“The avant-garde energy of mid-‘70s Euro-horror, the ghosts of Penderecki, and the adventurous spirit of Mica Levi”
DIE HEXEN is an Irish Academy Award And RTS-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, MUSIC producer, Artist, and Sound designer, known for “dark, bold, and unforgettable” soundtracks that blEND music and sound design.
At once terrifying and tender, DIE HEXEN’s otherworldly music will amplify how you see and hear, drawing an existential line down the heart of each film.
Hailing from the mythic north coast of Ireland, their breakout soundtrack for Fréwaka (2024) won “Best Original Music” at both the Irish Academy Awards (2025) and SITGES Film Festival (2024). Variety praised its “imaginative, offbeat” quality, deeming HEXEN “integral” to a new wave of Irish horror. The score was further acclaimed by The New York Times, describing it as sounding “like Satan’s playlist,” and filmmaker Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House), who lauded its “wicked tone.”
With film as the amphitheatre for their signature sound, DIE HEXEN drives under the skin of audiences to create a truly unnerving experience. This approach—spanning awe-inspiring themes and eerie motifs—has led top UK film critic Mark Kermode to describe DIE”s music as "brilliantly indescribable," drawing comparisons to visionary masters like Mica Levi, Jerry Goldsmith, and Krzysztof Penderecki.
“[Aislinn] Clarke and her composer Die Hexen—whose score sounds like Satan’s playlist—set a blackhearted mood.”
The first non-male to win at the Irish Academy and SITGES for a feature film score in the history of both festivals, DIE’s momentum continued into 2025 with a Royal Television Society “Best Original Music” award for the BBC/Virgin Media series Video Nasty, and a nomination for the PRS for Music NI Creator of the Year trophy. In 2026, DIE was the only composer chosen to represent Ireland at the prestigious Camille Awards (European Film Composer Awards) in the feature film category for their groundbreaking work on Fréwaka, and served as Screen Composers Guild of Ireland’s Artist-in-Residence at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris.
Beyond their career as a composer, DIE HEXEN is also the writer/director of the short films AM I DEAD and the IFTA-nominated EL HOR. The latter premiered HOT DOCS and won “Best Experimental Film” at ÉCU Paris and a Michael Dwyer Discovery Award at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival, where the jury praised it as “a phenomenal calling-card for a blazing new talent, one we keenly anticipate seeing more from in the future.”
They are currently developing the script for their first feature film, VADEMECUM, a haunting reimagining of the roots of vampire lore that explores obsession, eroticism, and the corrosive power of narcissistic control.
“An imaginative, offbeat score by avant-garde musician Die Hexen, heavy on chattering percussion, keeps us tense in our seats”
