Track By Tracks: CARVING VOID - SUFFOCATE ALL LIFE (2025)

1. Intro:

This electronic instrumental piece, produced by our friend Eloy, opens the album with a heavy bassline and an unsettling, almost cinematic atmosphere. It immediately pulls the listener into the album’s world, setting the emotional tone for what’s to come. With its sense of urgency and dread, it acts as a prelude to the core themes of resistance, struggle, and confrontation.

2. Entrained by Hate:

Infused with hardcore elements, this track is an explosive anthem of rebellion. It tells the story of the oppressed rising up against a system that exploits them. The raw aggression in the music mirrors the desperation and fury expressed in the lyrics. “Led by our compass, spinning to reclaim the power of our fury” captures the determination of those who have nothing left to lose. The compass serves as a symbol of direction, purpose, and unwavering commitment to revolution and justice.

3. Empires:

This was the last song we wrote for the album, and it turned out to be perhaps the heaviest track we’ve ever created. It’s built around grooving death metal riffs and laced with vicious black metal overtones, giving it a relentlessly punishing sound. Lyrically, it’s a brutal takedown of authoritarian regimes and the systems they use to control and divide. “A language of war in order to separate, they control the mass, sanction every trespass.” The call for anarchy throughout the song represents a refusal to be complicit in systemic injustice: “Death to every traitor who defends the lords!”

4. Fragments Under the Black Sun:

This track features a striking guitar solo and blends hardcore intensity with elements of both death and black metal. It's a merciless depiction of the fight against fascism. The imagery is dark and violent, portraying fascism as a parasitic disease: “Like a cancer with the appetite for murder.” The song is unflinching in its vision of justice—fascists aren’t just defeated, they are erased: “Hacked in pieces, wrapped in plastic, buried underground.” The surreal and aggressive musical arrangement intensifies the urgency of confronting hatred head-on.

5. Homecoming:

One of the first songs we wrote for the album, “Homecoming” carries a strong hardcore vibe and a more personal, introspective tone. It reflects on the self-destruction of an oppressor, not as something to celebrate, but as an inevitable reckoning. “Set your finger on the trigger, you’re worthless and ready to pull” illustrates the internal collapse of someone who’s lived by domination and cruelty. The fiery imagery—“Only one shot and just one spark, suddenly your lights turn dark”—underlines the theme of justice catching up, unrelenting and final.

6. Suffocate All Life:

The title track brings together nearly every sonic and thematic element found across the album. It begins with an atmospheric intro that sets a solemn tone before erupting into a powerful blend of aggression and melody. Featuring a standout solo, this song was written during the 2022 uprisings in Iran and channels the spirit of defiance in the face of brutal repression. “Endless cries resound throughout the streets, always pushing to the frontline, no retreat.” It’s a declaration of resilience and an unyielding refusal to be silenced. The line “Execute them without the courts, retribution for all the grief” captures the raw, emotional core of this resistance anthem.

7. The Heat / The Shape:

This groovy death metal track features a catchy, almost anthemic chorus that adds a rhythmic pulse to the album’s most militaristic moment. Inspired by the life of Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the lyrics follow a cold, calculated pursuit of justice. “Fire up the weapon with the target straight in front of your eyes, until the last one dies.” It’s a song about precision, discipline, and retribution. “Can you feel the shape of the bullet crashing through your forehead?” confronts the listener with the brutal realities of warfare—every action deliberate, every strike meaningful.

8. Mindgrinder:

As the first track we wrote after releasing our last album, “Mindgrinder” is raw, direct, and relentlessly heavy. It dives into themes of mental exhaustion, depression, and the psychological effects of exploitation. The music hits like a hammer—no frills, no compromise. “These voices are hammering inside your skull, these noises are hammering inside your skull.” The imagery of grinding, drilling, and pounding reflects the crushing weight of daily survival under oppressive conditions. It’s an honest portrayal of suffering, stripped down to its bare emotional core.

9. The Architects of Disgrace:

A scathing critique of environmental destruction and systemic oppression, this track explores the price of human arrogance and apathy. “We allow the total collapse of the ecosystem, the ocean screams in silence and your creatures rot on the seabed.” The song holds those in power accountable for ecological and societal collapse, highlighting how privilege is preserved at the cost of widespread suffering. “We accept a world covered red from all earthlings.” But even as the devastation unfolds, the track ends with resistance— not resignation: “My heart is still raging against the sustained domination—we will overcome.”