Track By Tracks: Night's Edge - The World That Never Was (2025)

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

LYRICS: The World That Never Was is an exploration of the loss of self-identity into various voids, including obsession, rage, and uncertainty. The final three songs on the album detail a parable where the protagonist awakens in a world suddenly devoid of people and must face their own self in the absence of anyone else, or so it may seem.

MUSICALLY: The World That Never Was is packed with different elements of rock and metal combined with the distinct Night’s Edge sound. Fans of alternative metal, symphonic metal, and even pop punk will have something to enjoy from this album.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

1. Someone to Stay: 

MUSIC: Ripping guitar leads to start off the album. This song touches a little bit on a lot of the Night’s Edge sound and sets up the listener for what’s to come. 

LYRICS: This song sets the stage for the album, exploring the loss of self-identity and the desire to fill it with whatever vice or influence is available.

2. If You Loved Me:

MUSIC: Classic 80’s inspired rocker with soaring vocals, a ripping solo, and a bridge section that delivers the gothic doom and gloom Night’s Edge is known for.

LYRICS: The Song describes losing oneself in a toxic relationship and the feeling of helplessness when your partner’s self-destruction leads to your own. Lyrics change point of view between the victim (verse) and the abuser (chorus).

3. Man of Many Faces:

MUSIC: Heavy at the start with a pop-punk clap and “Woah” chorus, the song shifts attitudes throughout, matching the LYRICS about hiding behind disposable facades for different occasions before a moment of honesty in the song’s conclusion of wanting to be seen and needed for one’s true self.

4. Love Fiction:

MUSIC: Conceptualized as a mix between Deftones' alt metal, synthwave, and lo-fi beats, Love Fiction’s wave of music floods the listener in the swell of bouncing rhythms while the vocals take center-stage, delivering complex emotions.

LYRICS: A romanticization of depression, viewing one's mental illness as a safe and secure lover who is there with them through everything, who will never leave, and who one can always return to.

5. Wish You Wouldn’t:

MUSIC: An ’80s bop, this is a song to get people dancing and forgetting about all of the melancholy the previous tracks just dug up.

LYRICS: Sike, this is a song for dancing alone, with lyrics describing the inability to relate and connect to others, specifically in being unable to verbalize how you feel, and the frustration felt when others ask what is wrong when one cannot comprehend it themself.

6. Overdue For Destruction:

MUSIC: Back to the System of a Down influenced industrial alt-metal with bouncing riffs and an in-your-face chorus.

LYRICS: The Song describes self-destruction and realizing that many of our problems are a product of our own id.

7. Smite:

MUSIC: A sinister mid-tempo crusher, Smite is as headbangable as it is danceable. With unpredictable changes, Latin Choirs, and soaring synths, Smite is an invitation to the Night’s Edge cult.

LYRICS: The Song describes the desire to be erased by God.

8. Ataecina:

MUSIC: A classic Night’s Edge gothy, doomy waltz. Melodramatic, romantic, and powerful – this song is deeply influenced by Type O Negative.

LYRICS: Ataecina is about romantic obsession, specifically from the point of view of a worshipper to their deity. An unhealthy desire for one’s goddess that consumes all sense of self.

9. Songs In Grey Space I:

Reaching:

MUSIC: Coming in at 7:43, Reaching is the longest Night’s Edge song ever written, and the prog rock centerpiece of the album. After the emotional density of Ataecina, the first hit of Reaching is refreshing, and is the first step down a three-song journey of searching for meaning and purpose in an empty world. 

LYRICS: Reaching is the first of three songs telling a parable of a person who wakes up in a world where every other person is suddenly missing. Despite this, our protagonist feels as if they are being watched by a million eyes. How do you fill the spaces of your identity when there is no one else around and no relationships to define you?

10. Song In Grey Space II:

Soaring:

Music: Balls out alternative metal, a two and a half minute in-your-face anthem that doesn’t let up. The perfect refresher after reaching.

LYRICS: In their empty world, our protagonist challenges the universe, God, or whoever, and is answered. They were not ready for the response.

11. Songs In Grey Space III:

Separating:

MUSIC: A haunting keys track leads into a driving, straightforward metal song to close out the album and the three-song suite. It has elements of melodeath, such as harsh vocals and screams, guitar harmonies, breakdowns, and intense drumming that serve to create a song that grabs your attention and doesn’t let go until the album ends.

LYRICS: In the conclusion to the three-song suite, the protagonist has realized through their journey that the feeling of not fitting is a shared human experience; it is inescapable. The protagonists take this idea to unhealthy extremes, believing that the universe is made up of only two things: you, the individual, and everything else.