Sounds like Wrath of the Righteous. You'd be starting at level 1 with no Mythic Tiers (though you'll be gaining them as you go).
With a Paladin as the other Front liner, I'd say you'll want a high AC character. Check with your GM for their opinion on the recent Crane Wing Errata. If you're considering Dwarf, there's a racial style (applyable only to Dwarves, Gnomes, and all Master of Many Styles monks) that adds a lot to AC. You'll want to pick up Dragon style as well for the power boost. Given that it's a demon heavy campaign, you may want to considering using a monk weapon instead of going unarmed. I understand there's a temple sword build that's quite powerful. At least I think it's a temple sword. It's some sort of monk sword, anyway.
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From the sound of it you will be playing Wrath of the Righteous. If you are going to have a paladin in the party I would recommend sitting down with him and asking what kind of paladin he is going to play. If he is playing a two handed weapon wielding smiter of evil then ask him to focus on a reach weapon and use the following advice.
Take the guardian path and take dual path as your first mythic feat, take trickster as your second path.
Focus your monk into defense. Don't give up on attack (a 13 str for power attack and weapon finesse will be great) but focus on defense. You will be the immovable wall that protects the weak. You can do this better than most with a high ac (wis and dex) and great saves.
For mythics powers, take fleet charge from the tricker and Absorb blow form the guardian, then look at powers from both to make you unstoppable. There are plenty that will help, you will be able to move around the field and stop enemies all over.
The trick for this is to take the trickster power "Path Dabbling" which will allow you to take the champion power "mythic Ki"
Finally for feats take Mythic Power Attack and Mythic Weapon Finesse.
Well, with 30 point buy, you are in pretty good shape ability wise. If you really wanted to min-max a human for instance, you could go: 16 Str, 16 Dex, 16 Wis, 14 Con, 8 Int, and 7 Cha (all before racials). The -1 you get to skill points is offset by the +1 skill point for being human. You can then put the +2 into Str to help with both damage and to-hit and do not have to worry about going with a Finesse build which will help out with both gear and feats.
If you are concerned about the -1 to Intelligence, you can probably get away with a 13 in Con (possibly bumping it up at level 4) and then bring Int back up to 10.
If you want to go pure defense though, you can also drop Str down to 13 and then boost either Dex or Wis to 18 before racials. Personally, I prefer the str build from a fun standpoint (though you still will not be doing the damage of the Pally) but to each their own.
Finally, if you want to be Maneuver based, you can again drop Str down to 13 and bring Int up to 13 which (with 2 more points left over) which will let you get any of the maneuver feats (Combat Expertise is a common pre-req) while also giving you more skills to be a bit more of a skill monkey (if you want to be skill-focused you can use the leftover points to bring Int up to 14). Note, that this lets get crazy with the Maneuvers without having to rely on being a Maneuver Master for when you don't want to do just maneuvers. The MM is great if all you care about is maneuvers, but I think it sacrifices more things elsewhere.
In sum, you really have all options open to you and can be pretty effective regardless of what route you take (keeping in mind that effective is still a relative term, you're still gonna lag behind the Pally in combat from a DPS standpoint for instance). You need to thus decide on what you want to do. Personally I think the generous point-buy makes the Unarmed Damage dealing monk much more attractive because you can get around a lot of the MADness that makes it difficult in typical point buys. As mentioned above though, you'll still likely need some weapons around in order to deal with the resistances of the demons.
Unfortunately I know almost nothing about Mythic, so can't help you a whole lot there.
If you're considering Dwarf, there's a racial style (applyable only to Dwarves, Gnomes, and all Master of Many Styles monks) that adds a lot to ACare you referring to Earth Child style? That only works against actual 'type: Giant' I thought?
Yes, that's what I meant. However, upon rereading it I see that it doesn't work the way I thought it did. I'd originally read it as "fighting defensively gives you a +6 bonus instead of the usual" but it's talking about bonuses against giant subtypes only. Bummer. :/
*Sigh* There's always snake style.
Four member party. OP is a monk, 1 Pally, 1 "control centric" character, 1 undecided/unformed. 30 point buy. Playing Wrath of the Righteous.
Good question: What sources are available?
Looking at the "In combat?" question made me realize- the original post indicated a desire for damage (dragon style and power attack were mentioned) and we're talking defense. Woops! Barking up the wrong tree.
You may want to take a look at the trickster path as well. There are a few abilities in there that are good for monks, and you can get Fleet Charge as a trickster as well.
Take a look at the Dual Path mythic feat. If you use that you could pick up additional powers from another path.
One reason I suggest looking at trickster is so you can grab Path Dabbling. You can use that to pick up any mythic power that you qualify for from another path.... such as Enduring Armor from the archmage. A monk with a 3+Tier AC bonus can be scary hard to hit.
Me personally I would either go into the Dimensional Dervish feat chain, giving the demon's a taste of their own medicine by teleporting around the battlefield punching everyone. Mythic wise, I would go champion and take all the abilities that let you grapple people and throw them around, through walls, grab them out of the air and slam them into the ground, and use them as shields. You may not be doing the most damage, but you will be doing some awesome stuff.
With mythic, not quite as late game as usual.