“The Rat King”: This Track Turns One of Nature’s Creepiest Sights Into a Trap Banger

Most producers find inspiration in heartbreak or euphoria, but Biosyrup went digging through medieval bestiaries and emerged with a banger inspired by the phenomenon of rats fusing together by their tails.

Leave it to a bass music producer to find sonic inspiration in one of nature’s most disturbing concepts: the rat king, that grotesque phenomenon where multiple rodents become permanently fused by their knotted tails.

Biosyrup’s new single, “The Rat King,” takes that deeply unsettling image and translates it into a trap banger that somehow sounds exactly like you’d expect. With writhing synths and screeching bass, the track contorts with the kind of visceral energy that makes you want to both bop your head and check under your bed.

The producer leans hard into the twisted concept, crafting an arrangement that sits comfortably in that sweet spot between horror movie soundtrack and Lost Lands Music Festival. Each squirming synth feels deliberately entwined with the next, creating a sonic knot that’s equal parts repulsive and hypnotic.

Complete with a creepy vocal sample (“intertwined, bound together”), the atmosphere oozes with an eerie darkness that horror fans will appreciate as Halloween approaches. It’s a bold move to produce a song based on a concept most people learned about in a Wikipedia rabbit hole at 2am, but Biosyrup makes it work.

You can listen to “The Rat King” below and find the new release on streaming platforms here.