Hey, it was a long time since my latest upload! The plan was to upload each one of the tracks from my new album/demo each few days or week, and there was still 1 left.

This one is an unusually special one for me, because varied reasons:

1. Musically it is VERY different than my usual stuff. A lot more calm and soothe, like you can truly 'feel it' - or so I hope! Probably the most accessible track in the album.

2. It is dedicated to autumn and it was written when it was not even summer yet, but I was already suffering the consequences of extreme heat. So in a way this was like screaming; summer sucks! Can't wait for autumn to come so I can finally be alive again!

3. Due to an accident 3 weeks ago I have my right arm immobilized and will need time to recover and be fully functional again. At least the insufferable pain from first days/week is gone and once I recover it'll probably be autumn, finally. This makes this song even more special to me now under such conditions.

Autumn is my favorite season, and it used to be even better, when average temperatures weren't that high. But still in the 2020s autumn has its source of fun and comfortability. It's the time of the year when world and nature somewhat regenerates itself after all what died as victim of the infernal heat from summer.

Under such conditions, we can finally feel alive and be able to live fully again. No drenched in sweat anymore, not bedridden (or chair-ridden) because there's not much else we can do under such hell-ish weather. Isn't wonderful?

This tune is unusually calm for what I usually do, but the occasion truly deserves it. Probably one of my most genuine and emotional compositions so far, and definitively one I'm quite proud of.

This is the end of the journey, tho. I hope you enjoyed the trip!

Or, well... maybe it is actually the beginning of a new one?

P.S.: The progressive intensification of drums near the end is a reference to that "meme?" about the "overqualified drummer" from Nyango Star's unusual and funny combination of extreme metal drumming over a rather soft or even cheesy music.

«Nothing to do here, so time to go out of there. Jump! Jump to wherever destiny brings you. No matters where or why. Just leave it all away».

Musically just a quick and short tune. Some traces of blues, rock and rock and whatever, not sure how to define this. Not as close to metal as usual, but still full of energy and somewhat positive vibes.

Somewhat trying to represent that kind of "all is fine, no worries" vibes. We are there just for the fun!

Far away from our home land, we start to feel a bit homesick now. Not that we have a place to come back, tho... the beautiful landscapes were filled with concrete and asphalt and barely anything remains from it. Not a single minute of silence and calm anymore.

Solastalgia is that painful feeling of missing a home, or not feeling like home even in the same piece of land that once was our home.

Not much to say in musical in musical terms. A simple 2-chords metal with orchestra elements. Kinda raw and rough while some small traces of grandiloquence somewhere.

Out of all the dark and dangerous stuff, we are starting to truly enjoy the trip and having fun for real. Can you see the fun in the darkness and bizarre stuff, too? There's definitively something about it!

I could make up more curious and interesting stories about this track and what it represents, but actually there was not much of deliberate thought into it. Just some circus vibe, odd changes of tempo and some fun guitar solos coming from the nowhere.

Regarding the individual track pseudo-art... yeah, the face in the wall of that ruined building was there for real, but I manually added a wig the MS Paint way (in GIMP, tho) just because "why not?".

We continue the journey inside that kind of parallel universe we moved into, and things will keep going to the weird side musically as well.

Chiptune, orchestra, power metal... there's a lot of varied and apparently disjointed elements here. Synths emulating Gameboy leads and NES bass triangle, guitar chugs that sounds closer to djent, backing strings and choirs, electronic pads... Weird changes of rhythm and pace as well.

This whole track is a pure anachronism, and we don't care. No leaders, no authority. This is anarchy!

This is The Anarchronist!

Well, we managed to escape the violent and belligerent ship army. But we are in an end path and... oh my... what's that weird halo of dark light in front of us? Looks like some kind of dimensional portal. What if someone jumps straight inside it?

Wow! What's this place we are now in? Full of weird and brilliant colors, a long path that looks like an endless tunnel. We can do nothing but keep running.

Anyways... this is just a simple and quick tune. A very electronic one with a very 80s feel. Someone once said that was my happiest ever track, which I don't agree because despite my particular attraction to darkness there's definitively more fun and happy stuff, even in this album. But definitively different than my usual stuff.

Oh, no! Just when we though we'd perish in the middle of the sea, we notice we are surrounded by a whole army of ships. And they don't look like allies who could rescue us, precisely.

This situation bring us the well needed energy to try escaping out of there, tho. So now we are in a battle for our own survival.

Musically this is pretty stereotypical RPG battle theme vibes. Nothing very unique and original, but still nice stuff.

In case you never heard that word, "naumachia" was a bloody practice in the ancient roman times that involved people engaging in real ship combats simulating popular historical battles in the context of a public spectacle and as a supposedly cultural and artistic event. The gladiators thing is rather humane in comparison.

We might think of this atrocity as a past thing. But unfortunately similar practices, even in somewhat similar aesthetics, are still happening in other ways still today. There's a good example with tauromachia (bullfighting), which still exists in some countries, especially Spain.

"Torture is not culture" is a common slogan for anti-tauromachia activists. It definitively isn't (if anything, a bloody and barbaric "culture"), and hopefully someday it'll be seen with the same eyes as naumachia would today (by anyone who knows of its past existence, at least).

Oh, the sea... Source of so many stories and legends all around time and around the world. Often admired for its beauty and appearently endless limits, but also damned and cursed at by its deadly dangers.

We went past the swamp and moved to a corner in front of the sea and went on the ship to travel around it. Now we are hungry and tired and still no sight of land and no way to know when we'll finally be able to escape this fate.

This dark uncertainty was the source for this tune. Hopefully we'll do it alive and safe! The sea is definitively a huge graveyard.

Musically it's a rather mid tempo with more crunchy guitar chugs combined with harps and leads, and a strong emphasis on the drum fills.

We are running to the swamps now! Surrounded by low-level chunks of water and tall trees all around us.

A swansong is a term used to describe that moment of lucidity before death, also doing your latest work and giving everything to it.

However, we are not swans but we are in the swamps. And technically a song is sung, but this is instrumental so this is more of a tune. So this is a swamptune.

Hopefully not the latest work before we die, tho!

Things start going weirder now! This is still metal but a weird combination of genres: kinda like mixing sludge and neoclassical. Low-tuned guitar chugs along with high leads in a mid tempo, with a dense atmosphere while still somewhat melodic.

The initial intention was to somewhat mimic the sound of fabric throughout music, hence the crunch guitars. In the middle of the process I had multiple ideas that I later discarded because not fitting well. One of these ideas was moved to the right as a funny kind of reprise. Yeah, that danceable repetition with toms and faster drums.

No particular reason for the title. I don't even know why but I though that title was funny. I was also considering to extend it as "Dancing over a raw roof" but decided to keep it shorter, for extra ambiguity's sake.