BrainMaze Press Release
BRAINMAZE – WHEN YOUR DEMONS COME
Concept Album • 2025
What if the demons you fight are not around you — but inside you?
BRAINMAZE, the metal project created by Bulgarian composer and bassist Ivan Shishkov, presents When Your Demons Come — a conceptual metal album built around ten human emotions and states of mind, transformed into ten personal demons.
Fear. Spite. Despair. Hatred. Uncertainty. Disillusion. Insanity. Envy. Anger. I’m Terrified.
10 evil demons. 10 evil songs. One journey into the darker side of the human mind.
Rather than creating fictional monsters, When Your Demons Come explores something far more familiar — fear that controls our decisions, anger that refuses to disappear, envy that distorts our perception, uncertainty that slowly turns into despair, and the terrifying moment when we are forced to confront what is happening inside our own minds.
BRAINMAZE brings together musicians from different countries around one musical vision, combining metal, melody and atmosphere with emotionally driven storytelling.
At its core, When Your Demons Come is about confrontation — not with something supernatural, but with the thoughts, emotions and fears that follow us when we are left alone with ourselves.
The demons are different for everyone.
But everyone has them.
When Your Demons Come is available for radio airplay, reviews, interviews, playlist consideration and media coverage.
MEDIA INFORMATION
Artist: BRAINMAZE
Release: When Your Demons Come
Release Year: 2025
Format: Album
Genre: Metal
Origin: Bulgaria / International
Founder / Composer / Bass: Ivan Shishkov
Official Website: brainmaze.eu
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METAL PROJECT by Ivan Shishkov-bass guitar /Bulgaria/ WHEN YOUR DEMONS COME concept album 2024 10 evil songs 01. Fear, 02. Spite, 03. Despair, 04. Hatred, 05. Uncertainty, 06. Disillusion, 07. Insanity, 08. Envy, 09. Anger, 10. I'm Terrified 11...
BRAINMAZE is a metal project created in 2013 by Bulgarian composer and bassist Ivan Shishkov.
What began as a collection of musical ideas written primarily on bass guitar gradually evolved into the concept album When Your Demons Come. Over more than a decade, Ivan developed the songs in his free time, experimenting with arrangements, structures and mixes while shaping the identity of BRAINMAZE.
The concept explores the inner demons that emerge when we are alone and our masks and armor fall away — Fear, Spite, Despair, Hatred, Uncertainty, Disillusion, Insanity, Envy, Anger and I'm terrified.
In November 2023, Ivan began recording the complete album with musicans from different country
Rob Davies /UK/ – vocals
Ramon Martinez /Venezuela/ – guitars
German Maldonado /Argentina/ – guitars
Fabian Carrion Troya /Ecuador/ – midi drums
David Mendez /Argentina/ – acoustic drums
Studios:
Ilarion Ivanenko /Ukraine/ – editing & mixing
Colin Davis /Imperial Mastering, USA/ – mastering
The album was finished on December 30, 2024.
Released in 2025, When Your Demons Come represents the realization of a musical vision that began more than ten years earlier.
BRAINMAZE — metal born from the demons within.
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