The Labyrinth of the Sleeping Wraith

About the Album

This densely populated transmission of sonic contortion, designed as the official score to The Labyrinth of the Sleeping Wraith novella, weaves through neural pathways previously untouched by conventional sound.

As you journey through “The Labyrinth of the Sleeping Wraith,” your conscious mind will experience the haunting atmospheres, crushing distortion, and ethereal melodies of descent through the boundaries of nightmare and reality. Meanwhile, beneath your awareness, the frequencies are rearranging your self-imposed limitations, so you can navigate your own subconscious labyrinths with newfound clarity.

Fluid transitions between ambient dreamscapes, textural soundscapes, pummeling emotions, and raw heaviness.

Those who consume this sequence repeatedly may find their sleep patterns altered, their creative impulses heightened, and their perception of the barrier between waking and dreaming diminished until the two become one.

For optimal mutation, listen in a darkened room with eyes closed.

How This Came to Be

Two years after writing Tale of the Eternal Sea and composing an accompanying score for the Frightful Refrains horror-themed compilation album, I was asked to contribute a couple of new songs to Frightful Refrains 2: The ReFrightening.

So once again, I decided I need another short story to provide a framework to give the music some direction. A story to score.

This time, my plan was to keep it shorter. I’d write a mini-short, just 500 words that could scroll slowly on a video with the score playing in the background. But as tends to happen, the project ballooned, and my 500 word short story became a 20,000 word novella, and my two songs became an entire album.

You can read the novella here.