New Years Resolution

I put this collection together because I wanted to show what happens when you stop treating metal and strings as opposing forces and just let them exist in the same space. New Years Resolution isn't really about self-improvement—the opening track makes that pretty clear—it's more about the friction between who we're told to become and who we actually are. That tension is everywhere here.

“Wired to Feel does something similar—heavy riffs and emotional vulnerability aren't contradictory if you build them right.”

The core idea is that distortion and orchestration aren't enemies. F!CK NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION sets the tone by being exactly what it says: defiant, unpolished, rejecting the whole productivity narrative. But then Smoke-Oh pulls back and lets the violin breathe alongside the guitars, and suddenly you're in modal territory where both textures feel necessary. Wired to Feel does something similar—heavy riffs and emotional vulnerability aren't contradictory if you build them right. Rising Sun uses modal progressions that wouldn't feel out of place on a folk record, but the distortion keeps it grounded in something harder. Mozart Rocks is the clearest example of the collision: baroque sensibilities don't vanish under aggressive drums, they just get recontextualized.

The syncopated rhythms in Binary Emotions and the building intensity of tracks like Generation Alpha show there's real compositional thinking here, not just guitars layered over strings for texture. I recorded this across different sessions over the past year, and what emerged was a collection where the metal parts feel as orchestral as the strings feel heavy. Nothing here exists to soften anything else.