The band was promoted by The Red Bus Company agency in London, which also handled
Mungo Jerry, Mike Cooper, Titus Groan and Wildmouth which arranged for them to appear at a concert incongruously named the "
Hollywood Music Festival", in May 1970 at a
Leycett farm near
Newcastle-under-Lyme. They played at the
Phun City Festival, "a major concert event in
Worthing". In November 1970, the band played a series of ten concerts called "A Penny Concert" along with Titus Groan, Heron and Comus. Among performances was one at the
Marquee Club. They appeared on the
BBC television show
Disco 2 produced by Stephen Clive Turner who had been offered (but did not take) 25 pounds for having them on the program. After he told BBC management about the incident, he was fired. Subsequently, the
News of the World ran a story about the event. They signed with the
Dawn Records division of
Pye Records, for whom they released two recordings: the studio album
Afreaka! (catalogue number DNLS 3013) and a
maxi-single with the songs "
I Put a Spell on You" (written by
Screamin' Jay Hawkins), "Message To Mankind" and "Fuzz Oriental Blues", both released in 1970. Demon Fuzz's cover version of "I Put a Spell on You" was included in the 1971
sampler album,
The Dawn Take-Away Concert (catalogue number DNLB 3024). Priced at 99 pence, the LP also had songs by Mungo Jerry, Comus, The Trio, Heron, Paul Brett's Sage, Mike Cooper, Atlantic Bridge, Jackie McAuley, Bronx Cheer, John Surman, John McLaughlin, Dave Holland, Stu Martin, Karl Berger and the Be-Bop Preservation Society. A Demon Fuzz maxi-single was published by
Nippon Columbia around 1971. The maxi-single was later made available as a CD.
Afreaka! was distributed in the United States by
Janus Records (catalogue number JLS 3028). It was a
Billboard "4-STAR" selection in June 1971. Around 1971, their song "Hymn to Mother Earth" was included in the
WDAS-FM Black Rock compilation album. In 1976, after the band dissolved, their second album,
Roots and Offshoots, was self-published under the Paco Media Inc. label. A 1999 compilation CD,
From Calypso to Disco: The Roots of Black Britain, includes the Demon Fuzz' recording of "Message to Mankind". In 2003, the Get Away label made a vinyl reissue in Italy of
The Dawn Take-Away Concert (catalogue number GET 626). Another vinyl pressing was made by Janus under the same catalogue number as the 1971 edition. ==Musical style==