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Eric Whitney (born April 15, 1991),[7] known professionally as Ghostemane or Eric Ghoste,[8] is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He has released eight solo albums and three collaborative albums under his Ghostemane moniker, primarily merging elements of heavy metal, hip hop and industrial music. Whitney has also released music with a number of additional solo projects, pursuing styles including black metal as Baader-Meinhof, noise music as GASM,[5] and electronic music as Swearr.[9] He began his career in local hardcore punk and doom metal bands around Florida.[10][11] In 2015, he moved to 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
Ghostemane performing in 2017
Background information
Birth name	Eric Whitney
Also known as	Eric Ghoste Baader-Meinhof Swearr Ill Bizz GASM
Born	(1991-04-15) April 15, 1991 (age 31) Lake Worth, Florida
Origin	West Palm Beach, Florida
Genres	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)	Songwriter musician rapper
Instrument(s)	Vocals guitar drums bass synthesizers
Years active	2010–present
Website	ghostemane.com

Ghostemane's merging of trap and metal gained him popularity on SoundCloud. In 2018, Ghostemane released his seventh 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 band mate introduced him to Memphis rap.[10]

Career

Prior to his musical career, Whitney worked in several B2B sales positions.[14] In 2015, Whitney moved to Los Angeles, California due to him not musically thriving in Southern Florida. 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.[18] He subsequently released his self-produced album "Blackmage" and his first cinematic music video with his single "John Dee". Whitney eventually began to associate with fellow Florida rapper 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, has 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 singing St. James Infirmary. The video has since climbed to over 419 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, Metallica, 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 is 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 around 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]

Personal life

In October 2019, Ghostemane began dating musician and YouTuber Poppy. In July 2020, Poppy announced on social media that the two were engaged.[27][28] The couple separated and called off their engagement in late 2021.[29] He is currently engaged to American model, Skye Boysen aka Skyefires. On July 3, 2022, he announced on social networks that he would be a father with his current partner, Skyefires.

Backing band

Current[30][31]

• Parv0 – DJ
• Nolan Nunes – bass
• Marcus Johnson – drums

Former[32]

• Mark Bronzino – guitar
• Cayle Sain - drums

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)[33]
• 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

External links

• Media related to Ghostemane at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[es] Ghostemane

Eric Whitney (Lake Worth, Florida; 15 de abril de 1991), conocido como Ghostemane o Eric Ghoste, es un músico, rapero, cantante y fornicador estadounidense, crecido en Florida. Whitney se mudó a Los Ángeles, California, para comenzar su carrera como phonker y finalmente encontrar el éxito en el género musical phonk.[1][2]

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[ru] Ghostemane

Эрик Уитни (англ. Eric Whitney; 15 апреля 1991 (1991-04-15), Уэст-Палм-Бич, Флорида, США)[5], более известный по сценическому псевдониму Ghostemane или Baader-Meinhof, GASM[4][6] (ранее ILL BiZ)[7] — американский музыкант, рэпер и певец из Лос-Анджелеса, Калифорния[8]. В своём творчестве Уитни называет себя «Молодой Кроули» (англ. Young Crowley), делая отсылку к поэту и оккультисту Алистеру Кроули.

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