Ghostemane

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Ghostemane
Trap metal[1]
  • hip hop[2]
  • hardcore punk[3][4]
  • noise[5]
  • alternative hip hop[6]
  • black metal[5]
  • industrial hip hop
  • doom metal
    • Occupation(s)
    • Singer
    • songwriter
    • rapper
    • musician
    Instrument(s)
    • Vocals
    • guitar
    • drums
    • bass
    • synthesizers
    Years active2010–present
    Spouse(s)"Skye Fires"
    Websiteghostemane.com

    Eric Whitney (born April 15, 1991),

    Los Angeles, California, starting a career as a rapper, under the moniker Ill Bizz.[9] Around this same time, he was a member of the hip hop collective Schemaposse.[12]

    Ghostemane's merging of trap and metal gained him popularity on

    studio album, N/O/I/S/E, which was highly anticipated in the underground music scene[13] due to its heavy influence from industrial and nu metal
    .

    Early life

    Eric Whitney was born on April 15, 1991, in Lake Worth, Florida to parents from New York.[14] Whitney grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. As a teenager, he was mainly interested in hardcore punk music. He learned to play the guitar and performed in several bands,[15] including Nemesis and Seven Serpents.[10][16] He also played football while he was in high school, saying he was practically forced to by his father, who died when Whitney was seventeen.[14]

    Whitney was introduced to rap music when he was the guitarist in the hardcore punk band Nemesis and a bandmate introduced him to Memphis rap.[10]

    Career

    Prior to his musical career, Whitney worked in several B2B sales positions.[14] In 2015, due to not being able to musically thrive in Southern Florida, Whitney moved to Los Angeles, California. He also gave up his employment.[15] Meeting up with JGRXXN, Whitney joined his collective Schemaposse, which included artists such as Craig Xen and Lil Peep.[17]

    In April 2016, after just 1 year with the group, Whitney left Schemaposse.

    Pouya,[19] who released the video for "1000 Rounds" with Ghostemane in April 2017.[20] The video quickly went viral, and as of May 2021, it had over 29 million views.[21]

    In late 2017, Whitney saw greater success when art collective TRASH GANG created and released their 1930s cartoon edit music video for his song "Mercury: Retrograde". The cartoon was a 1933 Betty Boop short, Snow-White, featuring Cab Calloway as Koko the Clown singing St. James Infirmary. The video has since climbed to over 500 million views, making it his most well known single.[22]

    In October 2018 he teamed up with Zubin to release a track titled Broken.[23] Also in 2018, he released his seventh studio album, N/O/I/S/E, in which many of the songs are influenced by industrial metal, nu metal, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. In May 2020, he unveiled his latest project, a lo-fi black metal band called Baader-Meinhof, of which he is the sole member (credited as Eric Ghoste).[24] Ghostemane was also the sole producer of his former fiancée Poppy's Christmas EP, A Very Poppy Christmas, released in December 2020.

    In 2021, Ghostemane's music video "AI", directed by Nick Cinelli, was nominated for Most Bizarre at the Berlin Music Video Awards.[25]

    Artistry

    Lyrically, Ghostemane's themes focus on occultism, depression, nihilism, death and illuminism. He started his career as a musician playing guitar in hardcore punk bands, and drums in doom metal bands.[11] He has stated that his biggest influence is black metal band Bathory.[10] He spent most of his teenage years listening to extreme metal bands such as Deicide, Death, Carcass and Mayhem.[7] In terms of rap music, Ghostemane is influenced by Southern rap groups such as Outkast and Three 6 Mafia. He has also gone on to cite Midwest rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony as an early influence.[26]

    Backing band

    Current[27][28]
    • Parv0 – DJ
    • Nolan Nunes – bass
    • Marcus Johnson – drums
    Former[29]
    • Mark Bronzino – guitar

    Discography

    As Ghostemane

    Studio albums

    • Oogabooga (2015)
    • For the Aspiring Occultist (2015)
    • Rituals (2016)
    • Blackmage (2016)
    • Plagues (2016)
    • Hexada (2017)
    • N/O/I/S/E (2018)
    • ANTI-ICON (2020)

    Collaboration albums

    • Pallbearers || Tales from the Grave (w/DJ Killa C) (2015)
    • GRXXNGHOSTENAGROM (w/JGRXXN x Nedarb Nagrom) (2015)
    • Elemental (w/Lil Peep x JGRXXN) (2016)
    • LXRDMAGE (w/Scarlxrd) (2021)

    Compilations

    • Astral Kreepin (Resurrected Hitz) (2015)
    • Get To Know Us (w/Lil Peep x JGRXXN) (2016)
    • Hiadica (2019)

    Extended plays

    • Ghoste Tales (2015)
    • Dogma (2015)
    • Kreep [Klassics Out Tha Attic] Featuring Dj Insane (2015)
    • DÆMON (w/Nedarb Nagrom) (2016)
    • DÆMON II (w/Nedarb Nagrom) (2016)
    • DÆMON III (w/Nedarb Nagrom) (2017)
    • Dahlia I (w/Getter) (2018)
    • Fear Network (2019)[30]
    • Opium (2019)
    • HUMAN ERR0R (w/Parv0) (2019)
    • Digital Demons (w/Nolife) (2019)
    • Lxrdmage (w/ Scarlxrd) (2021)
    • Fear Network II (2021)

    Mixtapes

    • Blunts n' Brass Monkey (2014)
    • Taboo (2014)

    Singles

    • Technicolor (2014)
    • Kronol (2015)
    • John Dee (2016)
    • Hades (2017)
    • Kybalion (2017)
    • Tartarus (2017)
    • Kali Yuga (2017)
    • Nails (2017)
    • Blood Oceans (How Many?) (w/ PHARAOH) (2018)
    • D(R)Ead (2018)
    • AI (2020)
    • Lazaretto (2020)

    As Ill Biz

    Mixtapes

    • Revival (ft. Shepherd) (2012) (on tracks "Revival" and "Lean Wit It" only)
    • No Holds Barred (2012) (exclusive mixtape for datpiff.com)
    • Versatyle (2013) (unreleased)
    • [Soh] [fahy] mixtape (ft. Infinite SoFi) (2013) (on track "Southside" only)
    • ILL BiZ EP (ft. Infinite SoFi) (2013)
    • 1991 (2014)

    As GASM

    Studio albums

    • Www (2018)

    As SWEARR

    Extended plays

    • Technomancer (2019)

    As Baader-Meinhof

    Extended plays

    • EP (2016)
    • Evil Beneath a Veil of Justice (2019)
    • Baader-Meinhof (2020)

    With Nemesis

    Extended plays

    • From the Neighborhood (2012)

    With Seven Serpents

    Extended plays

    • Seven Serpents (2015)

    As Eric Ghoste

    • Music from the Motion Picture (2021)

    References

    1. ^ JAMIESON, BRII (May 23, 2019). "This is Trap Metal". Kerrang!.
    2. ^ "Hear Ghostemane's Crushing New Hardcore EP 'Fear Network'". April 10, 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
    3. ^ "Hear Ghostemane's Crushing New Hardcore EP 'Fear Network'". Revolver. April 10, 2019. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
    4. ^ "Ghostemane – Fear Network / Премьера релиза на Rhyme.ru". Rhyme - новости музыки. April 10, 2019. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
    5. ^ a b c "45 MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2019". Revolver. January 2019. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
    6. ^ "Album Review: Ghostemane – Anti-Icon — Kerrang!".
    7. ^ a b "Interview: rapper Ghostemane talks death metal influences". Metal Insider. August 23, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
    8. ^ "Ghostemane has announced his eighth studio album, 'Anti-Icon'". July 27, 2020. Retrieved May 8, 2021.
    9. ^ a b Law, Sam. "How Ghostemane is changing the fabric of heavy music". Kerrang!. Retrieved May 8, 2021.
    10. ^ a b c d "Thanks To Ghostemane, Industrial And Metal Are Rap Now". Stereogum. September 13, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
    11. ^ a b Shaner, Lee. "GHOSTEMANE'S HARDCORE PAST INSPIRED HIS UNDERGROUND RAP PRESENCE". Skullcandy. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
    12. ^ Robb, John (January 16, 2021). "Ghostemane 'Anti- Icon' : A 21st century antichrist superstar who combines black metal, industrial and rap into a dystopian whole". Retrieved May 8, 2021.
    13. ^ "Ghostsmane Surprise-Releases New Album 'N/O/I/S/E' a Week Early". Revolver. October 10, 2018. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
    14. ^ a b c Kinda Neat (July 6, 2016), KINDA NEAT EPISODE 110: GHOSTEMANE, retrieved May 25, 2018
    15. ^ a b "Ghostemane's Hardcore Past Inspired His Underground Rap Presence". Skullcandy. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
    16. ^ Wenke, Carrick. "Underground Hype: GHOSTEMANE". Retrieved December 24, 2018.
    17. ^ "Underground Hype: GHOSTEMANE – The Blow Up – A Place for the Independent Artist". www.theblowup.co. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
    18. ^ No Jumper (April 18, 2016), No Jumper - The Schema Posse Interview, retrieved May 25, 2018
    19. ^ "Music For The Aspiring Occultist: Ghostemane and the Collision of Metal and Underground Rap - Heavy Blog Is Heavy". www.heavyblogisheavy.com. November 14, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
    20. ^ "Pouya & Ghostemane "1000 Rounds" Video". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
    21. ^ Buffet Boys (April 27, 2017), Pouya x Ghostemane - 1000 Rounds [Music Video], retrieved May 25, 2018
    22. ^ "GHOSTEMANE - Mercury". YouTube. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
    23. ^ "Ghostemane and Zubin team up on "Broken"". The FADER. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
    24. ^ Ghostemane's Black-Metal Project: Hear Baader-Meinhoff's Sinister New EP Revolver. May 26, 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
    25. ^ Berlin Music Video Awards (May 20, 2021). "Nominees 2021". www.berlinmva.com.
    26. ^ "GHOSTEMANE Interview With Independent Grind". unsignedhype.org. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
    27. ^ Law, Sam. "How Ghostemane is changing the fabric of heavy music". Kerrang!. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
    28. ^ Angell, Jack (April 28, 2020). "LIL LOTUS IS REWRITING THE EMO PLAYBOOK AND THERE ARE NO RULES". Alternative Press. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
    29. ^ "HEAR HORUS THE ASTRONEER'S NEW SONG WITH IRON REAGAN AND GHOSTEMANE GUITARIST". Revolver. January 3, 2019. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
    30. ^ HILL, JOHN (April 10, 2019). "HEAR GHOSTEMANE'S CRUSHING NEW HARDCORE EP 'FEAR NETWORK'". Revolver. Retrieved April 11, 2019.

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