The latest single from ESCAPIST, “Origin,” speaks and pulls you under. A searing, over five-minute outpouring of emotional radicalism from the Ryazan artist, it’s a track that’s less a song and more a reckoning. At its essence, “Origin” is a furious introspection, the cycle of burning to change juxtaposed against the chains of a destructive familiarity.
ESCAPIST dissolves the lines between genres, fusing the atmospheric depth of dark pop with the brutal power of metal. The result is a track that changes like a storm, mild one moment, devastating the next. The whispers of the harmonies drift around the bare-bones soundscape like morning fog before walls of guitar, and distorted fury burst through, like the tension the song embodies. It’s this unpredictable duality that gives “Origin” its backbone.
“Origin” is the emotional truth pulsing beneath. This is the sound of someone reevaluating their past, acknowledging the cycles they’re caught in, and seeing if, with all they’ve got, they can make their way to freedom. It’s anxious, explosive, and it’s achingly human. Recorded entirely by ESCAPIST themselves at their own Escapist Studios and mastered at Empire Studios in St. Petersburg, the track’s sound universe is just as deliberate as its message. Each warped swell and eerie gap feels meticulously placed to drag you further inside its world.
For fans of either end of the dark-pop-meets-metal spectrum, this song has every box ticked. It’s for anyone who has ever sat in silence, hopeful that things will change but uncertain where to start. ESCAPIST doesn’t give a resolution here, and perhaps that’s the point. The conflict does not need to be resolved to be appreciated. “Origin” is a call to arms and a mea culpa. It’s uncomfortable in the best way because it requires you to sit with the discomfort you are otherwise inclined to avoid. And maybe find her way through it.
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