by Goetia
Goetia began in Ankara, Turkey, in 2025, but our musical connection started before that.
We had previously made music together in a post-punk project called Macabre. Over time, however, we found ourselves wanting to move toward something darker, more electronic, and more immersive. We were increasingly drawn to the repetition and physicality of EBM, the cold atmosphere of darkwave, and the harsher textures of industrial music.
Goetia grew out of that desire.
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From the beginning, we didn’t want the project to be defined only by a particular genre. We wanted it to have its own atmosphere — something cold, hypnotic, melancholic and, at times, aggressive. Repetition became an important part of that identity. We became interested in the idea of music functioning almost like a ritual: rhythms and sounds repeating until they begin to create a state of mind rather than simply forming a song.
Our debut album, SALIGIA, became the first complete expression of that idea.
The name SALIGIA is derived from the Latin names traditionally associated with the seven deadly sins. We used those sins as the conceptual foundation for a seven-track album. Still, we weren’t interested in treating them simply as religious concepts or telling seven literal stories about sin.
What interested us more was what they represent in human beings: desire, obsession, anger, excess, ego, envy, apathy, impulses that can be ugly, intimate, and deeply human at the same time.
That framework gave us a way to explore different emotional spaces while keeping the album connected as a whole. Some moments became more aggressive and physical, others more melancholic or hypnotic, but they all belonged to the same world.
A lot of SALIGIA was built around atmosphere. We wanted the electronic elements to feel cold without making the music emotionally distant. We wanted rhythms that could work in a dark club environment, but also melodies and textures that could create something more introspective when heard alone.
That tension between movement and melancholy became one of the defining characteristics of Goetia for us.
Since releasing the album, we’ve also started experiencing these songs differently by performing them live. Music created in a much more isolated environment suddenly became something shared with the people in front of us, something physical. Seeing people dance, move, and connect with songs that began as ideas between the two of us has gradually changed our relationship with the record as well.
SALIGIA was our starting point, rather than a conclusion.
We’re still discovering exactly what Goetia can become. Still, the things that drew us to the project in the first place remain the same: darkness, repetition, atmosphere, emotional intensity, and the strange space where electronic music can feel both mechanical and deeply human.