By MATT HANSEN // Swedish "Hauntwave" artist who tapped Portland's Dancing Plague on the single "Demonizer" will play The Coffin Oct. 24
The new single "Demonizer" by Sweden's
Aux Animaux and featuring Portland's
Dancing Plague is a supernatural dive into how we feel about the people we would like to keep at arms length. "Demonizer" has cold stabs of synthesizer and Aux's 'hauntwave' aesthetic that go perfectly with your spooky season. Part goth banger, part horror movie soundtrack "Demonizer" is a duet on the nefarious characters we come across in life. But if you wanted even more from this gloomy paring of Aux Animaux and Dancing Plague, they will both be performing at The Coffin on Oct. 24th.
"I happened to say hauntwave at some point because I felt my music didn't really fit in a genre. It was something in between different genres," explains Düzer when asked about Hauntwave. "I also changed my sound since then so it definitely can be called darkwave now with a dash of EBM I guess." Hauntwave, although, is a perfect descriptor of Düzer's shocking stage presence which will no doubt bewitch the audience at The Coffin. The show is billed as a "Halloween Costume gathering for the undead" which will have black clad club goers entertained late into the night by the dance party afterward with DJ Straylight.
"I am into all things spooky so I of course find Halloween hella fun! I like that people get creative and put time into planning their costumes and pretending to be someone else for a day," remarks Düzer "It's the perfect escapism." Spooky season may come but once a year but to Aux Animaux every day is Halloween, and as the first show of her first ever U.S. tour, you could say the planets aligned for this one.