We evolved day by day
Breaking every boundary
Making fade all shades
We pushed the envelope
Stealing souls from everything 
Crushing down all the beauty
There's nothing in our way
But today it's our day zero

We want him now
'Cause history is a circle
We need him now
To deliver us from evil

He's born! Halleluja!
Look what the hell we've done!
Have we gone too far?
We waited so long for
A god in vitro

We drift away, aimlessly
No one pointing us the way
To learn from our mistakes 
To know our enemy
Values turned into nothing
Competitions make us lame
We're looking all the same
Again it's always the same

We want him now
Earth is scorched,
So what about our daily bread?
We need him now
Our synthetic conception
To be all saved

It's done! Halleluja!
Our Lord! Thy kingdom come!
All the bets are off
We're proud to welcome
The god in vitro

No limits: science as religion
Blessed is he who comes in the name of reason
No limits: miracle creation
Have mercy upon us!

It's on! Halleluja!
All hail our saviour!
The progress won
The spell is done
Here's our god in vitro!

ANTI

God In Vitro

More, more, more
You always want more new stuff
I am just your performer
A trophy to show everyone

More, more, more
You have always wanted more and more to own
Like King Midas I could turn it all to gold
Yes but nevertheless we felt so all alone

And you just fell in love with it
But I'm not what you expected
Now you look away
The real me is scaring you to death

You know, you know that it's not me
What you want, what you need
It's just a shape, it's an image
It's the icon of me

You know, you know, it's not me
Just the icon of me
You know, you know – Can't you see
It's the icon of me?

More, more, more
I'm worth so much more than I thought
But I'm just a picture to you
I'm just a little victim of you

More, more, more
You come and you go and more you hold me on
Like Medusa you have turned me to a stone
To see with your eyes ain't to believe enough

And you just fell in love with it
But I'm not what you were hoping for
You call my name
Only to have someone to adore

The mediator between head and hands
Must be the heart
And so everything we touch
Cracks, breaks and falls apart

The Icon Of Me

Hate And Psyche

Call it madness, call it premonition
A clear-headed hysteria
It's a riot, it's a revolution
It's a revelation

Call it cult or call it religion
An archetype of dilemma
'Cause ours is a prayer for the comin' of chaos
Are you ready?

Praise your end, cry for despair
Raise your hands up in the air

(End is coming)

If you really don't care don't feel sorry for me
If this is a madman
Then I'm a follower in praise of folly

Hey! Disciples, scream!
Hey! My devotees!
Shout it out loud 'til you bleed
Hail! Hail insanity!

Call me prophet, Call me messiah
A newborn Cassandra
It's a pathway to illumination
It's the new sensation

Call us sect or call us lunatics
A mass of  weirdos ecstatic
'Cause ours is a prayer for the comin' of doomsday
We are ready

Viva! Viva insanity!

In Praise Of Folly

Viva Insanity

The window to my soul is in the eyes shut
The pillow alone, empty, cold is all I've got
A tortured brain screams
Reality became too grim to stand for
This is no lucid dream
It's a fucked-up nightmare going on and on and on

Please put me under
I am hostage to the clockwork
I'm torn asunder
The carnage of the reason

Sleep – Sandman take my soul
Sleep –  Come and switch it all off
Hurt and haunted – The ticking never ends
This life is a requiem

Sleep – Sandman take my soul
Sleep – My hourglass emptied out
Vain agony bed  – Noises plague my head
This mind is a requiem

The window to my soul is in the eyes shut
My shadow a mere souvenir of a dead past
I'm tired of being awake
Seconds, minutes, hours, days and nights
Drugs put me to rest!
For too long my existence turned off the lights

What if all of this is not real?
What if I never existed?  

Dies Irae – All hours wound, the last kills
Demon voices – All hours hurt, the last heals

What if all of this is not real?
What if it's just a dream? Just a bad dream?
What if this wasn't meant to be?
What if I never existed?

Darkness unfair – I'd be better off dead
This life is a requiem

Requiem For A Lucid Dream

Deviant – Maniac – Pervert – Pig
Depraved – Deranged – Animal – Sick
Psycho – Faggot – Dangerous – Creep
Sex Fiend – Borderline – Fetishist – Freak

How do you feel with your sexuality?
How would you feel to be regarded as anomaly?
How do you feel while you're approaching?
How would you feel if you always gotta keep away?

Sorry to disappoint you
But there is nothing I can do
(Is it true what you say? Good God, have you no shame?)
Sorry I'm born this way
I can't help falling in love with obscene
(Is it true what you say? Good God, have you no shame?)

I'm in love with something you don't
I'm in love with something you won't 
	
I know what's right, I know what's wrong
It's not just from the heart
Am I so horrible? 
I'm in love with something you don't 

How do you feel when you let yourself go?
How would you feel if your life is ruled by self-control?
How do you feel with your sexual mores?
How would you feel if they're unacceptable?
(Is it true what you say? Good God, have you no shame?)

Sorry I'm born this way
I can't help falling in love with obscene

It's not a crime – It's not my fault
I dream whatever the fuck I want
Don't judge my taste – Don't judge my thoughts
I'm in love with something you don't

It's not a crime – It's not my fault
I'm in love with something you don't
Don't judge my taste – Don't judge my thoughts
I'm in love with something you won't

Paraphiliac

Lei, solo lei è la mia ispirazione
La musa della mia distruzione
Dama Bianca, primadonna
Sono qui solo per te

Lei, solo lei è la mia persecuzione
Brucia l'attesa, brucia la ragione
Ossessiva – Compulsiva
Sotto i riflettori, posa per me

L'ansia negli sguardi
La fine nei movimenti
Sospira fra le labbra le parole più fragili

Come in un film, come un dramma
L'amore che toglie il sangue e l'aria
Come una dea, come una star
La più splendida – Diva Paranoia

Lei, solo lei è tutto quanto per me
In adorazione, in ammirazione
Cercami, guardami
Sono qui solo per te

Lei è la paura, lei è dannazione
Ruba la scena, ruba l'attenzione
Demoniaca divinità
Calpestami il cuore e poi sfila per me

Come in un film, come un dramma
Il vuoto che scava in fondo all'anima
Come una dea, come una star
La più squallida – Diva Paranoia

Diva Paranoia [feat. Noemi Aurora]

Anything you say I've done – It was not me
Anything you say I'm wrong – It was not me
Anything you say I caused – They are guilty
Anything that's occurred – They told me

Anything you accuse me of – It was not me
Anything I could've messed up – It was not me
Anything you say I caused – They are guilty
Anything that's occurred – Now they're quiet

It was not me – It was not me
It was not me – They made me do it

Oh god no... Oh my god no!
They made me do it
No! Oh my god no! - They made me do it!

Anything I'm charged for – It was not me
Anything you tell me you saw – It was not me
Anything you say I caused – They are guilty
Anything that's occurred – For a while they're gone

I won't be your scapegoat
I couldn't do it all alone
I can't prove you wrong

Only I know the truth
They made me do it

They Made Me Do It

Everything so trivial, everything so insignificant
On my knees I can't slither
Out of this sorrow's quicksand

I won't go on without any reason at all
Can't force myself to breathe anymore
My lungs are avid for air
Becoming filthier, toxic, poisonous

What does to feel good mean, after all?
To suffer less than usual?
We lie to ourselves: there's no happiness
The aim's to forget about death
 
What you call bliss is just obsession
Mal de vivre is the latest fashion
Drag yourself on
Ephemeral's your satisfaction

So come fail with me to the end
Just come join me in guilt and regret
So come our way we're all insane
We're born to suffer anyway
So come fail with me to the end
To the end

Nostalgia | Anhedonia
Blue is the new black
Dysthymia | Melancholia
Blue is the new black

A mouth devouring dreams, one by one
So merciless and fatal
Chewing perspectives, spitting objectives
Choking back all the bitter tears

I'm embraced by misery's tentacles
A fateful hug, comfortable
They always keep me warm
In my own little world so oblivious

Everything so trivial, everything so insignificant
Everything so hopeless, everything so useless
Pointless and dark
Treasure your own delusions, they'll never disappoint
There will always be a lot of pieces inside
That no longer join
What did you expect? You've got to accept
All you do, all you are
All will be buried down by people's neglect
So hit the bottom
Or fight all your life to stay afloat
You already know you have lost
So tell me why the fuck do you play this game along?

Fail With Me

Flashback // Throwback // Feedback

Dark half | dark alias – One shell with two egos
Monologue freakshow – Siamese minds inseparable
Together against
Are you afraid? I'm not afraid
I feel the beat – I feel like I'm gonna split

Split | 'Cause you just have to break away
Split | You need to separate
Split | And become again
Once again my dear doppelgänger

Broken | imperfect – But you complete all of me
My twin beloved – Keep alive our weird duality
Together against
Are you afraid? I'm not afraid
We're not afraid

I'm free to live and I'm free to die
I'm free to do just everything I like
Whenever I need someone else to decide
Sometimes could be Jekyll, sometimes could be Hyde
So you are us now, and we are me
Be sure of which one you're going to meet
We're not the same thing, so come on deal with it 
Not an illusion, not a trick
I am // we are | split

Parasite | mutualist – I will learn it too late
A tied relationship – It's all about give and take
Together against
Are you afraid? I'm not afraid
I feel the beat – I feel like I'm gonna split

Split | Neverending rise and fall
Split |  A bug in my behavior
Split | Welcome back home
Welcome back home, my dear doppelgänger

I can't be anything you want
I can't be anything you need
I can't be anything you love
I can't be anything, anything at all

Split (My Dear Doppelgänger)

Hey man! You confirm my madness
And now you whine sayin' you heard it from your friends
It's not an excuse
'Cause I know listening is not your strong suit

Hey man! Your ignorance is not bliss
It's the worst of all evils plaguing humanity
Don't force my hand
Keep quiet and nod that you understand

Hush! You were oh so great
Hush! Trying by hearsay
Hush! I told you, don't fuck with me
Hush! Hush! Show me how you actually...

Nod! – Shut up, you big goddamn mouth
Nod! – Cheer up, and be the smartass clown
Nod! – You've always got it all figured out
But now your nerve's dragged you down
Nod! – Shut up, you have talked too long
Nod! – Wake up, and listen to your song
Nod! – You really left me no choice at all
Don't wanna hear your fuckin' voice – Just nod!

Hey man! I will make you a deal
Just stop smiling or I'll kick your fuckin' teeth in
How is your mood?
For until now you've been deaf and blind, but not mute

You gotta earn your freedom of speech
You gotta practice what you fuckin' preach
You gotta know what you're talkin' about
You gotta hold your tongue or I'll cut it out

For hell's sake, how can we have the same right to live?

Nod!

The italian duo Synapsyche was born in the late 2008 by the will of Stefano “Mannequinetik”, mastermind and only composer, with the intent to create a dark-electro project with industrial and EBM features, a bit lacking in their own motherland.
To start the band up, he simply needed to integrate a singer, expert for both clean and harsh vocals, and able to manage lyrics, vocal lines and rhythmics: the choice falls on Marco “Katatronik” Mantovani, performer with a long experience as singer, both melodic in an italian rock band (Zona Traffico Libero) and screaming-growling in a melodic death metal band (Ultima Necat).
While in the beginning the project started almost for fun, as the time went by, Katatronik and Mannequinetik decide to expose theirselves more to promote the spreading of their music, noticed the great response got so far: it’s 2012 when Synapsyche accept the Gothic World Records proposal to join the compilation “Dunkle Frequenzen Vol. 1 – Premium Edition” (out in December 15th) composing a brand new track entitled “Zeroin”.
In the same period, the making of a 4-tracks self-produced E.P. called “Wait/Hate” is completed: mixed by Synapsyche and mastered by Federico Viola at Animal House Studios, it’s out in January 31th 2013 and actually available for free digital download on the official Bandcamp page of the band.
In December 19th 2014 Synapsyche release their self-produced full-length debut album with all the tracks online so far: “Crashdown Connected”, a 13-songs concept opus mixed and mastered by Synapsyche at their own studios, is available for digital download and as limited edition CD on Bandcamp.
In march 2015, the brand new track “Breath Control” is included in the Alfa Matrix compilation “Endzeit Bunkertracks VII – The Bonus Tracks” and becomes a hit in the industrial clubs.
It's september 30th 2015 when Synapsyche's new self-produced/self-mixed/self-mastered EP code-named “Meds” comes out, as a gift for their loyal fans, available for free digital download and including also many remixes.
In october 2015 the amazing russian label SkyQode announces Synapsyche as new artist of their illustrious roster (including great acts as Cold In May, Diversant:13, Freaky Mind, Kromak), ready for an exciting collaboration and new sick tunes to release: the first work with SkyQode is the mindblowing EP “Hate And Psyche”, out December 4th 2015, mixed by Synapsyche and mastered by Rush at SMT studios, with 2 brand new songs including the dancefloor killer titletrack, “Breath Control” remastered, and 2 club-ready remixes. The EP is available for digital download and deserved many amazing reviews, bringing high expectations for their second upcoming full length album.
In fact, another stunning concept-opus made the alliance with SkyQode label perfect: “The Abyss Effect” is more than a concept-album, it's an interface to the modern Inferno! Mixed by Synapsyche, mastered by Jan L. at X-Fusion Music Production and distributed by SkyQode, it's available as limited digipak CD with bonus track or digital download in May 13th 2016 and it will make you beg for more.
In July 15th, to satisfy this thirst, Synapsyche releases a cover of the Apoptygma Berzerk's hit “Bitch” included in the tribute compilation “Apop We Love You” edited by Electrozombies.
2017 is another great year to spread their music, 'cause in April 7th the band releases for SkyQode the new amazing EP “This Is Gonna Hurt”, available for digital download and including 2 brand new songs and new hot remixes, all mixed by Synapsyche and mastered by Rush at SMT studios.
2018 is a year of changes for Synapsyche, first of all signing a new deal with the massive electro label Alfa Matrix: their roster, for the few who don't know AF, is top notch and includes the countrymen Alien Vampires and Helalyn Flowers, the legends of electro Front 242 and other great acts as I:Scintilla and Acylum.
In november 23rd finally the new Synapsyche EP is out: “Mirror Terror” blows all minds and speakers! Available for digital download, mixed by Synapsyche, mastered by Sebastian Komor at Xenomorph Productions' studios, it includes 2 brand new great songs and stunning remixes.
“Mirror Terror” EP kicks off a new era for the band, also for the release of the first official Synapsyche videoclip ever. Directed by Black Beat Productions, it's available for your eyes on YouTube.
Before the new album's release, the band takes part of the Depeche Mode tribute compilation “Re:Covered Vol.3” for their label, with the song “A Pain That I'm Used To”.
In June 21st 2019 Alfa Matrix releases the third full-length album for Synapsyche: “In Praise Of Folly” is the milestone for a band at their top of creativity! A concept about mental diseases, mixed by Synapsyche, mastered by Sebastian Komor at Xenomorph Productions' studios, it includes 13 songs from harsh to melodic, from pop to dark, and an exciting duet with Noemi Aurora from Helalyn Flowers! It's available as cd, limited edition 2CDs with 13 bonus remixes, and digital download!
The “madness” trilogy with Alfa Matrix ends with the release of both videoclip and EP entitled “Viva Insanity”, January 24th 2020: available for digital download, mixed by Synapsyche, mastered by Sebastian Komor at Xenomorph Productions' studios, it includes also 3 brand new great songs and 8 hot remixes. The video, directed by Giuseppe Nex, is available on YouTube.
In May 6th 2022 Synapsyche and Alfa Matrix generate a new exciting EP called “Silvertongue” (feat. Aesthetic Perfection): available for download, mixed by Synapsyche, mastered by Len Lemeire at The Implant Plant studios, it includes 2 brand new kick-ass songs and great remixes. The song is pushed by a new stunning videoclip directed by Andrea Nordi and available on YouTube.
In March 3rd 2023 the single hit “God In Vitro” comes out with a brilliant EP available for digital download, together with another amazing videoclip by Andrea Nordi available on YouTube. Mixed and mastered by Synapsyche, the EP includes various powerful remixes of both the new singles.
April 19th 2024 is the date of the real masterpiece of Synapsyche, the fourth full-length album released by Alfa Matrix: "ANTI". This new concept-work about an artificial new messiah is mixed and mastered by Synapsyche at their own Negativa studio, it includes 12 songs from synthpop to darkelectro and industrial, and it's accompanied by a cool videoclip directed by Adriano Giotti of "The Last Dying Flame" feat. Chris Harms (Lord Of The Lost)! It's available as 2CD limited edition (with 12 bonus tracks) and digital download!
During the years, Synapsyche made remixes for songs of Alien Vampires, Synthattack, Armageddon Dildos, Helalyn Flowers, C-Lekktor, Avarice In Audio, Warsickle, Halo Effect, Centeotl, Dark Soul, Device Noize, Entropia Psicotica, Chamaeleon, Studio-X vs. Simon Carter, Binary Division, First Black Pope, Totem Obscura, Blue Ant, Antibiosis and Trakktor.
Meanwhile, the band keeps playing astonishing live shows in influential clubs and events of the italian ground (Decadence in Bologna, Obscene in Modena, Das Lust in Padova and more), headlining and supporting famous acts as -Rx and FGFC820.
Synapsyche’s sound is powerful and rhythmical, with modern EBM moments and dark-techno influences, where cybernetic effects alternate with dancing synths, while vocals are balanced between melody, rage and nihilism. Lyrics are incisive and original in their celebration of vice and madness, the perfect themes for the world of Synapsyche.
The members of Synapsyche consider theirselves as real musicians, with their own equipment and gears, many musical competences and full of ideas in becoming.

The Icon Of Me

Synapsyche

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