O' Blasphemy <PIG>Remix by Raymond Watts
by Curse Mackey
This is the long-awaited remix by <PIG> aka industrial legend RAYMOND WATTS of Curse Mackey's "O' Blasphemy", this is a sin-phonic industrial masterpiece!! Plus Twin Tribes dark dance perfection on their remix is a must-have addition along with Texas heavy industrialists dread risks take it to another level of grime.
releases October 6, 2023
Dead Fingers Talk (Electric Heresy Remix by A Cloud of Ravens)
by a cloud of ravens, curse mackey
Fresh off their summer tours with SIsters of Mercy and Clan of Xymox + Curse Mackey, Brooklyn's duo of dark delights, A CLOUD OF RAVENS lend their gothic post-punk flavor to Curse Mackey's highly intriguing DEAD FINGERS TALK, THis definitely has dark dancefloor desirability!
released September 15, 2023
DEAD FINGERS TALK
words and music by Curse Mackey
Remix by A Cloud of Ravens
Original version appears on Curse Mackey's IMMORAL EMPORIUM produced by curse mackey + chase dobson. available on bandcamP
The Reveal (Uncrossed Remix by Steven Olaf)
by Curse Mackey
I am loving this remix by Steven Olaf, where the original version is one of the harder industrial dance tracks on the Immoral Emporium album, this remix brings a certain darkwave aesthetic to the track, it seems to have a lusher darkness which always brightens my day...
COVER ART by CURSE MACKEY
lyrics
A crucifix uncrossed, the devils broken heart, we will never be the same again, it will never be this way again...hold on to each other, everything else is death....
released May 5, 2023
Remixed by Seven Olaf,
Written by Curse Mackey
Original version appears on Curse Mackey's IMMORAL EMPORIUM LP produced by Curse Mackey and Chase Dobson.
Lost Body Hypothesis (SØLVE Remix)
by Curse Mackey
This is a beautiful, haunting remix of Lost Body Hypothesis the fifth song on my second album IMMORAL EMPORIUM. I really love this mix by dear friend Brant Showers of SØLVE. Please have this as a gift from me or pay what you want. Put this one on when it's dark.
released April 7, 2023
Written by Curse Mackey
Remix by Brant Showers (SØLVE)
Smoking Tongues (Delirium Remix by Steven Olaf)
by Curse Mackey
“Smoking Tongues,” the second single from Mackey’s new LP, Immoral Emporium, is an industrial love song for the ages combining dance club appeal, sublime synth work, and Mackey’s perfectly on point poetics. Part ghost story, part noir nightmare, part love story, part religious allegory, the video sees Mackey at his most compelling, conjuring the hallucinatory experiences of life growing up in South Texas.
Curse says, “I wrote this song as the final piece of the new album. I wanted to speak to the listener directly, more than I may have done in the past. The phantasmagoria of my first album, Instant Exorcism, may have shrouded my feelings, but ‘Smoking Tongues’ opened a portal. I don’t think I have felt this vulnerable within a song before and the sound is also reaching into to new areas of exploration.”
Mackey continues “The lyrical dialog is as much about me as it is about the listener, and I clearly question our collective future. I know this song is a departure that industrial music purists might find out of frame, but, if you stick with me, we’ll get to the delicious delirium hidden within Immoral Emporium. I empathize with the feelings of alienation and loneliness. Our experiences, ‘our scars like constellations’ get us through these moments until we can again be seduced by the vast potential that exists in the world even on our darkest days.”
released March 3, 2023
Written by Curse Mackey
Produced by Curse Mackey and Chase Dobson
Remix by Steven Olaf
Dead Fingers Talk (SINE Remix)
by Curse Mackey
This is a remix by Austin, TX based "electronic boom" act SINE of "Dead Fingers Talk" track 4 on the latest Curse Mackey LP IMMORAL EMPORIUM. The bass is deep and dark on this mysterious strange danger banger.
released February 24, 2023
Written + Performed by Curse Mackey
Remix by Rona Rougeheart of SINE
Mastered by Chase Dobson
Immoral Emporium
by Curse Mackey
Truth and reality continue to blur. Everyone wears a different mask underneath. All these dreams fracturing.
Curse Mackey’s new full-length album, Immoral Emporium, due out on 09/09/22 is the highly-anticipated follow-up to his 2019 darkwave masterpiece Instant Exorcism.
Immoral Emporium is an intense, dark electronic music experience. Curse emphasizes, “This is a NEW album for modern times, in the here and now.”
True to his word, Immoral Emporium pushes the boundaries of genre with a vast dynamic range, from a tortured whisper to a triumphant howl. The first single, “Lacerations” is a dancefloor stomper with hypnotic vocals, a hard-hitting chorus with wailing synths and bin-shaking beats.
The album moves into poppy, upbeat club territory with the earworm “Dead Fingers Talk,” guaranteed to get everyone moving at your city’s goth/industrial club night.
The buildups are big, such as in “Omens and Monuments”, with monstrous synths that bring Immoral Emporium to a goosebump-inducing, cathartic end leaving the listener looking forward to the future.
The opening track and forthcoming video for “Smoking Tongues” finds Mackey in an immediately engaging, surrealist landscape befitting an Anton Corbjin film setting the stage for a most surprising and forward thinking work.
The album was produced by Curse Mackey and long-time collaborator Chase Dobson (Neon Cities, Tycho, Rufus Du Sol), who also co-produced Instant Exorcism. Contributors include synth wizard Justin McGrath (Nine Inch Nails, Kanga, The Black Queen), and a collab with MVTANT, an exciting new industrial act from Curse’s birthplace San Antonio, Texas.
The album was mastered by Ken Marshall at HiWatt Labs, (Skinny Puppy, Riki, Front Line Assembly).
Immoral Emporium is slated for a September 09, 2022 release and will be supported by a Fall 22’ US tour with darkwave legends Clan of Xymox. Curse was on tour with Xymox in March 2020 when their tour was cut short by the pandemic.
Curse says, “Immoral Emporium was created under very remote, unusual, stressful conditions. This record is a dangerous listen; by the time it reaches the last song, I, as the protagonist, am essentially already dead. As dark as that premise might be, my last words are meant to give hope to the listener, my friends around the world…that you can live to fight another day, knowing you don't have to give in to the fear, pain, and worry. These things will pass and you are not alone."
Curse Mackey’s Immoral Emporium is sure to be a highly welcome entry into the world of dark synth, post-punk, ebm, heavy electronic music.
released September 9, 2022
Produced by Curse Mackey and Chase Dobson
Mixed by Chase Dobson at 1156HQ, Denver CO
Mastered by Ken Marshall, HiWatt Labs, Vancouver BC
Recorded at Omen View Studio, Austin TX
and Tarantula Ranch, Tarantula TX
Vocals recorded at Scary American Studios, Austin TX
All Songs written by Curse Mackey+
Published by Cool Molecule Music (BMI)
+Lost Body Hypothesis by Curse Mackey + Chase Dobson
Special Guests of Honor:
Justin McGrath: modular synths on Lacerations, The Reveal
MVTANT: synths, loops on Mutatis Mutandis
Thank you so much for listening.
Beast witches,
Curse
Special Thanks to Rona Rougeheart.
Special shout to Abra + Jon Lemieux
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