Track By Tracks: Throne Of Roaches - Chrysalis (2025)

1. The Hive Awakens:

The opening track of the album was, on the contrary, the last “song” we wrote. After we finished recording the album, we felt that we could use a leading track to set the mood properly right from the start and to build up nicely to the next song. The Hive Awakens mixes deep ambient synth pads with crawling and swarming insect sound effects. A perfect fit for a band named Throne of Roaches we thought.

2. Infernal Cleansing:

If we had to pick a common favorite song from the album, this would be it. Here we have the typical fast, punchy, and aggressive first song of an album. We chose to take a classic melodeath approach here where the riffs are heavily inspired by the Swedish 90's era. The song is about witch hunting, which, horribly enough, used to take place in our world. The story is told from the view of a fanatic watching a scene where a witch is getting burned alive. He's feeling total pleasure from it because he's so directed into believing that what he’s looking at is the right thing to do. We thought this topic fit well with the frantic nature of the song.

3. The Endless Hunt:

This was the first song we both wrote, recorded, and released as a single of this album cycle. One can say that it defined our new sound. It is dark, slow, groovy, and eerie and is some kind of deathcore/melodeath mix for sure. Lyrically, The Endless Hunt is about the video game Bloodborne. The game tells a story about people going completely mad, getting lust for blood, and going out killing while turning into werewolf monsters. Do we even need to convince you that this is a fitting topic for death metal?

4. Hollow Words:

Oh, the harmonized guitar leads in this song is what makes it! It starts by fading in from silence to these lead guitars where they remain a core part of this track. Once again we have a slower song, so slow for us that we have trouble playing it that slow without rushing when we play it live! But we love this song and we will keep it as a core part of our live set going forward. Hollow Words talks about people, organizations, and religions (you name it) that exploit you without a care for anything other but their own gain. They utter these hollow words to keep you believing that you are important to them, but ultimately, you are just a number for them in their quest for money and power.

5. Where is Your God?:

Does it chug? Hell yeah, it does! ‘Where is Your God?’ is our assemblage of energetic and pumping riffs. The song feels like a sphere of energy that explodes and releases all the trapped force with a bang. That's what the song is about, an anger within, an anger for all the awful things happening in this world, the things that happen in the name of God. Every day people are doing horrible things to each other and justifying it through a god or a religion. But is there a god? Or is it just a lie told by those who want to profit from others?

6. Life of Guilt:

The longest track on the album where we explored various pacing and moods. It starts with a mournful guitar lead until it changes over to an intense chugging riff that has a “marching” feel to it. This vibe inspired the idea for the lyrical theme: war—or in this case, the mental aftermath of war. The lyrics are written in first person from the perspective of a veteran soldier and the mental struggles he is going through as he is suffering from the guilt of his time on the battlefield. The song contains plenty of ups and downs regarding the feel and tempo which we think ties well together with the lyrics. Nonetheless, this is a song we are very proud of both musically and lyrically. It speaks to us in a different way compared to our other songs.

7. I Depart:

Okay, so we needed a mental, furious song full of blast beats and tremolo picking. This is as brutal as we go and is an outlier compared to the rest of the songs. But it’s always fun to experiment and we will never stop doing that for sure. Sitting home and thinking to yourself: “How fast and brutal of a song can we make?” quickly creates a desire to go ahead and try writing such a song. I Depart is the result of that. The lyrics of this song are equally as sick. It’s a story about a person that is hearing and seeing his dead relatives which are constantly haunting him in every waking moment. The ultimate question is whether his experiences are real or if he is just insane and imagining things.

8. Ashen Sun:

This is a story about our Earth in a dystopian and post-apocalyptic setting. What will happen to the very last generation of humanity if we were to continue destroying our environment until the point of no return? What would they feel? What would they think about us? This song depicts this scenario and turns it to eleven of course. Musically, Ashen Sun is a fast and aggressive track to convey this topic in a suitable manner. We knew that no matter what the last generation would think of us, they would certainly not be happy about the situation!

9. Gates of Horror:

As soon as this was written, we knew that it was going to be the closing track of Chrysalis. It’s dark, and ambient and has instrumental parts that set a mysterious vibe. Also, the outro of the song feels like an ultimate climax that is a perfect fit for closing the entire album. The song is a take on the technological singularity, or an AI revolt if you will. If we open the gates for these beings of superintelligence once the technology has gone that far, there is no turning back. Fortunately, this is still just fiction at this point.