If you’re looking for some dark synthwave to add to your Halloween playlist this year, video game composer and producer Megan McDuffee has released second album Crimson Legacy.
After working in the film and gaming industries for over 15 years on titles such as the River City Girls games, Apex Legends Mobile, RetroRealms’ Ash Vs. Evil Dead & Halloween, all 9 Atari Recharged games, and winning multiple awards for her scores, McDuffee’s new album draws inspiration from a wide range of artists including Puscifer, Massive Attack, Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, The Cure, IAMX, Infected Mushroom, and Zeromancer.
The press release previews, “With that diverse list of influences alone, audiences will know that Crimson Legacy will have a lot of component parts, but, in McDuffee’s own tradition, they will be expertly blended into something entirely different and wholly her own. With her trademark heavy retro synths, McDuffee incorporates a number of modern genres into her passion project: industrial techno for “Your Demise,” progressive metal for “Forgive Me” with RichaadEB, an off-syncopated eerie form of electro-metal for “Entity,” dark alt trap for “Twisted.” Fans shouldn’t get it actually twisted, however; while the beat structures in McDuffee’s tracks may be recognisable rave standards, there’s nothing standard about them.
“Dark, heavy and goth in nature, McDuffee produces far outside of the genre box, and for good reason.”
“With ‘Crimson Legacy,’ I wanted to capture the surrealness and essential weirdness of the 1970’s – 1990’s movies I grew up with,” McDuffee said in a statement. “Films like Labyrinth, Dark City, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, Legend, A Clockwork Orange, and Rocky Horror Picture Show. They all had a quintessential darkness, griminess, and strangeness to them that transported me to a realm of dreams and nightmares. That’s what I aim to do with my album – to take the listener into an edgy, disturbing-yet-alluring fever dream filled with lust, revenge and whimsy. ‘Crimson Legacy’ is for all my fellow weirdos, witches, warlocks, and creatures of the dark corners of the earth.”
Watch the music video for “Your Demise” below and stream Crimson Legacy on Spotify or download the album on Bandcamp now. Learn more about McDuffee on her official website.
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