KEXP DJ Chilly on Trhä’s Fantastical Black Metal
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Host Evie Stokes talks to KEXP DJ Chilly about prolific metal artist Damián Antón Ojeda. Trhä is one of Ojeda’s many projects, leaning into elements of black metal and shoegaze in a way that feels surprisingly uplifting. This unpronounceable song was released on Trhä’s 2025 self-released EP, lact’eben.
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| 0:00.0 | This is in our headphones. My name is Evie Stokes. I'm your host today. And I have with me DJ Chilly. |
| 0:06.7 | A DJ here at K-E-X-P does audio production, mastering, and digs very far into the realm of music. |
| 0:15.3 | So, Chili, you have introduced me to many things over the years. We've been to many a dance party together. |
| 0:21.2 | And today you brought something that maybe goes in a different direction than a dance party. |
| 0:25.8 | Tell me about it. I brought in something from a project called Tra. T-R-H-A with the Oomlau. |
| 0:32.7 | Music And it's a project of Damien Ojeda, and he is crazy prolific. |
| 0:49.7 | He has literally 6, 7, eight, to ten different projects. |
| 1:02.4 | And they're all black metal based, some a little more shoegays, some a little more screamo or post-rock. |
| 1:05.1 | And I'm a huge fan of all the versions. |
| 1:10.8 | I started getting into metal again a couple years ago, and it took me well to get into the blackened stuff. |
| 1:17.7 | And this one really stuck out. His works are super, super unique. And I think they really hit these emotions that other styles just don't. They really take me somewhere. Traw's project |
| 1:25.2 | is probably the most, I guess, raw black metal of his groups. |
| 1:31.0 | And he has many. |
| 1:32.2 | And he's been doing this for 10 years or so. |
| 1:35.6 | And each of his projects puts out at least a couple records a year. |
| 1:40.2 | And then last year he put out another new project, ridiculousness. |
| 1:46.0 | And fans of K-E-X-P, one of his group, Sadness, more the shoegazy one, did a K-E-X-P session. |
| 1:52.6 | So look for that on YouTube. |
| 1:53.8 | It's really cool as well. |
| 1:54.8 | And I read that this project is set on a fictional continent, and all the lyrics are performed in various conlangs. Talk a little bit |
| 2:05.9 | about that. What can you tell me? It's a made-up place for sure, which I kind of like because the |
| 2:12.7 | music is so unique that when I listen, I kind of make up my own fantasy place to be as well. And I actually |
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