Robot Writes A Love Song

Girl Class

I Promise

Maybe Maybe

Magic Glow

Adventure Club

Active Trauma

This one came from diving deep into the real history of places like Allegheny, Danvers State Hospital, and Willowbrook. These weren't just hospitals - they were human warehouses where society dumped anyone deemed "unfit," then subjected them to barbaric treatments in the name of medicine.

The song opens with that Gothic architecture imagery because these places were built to look imposing and fortress-like - designed to keep people in and the world out. "They called it treatment, called it care / While demons danced in every stair" captures how these institutions hid torture behind medical terminology.

What really gets me is how they turned healing into horror - electroshock without anesthesia, ice baths, lobotomies performed with ice picks. "Lobotomies with rusty tools / Turning humans into fools" - that's not metaphor, that actually happened to thousands of people who just needed help.

The "halls of madness" concept works because these buildings literally absorbed decades of suffering. When you read about people visiting these abandoned places, they all report the same thing - an overwhelming sense of dread, like the walls themselves remember the pain.

Musically, I'm hearing this as heavy, atmospheric metal - maybe around 120 BPM in a minor key, with that Gothic horror vibe. It needs to sound as haunting and oppressive as those buildings feel when you walk through them.
The bridge about walking the corridors at night gets into that paranormal element - how these places feel alive with the suffering that happened there. "They're still here, they're still in pain / In the asylum's cold refrain" - because when you warehouse human misery for decades, it leaves a mark that never goes away.

This song's about remembering the victims and making sure we never forget what happens when society decides some people are disposable.

Halls of Madness

Painted Shut

Horseshoe Crabs

Double Down

In League with Dragons

Younger

artwork by Yasmine Sayre.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Cody Doss and Sean Bucheck (The New Good Music) in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Eleanor

Twelve Nudes

Transition From Nowhere to Nowhere

Maybe Maybe

Slothrust

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