Rise

Cosmic Annihilation - Instrumental

Chokher Neere (চোখের নীরে)

Nosebleed

The Cog and the Machine

Intrepidation by Rhythm In Static

 (Бесстрашность / Безстрашність / 勇敢さ / 대담함)

Credits and artwork - Mitch Duffy

Intrepidation

Blades & Branches [HQ] - Rhythm In Static

Music and artwork - Mitch Duffy

Blades & Branches

"Under Control" is a song that tells the story of a dystopian world where every move is watched, every choice is restricted, and freedom is nothing more than a faded memory. With powerful riffs and dark atmospheres, the song represents the fight against oppressive control and the search for a way out. Are you truly free, or just a cog in the system?

🎸 Alternative Metal | 🎤 Powerful Vocals | 🌍 Dystopia & Resistance
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Under control

Wayward Sky - Not for This World

Sienna

Rooms Gone Quiet is a peaceful, almost serene reflection on the spaces left behind by every soul lost. The cinematic and epic writing gives those empty rooms a wide emotional resonance, while the alternative metal and rock undertones signal the weight each of those lives once carried. You feel the absence, but you also feel the strength and responsibility that rested on their shoulders.

As the piece unfolds, the progressive rock and metal elements act like a testament to the continued presence of those souls in memory. Motifs return and evolve as if the rooms are still holding voices, habits and stories that refuse to disappear. The alternative and symphonic metal colours then soften, the tone lightens just enough to make room for a solemn moment of reflection. It is a movement that quietly says: we know you are no longer here, but somehow you still are. For anyone who has suffered a meaningful loss, this is hard to describe but easy to understand.

About the album

Rooms Gone Quiet is Movement XIII of Whirl: Ukraine in Sound, an instrumental cinematic and neo classical suite with symphonic metal intensity and Eastern European folk and Balkan colour. Across 15 movements the album follows a journey from peace to war, through loss and mourning, and toward a scarred return to calm, written from the perspective of those living through aggression rather than watching from afar.

Ukraine in Sound XIII • Rooms Gone Quiet

Condolences is the moment where grief is spoken aloud and shared. Cinematic and epic writing shape the movement like a formal act of mourning, while alternative and progressive metal elements give each phrase real weight, as if every chord is carrying another life on its shoulders. The darkness in the harmony is not theatrical; it matches the gravity of the losses being acknowledged.

The winds move through this heavy frame like someone reciting names one by one. Their lines answer the riffs and hits, creating a dialogue where metal provides impact and the winds provide remembrance. That exchange becomes both a testament and a kind of musical silence in which each soul can be honoured. Toward the end, the piece rises into a brief epic turn, not to resolve the pain, but to clear a path for what comes next in Rooms Gone Quiet, where the aftermath is felt in the spaces left behind.

About the album

Condolences is Movement XII of Whirl: Ukraine in Sound, an instrumental cinematic and neo classical suite with symphonic metal intensity and Eastern European folk and Balkan colour. Across 15 movements the album follows a journey from peace to war, through loss and mourning, and toward a scarred return to calm, written from the perspective of those living through aggression rather than watching from afar.

Ukraine in Sound XII • Condolences

Losses Mount is where the cost of the conflict is counted in sound. Symphonic metal power, cinematic epic writing and progressive rock motion combine into a constant, almost breathless forward drive, as if the music is tallying loss after loss on both sides with every phrase. Alternative metal and djent tinges sharpen the edges, giving the chords and riffs a jagged, unforgiving profile that matches the reality on the ground.

Against this heavy frame, the wind instruments move like echoes of the souls being spoken about. Their lines flare up and fade, returning in fragments as if names and faces are rising through the noise for a moment and then slipping back into memory. Amid the relentless movement there are pockets that feel like a held breath, brief moments of near silence or reduced texture that play like a minute of mourning before the tension rises again and the fighting resumes. Toward the end, the epic melodic writing swells into something huge and undeniable, not to glorify the battle, but to underline how devastating its impact is. The piece keeps repeating one hard message in different forms: there is no good in wars, only mounting losses that never fully leave.

About the album

Losses Mount is Movement X of Whirl: Ukraine in Sound, an instrumental cinematic and neo classical suite with symphonic metal intensity and Eastern European folk and Balkan colour. Across 15 movements the album follows a journey from peace to war, through loss and mourning, and toward a scarred return to calm, written from the perspective of those living through aggression rather than watching from afar.

Ukraine in Sound X • Losses Mount

I'm a freelance composer for video game and film, but I'm willing to take on any musical project made available to me.

Karuzel is a 5-piece prog band from Athens/Piraeus, Greece. With alternative, grunge, nu-metal, and progressive influences, we aim to deviate from established norms and challenge our listeners.

Jack Killed Hyde is a musical project born in 2020, during the pandemic, when Valerio Morgante and Gloria Sheikholeslami started writing songs inspired by a post-apocalyptic world. Their first compositions capture the anguish and hope of that time, using imagery of bunkers and radiation to explore deep emotions such as loneliness and resilience.

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Paradoxia is an experimental collaborative project influenced by Progressive Metal, Gothic Metal, Symphonic Rock, Alternative Metal, Electronic Rock and EDM.

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