The Hellacopters and The Hives, "Demons" has helped swedish rock in the USA and contributed to the "Scandinavian Invasion" phenomenon. Despite that the band is known to a relatively small group of fans in their native Sweden. The Hellacopters themselves pay tribute to "Demons" on their latest album, "Head Off", with a version of the bands first single "Electrocute". "Demons" will also join up with The Hellacopters for the Scandinavian leg of their farewell tour, "The Tour Before The Fall".