Witch House
Witch house is a dark style of electronic music that pairs trap-style drum loops and heavily layered bass with eerie synths and occult imagery.
It appeared in the United States in the late 2000s, pioneered by the band Salem, and the name was coined as a joke in 2009 by Travis Egedy, who records as Pictureplane. Tracks use hip hop drum machines, dense reverb and distorted, often pitched-down vocals. Artist names and song titles often use triangles, crosses and other symbols. It draws on industrial, shoegaze and gothic rock, and on the chopped and screwed hip hop of Houston's DJ Screw.
Artists it is known for: Salem, oOoOO, White Ring.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, late 2000s
- Also called
- drag
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 4,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have witch house among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Witch House artists
Crystal Castles
Snow Strippers
LONOWN
Pastel Ghost
Sematary
Bassvictim
akiaura
Sidewalks and Skeletons
IC3PEAK
Mr.Kitty
The witch house artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.