The song appears on their major-label debut extended play Continued Silence and also makes an appearance on their debut studio album Night Visions as the fourth track.
"Demons" was solicited to American triple-A radio stations on January 28, 2013 and to modern rock stations on April 1 and serves as the album's overall fifth single and was released as the third single from Night Visions in the United States.
The lyrics portray the protagonist warning the significant other of his or her flaws.
It spent twelve weeks in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, four of which were spent at its number six peak.
It is Imagine Dragons' second song to stay more than one year on the Hot 100 (61 weeks).