Demon Days is the second studio album released by Gorillaz! It was released on May 11th, 2005 in Japan, May 23rd, 2005 in the UK,
and May 24th, 2005 in the US. This album is best known for being a spiritual succesor to Self-Titled, and for being the most popular record by the band to this day! With genres of Alternative Rock, Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, Pop, Art-Rock, and single such as Feel Good Inc, DARE, and Dirty Harry, this album proved that the Gorillaz were much more than a "gimmick".
The track-listing for Demon Days are these songs:
For this album, Gorillaz had gotten Danger Mouse, who had previously worked on The Grey Album in 2004, to produce the album. Neneh Cherry provided additional vocals for the song,Kids with Guns, Bootie Brown and The San Fernandez Youth Chorus provided vocals and choir for the song, Dirty Harry, De La Soul providing vocals for the smash-hit, Feel Good Inc., Ike Turner helped with piano on Every Planet We Reach Is Dead, the legendary MF DOOM provided vocals for Every Planet We Reach Is Dead, Roots Manuva & Martina Topley-Bird on All Alone, Shaun Ryder and Roses Gabor on DARE, FREAKIN' DENNIS HOPPER on Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head, and lastly but not the weakest collaborator, The London Community Gospel Choir on both Don't Get Lost in Heaven, and Demon Days. WOO!
The first single released to promote this legendary album was Feel Good Inc.. Released on May 9th, 2005, this was and STILL is the most popular song by Gorillaz, with 2 BILLION listens on Spotify, and 1 billion plays on the music video! It absoultely smashed into the UK charts, ending with 2nd place on the UK Charts.
The next single released was DARE. Which was released on August 29th, 2005, this was indeed quite as much as a success as Feel Good Inc, with the song being more popular in the UK compared to Feel Good Inc, it also became their second most recognizable song, as the collab with Fortnite would bring the DARE emote to the game in 2025, boosted popularity to not only this song, but Gorillaz as a whole.
Next, Dirty Harry, was released on November 21st, 2005. It has an accompaning music video dropped with it that is relativitely popular, actually!
Lastly, the final single dropped for the Demon Days album was a Double Sided single of Kids with Guns, and El Mañana! While Kids with Guns only recieved a visualizer, El Mañana had a fully animated msuic video, that remains to this day probably the most compelling music video by the band!