GHOSTEMANE

Early life Eric Whitney was born on April 15, 1991, in Lake Worth, Florida to parents from New York. 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, including Nemesis and Seven Serpents. 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.

In April 2016, after just 1 year with the group, Whitney left Schemaposse. 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, who released the video for "1000 Rounds" with Ghostemane in April 2017. The video quickly went viral, and as of May 2021, it had over 29 million views.

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.

In October 2018 he teamed up with Zubin to release a track titled Broken. 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).

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

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.

Backing band Current Parv0 – DJ Nolan Nunes – bass Marcus Johnson – drums

Former Mark Bronzino – guitars 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

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) Opium (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) Zero Day (2026)

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)