Ghostemane Tickets

Ghostemane In Concert

On paper, a Ghostemane performance might be billed as a rap show. In reality, however, the experience is much closer to a no-holds-barred, hardcore punk house show. With his intense, shouted delivery and industrial and metal-inspired trap beats, Ghostemane shows are known to quickly explode into giant mosh pits. Expect breathless triple-time raps, high-energy head-banging, heavy doses of shredding, and all-around recklessness. The Florida native brought his dark debauchery on the road for 2017's You Won't Survive This tour, which featured support from Wavey Jone$, Chxpo, and Nedarb. European fans can catch the silver-haired rapper on a month-long stretch of shows in 2019, from London to Paris to Amsterdam.

Ghostemane Background

If rappers are the new rock stars, Ghostemane takes the sentiment to its logical extreme. Born Eric Whitney, the rapper, producer, and multi-instrumentalist came up in the hardcore punk scene in his hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida. To this day, his biggest inspirations exist in the realm of metal, screamo, and grindcore. But when his former bandmate introduced him to the shadowy, occult-leaning world of Memphis horrorcore, something clicked. These days, Ghostemane makes rap music that often sounds very little like rap music at all. His brash, triple-time bars coexist with harsh noise, heavy guitar riffs, and primal screams. His lyrics are mired in darkness, with a penchant for eerie mysticism (see "Kybalion," named for a century-old Hermetic philosophy). But Ghostemane's found his place among a recent upswell of face-tatted nihilists who exist in the extremes between rap and rock (until 2016, he was part of the Schemaposse collective, which once included the late Lil Peep — a kindred spirit to Ghostemane, although less hardcore in sound). Ghostemane's output has been wildly prolific, releasing seven EPs and 10 full-length albums since 2014; his latest, 2018's N/O/I/S/E, is a raw, visceral portrait from the inside of a downward spiral.