My favorite class in World of Warcraft is demonologist warlock. I love being surrounded by all my demons.
Doo-Wop Warlock as an album summons that feeling — one demon at a time — while blending it with bright 60s harmonies and a touch of 80s synth.
We set the stage for our doo-wop warlock album with something that happens over and over again while playing Diablo or World of Warcraft — going back to town.
For our hero to become a full-on demonologist warlock, they need to begin by learning to summon a single demon.
“Draw the Summoning Circle” is the only song on the album where one of the demons actually gets to speak for itself.
“My Little Imp” is where Doo-Wop Warlock starts to get seriously fun.
It is so exciting summoning your first demon in World of Warcraft! And then you get… an imp? And it’s mostly so useless, but you get attached anyway.
This song is all of that & more.
You don’t get to choose the names of your demons in World of Warcraft. You just have to hope to get a good one.
“I Didn’t Choose Your Name” takes that game mechanic and turns it into a poignant commentary on the connection between warlock and summoned demon.
“Big Sister from the Void” is a song inspired by how it felt when I would play my gnome demonologist warlock in World of Warcraft and summon my succubus, who was fully twice my height and always seemed “too cool, too cool for this dungeon.”
As a demonologist warlock in World of Warcraft, your felguard is your best friend. Your tank. Your defender. Back when you could set them to aggressive, I let mine solo the Deadmines as a treat once.
Anyway, “My Right Hand Demon” is a song about that feeling.
It’s been weird starting Warcraft again and discovering they combined drain life and health funnel for warlocks… it was such a central mechanic, alternating between healing yourself and then healing your demon.
Anyway, “Never Let Your Demon Die” is a song about that mechanic.
I love casting Hand of Gul’dan over and over again until you have a whole crowd of wild imps and also maybe some randomly spawned demons and a demonic tyrant all around you.
It feels like being part of a “Party from Another Dimension”…
At one level, “When Did I Start Needing You” is very much a song about being a demonology warlock in World of Warcraft and relying on your demons to keep you alive and safe…
But at another level, it just turned out so sweet and could be about coming to depend on anyone you love.
Part of what’s wonderful about the demonology warlock in Warcraft is how all those demons coming through portals and schisms imply a whole other realm on the other side, one you’re in contact with but where you don’t fully belong. “The Dark Understands Me Back” is about that.
The arc of Doo-Wop Warlock is about learning to summon demons, becoming attached to them, and genuinely finding a place among them that feels like family.
The final song, “My Demons,” looks at demons as both something you can be haunted by… and you can love.