Metal band Demon Hunter sues Netflix over ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ concert tour

American metal band Demon Hunter filed a lawsuit accusing Netflix of trademark infringement, false designation of origin, and unfair competition over the streaming platform’s “KPop Demon Hunters” global concert tour.

In the complaint lodged by the band’s company, Hyde Lane, in federal court on Tuesday, Aug. 18, it claims that the 2025 hit animated film’s success has overshadowed Demon Hunter’s name and that its upcoming world tour caused “substantial confusion” among the public. The band also named concert promoter AEG Presents as a co-defendant in the complaint.

The band cited in its lawsuit a case involving a buyer who asked for a refund after mistakenly purchasing a ticket to Demon Hunter’s show instead of the “KPop Demon Hunters” world tour.

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Hyde Lane further claimed receiving an email from a TV producer asking for an interview with one of the animated film’s songwriters.

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“Despite having established the mark first and invested in the goodwill associated with it for decades, Hyde Lane… has effectively been forced to surrender control over its commercial identity simply because defendants have greater resources and a larger marketplace footprint,” a part of the complaint reads, as per the documents obtained by Forbes.

“The brand that Hyde Lane has carefully built over the course of the past quarter century now faces an existential crisis, thereby necessitating the filing of this action and the granting of the requested relief from this Court,” it further said.

Demon Hunter is asking the court to stop Netflix from using the disputed materials and order the “destruction of all infringing materials in Netflix or Netflix Studios’ possession,” as well as pay damages and legal fees.

Netflix and AEG Presents have yet to release a statement on the matter as of this writing.