SEMATARY | 10.06.24 | Berlin, Metropol

SEMATARY
live in Berlin!
Einlass 18:30 Uhr
Beginn 19:30 Uhr
Karten bekommt ihr ab dem 26.01. hier:
https://www.eventim.de/event/sematary-metropol-18183656/
Underground rapper Sematary stands at the crossroads of numerous different scenes, sounds, and subcultures. From a first listen to any of his projects, you’ll hear influences of 2010s Chicago Drill in the explosive bass-boosted 808s, Shoegaze and Black Metal in the washed out guitars, and Horrorcore in his dark, eldritch bars and ominous album art. Much like artists such as Yung Lean, it’s hard to pigeonhole him into any one genre or subculture — but the hundreds of millions of streams he’s received on Spotify and Apple Music show his mercurial status in the current music scene is a strength, not a weakness.
Growing up in Placer County, California and beginning his musical career as an 11-year-old playing around on GarageBand, Sematary grew up on a variety of artists like witch house pioneers Salem as well as Chief Keef, Sickboyrari (fka Black Kray), and Yung Lean — whose Warlord tour he saw in San Francisco when he was fifteen, a moment he credits as the impetus for wanting to make rap music. In 2019, after graduating high school, he founded the collective Haunted Mound, a group of rappers and artists who share a love for Sematary’s sound. If Bladee is the ‘CEO’ of his collective Drain Gang, then Sematary is very much the Haunted Mound CEO: every artist attached to the collective was found by him, he does all the artwork for every project, and oversees the production of all the group’s music. In November of the same year, he released his debut mixtape Rainbow Bridge, with its deep-fried, over-saturated artwork reminiscent of old No Limit albums and Chicago drill mixtapes of the time setting the tone for Haunted Mound’s visual aesthetics. Tracks like “Slaughter House” and “Bunny Suit” from the project now sit at 5 million and 3 million streams on Spotify respectively.