Rapper Ghostemane has by no means been shy about his deep appreciation for metallic’s aesthetic and occult imagery. He is taken issues one step additional, having simply launched a bonafide black metallic EP, Baader-Meinhof, below the moniker Blackmage.

The identify of the undertaking was taken from the title of Ghostemane’s fifth album, which got here out in 2016. Right here, the 29-year-old indulges within the excessive metallic that caught his ears in teenage years, sticking to an obscenely lo-fi model that was popularized by second wave black metallic acts, falling someplace between the hopelessly bleak Xasthur and the tin-can manufacturing of Gorgoroth’s Underneath the Signal of Hell.

Very like Ghostemane’s music, these three Blackmage tracks have a fractured construction and it isn’t unusual to listen to the hornet’s nest of distortion drop out completely as some clean-picked interlude passages provide a trace of reprieve.

For now, the EP is just obtainable on SoundCloud and could be heard beneath.

In case you go on the lookout for Blackmage on Spotify, it will solely result in profound confusion — there’s a Finnish hip-hop/trap-metal artist by that identify whose model is actually influenced by Ghostemane.