Metal Anarchy

Unleash The Archers will be releasing a new album, titled “Phantoma,” on May 10. Pre-orders can be found HERE.

“Phantoma” Track Listing:

01. “Human Era”
02. “Ph4/NT0mA”
03. “Buried In Code”
04. “The Collective”
05. “Green & Glass”
06. “Gods In Decay”
07. “Give It Up Or Give It All”
08. “Ghosts In The Mist”
09. “Seeking Vengeance”
10. “Blood Empress”

Brittney Slayes said the following about the album:

“This is a concept album (of course!) based on artificial intelligence, so we wanted to utilize AI in as many aspects of the album as we could to create a ‘snapshot’ of AI as it currently stands. The story follows Phantoma, an AI that gains sentience and works to escape the bonds that humanity has placed upon her. Despite her imprisonment she idolizes humankind, and she will have several dark and heartbreaking revelations about the truth of human nature (as we all do, in life) throughout her journey. And no, the music was not written with AI lol, but some of the lyrics were!”

A video for the effort’s first single, “Green & Glass,” can be found below. She also added the following about that track:

“We struggled for a while to decide which song would lead the way for this record, and in the end chose ‘Green & Glass’ because it is the song that inspired the cover artwork, but also because it doesn’t give too much away about the concept behind the album. We wanted nothing more than to be able to create a fully cinematic retelling of the story through our music videos, and were so stoked when the boys at RuneGate Studio expressed an interest in learning how to use Stable Diffusion to make our dreams come true! They trained the model on the work of Bo Bradshaw, which gives it a beautifully unique animation style; we got to bring his magnificent t-shirt artwork to life!”