Night Demon Heavy Metal Podcast

This week we continue recounting the glories of Night Demon's spring 2024 tour opening for Blind Guardian across the United States.  In this episode, we cover the Texas leg of the tour, beginning with a long day of driving from Atlanta that brought tantalizing news of fall tour dreams coming true. The guys then take you through their successful shows in Dallas and Austin. You will hear how th...

This week we resume our examination of Night Demon's spring 2024 tour opening for Blind Guardian in North America.  The narrative picks up with show #4 in Atlanta, Georgia.  The guys talk about their history with tonight's venue, the famous Masquerade, and its various incarnations. On the day in question, Blind Guardian's bus broke down again, creating all sorts of logistical comple...

This week we continue our exploration of Night Demon's spring 2024 US tour opening for the mighty Blind Guardian.  We pick up the tale with the second show of the tour in Norfolk, VA and take you through the next gig in Charlotte, NC as well. By this time, Night Demon are settling into the tour, enjoying the good vibes, playing great shows to packed houses, seeing many friends, and winning ov...

This week we continue our coverage of Night Demon's spring 2024 tour opening for Blind Guardian in North America.  You will hear all about the band's pre-show playlist, the construction of the setlist, and the logistics that led them to Silver Spring, MD to begin the tour. The guys talk about meeting Blind Guardian, their impressions from the first night, and how it set the tone for the...

In spring 2024, Night Demon embarked on a full U.S. tour with German power metal heroes Blind Guardian.  In this episode, we explore the whys and wherefores for the tour.  How the tour came about.  The offer.  The band's reflections and response. And the sheer logistical nightmares of getting Night Demon band and crew onto the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. in time to start the tour.  How do in...

On April 15, 2024, Night Demon had the privilege of opening for the one and only Bruce Dickinson at The Observatory in Santa Ana, California.  In this episode, you will hear of the massive influence that Bruce and Iron Maiden had on Jarvis, Armand, and Brian, individually and collectively. They explain how this show came to be, how the logistics were immensely complicated by the impending Blind Gu...

This week we conclude our two-part recap of Night Demon's historic performance at the Hell's Heroes Festival in Houston, Texas, in March 2024.  That night the band performed a special surprise covers set, including one song they had never performed live before and several others that are aired only rarely.  This episode features complete audio of the show, interspersed with commentary fr...

This week's episode is devoted to Night Demon's appearance in March 2024 at the stellar Hell's Heroes Festival in Houston, Texas.  The guys describe the history and significance of the festival, their relationship with the promoter, and the reasons why it was important for them to play there again this year.  You will hear their impressions of other bands' performances on this...

This week's episode marks the second half of our deep dive into the overlooked, underrated Curse of the Damned cut, "Save Me Now." You will hear all about how the song was originally recorded as part of the ill-fated Run for Your Life sessions in Armand's Satellite Studios, how the organ intro came to be, and why it was retained in the final album version.  Armand and Jarvis ex...

This week we return to our popular feature of spotlighting certain tracks from Night Demon's history and taking deep dives into their origins.  This time we tackle "Save Me Now," a deep cut and an outlier from the early Night Demon discography as it closes out the Curse of the Damned album.  You'll hear about how and by whom the song was written, why the band viewed it as a dep...

In spring 2024, Night Demon was set to headline the first night of the 2 Minutes to Tulsa festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Things went dreadfully awry.  In this episode, we tell the entire story of the grandiose plans, of everything that went wrong, and of how the band went above and beyond to set things right that night and the following night.  Step behind the curtain for this glimpse into the not-...

Join Night Demon this week as we celebrate our 200th consecutive weekly podcast episode.  For this special retrospective episode, host Nesbit looks back on the history of the podcast, from its humble beginnings as an unnamed 14-minute proof of concept all the way through today.  Along the way, we highlight defining features of the podcast, including unheard mixes, demos, inside commentary from the...

This week we bring you a very special episode consisting of the complete unedited audio of Night Demon's incendiary headlining performance in Dublin, Ireland in May 2023.  The set includes a fistful of Night Demon classics, as well as a few well-chosen deeper cuts like "Save Me Now" and "Are You Out There?"  The recordings prove that Night Demon were on fire that night in...

This week we conclude our in-depth exploration into the 9-week tour pairing Night Demon with NWOBHM heavyweights Raven throughout North America back in 2014. You will hear all about the last handful of shows on this run, including gigs in Detroit, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond and Raleigh, plus Night Demon headliners in Atlanta and Las Cruces, New Mexico.  These stories are...

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 entr...

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...

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 rejectio...

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 Ba...

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 -...

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 comment...

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...

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,...

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 al...

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, wh...

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...