Segmentation Faults & Broken Hearts is the third chapter in CodeCraftsMan’s digital darkwave saga. Where The Compile Abyss explored the void of creation and Runtime Ghosts haunted the space between memory and identity, this album dives into the raw collision of logic and emotion.

Each of its ten tracks turns technical failure into human metaphor: obsolete love as deprecated code, broken communication as a severed pipe, recursion as endless longing. Neon-soaked synths and glitch-driven atmospheres merge with melancholy vocals, creating a soundtrack for those trapped between machine precision and human fragility.

It is an album about crashes, loops, and leaks — but above all, about the beauty found in broken systems and the poetry hidden in failure.

Segmentation Faults & Broken Hearts

Core Dump Elegy” is a mourning hymn for lost memories and broken connections. It portrays the crash of both code and emotion, where fragments of love remain scattered like corrupted data. The song reflects on grief as something stored but never retrieved, a haunting presence lingering in the void.

Core Dump Elegy

Forbidden Opcode” tells the story of a love that could never execute without crashing. It’s a metaphor for relationships that feel like illegal instructions — every attempt to connect leads to failure, every touch breaks the system. Dark, mechanical, and fatal, it’s the soundtrack of a heart running on impossible code.

Forbidden Opcode

"Kernel Panic Lullaby” is a haunting cradle song from a broken system. It embodies sleepless nights, frozen processes, and the eerie comfort of static noise — a lullaby that never soothes, only crashes.

Kernel Panic Lullaby

“Deprecated Love()” is about clinging to something marked obsolete. A relationship treated like outdated code — unsupported, fragile, and doomed — yet still called over and over, hoping for one last return.

Deprecated Love()

“Ghost in the Heap” is about memories that refuse to be erased. Even when everything is freed and collected, some fragments linger — haunting, unremovable, like love that never truly disappears.

Ghost in the Heap

“Race Condition Heartbeat” is about love that can’t align. Two lives running in parallel but out of sync, colliding, skipping, and ultimately deadlocking — a metaphor for relationships doomed by bad timing.

Race Condition Heartbeat

"Infinite Recursion” is about being trapped in endless repetition — a love that keeps calling itself without resolution. A cycle of longing and despair, spiraling deeper until there’s no way out

Infinite Recursion

“Hexadecimal Tears” is a lament written in code. Each number and symbol becomes a fragment of sorrow, expressing grief through data — a digital way of crying for something that can never return.

Hexadecimal Tears

"Broken Pipe Serenade” is about trying to reach someone who no longer answers. It’s the soundtrack of failed communication — dropped messages, closed connections, and the ache of singing into silence

Broken Pipe Serenade

"Shutdown Ritual” is the solemn closure of the system — a final farewell where nothing can be restarted. It’s about endings that can’t be undone, and the silence that follows when love finally powers down.

Shutdown Ritual

I create music using AI – the lyrics and sound design are my own; only the vocals are AI-generated. As a developer, this is a personal project, but if you enjoy the sound, feel free to listen, like, and appreciate the vibe.