Well-known film and video game composer and engineer Megan McDuffee is set to release her second album, Crimson Legacy this October. After working in the film and gaming industries for over 15 years, winning multiple awards for her scores, including 'River City Girls', and making tutorials about gaming and film production, fans are curious to find out what McDuffee's style will be outside of those industries. The answer is as complex as McDuffee's style itself.

I was inspired by a wide range of artists in crafting this album such as Puscifer, Massive Attack, Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, The Cure, IAMX, Infected Mushroom, and Zeromancer.

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 RichardEB, an off-syncopated form of trap/wave for "Entity," conventional 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. 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.

Sounds like you can take the artist out of the movies but you can't take those movies out of the girl. Add to all that McDuffee's stunning and heretofore criminally underused voice, her expert sound design and composition and a clear passion for expressing her own dark feelings, Crimson Legacy will make her just as celebrated in the music world as in the film and gaming worlds.

Tracklist:

1. Lovely Psycho
2. Anywhere With You
3. Cult Movie
4. Entity
5. Army Of Me
6. Forgive Me
7. Your Demise
8. Twisted
9. Break
10. Forgive Me (Acoustic Version)