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empusae

Ambient / Industrial / Experimental

Gent, Belgium

Billboard

With the complexity of the music, it may surprise you to find that Empusae is actually a project created by a single man, Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe aka Sal-Ocin. Empusae exercises a surreal science of structure that throbs and pulsates in an almost obsessive manner. The music is almost suggestive of a mechanical assembly line in its clock work clunks and clangs. It builds into a tense, yet haunting soundscape and rivets itself into the memory and refuses to be forgotten. It is serious music who's architecture has formed for itself a solid foundation, rather than sounding as if its trying to tear itself apart!

When listening to Empusae's music, you're lost in dark melancholy, tribal electronic athmospheres and scarefull ambient rituals. He puts his fascination of surrealistic science into Empusae epitome and hypnotizes the audience with it. Musical darkened melancholy, gloomy ferrous atmosphere and frightening ambient rituals based on a solid sound matter absorbs not only the sensitive hearers.

It's music is not easy to categorise, some say ambient, industrial, electro and other... but Sal-Ocin describes his music as a sountrack for the listeners personal fantasies. Being a member of various other project such as This Morn' Omina, Tzolk'in, Project Arctic, a split with Oil10 and a live member of Ah Cama-Sotz, Sal-Ocin isn't afraid of working together with other artists.

Shows - see all 2

May 17

Montréal, Canada

usine c

TBA

Jul 26

Waregem, Belgium

Expo

2:00pm

Photos - see all 6


Videos - see all 1


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Stats

plays today - 0

all-time plays - 98

profile views - 715

Discography - see all 11

  • the hatred of trees

    the hatred of trees

  • simple black lines in a diagram (empusae + nick grey)

    simple black lines in a diagram (empusae + nick grey)

  • extra-muros box

    extra-muros box

  • error 404: metaphorical loss

    error 404: metaphorical loss

  • A.L.P.H.A

    A.L.P.H.A



Comments - see all 27

deuterror says:

posted 2 weeks ago


Ars Macabre says:

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posted Apr 13


Bildsturm Vision says:

Catch you at Hands fest!

posted Apr 9


Ah Cama-Sotz says:

Gruesse aus Antwerpen ;-)

posted Mar 2


Devin McQuarrie says:

thanx ! www.virb.com/illuminaries

posted Feb 8


L I T H says:

posted Jan 13


synapscape says:

all the best for 2008, have a fantastic year!

posted Jan 8


Gagosian Liga says:

"We all admire the spangled acrobat with classical grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know." (Vladimir Nabokov) Thank you for your friendship! Musical greetings from Munich/Germany! Feel free to download my music!

posted Dec 22


BIPOL says:

hey nicolas, nice to meet you on virb. distorted greetings from bielefeld

posted Dec 13


ELEKTROANSCHLAG says:

HEY NICO THX 4 THE REQUEST. Greetz from Germany !!!

posted Dec 12


heimstatt yipotash says:

hi nicolas, nice to meet you here again! very best regards from eastern germany!!

posted Dec 10


das-kollektiv.net says:

posted Dec 9


Luca Raffini says:

What is this? I can't find myself anymore.... Waiting for more songs, Luca

posted Dec 8


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