Editing Gorillaz (section)

===''Demon Days'' (2005–2006)===
Albarn spent the majority of 2003 on tour with Blur in support of their newly released album ''[[Think Tank (Blur album)|Think Tank]]''; however, upon completion of the tour, he decided to return to Gorillaz, reuniting with Hewlett to prepare for a second album. Hewlett explained that the duo chose to continue Gorillaz to prove that the project was not "a gimmick": "If you do it again, it's no longer a gimmick, and if it works then we've proved a point."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gorillaz-unofficial.com/article/both.html |title=Website Suspended – Pickaweb |publisher=Gorillaz-unofficial.com |access-date=19 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318041813/http://www.gorillaz-unofficial.com/article/both.html |archive-date= 18 March 2012}}</ref> The result was ''[[Demon Days]]'', released on 11 May 2005. The album was another major commercial success, debuting at No. 1 on the UK Albums Charts and No. 6 on the US Billboard 200, and has since gone six times platinum in the UK,<ref name="Platinum UK"/> double platinum in the United States,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Gorillaz&format=ALBUM&go=Search&perPage=50 |title=Gorillaz RIAA certifications |access-date=7 December 2008 |publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903230335/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Gorillaz&format=ALBUM&go=Search&perPage=50 |archive-date=3 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and triple platinum in Australia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/ARIACharts-Accreditations-2006Albums.htm |title=ARIA Charts&nbsp;– Accreditations&nbsp;– 2006 Albums |access-date=3 April 2007 |year=2006 |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102034739/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/ARIACharts-Accreditations-2006Albums.htm |archive-date=2 January 2010}}</ref> outperforming sales of the first album and becoming the band's most successful album to date.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emimusicpub.com/worldwide/artist_profile/gorillaz_profile.html |title=Artist Profile&nbsp;– Gorillaz |access-date=7 December 2008 |year=2006 |publisher=[[EMI]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081115114738/http://www.emimusicpub.com/worldwide/artist_profile/gorillaz_profile.html |archive-date=15 November 2008 }}</ref> The album's success was partially driven by the success of the lead single "[[Feel Good Inc.]]"<ref>{{Citation |last=Rambarran |first=Shara |title="Feel Good" with Gorillaz and "Reject False Icons": The Fantasy Worlds of the Virtual Group and Their Creators |date=2016-03-01 |work=The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality |pages=148–166 |editor-last=Whiteley |editor-first=Sheila |url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28035/chapter-abstract/211921711?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=2025-02-16 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199321285.013.15 |isbn=978-0-19-932128-5 |editor2-last=Rambarran |editor2-first=Shara}}</ref> featuring hip-hop group [[De La Soul]] (who had released an album a year prior to Demon Days), which topped ''Billboard'''s [[Alternative Songs]] chart in the U.S. for eight consecutive weeks and was featured in a commercial for [[Apple Inc|Apple]]'s [[iPod]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWYhyCZWZtA |title=Gorillaz Feel Good Inc. Apple iPod + iTunes – mai 2005 – YouTube |website=YouTube |access-date=13 July 2020 |archive-date=4 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904172217/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWYhyCZWZtA |url-status=dead }}</ref> The album was also supported by the later singles "[[Dare (song)|Dare]]", "[[Dirty Harry (song)|Dirty Harry]]", and the [[double A-side]] "[[Kids with Guns]]" / "[[El Mañana (song)|El Mañana]]".

[[File:Danger Mouse with Broken Bells 2010.jpg|thumb|right|Albarn asked [[Danger Mouse (musician)|Danger Mouse]] to produce the band's second album ''[[Demon Days]]'' after hearing his [[mashup (music)|mashup]] album ''[[The Grey Album]]''.]]''Demon Days'' found the band taking a darker tone, partially influenced by a train journey Albarn had taken with his family through impoverished rural China.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gorillaz-news.livejournal.com/96999.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709034459/http://gorillaz-news.livejournal.com/96999.html|url-status=dead|title=New Damon interview in Notion magazine – talks Gorillaz|website=Gorillaz-news.livejournal.com|archive-date=9 July 2012|access-date=23 October 2020}}</ref> Albarn described the album as a [[concept album]]: "The whole album kind of tells the story of the night — staying up during the night — but it's also an allegory. It's what we're living in basically, the world in a state of night."<ref name="MTV News">{{Cite web|last=Perez|first=Rodrigo|date=5 April 2005|title=Cartoon Gorillaz put a muzzle on Danger Mouse, Damon Albarn|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1499626/cartoon-gorillaz-put-a-muzzle-on-danger-mouse-damon-albarn/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214101011/http://www.mtv.com/news/1499626/cartoon-gorillaz-put-a-muzzle-on-danger-mouse-damon-albarn/|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 February 2016|publisher=[[MTV News]]}}</ref> Believing that the album needed "a slightly different approach" compared to the first album, Albarn enlisted American producer Brian Burton, better known by his stage name [[Danger Mouse (musician)|Danger Mouse]], to produce the album, whom Albarn praised as "one of the best young producers in the world" after hearing his 2004 [[mashup (music)|mashup]] album ''[[The Grey Album]]''.<ref name="MTV News"/> Burton felt he and Albarn had a high degree of affinity with each other, stating in an interview on the creation of the album: "We never had any arguments. We even have that finish-each-other's-sentences thing happening. There are a lot of the same influences between us, like Ennio Morricone and psychedelic pop-rock, but he has 10 years on me, so I have some catching up to do. Where he can school me on new wave and punk of the late '70s/early '80s, I can school him on a lot of hip-hop. We're very competitive and pushed each other."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gorillaz-news.livejournal.com/106200.html|title=New Danger Mouse interview (talks about working with Gorillaz) in LA Weekly|website=Gorillaz-news.livejournal.com|access-date=23 October 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801045424/https://gorillaz-news.livejournal.com/106200.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Similar to the first album, ''Demon Days'' features collaborations with several different artists, including [[Bootie Brown]], [[Shaun Ryder]], [[Ike Turner]], [[MF Doom]] (who was recording with Danger Mouse as [[Danger Doom]] at the time) and [[Martina Topley-Bird]], among others.<ref name="Demon Days">{{cite AV media notes|title=Demon Days |publisher=[[Parlophone]]|type=CD liner|year=2005|id=07243 873838 1 4 }}</ref>

[[File:De La Soul Demon Days Live.jpg|thumb|left|The band performed in silhouette during the [[Demon Days Live]] performances (pictured here with [[De La Soul]] on stage).]] The band chose to forgo traditional live touring in support of ''Demon Days'', instead limiting live performance during the album cycle to a five night residency in November 2005 at the [[Manchester Opera House]] billed as [[Demon Days Live]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.spin.com/2005/09/gorillaz-take-manchester-prep-holographic-live-show/|title=Gorillaz Take Manchester, Prep Holographic Live Show|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=22 September 2005|access-date=27 April 2017|archive-date=27 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427061509/http://www.spin.com/2005/09/gorillaz-take-manchester-prep-holographic-live-show/|url-status=live}}</ref> The concerts saw the band performing the album in full each night with most featured artists from the album present. Unlike the debut album's tour, the touring band was visible on stage in view of the audience but obscured by lighting in such a way that only their [[silhouettes]] were visible, with a screen above the band displaying Hewlett's visuals alongside each song.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/gorillaz-127-1366821|title=Gorillaz live secrets revealed|magazine=[[NME]]|date=29 October 2005|access-date=27 April 2017|archive-date=27 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427194536/http://www.nme.com/news/music/gorillaz-127-1366821|url-status=live}}</ref> The residency was later repeated in April 2006 at New York City's [[Apollo Theater]] and the Manchester performances were later released on DVD as ''[[Demon Days Live (film)|Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1525131/gorillaz-taking-up-residency-at-new-yorks-apollo-theater/|title=GORILLAZ TAKING UP RESIDENCY AT NEW YORK'S APOLLO THEATER|publisher=[[MTV]]|date=1 March 2006|access-date=27 April 2017|archive-date=27 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427192609/http://www.mtv.com/news/1525131/gorillaz-taking-up-residency-at-new-yorks-apollo-theater/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/gorillaz-134-1353123|title=Gorillaz to release DVD|magazine=[[NME]]|date=24 February 2006|access-date=27 April 2017|archive-date=27 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427060559/http://www.nme.com/news/music/gorillaz-134-1353123|url-status=live}}</ref> As part of their promotion of the album in Latin America, the band was interviewed in September 2005 on the live-action Mexican show ''[[Rebelde]]''.<ref name="Canche">{{cite web |last1=Canche Alvarez |first1=Eduardo |title=¿Recuerdas Rebelde? RBD entrevistó a Gorillaz para el estreno de DARE en 2005 |url=https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/rebelde-rbd-gorillaz-dare-telenovela-mexicana-entrevista.html |website=México Desconocido |access-date=10 June 2023 |language=es |date=7 June 2022 |archive-date=10 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610171341/https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/rebelde-rbd-gorillaz-dare-telenovela-mexicana-entrevista.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This episode also included the Latin American premiere of the music video for "[[Dare (song)|Dare]]".<ref name="Canche" />

The virtual Gorillaz members "performed" at the [[2005 MTV Europe Music Awards]] in November 2005<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.eyeliner3d.com/gorillaz_case_study.html |title=Gorillaz at the MTV Awards 2005 |access-date=9 September 2007 |year=2006 |publisher=Dimensional Studios |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329154828/http://www.eyeliner3d.com/gorillaz_case_study.html |archive-date=29 March 2010 |url-status=live  }}</ref> and again at the [[48th Annual Grammy Awards]] in February 2006, appearing to perform on stage via [[Musion Eyeliner]] technology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1522950/madonnas-oddest-collab-yet-singer-to-perform-at-grammys-with-gorillaz/|title=Madonna's Oddest Collab Yet: Singer To Perform At Grammys With Gorillaz|first=Gil|last=Kaufman|publisher=MTV|access-date=23 October 2020|archive-date=28 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928070931/http://www.mtv.com/news/1522950/madonnas-oddest-collab-yet-singer-to-perform-at-grammys-with-gorillaz/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Albarn later expressed disappointment at the execution of the performance, citing the low volume level required so as to not disturb the technology: "That was tough... They started and it was so quiet cause they've got this piece of film that you've got to pull over the stage so any bass frequencies would just mess up the illusion completely."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gogOkQ2GsuI&t=132s |title=YouTube |website=YouTube |access-date=13 July 2020 |archive-date=13 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713103845/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gogOkQ2GsuI&t=132s |url-status=dead }}</ref> At the Grammys, the band won [[Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals]] for "Feel Good Inc.", which was also nominated for [[Record of the Year]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/48th-annual-grammy-awards|title=48th Annual GRAMMY Awards|date=28 November 2017|publisher=National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences|access-date=23 October 2020|archive-date=21 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321022554/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/48th-annual-grammy-awards|url-status=live}}</ref> Albarn and Hewlett explored the idea of producing a full "live holographic tour" featuring the virtual Gorillaz appearing on stage with Musion Eyeliner technology after the Grammys performance, but the tour was ultimately never realised due to the tremendous expense and logistical issues that would have resulted.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/gorillaz-playin/|title=Gorillaz playing Apollo Theater &#124; Demon Days Live|website=BrooklynVegan.com|date=March 2006|access-date=23 October 2020|archive-date=4 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204044639/https://www.brooklynvegan.com/gorillaz-playin/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In October 2006, the band released the book ''[[Rise of the Ogre]]''. Presented as an autobiography of the band ostensibly written by the fictional members and expanding on the band's fictional backstory and universe, the book was actually written by official Gorillaz script writer and live drummer [[Cass Browne]] and featured new artwork by Hewlett.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Jo |title=Gorillaz face the music |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |publisher=[[Fairfax Media]] |date=3 December 2010}}</ref> Later the same month, the band released another DVD, ''[[Phase Two: Slowboat to Hades]]'', compiling much of the band's visual content from the album cycle. A second B-sides compilation, ''[[D-Sides]]'' was released in November 2007, featuring B-sides and remixes associated with ''Demon Days'' as well as unreleased tracks from the sessions for the album.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://fans.gorillaz.com/news0719.php#070918|title=D-Sides Confirmed|access-date=19 September 2007|date=18 September 2007|work=fans.gorillaz.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324065333/http://fans.gorillaz.com/news0719.php#070918|archive-date=24 March 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://fans.gorillaz.com/news0719.php#071020|title=D-Sides Deluxe Preview|access-date=3 November 2007|date=20 October 2007|work=fans.gorillaz.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324065333/http://fans.gorillaz.com/news0719.php#071020|archive-date=24 March 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2008, the documentary film ''[[Bananaz]]'' was released. Directed by Ceri Levy, the film documents the behind-the-scenes history of the band from 2000 to 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bananaz: Dir. Ceri Levy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/apr/15/damon-albarn-gorillaz|access-date=30 September 2018|website=[[The Guardian]]|date=19 April 2009|archive-date=4 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204131508/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/apr/15/damon-albarn-gorillaz|url-status=live}}</ref>