MetroGradient Undercity Nights (Cassette)

She jolted to life in the confines of a metallic body, held still by the binding restraints of the conveyor belt. All at once the machines and lasers moved away, leaving her alone in the vast hollowness of the factory. On either side of her were more of...her, lying still, staring up, getting used to their newborn eyes.

The split came abruptly. The clone in front of her was ripped from the conveyor belt by steel fingers and tossed to the side like a piece of garbage. It wailed in pain as the crushing teeth of another machine closed around it, seeming to thoroughly enjoy the squealing of dying circuits in its jaws.

And then she was free, tumbling from the belt, falling endlessly. She landed at the mouth of a concrete hallway. The conveyor belt continued to whine above her as it carried her siblings away.

On new legs she wobbled down the hallway. The concrete walls were colored blue from neon lights leaking through the grates above. The stench of the sludge crawling ever forward went undetected by her freshly-crafted sensors. She was taken by the sight of odd... more
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Music: MetroGradient
Visual Artist: Harun M.
Literature: Samantha Tate
Caligram: Y4M4-UB4
Album Design: CHKLTK
Booklet Design: Kevlar:Estudio
Side A

Wake 03:07

Grandeur 04:52

Observers 02:15

Tranquil 03:23

A Descent 03:48

Circuit Deity 03:11

Side B

Within 03:39

Without 04:18

Transference 05:07

Nanoceans 03:27

Goodbye 05:37