Track By Tracks: DRUNKEN CROCODILES - Aegony (2025)

ALBUM CONCEPT:

Willpower, along with instinct and experience, distracts humans from pondering one fundamental question: "Isn't it the ego that influences all actions? That ego, blinded by a base individualism, deviates from the harmonious path of human connection and the dimension of community?"

This reflection is the heart of the album.

Each track revolves around a real story that sparks the observation of different perspectives on the powerful ability of the ego to radically transform human nature,

which, on the surface, seems like a favorable condition; however, the criticality becomes apparent in the depths of the issue:

The ego, so improperly perceived, leads only to the desire to dominate others, to assert one's selfish self, to an illusory personal elevation at the expense of others.

The Other is trampled by the brutality of the I.

We lose ourselves in thoughts, imagining the real possibility of a peaceful and collective I that ensures evolution is based on ideals of common goals where the actions of the individual are closely connected to others and the outside world with the sole purpose of achieving universal well-being.

This solution requires an effort that humanity has never imagined making and which perhaps can only coincide with a utopia, but we believe (and many believe) that the current path is an experience that is slowly but surely leading us toward the path of awareness:

Thus, mistake after mistake, generation after generation, we will find the right path to follow.

TRACKLIST:

1. FIRST POINT OF LIBRA – Intro, feat. “Emil Cioran quote”:

It's the beginning of this journey, a pessimistic statement is repeated about how the human being is only subject to the will of the ego.

2. AUTOJEKTOR:

Inspired by Sergei Brukhonenko’s experiments (Ego vs. Mortality).

Dedicated to the Russian doctor's experiments that form the basis of the first "heart-lung" machine.

By keeping a dog's head alive separated from its body, he wants to defeat the mortal condition of man.

3. RAINMAKER – Dedicated to Charles Hatfield (Ego vs. Mother Nature):

Dedicated to the scientist's climate experiments, and in particular to the events in San Diego in 1916.

He wanted to control the climate through his studies, but this led to disaster.

4. LE DIVIN MARQUIS – Exploring the legacy of the Marquis de Sade (Ego vs. Society):

Dedicated to the wildlife of the famous marquis.

Who, abandoning himself exclusively to pleasure and vice in all its forms, died alone and in poverty.

5. HOMO HOMINI LUPUS – Reflecting on human’s primal nature (Ego vs. Instinct):

Is the underlying question of the entire album:

"Is man in the state of nature, in instinct, deep down at the cellular level, a good creature or not?"

6. SLOW BURN – Examining the genocide of Native Americans (Ego vs. Property):

Inspired by the life vision of Native American peoples.

With reference to a letter written by a tribal chief to the President of the  USA, when they were confined to reserves

7. BEHAVIORAL SINK – Inspired by John B. Calhoun’s studies (Ego vs. Evolution):

Dedicated to the macabre effects of overpopulation.

Effects that unfortunately we can already observe in everyday behaviors.

8. FIRST POINT OF ARIES – Outro, feat. “Giordano Bruno quote”:

An optimistic reflection is the end of this journey.

Hoping to soon come to the realization that this evolution is not the right one, and that we need to find the right way to follow.