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Daniel Davies is a Los Angeles-based guitarist, composer, and singer whose music has ranged from hard rock to horror soundtracks. The son of
Kinks guitarist
Dave Davies and godson of director/composer
John Carpenter,
Davies has music and cinema in his blood. He spent much of the 2000s as the singer and guitarist of
Year Long Disaster, a band influenced by '70s blues-rock and Southern rock, before briefly joining stoner rock heroes
Karma to Burn during the early 2010s. He then kept busy composing music for various films and TV series throughout the decade, in addition to recording and performing with
Carpenter, who started releasing non-soundtrack albums and touring in 2015.
Davies' debut solo album, the imaginary soundtrack
Events Score, appeared in 2018. In addition to releasing solo recordings such as 2021's
Spies EP, he continued working with
Carpenter on projects like the score to that year's
Halloween Kills.
Daniel Davies was born in London and spent much of his childhood on the road with his father's band as it toured the globe. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was 11, and after his parents split up,
Davies lived with
Carpenter during part of his adolescence. He learned to play guitar and drums as a high school student, and appeared on the soundtrack to
Carpenter's 1998 film, Vampires. In 2003,
Davies befriended Rich Mullins, bassist of the desert rock band
Karma to Burn. Following a jam session with
Third Eye Blind drummer
Brad Hargreaves, the trio formed
Year Long Disaster in 2004. With influences ranging from
ZZ Top to
Iron Maiden, the group built up a local following and signed to Volcom Entertainment in 2007, releasing their self-titled debut that year. They soon toured with
Clutch,
Turbonegro, and
Motörhead, and released their second album,
Black Magic; All Mysteries Revealed, in 2010. Also that year,
Karma to Burn reunited and toured with
Year Long Disaster before the two bands ultimately merged. While
Karma to Burn were normally known as an instrumental band,
Davies sang on the few vocal-based songs on the band's albums
Appalachian Incantation (2010) and
V (2011).
Hidden Faces,
Davies' self-released solo EP of moody, slightly proggy alternative rock songs, also appeared in 2011. Following its release,
Davies briefly joined
CKY, replacing former frontman
Deron Miller.
Davies toured with the group in 2012 and returned for a 2015 performance, and had begun to record new material with them but was unable to continue participating in
CKY due to other commitments. Along with
Geno Lenardo, he recorded much of the soundtrack for the 2014 film I, Frankenstein, and co-composed the score for 2015 horror-comedy Condemned with
Sebastian Robertson. He also recorded music for several TV series and films, including a cover of
Pixies' "Wave of Mutilation" for Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
Most notably,
Davies worked with
John Carpenter and his son
Cody. The trio recorded Lost Themes, the director's first album of non-soundtrack material, which was released by Sacred Bones in 2015. The effort received critical acclaim and was followed by
Lost Themes II in 2016. The trio toured behind the releases, marking
Carpenter's first-ever live performances, and they revisited some of the director's signature tunes on 2017's
Anthology (Movie Themes 1974-1998). In 2018,
Davies released his first solo full-length,
Events Score. As with the Lost Themes releases, the album isn't a soundtrack to an actual film, but it evokes the synth-driven scores of the '70s and '80s. His second solo album,
Signals, was inspired by visual artist Jesse Draxler, who provided artwork for the release's cover and booklet. Sacred Bones issued
Signals in 2020.
Davies'
Spies EP, recorded entirely solo during COVID-19 lockdown, appeared in 2021. That year, he also worked with
John and
Cody Carpenter on the score for
Halloween Kills, which updated the legendary horror franchise's iconic music with an expanded sonic palette. ~ Paul Simpson