Name: The Machine by David Auchampach
Duration: 1 min 51 s
Description: 32 original Chiptune Metal songs. They're an epic blend of Chiptune music and Metal music, making it an amazing video game soundtrack.

Lonely

Featuring Evyn Vale and Julian Vale, "Hearts in the Firestorm" is a dark synthwave pop rock duet that captures the raw intensity of two lovers bound together through chaos, pain, and relentless emotional storms. With haunting melodies and a driving beat, the song weaves a tale of love forged in adversity where silence, sorrow, and destruction threaten to consume them, yet their bond endures. Male and female vocals echo each other’s anguish and devotion, portraying a relationship that, though scarred by fate and loss, refuses to break.

Lyrically rich and cinematic, the song is both a lament and a battle cry. Amid burning skies and broken dreams, the couple finds strength in shared vulnerability, dancing through the darkness, defying the void, and lighting the ruins with the fire of their love. “Hearts in the Firestorm” is a tribute to resilience, the kind of love that clings even when everything else is reduced to ashes.

Hearts in the Firestorm

32 original Chiptune Metal songs. They're an epic blend of Chiptune music and Metal music, making it an amazing video game soundtrack.

Spotify

Neon Wasteland

Get focused! Get pumped! Get motivated!
26 powerful epic trailer songs to transform your mind for power!

Suspenseful Anticipation

"Road to Nowhere" is an instrumental journey through desolation and introspection, weaving slow, crushing doom metal riffs with melancholic atmospheres. This track encapsulates the feeling of drifting through an endless void, with haunting melodies and deep, resonant tones that evoke solitude and reflection.

Road to Nowhere

"Electro Warrior" is a bold fusion of many genres including symphonic metal, electro house, metalcore, dubstep, industrial rock, and more, driven by a powerful choir and haunting Gregorian chants. This track takes listeners on a sonic journey through battlefields of sound, blending electronic intensity with the grandeur of choral harmonies and medieval mysticism. The pounding beats, soaring melodies, and ethereal voices create an atmosphere of both strength and transcendence.

Electro Warrior

"Neon Dreams" is a synthwave track with an ethereal, introspective feel, reflecting the inner journey of a woman as she traverses the neon-lit cityscape at night. The lyrics express a blend of nostalgia, solitude, and self-discovery, encapsulated in the imagery of a city that sleeps under a canopy of stars and neon lights. The ethereal female vocals add a haunting and dreamlike quality to the song, enhancing the emotional depth of the lyrics. This song explores themes of loneliness and the beauty of finding oneself through the quiet moments amidst the urban sprawl, with each verse painting a part of the larger narrative of seeking and finding peace within.

LYRICS
[Verse 1]
Through the city lights, I glide alone
Past shadows cast by neon’s tone
The night air whispers secrets old
In this urban labyrinth, bold

[Pre-Chorus]
And as the stars hide behind the glow
I'm wandering where no one knows
My heart beats in sync with the city's pulse
Lost in a world, yet to divulge

[Chorus]
Floating through this neon sea
Memories wash over me
Silhouettes of dreams, once bright
Flicker now in the dim twilight

[Verse 2]
Echoes of laughter, a distant trace
Caught in the beams of this haunting place
The streets hum with forgotten tales
Under the sky where the moonlight pales

[Pre-Chorus]
Softly, a melody forms in the night
Carried on beams of diffused light
Each note a thread in the fabric of space
Woven with threads of silken grace

[Chorus]
Drifting in this neon glow
Where time seems to slow, then flow
Chasing shadows that never stay
All my fears, I must allay

[Bridge]
There's a solace found in the spectral haze
A quiet peace in the alley's maze
Every turn reveals parts unknown
Parts of me I've never shown

[Verse 3]
In the solitude of the afterglow
Reflections shimmer, emotions grow
I dance alone, my silhouette
A specter of joy, no regret

[Chorus]
Amidst this neon splendor, vast
I find the echoes of the past
Under the stars that watch and see
All I am and all I'll be

[Outro]
So let the night take me where it will
Through neon dreams that time can't still
In this world of light and haze
I find my soul, I find my ways

Neon Dreams

Plug into the electrifying world of "Chaos Man", a high-energy instrumental track that blends the intensity of metal with the infectious, quirky vibe of rock. Set in the frenetic pace of 84 BPM in E minor, this piece is designed to be both thrilling and a bit chaotic, with powerful electric guitar riffs and driving percussion leading the charge.

Chaos Man

Dark Road to Nowhere, featuring Zero Dawn, is about the raw emotional turmoil experienced after the painful end of a toxic and unrequited love. The lyrics convey a sense of haunting loneliness and despair, depicting a man who feels invisible, used, and abandoned by the woman who meant everything to him. The recurring imagery of fog, shadows, and darkness symbolizes confusion, isolation, and emotional decay.

Throughout the song, the man describes his struggle to let go and move forward ("There’s a dark road leading far from the light"), but the pain of lingering memories and unresolved feelings keeps pulling him back into misery ("You're the shadow that drags me down," "I drown in the silence"). There’s a distinct resentment and bitterness, especially during the explosive drops where the singer’s emotion erupts into anger and desperation, emphasizing the trauma and frustration of feeling insufficient ("I’m not enough, never was enough").

Ultimately, the song captures a deeply personal and intense inner conflict: the yearning to break free from emotional captivity, juxtaposed against the agony of memories and unresolved feelings that make it nearly impossible to move forward.

LYRICS
I feel you slipping back
Into the fog that lingers now
The weight of your absence cuts deeper
I drown in the silence, somehow
So haunting, so cruel
There's a void that I can't break
You're the shadow that drags me down
I’m lost and I’m out, I’m out, I'm out

Yet you don’t need to play the game
You don’t need to see my scars
My heart’s a broken thing
(My heart’s a broken thing)

There’s a dark road, there’s a dark road leading far from the light
For the ghost of the love that we fight
Just let it go now
(I’m lost in the night)
There’s a dark road leading (far in the night)

I think I’ll walk alone
Through the shadows of my despair
With echoes of laughter fading away
You’re a memory I can't spare
So tragic, so real
There’s a screeching in my mind
You’re the pain that I cannot numb
I’m tired and I’m gone, I’m gone, I’m gone

But you don’t have to feel the strain
You don’t have to share this weight
I bury my soul here
I bury my soul
I bury my soul here
(I bury my soul)

There’s a dark road, there’s a dark road leading far from the light
For the ghost of the love that we fight
Just let it go now
(I’m lost in the night)
There’s a dark road leading (far in the night)

So go ahead-sleep without me,
While I drown where you can't see!
I gave you love, I gave you breath,
And all I got was this quiet death!

Don't say my name
Don't fake your pain
(Don't fake your pain)
I'm just a memory
(I'm just a memory)
LOST IN THE RAIN!

I scream your name into the dusk
But echoes mock me back
This house of memories is crumbling now
And all I see is black

You lit the match and walked away
Now I breathe in what remains

Cinders fall where we once stood
I burn in your disdain

{I'm screaming through the silence now)
BUT YOU DON’T CARE, YOU DON’T KNOW HOW!

My world is crushed beneath your feet,
Every promise, every lie-repeat,

I’M NOT ENOUGH!
NEVER WAS ENOUGH!

So take my heart 
And tear it up!
I'm not enough,
Never was enough,
So take my heart,
AND TEAR IT UP!

There’s a dark road, there’s a dark road leading far from the light
For the ghost of the love that we fight
Just let it go now
(I’m lost in the night)
There’s a dark road leading far from the light

Dark Road to Nowhere

“She Was Me, I Am Her” takes the familiar pop punk template and turns it into a sonic psychodrama about dissociation, two versions of the same woman trapped in a single body. The first persona (“she”) is the wounded survivor: porcelain‑fragile, heavy with memories that “tear her apart.” The second (“I”) is the present‑day narrator, raging against the weight of those memories yet terrified of letting them go. The track’s opening lines set the scene in chiaroscuro: “Shadows creeping through my heart / Faded dreams in black and white”, immediately framing the conflict as an internal film noir where past and present flicker in and out of focus.

Lyrically, cracks, porcelain, and glass recur as metaphors for both fragility and transparency: the narrator insists the fractures must remain visible, because they’re proof she survived. Lines such as “Don’t try to fix this porcelain soul / Every crack I earned, every hole” reject the external pressure to “heal” quickly; instead, they champion a raw authenticity where pain is an essential part of identity. That ethos is quintessential punk, turning personal damage into a badge rather than a blemish.

By the cathartic outro, the song lands on a bittersweet truth: duality can’t be “cured,” only navigated. “We wear the same skin but bruise in different ways / Some days we love too loud, some nights we fade in grays.” The two voices never fully reconcile, but they do strike a cease‑fire—accepting that wholeness, for some, means learning to let the discordant parts coexist. It’s a bruised but defiant anthem for anyone who has ever felt too plural, too broken, or too loud for the rooms they occupy, an invitation to scream the fracture lines into art and call that survival.

The Machine

David Auchampach

Related tracks