Track By Tracks: [Evertrapped] - The Last Extinction (2020)

1. Sorrow (Nothing More In Between):

Sorrow would have to be the song that touches the most on a personal situation. The lyrics are of course written in a way to make a small personal thing sound like a colossal epic event, but is realistically about being on the receiving end (or lack thereof) of a connection between two people where one knows they aren’t giving enough yet persists none the less to make it seem like all is well on the surface all the while knowing that underneath, it isn’t and leaves everything in an unwelcome grey area. And as a result of which one is left in the dark and can’t help but overstate how there is a light of sorts that’s now been left behind or abandoned.

2. Truth Behind Disorder:

This song is written almost as a story that explores the negative effects of oppression towards advanced thinking. For the most part, more specifically, the oppression of organized religious groups. As the chorus of the song mentions ‘holy men,’ it kind of gives it away. But mostly depicts said negative effects as being the truth behind why the world, in some cases, is in such chaos. And the story ends with a conclusion suggesting one school of thought that if this is allowed to continue, and in this case suggests that if we continue this way, well you might as well give up now and be prepared to watch half the world burn because that’s the more likely outcome.

3. Across The Disease:

This focuses more on the human impact on the planet. Now, this is by no means a pro-green statement that I’m trying to make. It simply depicts the inevitable outcome of our effect on the planet as it stands now. The effect, of course, being a rather bleak and hazardous one that can only lead to annihilation no matter how hard we try to fix it. It even ends with a warning that something wicked is coming. The warning is not meant to say, better be careful or we’re all doomed. It’s meant to say, brace yourself because the last event that wipes us all out is on its way whether you like it or not.

4. Titan:

This is actually an homage to the Mad Titan himself. Being a big fan of most things Marvel, this is actually written about the character Thanos and his actions during the Infinity War series. Essentially, his rationale being that there are simply too many beings in the universe and not enough to go around. So the solution…find a way to wipe half of life randomly and dispassionately. So the song keeps with the end times type theme, but in this case, focused on one fictional character and begs the question, what do we do when the bad guy wins? And furthermore, when there is perhaps a justified logic to it?

5. The First Machine:

This song is one of a two-part series on the album (followed by The Last Extinction). The idea here is yet another point of view of how we could doom ourselves and this case through the over use of machines that would one day take us over. We would, therefore, become the dying species and machines could inherit the earth. It also goes on to say how those responsible would clearly have to be cold and soulless individuals not to see the possible outcome and the only way we could avoid this would be to follow our natural instincts that may prohibit progress in this particular field but doesn’t open the door to possible extinction.

6. The Last Extinction:

This being the follow up to The First Machine, goes further to the point where humanity is at the brink of its own destruction. It makes the listener feel like the people left have gone so far past the point of no return that at that point they almost want it to end. To see what comes next, if anything. The setting is that of a dark world at the end of our evolutionary stage in a world being more rapidly consumed by the shadows and darkness of the rest of the universe and now ready for its next stage of planetary evolution even if it’s a mechanical one. 

7. Illusion:

This is probably the simplest one in terms of how it’s written. It doesn’t go too far in-depth about anything really, it’s almost like an overview of the theme of the album so far. It simply explains how humanity has lived in the illusion that everything’s just fine, when it clearly isn’t. And if everyone simply woke up and looked around they’d see that everything’s going to take a nose dive one day and the results won’t be pretty. But it goes on to depict how it’s ultimately too late anyway so one can only wonder if it’s even worth waking up to this reality at this point.

8. Stillborn Era:

This song was originally a track of the first Evertrapped album Tales From The Supermax (which I was not a part of) however it’s been totally re-written. The music is still the same only re-recorded from scratch but the lyrics re-done except the title which we kept. I really didn’t take anything at all from the original lyrics. The overall theme here is once again another point of view of our own destruction only this time the more plausible one which is breeding ourselves into extinction. It shows how it’s one thing to simply want your race to continue propagating itself but you have to start looking on the other hand how it’s actually gotten out of hand. We continue to breed exponentially on a planet that can’t sustain it. And this is possibly the biggest blinder pulled over people’s eyes, and it’s written in a way that says, well if this is what you wanted then here are the consequences.

9. Learning To Kill:

This song is a follow up to Learning To Die from The Anomaly. This is the one song that breaks away a bit from the overall theme of the album and deals more with dark introspection and the nature of obsession. However, it is none the less written in a somewhat abstract way and the metaphors used still keep it within the great darkened world that this album tries to create. It summarizes how following Learning To Die, if death no longer bothers someone then what other dark and terrible things could also no longer bother a person like that. In other words, could the ability to no longer feel make a person feel invulnerable.