Skinless X-1

by Fire-Toolz

Skinless X-1 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 August 2018
  • Label: Hausu Mountain
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:45
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This studio effort refines Marcloid's interest in the 'utopian virtual' aesthetic, pairing it with technical extreme metal drumming and soaring jazz-fusion leads. The record is noted for its high-fidelity production and the use of expansive, cinematic synthesizer arrangements. It conceptually centers on the sensation of physical and digital transcendence, prioritizing textural density and emotional intensity.

Genres

Descriptors: fusion, maximalist, detailed, glitchy, cyberpunk

Tracklist

  1. Fire-Toolz Theme (1:40)
  2. ✓ iNTERBEiNG (3:07)
  3. Experience ☆ Slips ☆ Away (3:12)
  4. Screamography (2:36)
  5. Second Life (3:28)
  6. Response to Subdivisions ☾ (3:09)
  7. Shadowfacts (2:16)
  8. U p p e r P e n i n s u l a (2)(0)(1)(8) (2:21)
  9. μακάρων νῆσοι 「Fortunate Isles」 (3:24)
  10. Ἠλύσιον πεδίον 「Elysian Fields」 (5:19)
  11. Λήθη 「Lethe」 (3:55)
  12. In the Computer Room @ Dusk ☕ (3:05)
  13. Proxy Bay (5:10)

Credits

  • Jeremy Coubrough - artwork by
  • Euglossine - guitar

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