Dancing Plague returns with Domain, a powerful new album set for release on September 5th through Artoffact Records. To coincide with the announcement, they are releasing the first single “With You I Am Nothing”.
Built around a relentless beat and layered with tortured vocals that oscillate between resignation and desperation, “With You I Am Nothing” dives into themes of dependency, disillusionment, and the aching absence of identity in the wake of lost connection. It's both a personal confession and a dancefloor exorcism—haunted and raw, but undeniably physical.
Listen to “With You I Am Nothing” HERE
Diving deep into themes of depression, anxiety, love, and heartbreak, Domain layers raw emotion over the project’s signature blend of throbbing, pulsating rhythms and dark, dance floor-ready beats. With this release, Dancing Plague further cements their place at the forefront of the Darkwave, Industrial, and EBM scenes.
The band says, "“Every album I’ve made has come from a personal place, but never more so than on Domain. I’ve laid everything bare across these eight tracks in a way I never have before; soaked in despair, sorrow, and the kind of pain that doesn’t leave quietly.”
Dancing Plague's Domain is a searing dive into the emotional wreckage of identity, loss, and existential disillusionment. Unflinchingly raw and brimming with industrial power, the album traces the descent into emotional numbness and self-alienation with an unrelenting intensity. From the haunting plea of first single "With You I Am Nothing" to the crushing collapse of "I Turn to Dust," each track pulses with distorted synths, mechanized beats, and vocals that tremble between vulnerability and rage. The album bleeds despair and beauty in equal measure, exposing the frayed nerves of a mind unraveling in real time.
While its sonic palette draws from darkwave, EBM, and post-industrial textures, Domain is more than a genre exercise—it’s a personal exorcism. Tracks like "Bitter Taste" and "Impostor" speak to inner torment and the inability to reconcile one’s outward self with the chaos within. Lyrically introspective yet sonically confrontational, the album is steeped in duality: desire and detachment, memory and void, numbness and pain. Released on Artoffact Records, Domain solidifies Dancing Plague’s evolution into a singular voice in modern dark electronic music, finding strange comfort in the bleakest corners of the psyche.
PRE-ORDER DOMAIN HERE
ABOUT DANCING PLAGUE
Dancing Plague is the darkwave and post-punk project of Portland-based artist Conor Knowles. Since its inception in 2015, the project has become a mainstay in the dark electronic music scene, blending elements of goth, EBM, and industrial into an emotionally charged sound. With four albums and four EPs, Dancing Plague’s music is known for its brooding atmosphere, throbbing basslines, and hauntingly evocative vocals.
Now signed with Artoffact Records, Dancing Plague continues to refine its unique blend of nostalgia and innovation, drawing comparisons to icons like Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails while forging its own path in contemporary darkwave.
For fans of Cold Cave, Kontravoid, and the darker side of electronic music, Dancing Plague offers a sonic journey into loss, longing, and cathartic release.
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