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 “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.

LP / Digital Album

The Dancing Plague of 1518 is the electronic influenced darkwave/post-punk project of Conor Knowles, located in Spokane, Washington (USA).

LP / Digital Album

Dancing Plague’s music is fitted with an exoskeleton of darkness that shields any and all light from entering. Oddly, though, this sheath of industrial electronics doesn’t impart a chilly vibe, rather an uncomfortably humid one. They evoke anxiety with their very name, and coax you into this fear by virtue of their compellingly constructed locomotion.

LP / Digital Album

Here’s the first release from Dancing Plague, a Darkwave/Post-Punk solo project of Conor Knowles from Spokane, WA.

Digital Album