Photos: NIGHT DEMON (Philadelphia, PA) – 2023/04/13

Ventura, California’s heavy metal power trio NIGHT DEMON return with their third full-length album, Outsider, via Century Media Records this past March. From a lyrical standpoint, Outsider marks NIGHT DEMON’s first full-blown concept album. To be sure, the band has always experimented with embedding thematic linkages between songs on each release, dating back to their 2015 debut album, Curse of the Damned.

On Outsider, however, lyricist Jarvis Leatherby has dialed into a fully cohesive tale of alternate realities, mysterious portals, and the supernatural, intertwined with universal human feelings of alienation, loss, regret, and revenge. Inspired by his lifelong affinity for horror movies as well as his pandemic-induced exile in the countryside of Northern Ireland, Outsider weaves a compelling yarn from its pastoral beginnings to its heart-pounding finale.

NIGHT DEMON part of Decibel Magazine’s Metal & Beer Festival at the Foundry in Philadelphia, PA on April 13, 2023. Photographs by @bananamasher.

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