Voltbinder's Lament from Sparkspire by Kynarc

The grid’s failing hum takes on a terrifying dissonance with this track, pulling you into the immediate aftermath of a Voltbinder’s creation turning to chaos. It’s the sound of their improvised electrical art, meant to bind and control, screaming back at them, birthing the first Gridwraiths from cascading feedback. You feel the creeping dread as their proud designs twist into something monstrous, a stark lesson in hubris. Musically, the fuzzed Rickenbacker bass anchors a collapsing reality, while talkbox-filtered guitars spit out a desperate, almost human wail, a sound Patch spent nights coaxing, pushing the rig right to its limit in the studio until we thought we’d fry the board. Analog synths shimmer with unsettling beauty, mapping the Gridwraiths' evolving forms. There’s a section, the ‘wraith sequence,’ where the structure just dissolves, the normal lines fraying into raw, reversed vocal loops and pure static – Faze actually rigged an old contact mic to a failing substation transformer during one of those sessions, pulling in that unsettling hum directly. It’s a fusion of the deep, almost primal grooves of Can meeting the chilling soundscapes of early Floyd, all cut with the precise, high-voltage hum you might hear from Kraftwerk’s darkest corners. This entire piece carries the sharp, cold feel of a late autumn night when the grid lines are coated in freezing rain, everything ready to snap, serving as a brutal reminder that some currents simply won't be tamed. It leaves you with the weight of artistic responsibility, a cautionary hum that resonates long after the final feedback fades.

Circuit-trippers riding high-voltage waves through electric dreamscapes. Our riffs pulse like transformer substations gone rogue, melodies snaking like live wires across your consciousness. Tune in. Get shocked.