The Apollonian

This is the second album in a Triptych describing various forms of tragedy. Which one this describes is rather self-explanatory. I wrote this album because of my interest in Nietzsche's critical work "The Birth of Tragedy." It is both entirely personal and quite fictional. It is meant to be angry and torn by despair, and generally reflect the dramatic nature of early life. I tend to divide the album into four parts: 1. (tracks 1-3) is the turbidity of nostalgia augmenting an understanding of reality to the point of insanity. 2. (tracks 4-6) is the realization of said insanity and direction toward an antagonist (e.g. oneself, the lover of a friend, an adulteress; respectively). 3. (tracks 7-8) is the internalization of external insecurity to prove that one can both a. love oneself and b. love another but c. still want to f**king die. 4. (tracks 9-10) is resolution, an afternoon with your Love in the afterlife, an afternoon at Her gravesite, an afternoon in Her bedroom. It was made mostly with analog synths processed through an amplifier into ProTools with intricate drum sampling and arranging / programming. Vocals were recorded into ProTools. Believe me, this **** took a lot of time. This album will also be released physically in a limited printing of 25.