Velvet Acid Christ is the long-running, innovative brainchild of Bryan Erickson. The acoustic guitars found on previous album The Art of Breaking Apart may not be present on Maldire, but at the beginning of the new album we find VAC exploring slower, spookier, brooding themes. HyperCurse, a dark psytrance song, opens the way to the second half of Maldire, featuring VAC at it's most aggressive. Maldire exemplifies what VAC is all about, as it finds Erickson both returning to his evil electronic dance roots and pushing his creative boundaries ever further.