I’m the villain of your story
Ghost that haunts you at night
Draw me in crooked lines
So it fits your lies
aux animaux has always sounded like an artist pulling at the veil between presence and absence, summoning from the ether with little more than a theremin’s cry and a bassline’s throb. On Demonizer, she shapes that invocation into something braver, barer, and bloodier: a work that feels as though it was pulled straight out of her ribcage, exorcised and held aloft for us to see.
Born in Istanbul, now operating out of Stockholm’s cold arteries, aux animaux has spent years building a catalogue steeped in politics, phantoms, and occult allegories. Yet this piece is not an allegory but a personal haunt, rooted in her own ordeal of obsession, gaslighting, and survival. It moves with the force of lived torment: her voice both invocation and indictment, charged with the tremor of release.
Demonizer thrives in collaboration, too. Dancing Plague’s presence here feels like a mirror in the dark, a second figure wrenched from the same inferno. Their duet is less dialogue than duel, a back-and-forth of possession and resistance, the kind of chemistry that burns away studio artifice. Together, they conjure a song that is at once a lament and a liberation, as well as a chorus and a curse.
The accompanying self-directed video manifests this allegory into flesh: a horned demon staggering through woods, its face bloodied, its body pierced with spikes. It is grotesque theatre, but also an image of the terror that once pursued the singer through everyday life. Watching it, one feels less like a voyeur than a witness in an improvised ritual.
This is aux animaux at her most human, paradoxically revealed through the inhuman wail of machines and monsters. The demon has been named. And the demon has been cast out.
Watch the video for “Demonizer” below:
aux animaux’s past work (Black Holes, Stockholm Synthrome, The Hydesville Episode) has stretched from polemic to horror-film fantasia, each release a new room in a spectral mansion. But with Body Horror, her 2023 debut full-length, she claimed a space where the monstrous is not just metaphor but biography. Doruk Öztürkcan’s mastering ensures the songs retain their serrated clarity, the sharpened frame around aux animaux’s voice and programming.
aux animaux continues to tour with fellow night voyagers She Past Away and Dancing Plague, carrying her work across Europe and the Americas, but here she plants a different flag. Demonizer is a howl to banish the obsession that once caged her. It is music as manifestation, horror as healing, exorcism as art. And in that exorcism, she reminds us that survival, too, can have its own strange electricity.
Listen to Demonizer below and order the single here.
Catch aux animaux on tour:
European Dates
- 4 September – Oberhausen, Kulttempel, DE (with She Past Away)
- 5 September – Groningen, Vera, NL (with She Past Away)
- 6 September – Hanover, Faust, DE (with She Past Away)
- 12 September – Vienna, Das Lot, AT (with She Past Away)
- 13 September – Győr, A Beton, HU (with She Past Away)
- 21 September – Athens, Death Disco Open Air Festival, GR (with She Past Away)
- 2 October – Berlin, Slaughterhouse, DE (with She Past Away)
North American Dates (with Dancing Plague)
- 24 October – Portland, Coffin Club, US
- 25 October – Seattle, Cherry, US
- 26 October – Eugene, John Henry’s, US
- 28 October – Arcata, Miniplex, US
- 29 October – Sacramento, Cafe Colonial, US
- 30 October – Oakland, Eli’s Mile High Club, US
- 1 November – Los Angeles, The Paramount, US
- 2 November – Riverside, The Hideaway Lounge, US
- 3 November – Las Vegas, The Griffin, US
Back to Europe
- 28 November – Bayreuth, Das Zentrum, DE (with She Past Away)
- 29 November – Rudolstadt, Saalgärten, DE (with She Past Away)
- 5 December – Barcelona, Ombra Festival, ES (with She Past Away)
- 6 December – Paris, Les Caves, FR (with She Past Away)
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