Mirrors is a descent through fractured reflections—an unrelenting journey where every echo bends reality and every turn erases certainty. Built on grinding guitars, pulse-driven bass, and atmospheric synth textures, the track sways between hypnotic verses and explosive choruses, embodying both fragility and fury.

The song unravels the illusion of clarity, pulling threads until the seams collapse, leaving only shards of self scattered across the floor of sound. It is both introspection and eruption—a ritual of breaking glass to find what lies beneath.

Production Notes:

Dark, heavy guitar riffs soaked in reverb and distortion.
Cinematic build-ups collapsing into chaotic breakdowns.
Layers of ghostly harmonies swirling beneath raw vocal intensity.
Drum patterns shifting between tribal urgency and mechanical precision.
Mix designed for headphones: wide stereo imaging, immersive low-end resonance.

Emotional Tone:

Haunted, searching, and cathartic.
A battle between control and collapse.
The sound of being trapped in repetition until the mirrors finally shatter.

For Fans Of: Tool • Nine Inch Nails • A Perfect Circle • Deftones

Mirrors

“Shadows” is a slow-burning collapse into the weight of self-doubt and the hunger to break free. Built on bass-driven hypnosis and walls of distorted guitar, the track drags the listener through suffocating verses before erupting into cathartic choruses that demand release from the static haze.

The song unfolds like a ritual—each section tightening the pressure until the whispered breakdown detonates into screams of fracture and rebirth. The production leans into atmosphere and unease: ghostly echoes stretch across the mix, drums shift between uneasy syncopation and pounding resolve, and layers of vocals rise from whispers to primal roars.

Production Notes:

Reverb-drenched guitars tracing shadows across a tense low-end.

Vocals that alternate between restrained whispers and full-throated screams, capturing the fracture between silence and eruption.

A long, cinematic build in the bridge, spiraling into chaos before the final surge of clarity.

Hypnotic outro locked into a bass pulse, the clock still ticking as the noise fades.

Emotional Tone:
Haunted and restless—this is the sound of being trapped in repetition, clawing for escape, and finally daring to rise. “Shadows” embodies the fracture between suffocation and self-discovery, pulling the listener into its maze before showing a path through.

Shadows

“Severed” is a super heavy, sludgy alt-metal track with doom influence — massive drop-tuned riffs drenched in distortion, grimy bass that rattles like collapsing walls, and punishing half-time grooves that feel ritualistic. Vocals snarl and scream with raw aggression, rejecting conformity and breaking free by force.

No verse/chorus formulas here — Severed mutates through crushing riffs, ominous builds, and chaotic breakdowns. Dark, angry, cathartic.

🎧 Turn it up. Feel the weight. Break free.

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Severed

A heavy, sludgy alt-metal track at 125 BPM — Primal explores the story of humanity’s evolution into civilization, and its downfall through religion, politics, and corruption. Cinematic, ritualistic, and crushing.

Primal — A heavy, sludgy alt-metal track at 125 BPM. A crushing exploration of evolution, civilization, and collapse — questioning whether we’ve truly evolved, or if we’re still bound by corruption, religion, politics, and borders.

⚡ Concept: A lone wanderer in a post-apocalyptic wasteland uncovers relics of humanity’s rise and downfall. Inspired by the grit of Mad Max, every frame is dirty, scarred, and tactile — a cinematic vision of ruin, survival, and decay.

🎶 Lyrics — Primal

[Section A – Main Riff, 4/4]
Crawled from the oceans
Hands shaped in fire
Stone becomes shelter
Blood builds the pyre

[Bridge 1 – Polyrhythmic, 5/4]
We walked through hunger
Carved into bone
Stories of power
That were never our own

[Section B – Driving Riff, 4/4 with Octave Runs]
Skies filled with symbols
Names carved in stone
Voices divided
Turning marrow to throne

[Breakdown 1 – 7/8 Polyrhythm]
Religion
Politics
Skin and borders
Poison bricks

[Bridge 2 – Dissonant Layer, 5/4]
Civilized ashes
Painted gold
We call it progress
But it feels so cold

[Final Breakdown – Return to 4/4, Slow Crush]
The animal lingers
Behind the eyes
Evolution falters
Every kingdom lies

[Outro – 2 Bars, 4/4]
(instrumental fade — bass and drums end locked, guitars cut abruptly)

Primal — Jason Hantman / CLXI

“Stone in the River” explores the illusion of permanence — how everything that falls still echoes beneath the surface.

BPM: 120 | Key: D minor | Style: Alt-Metal / Experimental Rock

Written, performed, and produced by: CLXI
Mastered in Adobe Audition by: Jason Hantman
Year: 2025

Shadows

Jason Hantman

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