Blending catchy hooks with dark, powerful instrumentation, Deron Daum makes music that feels like a thriller you can dance to. With over 700,000 Spotify streams, 180,000+ listeners, and appearances on 4,000+ playlists, his songs have quietly infiltrated headphones across the globe.

Deron grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, starting piano at age 6. At 14 he began writing songs and was in several bands playing keyboards and bass guitar. In 1997 he moved to Seattle and formed the band Bendt which had a #1 song on MP3.com. He worked at Microsoft for 23 years before turning his attention to music full time.

Deron released his first solo album in 2021, an ambitious cocktail of alternative, electronic and art rock. When the world responded with a polite shrug, he did the only reasonable thing: disappeared for a year to rethink everything. The result was a sharper, danceable Indie Pop sound, debuting with the single “Login:”, which still regularly sneaks into his top five Spotify tracks.

Deron’s 2nd album came out in October 2023 building on this indie-pop foundation with broad experimentation. The single “Reptyle Brainz (Enmity)” proved a success with over 125,000 streams on Spotify. In 2024, Daum released 5 singles and his 3rd album “Ondolindë” featuring a live band. In 2025, Daum released several singles including his first cover song, the 1970 classic “Question” by The Moody Blues.

Now Deron is once again mutating. His current project is a serially released murder-mystery concept album, rolling out throughout 2026. Built on the DNA of his two previous “Reptyle Brainz” tracks, the album leans heavily into dark, gritty, dancefloor-friendly chaos. Influences include Nine Inch Nails, Royal Blood, Rezz, and Twenty One Pilots.

When he’s not writing overtly dramatic songs, Deron works as a mixing and recording engineer at MagicMix Studio near Seattle. He is also a huge J.R.R. Tolkien fan and many of his songs are inspired by the stories of Arda. Naturally, he’s hidden puzzles inside some of them (“Login:” and “Password”) for fellow Tolkien nerds to solve.