GOREGASM is an annual themed Halloween event in Lafayette, Louisiana that explores a new subgenre/motif of horror each year through the art of drag, burlesque, and live music.
Its fourth installment, SATANIC PANIC, explores occult hysteria, grotesque domestic ritual, rebellion, and transgressive pleasure through a fucked up queer lens, presented as one concentrated chapter for one night only in New Orleans. (BYOB) $10
Hosted by
P*$$Y D’LISH
With performances by
LADY BABY WOMAN
BAD OFF BETTIE
and KING KATYA
Live set by
MEHENET
Hailing from the rotting and bullet-peppered City of the Dead called New Orleans, Mehenet emerges drenched in all the bile, grit, and gristle natural to a band of extremists playing necromantic Black Metal.
Unlike many bands whose occult imagery is essentially pilfered from a montage of disconnected traditions, Mehenet consists soley of initiates of traditional occult orders and are thoroughly acquainted with the Arts they draw inspiration from. Where the concept of live Black Metal “ritual” is loosely muttered by dilettantes, Mehenet offers a direct and literal conduit to those forces informed by extensive participation in katabatic rites and whose music and ritual are truly what they appear.
Their raw vitriolic and conceptually dense debut LP, Di Inferi, (self released/Narcoleptica Productions: Europe) came on the heels of a continued local presence in New Orleans and successful tours through the South, South-east, and East Coast. They have opened for such acts as Shining, 1349, Taake, Blood Incantation, Tribulation, Negură Bunget, Necrophagia, Master, Abysmal Lord, Imprecation, Mortiis, Exhumed, Invocation Spells, amongst many local acts. They also played the main stage at the Anticosmic Music Festival alongside Shining, Zud, Kult of Azazel, and Wormreich.
Their sophomore album Ng’ambu: "masterful, ritualistic, and pitch-black evil make up the entirety of Ng'ambu - an album of hymnals to invoke and praise spirits -"…this also informs how their fiery black metal flows in and out of melodies, blasting sections and esoterically tinged sound samples. Unlike many other black metal bands that use Satanism as a prop, there is a sense of earnest spiritism on Ng’ambu that guides the journey. Meanwhile, ghosts of Quimbanda haunt and exalt every dark folk growl, collapsing riff, and pummeling drum blast. “It is the fire by which we forge our iron and the strangling plants that cure disease. Quimbanda is both the pox and the inoculation.” Best consumed in one take without intermissions, Ng’ambu is half an hour of intense musical perfection.”
Recorded at Hightower Studios by James Whitten and released on Gilead Media and Stygian Black Hand records respectively, Ng’ambu showcased more of the bands iconoclastic range.
Mehenet is poised to release their third upcoming Surrealistic terror campaign: a conceptual epic entitled The Brazen Serpent. A critique of Man’s historic failure, celebration of His eradication, and a reflection on what He never deserved!
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