MONOMORTE is a Liverpool-based dark electronic musician Danny Ryder, who's been steadily releasing quality EPs and singles since 2013 via his bandcamp page. Even though he's been active on the witch-house scene for almost a decade now, his new project
"The Wiccan" is de facto his longplay debut. Inspired by Gerald Gardner, who popularised the wiccan religion, the album deconstructs vocal samples and field recordings from his coven, and mixes them with MONOMORTE's signature style that glides smoothly between pre-trap era witch-house, tribal bass music championed by
Shackleton and future garage of
Clubroot. On "The Wiccan" he manages to craft a cohesive occult story, told with an eclectic sound that is both sublime and menacing, eerily familiar and comfortably distant, merging modern horror sound design with ghosts of dubstep past. The album is a natural continuation of MONOMORTE's artistic journey but also a brilliant starting point for anyone who's not familiar with his previous work.
You can support MONOMORTE by purchasing "The Wiccan" here, and stream it after the jump.
