#40: Cain Culto
Something witchy went down to bring you my way.
While researching Kentucky-born musician Cain Culto, subject of this first of hopefully many newsletters of 2026, I came across this amazing Reddit post from a fan of his former Christian rock band, Ecclesia, dismayed by his more recent musical output:
Quite frankly it seems satanic. The imagery in his videos is very dark and twisted and his lyrics are have become sexually explicit. He has a video on his Instagram where he speaks of Eucharist and says that eating a** is part of Eucharist while having a background of naked red coloured male demons who have ...aroused intimate parts and are touching each other. What the heck is going on?
Satanic? Maybe, but the artist himself prefers the descriptor Kentucky Latin art-pop for his maximalist, genre-blending music.
The Cain Culto persona, he says, represents liberation from “an inauthentic version of himself”, empowering him to explore queerness, repressive religious fundamentalism, and his experiences as a first generation child of Colombian and Nicaraguan immigrant parents.
These themes provide fertile ground for Cain’s songwriting, with his clever lyricism complemented by a keen pop nous and bold visual imagery.
Latest EP occulto 001 fuses pop, hip-hop and electronic music with Afro-Colombian influences to exhilarating effect. Christian rock’s loss is truly our gain.
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