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Synthetic Love

“Fragments of Time” is a philosophical and emotional concept album exploring the fragile relationship between memory, time, and identity.
It does not tell its story linearly — instead, it moves through shifting fragments of recollection, where each song captures a different facet of the self seen through distorted memory.
The album asks a central question:

Who am I, if my memories can no longer be trusted?

Across its tracks, Fragments of Time navigates the blurred boundaries between what was, what might have been, and what was never real at all.
Themes of lost childhood, missed chances, trauma, and false remembrance weave through a non-chronological soundscape of progressive and psychedelic rock — blending analog warmth, orchestral textures, and experimental atmospheres.

Musical motifs reappear in altered forms throughout the record, symbolizing the reconstruction of identity through imperfect recollection.
Each reprise is like déjà vu — familiar yet subtly changed, mirroring the way memory reshapes itself over time.

The sound is both melancholic and cinematic:
delicate acoustic passages dissolve into vast, orchestral swells; distorted guitars and reversed pianos evoke the collapse of linear time; ambient textures breathe between moments, like ghosts of songs already forgotten.

In the end, Fragments of Time reaches no definitive conclusion.
Instead, it finds resolution through ambiguity — accepting that the self is not a fixed truth, but a continuous act of remembering and letting go.
The closing track, “Unwritten Hours,” fades into reversed echoes that lead seamlessly back to the opening of “Echoes Before Dawn,” creating a circular loop — a sonic metaphor for time folding in on itself.

Fragments of Time

Lost childhood

Theme: Political corruption and greed.
Angular, rhythmically complex prog piece — guitars stabbing like accusations.
Lyrically addresses leaders who build empires of lies while the planet burns beneath their feet.
Emotion: Rage and betrayal.


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The Architects of Nothing

Concrete Horizons by Tempest Veins is a haunting progressive rock concept album set against the divided landscape of Cold War Berlin. Through 13 interconnected tracks, it explores the psychological and emotional toll of walls — both political and internal. The album blends atmospheric soundscapes, experimental textures, and philosophical lyricism to portray the human struggle between control and freedom, memory and forgetting. From the whispered denial of “Prologue: Voices Before the Wall” to the reflective calm of “Concrete Horizons (Reprise),” each song forms a fragment of collective consciousness — a mosaic of hope, fear, rebellion, and rebirth. Layers of guitars, Mellotron, and cinematic effects evoke ghostly streets, secret dreams, and the slow crumbling of ideology. Ultimately, Concrete Horizons is not just about a city divided by concrete, but about the fragile walls we build within ourselves — and the sounds that remain when they fall.

The Line Through the Heart

Baby Blue is not just an album — it’s a descent, a confession, and a fragile return.
Across twelve interconnected songs, Tempest Veins trace the anatomy of addiction: the loneliness that leads to escape, the seduction of the first high, the betrayal of false friends, and the brutal clarity of collapse.

From the haunting atmosphere of “The Hollow Hours” to the desperate pulse of “Glass Streets” and the trembling redemption of “Clean Light,” the record moves through darkness and despair toward a flicker of fragile hope. Every track mirrors a stage of dependency — denial, loss, withdrawal, relapse — told through shifting rhythms, layered guitars, and cinematic sound design.

The final song, “Don’t Cry for Baby Blue,” closes the circle in bittersweet reflection. It’s unclear whether “Baby Blue” is the drug, a lost love, or the version of oneself that never returned. What remains is acceptance — quiet, exhausted, and real.

Musically, Baby Blue bridges the emotional depth of progressive and psychedelic rock with the raw vulnerability of modern art rock. Lyrically, it’s both personal and universal — a portrait of a world where escape is easier than healing, and where every fall still carries the faint possibility of redemption.

Tempest Veins deliver a record that burns, bleeds, and breathes — an unflinching journey through the beautiful, terrible truth of being human.

The Hollow Hours

Tomorrow Never Comes

Loud, Proud and Out of Gas

You`re the Best

Remember me

Album Summary

This concept album is dedicated to Stanislav Petrov — the quiet hero of the 1980s who prevented a global nuclear catastrophe.
Through ten interconnected tracks, the album tells the story of a man whose humanity outweighed protocol, whose inner strength preserved a world that never knew how close it came to ending.

The narrative begins with Petrov’s early life, shaped by discipline, modesty, and a strong moral compass. As the music moves deeper into the underground command center of Serpukhov-15, it immerses the listener in the cold, isolated tension of the Soviet early-warning system. When the false alarm strikes and the computers report an incoming U.S. missile attack, the album’s dynamics shift into frantic rhythms and dissonant tones that mirror the chaos within the bunker.

At the emotional core lies the pivotal moment: a single human decision made under unbearable pressure. Petrov’s refusal to trust failing machines over his own judgement becomes the turning point of the entire work. Subsequent tracks explore the aftermath — not glory or recognition, but interrogations, suspicion, and a life lived in obscurity and poverty. The world moved on, unaware that it owed its continued existence to one man’s clarity and courage.

Only many years later did the international community finally acknowledge Petrov’s deed. The album’s later movements reflect this belated recognition with rising choirs, warm harmonies, and hopeful crescendos, showing an aging man accepting gratitude with exhaustion, humility, and quiet dignity.

The final track, “The Sun He Left Behind,” brings the musical and emotional arc to a cinematic close: a world bathed in the sunrise Petrov saved, a reminder that humanity survives because one person chose compassion over fear.

This album stands as a tribute to Stanislav Petrov — a man who saved the world not with weapons or power, but with conscience, calm, and courage.
A silent safeguard of humanity, whose legacy continues to shine.

Silence After the Storm

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Silence After the Storm

RASO Schroeder Music

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