#demetori

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Title: 無何有の郷 ～ Deep Mountain (Paradise ~ Deep Mountain)

Arrangement: Demetori

Album: 如臨深遠 ～雨縒煙柳～

Circle: Demetori

Original: Paradise ~ Deep Mountain

[spookybasementparadise]

I may or may not have impulse bought the entire discography of Demetori at 3 in the morning.

[despair-tea]

Demetori — Peaceful Romancer ~ It's Better To Burn Out Than To Fade Away

[da-riya]

[hello-alonso]

Two Brother’s Collaborations in Touhou

A little while ago I spoke about Touhou and its crazy sampling culture. Well, now I am gonna be showcasing a group that I love and have been listening to their music ever since 2014. In my podcast, I even went and played a sample of their song to demonstrate the metal/rock ways Touhou gets sampled. The group is Demetori. Demetori is two person group consisting of brothers,  Tadashi Teramae (he focusses on drums, percussions, programing, and mixing) 

and Masaru Teramae (he focusses on the guitar, bass, and synth). 

Of the research that I’ve done, I’ve found that Demetori has no songs with any vocals and they have only ever collaborated with one other artist and that was one of their first songs, back in 2005. All of their other work beyond that has been their own and it the talent really shines through in my opinion. It’s pretty nice to see the talent of two brothers and using it to create these spectacular metal arrangements. 

At this point I’d like to describe their ways of making music. Like I said earlier, Touhou is the source to many artists songs. So, just like many other artists, Demetori takes a simple song from any of the Touhou games and pretty much makes it a metal/rock song. 

For example, a song made from ZUN, called “Magus Night”

This same song was used to create Demetori’s version of it.

With only a few seconds in, you can easily see that they are similar sounding. That’s what it’s like for all of Demetori’s songs, they takes these rather simple instrumental songs from ZUN and create their own versions of them. They have been doing this process ever since 2005! The last time they released anything was in 2018 with a huge album. In their albums they most of the time go per game. For example if Touhou 15 was the subject, all the songs in the album would be sampled off of the songs in that game. 

The guitar and drums flow very smoothly in all of their songs and they have a pretty good distribution for the instruments. There’s never really any time they try to take the spotlight. You can always hear the drums and guitar and they really compliment each other very nicely in their songs. 

Take for instance this song, Star-Spangled Banner Clown. It’s one of their more recent songs made in 2017. In it you immediately get jumped into the fast metal/rock pace with the drums going crazy. The part I really enjoyed was the section of 3:02 - 3:43. I mean, c'mon, that guitar is fucking insane. 

As for Demetori’s popularity, they have been pretty small in these years. Their initial spark of interest in the mid 2000′s was because of Touhou, now I feel like they get known more from other places. The first places I heard Demetori was on osu! (rhythm game) back in 2014. From there I was able to see a handful of songs created to be played. I’ve also herd them in other rhythm games, such as Beat Saber, where A LOT of their songs are mapped into a playable course. 

There's not really much that is known from these two, they have very low profiles and do not share much of their personal lives on the internet. They both have twitter accounts but it’s all in Japanese and from the looks of it, it’s just a personal account that does not really specialize in their music. It's really a shame, I wish there were videos of them live in a concert, because I know that the guitar and drums would go crazy in a public setting.

The person in the video below is not Demetori, however, I think it’s an amazing cover on one of their songs. Plus, it’s the closest thing I’ll get to seeing a performance by someone. 

The electric guitar really does wonders. It’s such a sharp sounding instrument and an attention grabber for sure. 

Three years have passed since they have released any music, so I will be patiently waiting for that time to come. From what I’ve heard, Demetori, does not have any misses. All they have are bangers. 

Thank you for reading. 

http://demetori.xii.jp/

[env0]

Kong to Orbital

10 Years ago I made this combo with glowsticks and shoelaces.

Poi are from @Things-On-Strings

Music is Funk to Funky by Demetori

Ko-Fi & Venmo : @Zenv0

[1e-9des]

東方 Touhou Metal/Progressive 亡き王女の為のセプテット ～ Ascending Into Naught -- Demetori (via ChaosAngel)

An oldie, but a goodie.

[nanabeats]

The only Demetori arrange I posted before was more an explanation of the Lunasa playlist than Demetori. And while that was a great example of “The Demetori Sound”, I didn’t go too in-depth with what is probably the fandom’s biggest or most popular/well known metal circle.

The uploader kinda potatoe’d with Sanae as the pictured character, as this is a Last Remote arrange. Not only wrong character, but wrong game entirely. This should be a Koishi picture. I just have to get that out of the way. Yes, it’s a really nice Sanae picture, and it fits with the feeling, but I’m SURE there is Koishi art out there that is better for this...  God, not the Koishi rant. Not now. Demetori, Alice. Demetori. Let the awesome circle overpower your seething hatred for the mask-thief. Anywho, Demetori is a circle that has been around since before dirt was brown, and they have always been super professional and had this awesome quality to their works on par with more popular, mainstream, non-Touhou music groups. I could see theme carving out a rather strong niche in mainstream metal, and I could totally imagine this getting radio airtime.

A friend I used to have once met them, I think that was Comiket 88... Actually, when this track dropped! Supposedly, they’re all super cool people and he even got to talk with them for a bit! Apparently they were surprised to hear that they had a lot of American fans too, but hey, they were super on-board with it!

Anyway, super awesome metal circle is super awesome and super professional and all the members are cool people! I would totally recommend checking these guys out if you’re into harder rock or metal, and you can even buy physical CDs of their albums if you want to support them!