Carlos Perón and Melting Rust Opera unveil industrial metal single ‘I’m a Ghost’
Carlos Perón & Melting Rust Opera
Swiss electronic musician Carlos Perón and German project Melting Rust Opera have released their new industrial metal single “I’m a Ghost” through Dark Daze Music. The single is the follow-up to their previous collaborative single “Start Again“.
“I’m a Ghost” is a one-track digital single with a running time of just over three minutes. The track was written by Carlos Perón, while Melting Rust Opera provide vocals and lyrics.
As pointed out, the single marks the second direct collaboration between the two. Their first joint track “Start Again” appeared on Dark Daze Music as a digital industrial metal single on 2 May 2025, with Perón composing and producing and Stefan Bahners contributing lyrics and vocals.Before these singles, Perón already worked with Melting Rust Opera on “Manipuliert – Carlos Peròn Trümmer Mischung” from the 2023 EP “Neue Trümmer” and mastered the 2024 album “The Power Of I Don`t Care”, which was also released on Dark Daze Music.
About Carlos Perón
Carlos Perón is a Swiss electronic musician from Zurich, known as one of the three founding members of Yello, formed with Boris Blank and Dieter Meier in 1979. He left the group in 1983 to pursue a solo career that spans electronic experiments, film soundtracks and conceptual releases on labels such as Ralph Records, Dark Daze Music and SPV. Early solo works include “Impersonator” (1981) and the soundtrack “Die Schwarze Spinne” (1983), followed by a series of fetish-themed and conceptual multi-disc releases in the 1990s and 2000s.
Perón founded the Eisenberg label in the late 1980s and launched the “Der Eisenberg Sampler” compilation series, later revived in collaboration with Norwegian label Sub Culture Records. His archival track “A Dirty Song – Long Version” from 1988 resurfaced on the compilation “Close Circuit Connection II” which gathered rare/unreleased material from Die Krupps, Numb, Trisomie 21, etc..
He also contributed the track “A Barrel of a Gun (El Presidente Peron Yeah John)” to the Depeche Mode tribute release “6122 (To Andrew Fletcher of Depeche Mode)“.
Apart from being an artist, Perón is also as a producer and mastering engineer for bands such as Punch ‘n’ Judy or Piston Damp (Apoptygma Berzerk side-project). Beborn Beton also worked with Perón in Switzerland and Cologne.
In 2025 Perón has been releasing a run of metal-leaning singles such as “Feuerherz”, “Dreck Weg!” and “The Trash Can Of Death” alongside “I’m a Ghost”, issued under his Dark Daze Music imprint.
About Melting Rust Opera
Melting Rust Opera is an experimental industrial and metal project based in Rheinbach, Germany, centered around musician and producer Stefan Bahners, with Wilson May contributing live percussion. The project emerged in late 2016 / early 2017 after Bahners’ earlier project Die Rostigen Loeffel went on hiatus. It combines industrial, avant-garde and noise elements with rock and metal structures.
The project’s own recordings grew into a discography that features the full-length “The Rise and Fall of Flesh Wire” (2021) and “different places” (2022), followed by the EP “Neue Trümmer” and the release “Broken Zukunft” in 2023, and the album “The Power Of I Don’t Care” (2024), mastered by Carlos Perón, and released it via Dark Daze Music.
When starting out they not only recorded own material but for instance also remixed Laibach’s track “Bossanova” for the 2017 single “Bossanova Remixes”. They also provided two remixes for Dagobert’s single “Das Mädchen aus der schönen Welt”, collected on “Das Mädchen Aus Der Schönen Welt (2 Remixe)”. Their remix “Orange Suns (Melting Rust Opera Remix)” appears on Anne Clark’s “Synaesthesia – Classics Reworked”, while “I’m Hurt (Melting Rust Opera Remix)” is part of A Place To Bury Strangers’ album “See Through You: Rerealized”.
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