Baltes & Zäyn - APOCALYPTECH (Official Video)
56Baltes & Zäyn - APOCALYPTECH (Official Video)
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The title of BALTES & ZÄYN’S upcoming BLUE SUNSET album speaks for itself: APOCALYPTECH, a sinister-sounding portmanteau word blending 'apocalypse' and 'tech'. It stems from a superb video from the Kyle Hill YouTube science channel about the perils of 'gray goo', a hypothetical scenario of global catastrophe, in which out-of-control, nanotechnological, self-replicating machines consume all the biomass on Earth to replicate themselves, reducing everything to grey goo. In terms of the Neon Genesis: Evangelion mythos, APOCALYPTECH features the world-ending technology of the malevolent Human Instrumentality Project, which melds all humanity into a non-sentient, god-like being – in the form of a world-spanning, blood-red ocean.
The song, as a production, in its lyrics, and in the performances of the vocalists (singer Alicia has her first cameo) and guest musicians, is a daring, kaleidoscopic feat of legerdemain deftly juggling the themes, story lines, moods, characters and powerful imagery of Evangelion.
As part two of the first BALTES & ZÄYN single, GODSHATTER (No. 7, its highest position in the DAC German alternative charts), APOCALYPTECH delves deeper into the intricacies of the tragic, apocalyptic family drama of abusive father Gendo Ikari, who, so obsessed with reuniting with his dead wife, Yui, sacrifices all humanity and his only son to achieve godhead, destroying mankind in the process. Loveless and unfeeling, Gendo constantly puts his son, Shinji’s, life at risk by dangling his approval to manipulate Shinji into manning a gigantic Evangelion shell to battle the monstrous Angels threatening his designs. Unforeseen circumstances put Shinji in a position to decide the execution of the Human Instrumentality project. From a place of utter dejection and for lack of self-worth, Shinji reflexively decides to end Mankind. The song ends with him as the last human being alive, in heart-rending isolation, lord of all he surveys but spiritually shattered, inhabiting an inverted pyramid above a limitless blood-red ocean, that used to be the human race. To be continued…
Banzai Apocalyptech! – the grand design for the transcendence of mankind
Apocalyptech! – will transition mankind into one luminous godlike mind
Apocalyptech! – will fuse our souls into one entity, mindless and sublime
Lyrics:
APOCALYPTECH (HUMAN INSTRUMENTALITY PROJECT)
Evangelion oh-one, shining brighter than the sun,
launch to slay the deadly Angel in the sky!
Catch the Angel as it falls, mecha warrior, heed the call,
save the city from deep impact, Shinji, fly!
Shinji basking in sly praise from his father in the blaze
of the vanquished angel, Gendo grooms his son
Playing cello all alone, forget your father’s heart of stone
While music tumbles yellow diamonds in your soul
Banzai Apocalyptech! – the grand design for the transcendence of mankind
Apocalyptech! – will transition mankind into one luminous godlike mind.
Apocalyptech! – will fuse our souls into one entity, mindless and sublime
SEELE’s cruel secret goal is to meld all human souls into
One non-sentient entity that they control.
Sacrificing all mankind to create one god-like mind,
Gendo schemes to reunite with his dead wife.
Then Rei Ayanami, clone of Yui Ikarí,
Shinji’s mother, crosses Gendo’s master plan
As Third Impact is unleashed, three – the number of the beast!
Humanity erased! The world laid waste!
Apocalyptech! – the grand design for the transcendence of mankind
Banzai Apocalyptech! – It will transition mankind into a numinous god-like mind.
Apocalyptech! – will fuse our souls into one being, mindless and sublime
Once trapped in Angel Leliel in your glittering private hell
You faced your mother, Yui’s death, and fell from grace.
By your loveless father spurned, abused, affection overturned,
You felt worthless, wished the whole world be erased.
When it was for you to decide Third Impact‘s ghastly genocide
Because of your deep hurt mankind ends up destroyed!
The world, a lifeless sea of blood, perched above the moonlit flood
an inverted pyramid your now new home.
You’re all alone, Shinji-kun, you’re all alone!
This is Apocalyptech! –
人類を明るい神に変えろう! Transform mankind into a radiant god!
Apocalyptech!
人類の彼は誰時を始めろう! Begin mankind‘s Magic Hour of reckoning!
Apocalyptech!
人類補完計画を行なお! Carry out the Human Intrumentality Project!
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