Featured Artist of June 14, 2026
with the album: "Ad Lunam"


Artist's Biography

WhiteRoomNightmare is the sound of a mind pacing in the dark, tracing the outlines of its own shadows.
Born from late‑night experiments between analog grit and digital dream‑logic, the project moves like a fevered whisper: industrial edges softened by cinematic ambience, pulses that feel half‑mechanical, half‑human.

There’s a sense of isolation baked into the name — a white room that should feel safe, but instead amplifies every echo. WhiteRoomNightmare leans into that tension. Their music carries the weight of sleepless hours, the hum of fluorescent lights, the quiet panic of thoughts that won’t settle.

Yet beneath the unease, there’s clarity. A precision. A deliberate architecture of sound.
This is an artist who builds emotional landscapes the way others build machines: piece by piece, wire by wire, until the whole thing breathes.

WhiteRoomNightmare sits comfortably in the borderlands between darkwave, post‑industrial, and atmospheric electronica — a place where mood is king and every track feels like a room you step into.


About the Album

“Ad Lunam” plays like a nocturnal pilgrimage — a slow ascent toward the moon, carrying all the unresolved pieces of the self.
The album is spacious but tense, full of drifting synths, low mechanical murmurs, and rhythms that feel like a heartbeat trying to steady itself.

It’s an album for listeners who like to disappear into a soundscape:
a lunar walk, a confession in motion, a quiet confrontation with the parts of the psyche that only speak after midnight.

Perfect for a full‑album immersion on LonelyOakRadio — it invites the listener to sit still, breathe deeper, and let the dark glow of the music pull them upward.

Featured Artist of October 26, 2023
With the Album: Heart Mind Devil Sea


Artist's Biography

WhiteRoomNightmare is a one-man project created by Paul Anketell, a self-taught musician from Northern Ireland. He began making music in his late teens when, as a drummer, he formed a makeshift band with friends doing covers of Green Day, Nirvana, and other 90s bands. After that fizzled out, he taught himself to play guitar and took courses in recording and producing music with the aim of releasing his own material. 

In March 2021 WhiteRoomNightmare released debut album The Way Of All Things? which blog Divide & Conquer described as ‘a cohesive album with a serious quality to the music’.

Follow-up grunge/punk single Belfast, released in August 2021, received airplay on numerous global radio stations including German station MehrdavonRadio where it was voted #28 in the Top 50 newcomers of the year.

June 2022 saw the release of 5-track EP First Impressions Last. The Sounds Won't Stop blog praised its 'addictive riffs, killer edge and melodic choruses'. It was preceded by 2 singles with second single Minor Loss Of Fidelity, in particular, gaining positive press attention.

Christmas ’22 release, the double A-sided Are You Happy Now? / Are You Happy Now (It’s Winter)? was ‘perfect for a pogo around the Christmas tree’ according to Edwin McFee of The Sunday Life.

March 2023 single What You’re Made Of was hailed by the Metal Asylum for its hard –hitting ‘riffs flying left, right and centre’

Latest release, the single I’m Sorry It’s You was praised for its sombre tone and introspective lyrics by Illustrate Magazine.


About the album

Featuring the singles Are You Happy Now?, What You’re Made Of and I’m Sorry It’s You, Heart Mind Devil Sea comprises of 12 songs containing elements of rock, punk and metal all tied together loosely by the theme of ‘decision-making’.

The most difficult decisions we have to make frequently boil down to a choice between ‘what the heart wants’ and ‘what the head says’. The struggle between those two influences can often make us feel like we’re in an impossible situation as if caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

It has been available to stream and download everywhere from Friday 6th October 2023.

Featured Artist of March 11, 2023
with the song: What You're Made Of


Artist's Biography

WhiteRoomNightmare is a one-man project created by Paul Anketell, a yr old self-taught musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He began making music in his late teens when, as a drummer, he formed a makeshift band with some friends doing covers of Green Day, Nirvana, and other s bands. After that fizzled out, he taught himself to play guitar and took courses in recording and producing music with the aim of releasing his own material.

In March 2021 WhiteRoomNightmare released debut alternative metal album 'The Way Of All Things?' which blog Divide & Conquer awarded 3.6/5 and described it as "a cohesive album from beginning to end with a serious quality to the music".

Follow-up grunge/punk single 'Belfast' released in August 2021 received positive feedback and airplay on numerous globalradio stations including German station MehrdavonRadio where it was voted #28 in the Top 50 newcomers of the year.


About the song

The song... What You’re Made Of is a pep talk for anyone agonising over whether or not to follow their dreams. The opening track on WhiteRoomNightmare’s upcoming second album is a positive, up-tempo rock statement to ignore the haters and naysayers and do what you love. As granny used to say ‘never hide your light under a bushel’

Featured Artist of June 26, 2022
with the  EP: First Impressions Last



About the Album

Irish act WhiteRoomNightmare announces the release of new alternative metal EP First Impressions Last via Horus Music Ltd on Friday 24th June 2022.

¥ANG on vocals & guitar, Mando Lopez on bass & Phil Guerrero on drums. Produced by Manny Nieto & ¥ANG. All songs written and composed by ¥ANG. Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Simon Gibson.

The 5 track EP includes the singles ‘IdiotsMart’ and ‘Minor Loss of Fidelity’ which Edwin McFee of the Sunday Life described as a ‘muscular and melodic robust rocker’. It will be available to stream and download everywhere from Friday 24th June 2022

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