Smoke-Oh

This collection pulls together tracks I've been working on across the last couple years—material that kept circling back to the same core idea: what happens when you stop treating orchestral strings and heavy guitar as opposite ends of a spectrum and just let them occupy the same space. The title track sets the tone immediately, strings and distortion layered so thick you can't quite separate one from the other. From there, pieces like Greed and Rising Sun dig into modal territory, using tuning and progression to create this tension that feels unsettled, almost restless.

“What made sense to compile these together was realizing they all share a certain weight to them.”

What made sense to compile these together was realizing they all share a certain weight to them. Not heaviness for its own sake, but the feeling of something bearing down on you—whether that's the weight of materialism, surveillance, or just existing inside a system you didn't choose. Wired to Feel and Scripted Existence approach that theme differently, one through emotional rawness and the other through something more abstract and angular. Mozart Rocks might seem like a departure until you hear it—Baroque melody and metal aggression turned out to have more in common than I expected, something about the ornamentation clashing with the breakdowns.

The production lets everything breathe. You'll hear the bow scratch on the strings in places, the distortion pedal catching the attack, the space between notes mattering as much as the notes themselves. This is alternative metal that trusts you to sit with discomfort rather than rush past it.