Ghostemane

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. Whitney was introduced to rap music when he was the guitarist in the hardcore punk band Nemesis and a bandmate introduced him to Memphis rap.

Ghostemane is very peculiar because he is the edgiest signer, his music sounds terriying and he wants to put upfront a distorded image of himself. Ghostemane is the most spiritual, he often talks about worshipping someone ;Kyballion and introduces us into the world of the Apprentices thus, his first album being called : For The Aspiring Occultists.He does not often speak about his problems but he rather points out alot of problem in our society.His style is definitely different, being very rough with a very big voice, sometimes very fast in a more screamy voice but especially scarry and opressing. People often find him meaningless, since the listener sometimes does not really get what he is trying to explain but he is putting up a message out there for his fans but often way too deep for anyone without care to understand. The most interesting part about his music is that we could right away link him as a fucked up junky but he does not take any drugs, probably just smoking and drinking but thats far better than the other drugs out there.

Lyrically, Ghostemane's themes focus around occultism, depression, nihilism, and death. Whitney started his career as a musician playing guitar in hardcore punk bands, drums in doom metal bands, and has stated that his biggest influence is black metal band Bathory. He spent most of his teenage years listening to extreme metal bands such as Deicide, Death, Carcass and Mayhem. In terms of rap music, Ghostemane is influenced by Southern rap groups such as Outkast and Three 6 Mafia. Ghostemane has also went on to cite Midwest rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony as an early influence.