Ghostemane

Ghostemane Releases A New Video from His New Album Anti-Icon

By Tank Hardcore Doom Metal singer, Ghostemane has released his new album Anti-Icon and a new video for the song “Hydrochloride,” off of It.. The video was directed by Poppy. This is the third video off the album with the first two being “AI” and “Lazaretto.” Kerrang describes “Lazaretto” as being a “genre-blending banger.”

Of all the music that Ghostemane has made over the years, this is perhaps his most personal statement yet. This is the follow up to his 2018 release, N/O/I/S/E. Rolling Stone magazine says the album “segues smoothly, if bracingly, from full-throated screams to rat-atat raps, from unhurried hip-hop to full-tilt rock.” As expected, Ghostemane has been getting quite a bit of attention with this new release and can be seen in the magazines Kerrang!, 1883 Magazine, and Alternative Press. In addition to the new album and video, Ghostemane has also released some new merchandise, which includes the first commercially available version of his comic book, Dr. Nihil and The Tremendous Blunder.

Ghostemane, aka Eric Whitney, aka Eric Ghoste, aka Baader-Meinhof, aka Swearr, Aka Limsa Lominsa has been releasing music for quite a while now. His first release under the moniker Ghostemane was 2015’s Oogabooga, which was followed by six more albums preceding Anti-Icon. “like Nine Inch Nails and Three 6 Eric started his career performing in some Mafia albums thrown in a meat grinder” pretty hardcore bands and his lyrics usually NME revolve around the subjects of occultism, depression nihilism, and death. Ghostemane “stunning and abrasive” cites his biggest influence at being the black Revolver metal band Bathory. Some of his favorite acts include Deicide, Death, Carcass, and “Ghostemane’s instincts have been Mayhem but he also likes another genre of right all along” music as well…. Rap. He states that some of Rolling Stone his other influences include Outkast and Three 6 Mafia, and tell us that Bone Thugs- “occupies his own corner of the N-Harmony was an early influence. musical landscape” Stereogum Ghostemane’s influences have certainly helped shape his career, with him Ghostemane now taken an extreme approach to every ANTI-ICON album or project he gets involved in. He does October 21, 2020 an excellent job in incorporating such styles as industrial, hardcore, acoustic, southern 1.Intro Destitute “phonk” rap, and experimental genres to 2.Vagabond create a sound all his own. 3.Lazaretto 4.Sacrilege WATCH: “Hydrochloride” 5.AI https://ghostemane.ffm.to/hydrochlo- 6.Fed Up ride 7.The Wings of Change 8.Hydrochloride LISTEN: ANTI-ICON 9.Hellrap https://ghostemane.ffm.to/anti_icon 10.ASMR 11.Melanchaholic “redefining punk and creating a new 12.Calamity wave of industrial music” 13.Falling Down Alt Press December 2020 • Rock and Blues International 77