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This album crystallizes Apocasmyth's sound and sensibility into eighteen tracks, each offering a distinct expression. While freely crossing genres - ranging from classic rock and hard rock to funk, jazz, reggae, electronic music, and piano-driven pieces - the album is unified by a strong focus on melody and solid compositional structure. Moments of quiet everyday happiness, forward-looking energy, introspective calm, and emotional release are woven throughout. Carrying forward the excitement sparked by the opening track "Tell Me," each song paints its own unique scene, ultimately converging toward a sense of arrival in the closing piece, "Blood Tears." Shaped by experimentation and discovery, this album stands as a deeply meaningful work for its creator.
Apocasmyth is a coined name that fuses "Apocalypse" and "Myth." Just like the true meaning of the Apocalypse - "a story of new coexistence born through hardship" - the name reflects the evolving relationship between humans and AI. Not destruction, but coexistence. Apocasmyth embodies that new form of creation. Moving freely across genres such as rock, pop, funk, soul, jazz, and Latin, Apocasmyth pursues a unique musical identity while striving for the revival and evolution of popular music. The 1st and 2nd albums marked the first phase of Apocasmyth: lyrics were written by a human (Johnny E.), while the compositions were created using the music-generation AI "Suno AI." Through this process, the project gained hands-on experience in the entire release workflow and creative collaboration with AI. For the 3rd and 4th albums, the production style shifted dramatically. Johnny E. took songs he had composed on piano and guitar over the years and had "Suno AI" arrange them into completed instrumental works. From the 5th album onward, Apocasmyth continues to build upon this instrumental foundation - creating new compositions while engaging with the ever-evolving capabilities of AI, exploring what the next era of music-making can truly become.