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Jonny Maudling | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jonathan Maudling |
| Origin | Sidcup, Kent |
| Genres | Metal/soundtrack/ambient |
| Occupation | Composer/Musician/Sound Engineer |
| Instrument(s) | Keyboards/synthesizer, guitar, piano, drums |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Website | www |
Jonny Maudling (born Jonathan Maudling) is an English keyboard player and drummer, former bassist with the unsigned UK thrash band Igniter and principal music composer for the UK symphonic metal band Bal-Sagoth. [1] He is now the composer/ keyboardist with the band Kull, and has on occasion collaborated with the band My Dying Bride. Maudling's primary instruments are Roland synthesizers when playing live. He comes from a musical family and was classically trained on piano from an early age.[ citation needed ] He has contributed to three My Dying Bride studio albums, provided session orchestration on material by Sermon of Hypocrisy, played guest keyboards on a full-length release by the Ukrainian metal band Semargl, and played keyboards on the 2023 album "Katharsis" by Norwegian extreme metal band Keep of Kalessin. In 2024, Maudling played keyboards on the album "Riddle of Steel Beyond Ultima Thule" by Turkish symphonic metal band Dragonborn. In 2025, Maudling expanded into the pop music genre, being involved in the composition of three tracks by LGBTQ dance-pop artist Sebastian Prince. [2] He also composed music for the unreleased video game Adellion. Currently Maudling is a producer and engineer, operating his own recording studio called Wayland's Forge Studios in Yorkshire, England.[ citation needed ]
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Although he composes music mostly in the symphonic metal/black metal genres, Maudling's main influences include mostly non-metal bands such as The Police, Tangerine Dream, Queen, Pat Metheny, as well as classical composers such as Wagner, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Messiaen and Holst.[ citation needed ]
