Daemonyx: Curse of the Daimon

An album of original music exploring horror, sadness, beauty, and spirituality, with cover art and design by Jason Van Hollander.

Available for shipping only within the continental United States.

Curse of the Daimon is the album I recorded under the name Daemonyx between 2005 and 2008, during the same period when I was writing many of the stories that were collected in my second book, Dark Awakenings. Both the book and the music emerged from the same imaginative territory: an enduring fascination with creativity, consciousness, religion, and the weird.

Across thirteen tracks, the music moves among electronica, rock, metal, and orchestral textures. It's like a dark film soundtrack to a movie unfolding in your own imagination.

Much of it interacts with literature and cinema. “The Streets of Vastarien” explores the dream city of Thomas Ligotti’s classic story "Vastarien." “My Own Death Poems” answers the invitation implicit in Ligotti's book Death Poems. "The Dreamlands" evokes the beauty and horror of the alternate dreamworld found in Lovecraft's and Dunsany's fictions. “Daimonica” weaves sampled film dialogue into a musical tapestry of creative exhilaration, terror, and the feeling of being moved by something within yourself that you don’t fully understand.

I’m offering the remaining physical copies from my own stock, complete with Jason Van Hollander’s original cover art and design.

“Like a soundtrack to a fever dream, the music of Daemonyx plumbs an ever-changing world of mystery, mood, and melodic apparitions. Listen with the lights out and your imagination on.” — Brian Hodge

“Daemonyx’s compositions conjure up images of eerie strangeness and awesomely alien worlds that nothing can evoke better than music.” — Ramsey Campbell

"There are many haunting and beautiful compositions that complement or completely make horror films—you know the ones—as well as appeal to listeners who are sensitive to the mystery and dread of life. In its debut album Curse of the Daimon, Daemonyx has offered us thirteen works of such quality." — Thomas Ligotti

WHAT YOU'LL RECEIVE:

• One physical CD of Curse of the Daimon
• Thirteen tracks of original music, composed, performed, recorded, and produced by Matt Cardin
• Original cover art and design by Jason Van Hollander

First released in 2009. Mastered at Direct Resonance Studios, Waco, Texas.