From Alexandria, Egypt, Aura Abnormal moves fast when the door is open. Deliria landed on 23 July 2025. Throne of the Ocean followed on 31 October. Then Stomach Filled with Roaches arrived on 1 December; 13 tracks in 36 minutes, built out of experimental trap, industrial noise, dark ambient and a kind of pressure that doesn’t let your shoulders drop.
When I reviewed Stomach Filled with Roaches, I kept coming back to how physical it feels: the buzzing intro like a warning, the dry beats and harsh layers swallowing everything around them, the way the record leaves a lingering “something’s moving inside me” discomfort.
We talk about why his work aims for horror and helplessness instead of catharsis. About the line between pulling from real cases and turning them into content. About collaborators stepping into a world that’s already unstable. And about Aura Abnormal as an “entity” – something he describes as confused, delirious, draining – with another name in the background too: Mirak, his birth name flipped around.
After closing 2025 with Stomach Filled with Roaches, he started 2026 with Satanic Prophecy (1 January) and Haunted (23 January), pushing the same universe into a different kind of fog; a small progression and a reminder that for him releases aren’t milestones. They’re symptoms.
You dropped Deliria on 23 July 2025, then Throne of the Ocean on 31 October 2025, then Stomach Filled with Roaches on 1 December 2025. You started 2026 with new releases too. What drives that pace, and what does it cost you to work like that?
Aura Abnormal: I don’t really know what drives that pace, and sometimes I don’t make music at all. It’s either there or it’s not. I’m not sure where it comes from, but I try to make music when it comes.
It only costs me time, and mental – sometimes spiritual – effort. I have my equipment at home and my guitar, so I’m a one-man band, or a recording artist, I guess. I mix and produce everything that isn’t a collab. I don’t have an engineer or a studio.
“Aura Abnormal is like this confused, delirious entity that has nothing to offer and only takes, and drains, whoever.”
When you started Aura Abnormal, what was the first rule you made for yourself that you still follow now?
I have no idea. I never thought of making any rules for the music. I’m not great at sticking to rules either way. Aura Abnormal is like this confused, delirious entity that has nothing to offer and only takes, and drains, whoever. There is also another entity in my music called Mirak, which is my real birth name in reverse.
On Stomach Filled with Roaches, it feels like trap and industrial/noise are part of the foundation. What pushed you to bring those worlds together on one release?
I’m not sure. My knowledge is very limited when it comes to genre names. I try to make something that makes me feel what I want the listener to feel, whether I succeed at that or not. Sometimes it feels like a lot is happening at the same time, which is how I feel. Harsh sounds, creepy samples, and this weird hypnotic vibe are usually what I try to make, or end up making, so far.
Your music feels designed to leave the listener unsettled. What are you trying to trigger in people when the record ends?
Usually the feeling of horror and helplessness. Like that dark corner in your subconscious that has all the things you don’t talk about, that appear in the form of nightmares and flashbacks. Also kind of similar to how it feels to have PTSD or psychosis.
Sometimes a hypnotic psychedelic trance, or dissociation. It can be very haunting, in a bad way and a good way also. I don’t really know how to explain it.
“Humans are God’s most evil creation.”
Your track “Celeste Rivas” points to a real-world case, and the track carries a specific kind of dread. Where do you draw the line between using reality and exploiting it?
I don’t know if that’s exploiting, because people have been making art and music and movies about horrifying events since the beginning of time.
I just found this case really insane. I never knew who D4vd (American singer-songwriter) was or ever listened to his music, and I don’t care to talk about whether he is guilty or not. But when I heard about this case, I kept researching it. The state Celeste Rivas was found in was terrible. She was starved, literally. But also, these things happen every day, really. I have other songs about similar stuff. Humans are God’s most evil creation.
You’ve had features from Kill Ebola, Slain, BBGLOS, The Vírus and Antidote, BLV CLOVDS, and Obad. What do you ask from collaborators before they step into your universe?
I don’t know, it’s different with everyone. But most of these names you mentioned are very like-minded in terms of making music, so I fully trust them with the process.
In my Stomach Filled with Roaches review, I wrote that the best way to experience the album is through the YouTube visualisers. What role do the visuals play for you when you’re building a release like this?
Yes, I read that, and I agree with you. Aside from the fact that people are impatient, visuals help engage listeners, I guess. It also allows me to express more of the visual aspect and show lyrics or footage instead of just the cover art and audio. I want it to be a visual experience too.
“I hate this place, and I wanna die somewhere else when I’m old.”
You’re doing this from Alexandria, Egypt. What does your local environment shape in your sound, even when you’re not trying to reference it?
I don’t know how to answer this. I don’t go out every day, and when I do, it’s with a few select people that I trust. I hate this place, and I wanna die somewhere else when I’m old. Not here.
My music comes from within. I’m not sure if the environment has an influence. But if it did, it would definitely be chaos.
Tell me about Satanic Prophecy, released on 1 January 2026.
It was a small EP. And my friend Obad actually says it’s some of my cleanest work in terms of mixes compared to my other music [laughs].
You followed it with the EP Haunted on 23 January 2026. What connects Haunted to the 2025 releases, and what breaks away from them?
It’s like Deliria, but not the glamorous trippy drug trip. It’s like a suicidal, going-through-withdrawal type of thing. Also based on loss of loved ones. It’s not a new vision or sound; just a small progression.
The titles on Haunted lean into addiction, death, and other messages. What are you trying to document when you write like that?
Personal stuff, like the lyrics show. It was a time of me trying to pick up myself again from some recent personal issues.
You’ve said through the music that this world is “daily hell” territory. What parts of that are personal, and what parts are observation?
I genuinely have no idea. Life is about perspective. The personal stuff is through my experiences that have shaped my mind. I don’t think it’s a good idea to talk about them publicly or with anyone who isn’t close to me. The observation part is definitely the state of the world, and what harm humans have done to everything and everyone.
What are you building toward now, and what needs to change in the next release for you to feel like you didn’t repeat yourself?
I’m still finding out. The next release, I’m not sure it will be similar to Stomach Filled with Roaches. But it will definitely make you feel something. It’s confusing to talk about because I don’t know how to plan stuff. It usually just happens, and it makes sense to me at the end, and I have a clear picture and concept for a release. But in the middle of working on it, a lot of it could end up being completely scrapped, or sold to other artists as instrumentals. We’ll see, I guess.
You can buy Aura Abnormal’s releases on Bandcamp, and stream them on all major platforms.
