WL//WH Premiere: GHOST ENCLAVE Reveals a Subconscious Vision in “The Lighting” (Official Video)

WL//WH Premiere GHOST ENCLAVE SWISS DARK NIGHTS

The enigmatic Italian Dark Post Punk outfit Ghost Enclave, first glimpsed by the gritty and murky early heart-rending inception of the album’s title track “Toten Danse,” is slowly unveiling its intriguing nuanced sonic identity with the new chapter, “The Lighting,” pulsing with tension, longing, and spectral beauty, which will seamlessly carry the listener to the soon to be released debut full-length, “Toten Danse,” due out on November 7th via the cult dark wave label Swiss Dark Nights.

Formed in 2022, the Sicilian three-piece, made of Giacomo Iannaci (guitars/bass), Davide Mavica (vocals), and Dario Casabona (drums), visualise “The Lighting” with a DIY Official Video by Dario Casabona himself, which WL//WH is very pleased to premiere.

Both sonically and visually, “The Lighting” inhabits a liminal space — neither darkness nor illumination, but something in between. It feels like a transmission from nowhere and everywhere at once: a signal sent, but only half received.

Lead by a persistent voice “calling from the other side,” echoing emotional exile, carnal desire, and fractured communication,

“The Lighting” ignites persistent driving drum beats and grumbling doomy bass lines to underlie lost distressed, husky male vocals, struggling for connection amidst shivering layers of obsessive, dimly ringing, bleeding guitar riffs, until a transmission of harsh, droning frequencies from beyond seeks contact across a blurred divide.

“The Lighting”’s sense of disconnection finds its reflection in the accompanying black-and-white video, directed by the band’s drummer, Dario Casabona. The film drifts through soft focus, grain, and slow motion, where images fade like forgotten memories or dreams failing to take form. Faces appear only in fragments; spaces dissolve into abstraction. Rather than telling a story, it evokes a subconscious vision, a mood piece that deepens the lyrical themes of absence, desire, and spectral presence.

In the visuals created by Dario Casabona, an epic use of lights and shadows builds tension as a woman dances under a blowing veil with Ghost Enclave performing “The Lighting”, separated, against a strobing backdrop. The vision builds a nightmarish realm where focus and clarity are shrouded in a murky grey film, rendering the perception dull and untrustworthy, syncing seamlessly with the anguished longing of the soundtrack.

Ghost Enclave‘s second single, “The Lighting, ” is out now on all digital platforms, while the 8-track full-length LP “Toten Danse” will follow shortly after, on November 7th through Swiss Dark Nights. Available on CD & Digital formats.

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