‘MELANCHOLIA’ is a 2020 pandemic inspired concept album, which however is thematically much more comprehensive. Through the fears of the lyrical self, its desperate search for identity and answers, serious symptoms of the present crisis are revealed, such as isolation in a substantially more general sense than quarantine, social disintegration, the twilight of democracy, and the fact that we’re using up our future.

Packed in mostly raw industrial electronics a cavalcade of genres unfolds from rock to jazz to chanson. In addition to the guitar and piano that have been dominant all along, sound samples of unusual in genre instruments including handpan and harp are also played.

While becoming more cinematic from song to song, the album sings the ballad of someone who is vulnerable to their instinct and thus to any manipulation aimed at it in the age of general paranoia and waiting for world’s end, all embedded in a correspondingly dramatized and axious atmosphere musically.

10 ...AT LAST

09 THE TRAIN

08 AS THE RIVER FLOWS

07 LABYRINTH

06 BLACK SUN RISING

05 WINGS OF ICARUS

04 DISGRACED & DISPOSABLE

03 P@NIC W/ OBEDIENCE

02 GLUE

01 PSALM 404

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not another nice & soothing christmas song...



lyrics:

merry christmas, love 
diamonds can make you shine like i can’t 
so take this one 

with a thorn 
we pricked our fingers 
it was one of those that jesus left from his crown 

time runs faster than our dreams 
i know you’d kill me 
for everything that you’ve missed 

do you remember when 
we used to love each other? 
now we should do like back then 

hit the mall and hit them all 
up to 50% off 
rush, rush… crush 
finally, i got the perfect gift for you 
there you go… clean it a bit 
that bloodstain’s from a man who grabbed it too tight 
gimme your hand, sing ‘silent night’ 
this gingerbread’s divine 
it reminds me of mom… 
i just wonder… 
how’s christmas in a nursing home? 
when i was 7 
some faggot grabbed my cock 
he wore fake beard and smelled of scotch 
santa claus – satan claws 
isn’t it funny? 
… 
micky mouse stole christmas 
… 
you bore me, hun 
just like the tree 
a kiss under the mistletoe 
won’t save our marriage… will it? 

come, christmas eve 
peaceful and clean 
help me believe 
in my goodness these days 
be nice, baby 
don’t let me see 
your uglier face 
at least not these days 

come, christmas eve 
peaceful and clean 
help me believe 
in my goodness these days 
i’ll be nice, baby 
i won’t let you see 
my uglier face 
at least not these days



credits:

music & lyrics by vic willow 
mixed by vic willow 
mastered by andrás péter gerő

Christmas Eve

Poor Saturday lunch smell of panel buildings, Eurotrash music booming from MTv, hanging out on concrete ping pong tables, and riding the hell out of a battered BMX – Vic Willow's childhood milieu in a sentence. The 1987 born Hungarian alternative musician grew up in a post-Soviet housing estate and debuted solo with the album 'Humanoid' in 2019. From 2005 to 2014, he was the frontman of shock rock band Dr. Melancholia, making him a controversial figure in the Hungarian dark / gothic scene. In 2020, he guest-starred in 9 songs on First Aid 4 Souls' 'Fire' on Alfa Matrix.

In Vic Willow’s songs the experience of being an outsider, being lost and screwed up is a recurring motif. The singer enjoys playing roles both on stage and in his lyrics. In his early years, this role-playing also meant denying his own roots.
The 2022 concept album 'MELANCHOLIA' is a kind of new self-definition. In his sound, Vic spices electronics with sometimes jazzy or oriental flavors, with guitars stroking here and striking there, while Eastern Europeanness now appears as an emphasized element of identity in his visual world.

Vic Willow

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