Folklore • Original Music • Gothic Art

Legends never die.
They change shape.

A dark music-and-art anthology reimagining supernatural women from world folklore as narrative metal songs and cinematic album portraits.

28featured figures
4core collections
1continuing anthology

Hear the legend

Listen to The Demoness Project

Explore the original music inspired by the dark legends and supernatural figures in the archive. Choose your preferred streaming service.

The project

Folklore retold through heavy music

The Demoness Project explores female supernatural figures from many cultures through three connected forms: a concise folklore premise, an original metal song, and a distinctive piece of album art.

The music ranges from black and death metal to doom, gothic, symphonic, and folk-metal textures. The visual language stays deliberately unified: moonlight, ruined architecture, dark water, winter forests, ornate metalwork, restrained gilding, and portrait-driven covers.

These are creative interpretations, not definitive scholarly retellings. Folklore changes across place, period, language, and storyteller; the project treats those variations as part of the mystery.

Core anthology

Four collections

The original archive is organized into four groups, moving from iconic night figures and water spirits into wider traditions of enchantment, predation, grief, guardianship, and plague.

Demoness Project I composite artwork
Project I

The First Five

Lilith • Nixe • Rusalka • Abrahel • Lamia

Demoness Project II composite artwork
Project II

Gothic Spirits

Abyzou • Baobhan Sith • Leannán Sídhe • Pontianak • Yuki-onna • Lorelei

Demoness Project III composite artwork
Project III

Dark Waters & Wild Places

La Llorona • Empusa • Jenny Greenteeth • Mélusine • Mami Wata • Huldra

Demoness Project IV composite artwork
Project IV

Enchantment & Reckoning

Aisha Qandisha • Moura Encantada • La Patasola • Gello • La Madremonte • Pesta

Character archive

Meet the figures

Select a portrait for the folklore premise and the musical direction developed for the project.

The recurring idea

Beauty can conceal danger. Monstrosity can conceal grief. A curse can become a voice. A legend survives because every generation tells it again.

The Demoness Project keeps that chain of retelling alive through original songs and images.

Project sound