Track By Tracks: Vox Umbra - Unchained (2025)

1. Cold Heart:

“Cold Heart” opens the EP with a landscape of frost and distance. It’s a meditation on emotional disconnection—the quiet ache of reaching for someone who won’t reach back. Driven by pulsing darkwave rhythms and dual vocals stretched across oceans, it sets the tone for a world built on longing, shadows, and unspoken truths.

2. On The Right:

“On The Right” is one of the EP’s most pointed songs—a political and moral statement wrapped in shadowy synths and rhythmic urgency. The track speaks to the rise of hate-fueled ideology and the ease with which people are taught to fear what they don’t understand. The lyric “hatred of others is not a right” stands at its center: a reminder that cruelty disguised as conviction is still cruelty. It’s a call to recognize humanity over division, delivered with simmering frustration and clarity.

3. Iron Serpent:

“Iron Serpent” is the EP’s moment of spiritual reckoning. Heavy, ritualistic, and introspective, it confronts the patterns that coil around us—the habits, fears, and histories we inherit or create. The song is a confrontation with the self, wrapped in industrial textures and layered vocals that feel both confrontational and cathartic.

4. Old World:

“Old World” channels the tension between what once was and what’s rapidly taking its place. It’s about watching the New World turn away while the Old World burns behind you—one bound to consume the other. The track brims with frustration and inevitability, capturing the sense of standing at a crossroads as eras collide and fade.

5. Unchained:

The title track is the emotional pivot of the EP. “Unchained” is a declaration of release—breaking free from the ghosts, shadows, and inherited grief that follow us through life. It’s both defiant and tender, carrying the sense of finally stepping into light after years of moving through dim corridors. Sonically uplifting but still wrapped in noir atmosphere, it’s the EP’s moment of transformation.

6. Ethereal Friend:

An intimate and deeply personal closing track, “Ethereal Friend” honors the presence of someone who is gone but never absent. Written about Florian’s mother, who passed when he was young, the song reflects the feeling that she remains with him—an unseen companion, a quiet guide. Gentle, mournful, and luminous, it ends the EP on a note of connection beyond distance, loss, or time.