Vector Collapse — Dead Reckoning Club
Metalwave forged in salt, steel, and starlight. Dead Reckoning Club is a navigator’s chronicle: compass-rose riffs, storm-dark synths, and drums that hit like heavy seas. Each track charts a different leg of the voyage—from first light on the horizon to the night where you steer by feel alone.

What it sounds like
Retrosynth glow over serrated guitars, cinematic low end, angular hooks, and big choruses. Nautical noir, adrenaline, and midnight resolve.

Themes
Wayfinding without a map • Grit over doubt • Signals in the static • Courage in bad weather • The discipline of the crew, the instinct of the helm.

Credits
Written, performed, produced & mixed by Vector Collapse (Chris Morley).

Release notes
Mastered for punch and clarity. Turn it up, let the needles swing, and hold your line.

Hashtags
#VectorCollapse #DeadReckoningClub #Metalwave #Retrosynth #Synthwave #DarkAesthetic #NightSail #NewMusic

Dead Reckoning Club

"I Will Find My Way" is a powerful indie-alt pop anthem about healing, self-discovery, and reclaiming strength after loss. Blending cinematic production with soulful emotion, this track captures the moment you rise from rock bottom and start to believe in yourself again. Driven by synth-guitar riff, harmonica textures, gospel-inspired harmonies, and a sing-your-heart-out chorus, it’s both deeply personal and universally empowering. A song for anyone who’s fallen, fought through the dark, and finally begun to see the light again.

“I’ve lost it all, but I’m still standing…”  this isn’t just a lyric, it’s a promise.

I Will Find My Way

An urban-wasteland hymn: serrated guitars over neon-ashen synths, pulse-driver drums, and bass that hits like rebar under concrete. Echoes of Ruin explores collapse and renewal—messages bouncing off broken architecture until they find a new rhythm.

What it sounds like
Retrosynth blaze + steel-toothed metal • cinematic grit • angular hooks • towering choruses.

Themes
Signal after the blackout • memory as scaffolding • rust, glass, and dawn • defiance you can dance to.

For playlists / mood
metalwave • dark synth • post-apocalyptic cinematic • night drive • training montage • adrenaline

Credits
Written, performed, produced & mixed by Vector Collapse (Chris Morley).
Artwork: industrial/ruin motif.

Suggested tags
retrosynth, synthwave, metal, metalwave, darksynth, cinematic, cyberpunk, industrial, VectorCollapse, EchoesOfRuin

Release notes
Mastered for punch and width. Play loud; let the skyline shake.

Hashtags
#VectorCollapse #EchoesOfRuin #Metalwave #Retrosynth #Synthwave #DarkAesthetic #NewMusic

Split Meridian

Fragmented Self

Atlas in Sneakers (Krystle’s Song) is a street-level pep talk for the people who hold a whole day together with a checklist, a key ring, and a smile. It walks through bus-stop wind and coffee steam, catching little moments of courage and passing them hand-to-hand. It’s warm, bright, and optimistic—the kind of song that lifts the skyline one step at a time.

If you’ve ever carried more than the paper could hold, this one’s for you.

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LYRICS — “Atlas in Sneakers (Krystle’s Song)”

You tie your shoes like tying down weather
Pocket a list and a little luck
Bus stop wind and a coffee together
Carrying more than the paper can hold up

If the world gets heavy
Pass it hand to hand
Every step a steady
Simple, brilliant plan

You don’t need the world—the world needs you
Walking it lighter, making it true
Street by street, you lift the view
You don’t need the world—the world needs you

Keys on a ring like tiny planets
Rattle a rhythm the day can sing
You make a map with the way you manage
Door to door, you bring the spring

If the load starts slipping
Count it in to four
Breathe, adjust your grip and
Share a little more

You don’t need the world—the world needs you
Walking it lighter, making it true
Street by street, you lift the view
You don’t need the world—the world needs you

Raise your hands, the skyline follows
Sidewalk choir, steady drums
Every small good turns the tallest
Stone to rising sun

You don’t need the world—the world needs you
Walking it lighter, making it true
Street by street, you lift the view
You don’t need the world—the world needs you

Atlas in Sneakers (Krystle's Song)

I wrote this song after 2 near-death experiences I had in 2021. My recovery was filled with tears of emotions I forgot I had and a new understanding of life and my purpose.

Pain

Vector Collapse – “Future’s Gone”
from the forthcoming (unannounced) album Fail-Safe Hearts

A neon-noir slow burn: rain on broken asphalt, a blown streetlight spitting sparks, and one silhouette walking into a city that forgot his name. “Future’s Gone” blends moody retrosynth atmosphere with metalwave grit—like footsteps on an empty block.

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Lyrics

A man walks into the night,
Shadows stretch beneath the streetlight.
His hands are torn, his coat is thin,
He’s worn out from what might’ve been.
The world don’t look back, it just moves on—
For him, there will be no dawn.

The future’s gone, it slipped away,
Like smoke from a cigarette in the rain.
Dreams he held, now cracked and drawn,
He walks alone — the future’s gone.

He once had fire behind his eyes,
Now it’s just a place where silence hides.
He gambled truth, he lost to lies,
Watched every promise vaporize.

The stars don’t blink for the damned too long—
For him, there will be no dawn.

The future’s gone, it slipped away,
Like smoke from a cigarette in the rain.
Dreams he held, now cracked and drawn,
He walks alone — the future’s gone.

No angel’s voice, no lover’s prayer,
Just bitter wind and vacant stares.
He tried, Lord knows, he fought the tide,
But some men drown from deep inside.

The future’s gone, like a dying song,
Played once loud but played all wrong.
The sky won’t break, the dark goes on—
He walks alone... the future’s gone.

He walks alone... the future’s gone.

A man walks into the night...
And for him, there will be no dawn.

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Tags: #VectorCollapse #FailSafeHearts #FuturesGone #Metalwave #Retrosynth #DarkSynth #NeonNoir #PostApocalyptic #CinematicSynth #NightDrive

Fail-Safe Hearts

Future's Gone

Hollow Frames trades in tension and quiet grit: a steady drum pulse, low bass lines, and retro synths circling around a voice trying to stay warm while the city keeps its distance. It’s about seeing life happen inches away and feeling it miss you—clear, simple, and to the point.

Lyrics

Windows stare with vacant eyes
People pass, indifferent skies
Echoes of footsteps fade away
I watch the colors turn to gray

Hollow frames around my soul
City moves, but I feel cold
Shapes of life I cannot reach
Lessons learned the streets won’t teach

Glass and steel, a mirrored maze
Every face a fleeting phase
I reach for something I can’t hold
Moments slip like molten gold

Hollow frames around my soul
City moves, but I feel cold
Shapes of life I cannot reach
Lessons learned the streets won’t teach

Synths shimmer in a distant glow
Bass hums low, but time moves slow
Shadows stretch across the floor
I seek what’s lost forevermore

Hollow frames around my soul
City moves, but I feel cold
Shapes of life I cannot reach
Lessons learned the streets won’t teach

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#postpunk #retrosynth #darkwave #single

Hollow Frames

Reserve is the quiet thesis of Borrowed Bearings: the part of the journey where you keep something back, breathe on purpose, and move on when the road tilts. It isn’t bravado—it’s margin. In the album’s world of detours and recalibration, “Reserve” stands beside pieces like “Slow Is Smooth” and “Signal Fire” as the decision to pace yourself and finish the climb, not sprint it.

Across the broader seven-album arc, this track sits at the hinge between survival and intent. The early chapters reckon with rupture; Borrowed Bearings is the steadying of hands and the choosing of direction. “Reserve” marks the shift from reaction to discipline—learning to carry a light for later so the next ascent is possible. From here, the story moves toward commitment, building, and the cost of keeping promises.

Lyrics

Kept a little breath in the can,
Rainy-day power in the plan.
Not for show, not for war,
Just enough to cross the floor.

Save a spark when days are kind,
Cash it in when roads unwind.

Reserve—hold a light for later,
Make the climb feel smaller, straighter.
If the meters start to swerve,
I’ll be steady on reserve.
Reserve—quiet fuel,
Used with care, that’s the rule.

I don’t hoard, I don’t deny,
I just keep a cleaner why.
When the spiral wants a turn,
I’ve got minutes I can burn.

Call it margin, call it grace—
Either way, it buys me space.

Reserve—hold a light for later,
Make the climb feel smaller, straighter.
When the pressure tries to curve,
I go gentle—on reserve.

Reserve

Borrowed Bearings is the fourth chapter in Vector Collapse’s seven-album arc — the moment where the blast crater, the rebuilt workshop, and the dead-reckoning journey all slow down long enough to listen.

These songs live in the spaces between big decisions: the hum of a room you’ve called “normal” for too long, the way you stand like your parents without meaning to, the late-shift agreement with someone just as wrecked as you not to make the night any worse. It’s metalwave wired for small, specific scenes instead of slogans — heavy guitars and neon synths wrapped around lyrics that look straight at the quiet stuff most people step over.

“Reserve,” “Signal Fire,” and “Slow is Smooth” anchor the record as the three flare points: learning to keep something in the tank, catching the almost-missed warnings, and finally choosing pace over chaos. Around them, the rest of the album maps the subtle recalibrations that change your heading without a single dramatic speech: turning down circuits in “Breaker Shrine,” reading the stress fractures in “Tension Lines,” and letting a little honest light into the room on “Light Leans In.”

Borrowed Bearings is not about being saved by some perfect guide; it’s about borrowing steadier angles from the people and moments that show up when your own compass is spinning, and then slowly, stubbornly, learning to stand on your own feet again.

Tracklist:
1. Room Tone  
2. Soft Alarms  
3. Cold Forge Hymn  
4. Reserve  
5. Breaker Shrine  
6. Signal Fire  
7. Borrowed Bearings  
8. Borrowed Light
9. Slow is Smooth  
10. Tension Lines  
11. Nightshift Pact  
12. Margin Notes  
13. Worn Emblem  
14. Light Leans In  

Tags: vector collapse, Borrowed Bearings, metalwave, synth metal, retrosynth, concept album, heavy, introspective, electronic rock


Nightshift Pact

Classically trained violist turned bass player turned tech guy and digital musician with a focus on metalwave, synthwave, and futurefunk.

Nightshift Pact

Neurostatik Records

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