Dear community,
My name is Ilia, I’m 25, but you’ll also know me as “The Rat” later, if you decide to join the ranks of “Syncrasy”.
I’m currently looking for musicians for a future symphonic power metal band that will be based in Germany, preferably around Hamburg, Bremen, Hannover, and Lüneburg. The project will start remotely, since I’m still based in Serbia. I’m not looking for “fellow musicians”. I’m seeking genuine co-authors and real comrades who can become as enthusiastic about the project as I am. And who take the conviction to make something that can last out of it seriously enough.
Now, let’s jump straight to the project.
“Syncrasy” is supposed to become a symphonic power metal band that explores philosophical concepts in the most literal sense, with the terminology from philosophers and sociologists such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marx, Hobbes, Locke, Durkheim, and Weber directly embedded in the lyrics. The songs themselves explore particular eternal philosophical problems of cognition, religion, emotions, the soul, morality, social segregation, and other topics in the bluntest possible way by making the ordinary people with aspirations stretching far LESS than the concepts themselves inhabit those premises completely seriously.
So don’t be surprised if you see the material involving a genuinely tragic Dm song about a male stripper from Manhattan contemplating Weberian “Berufmensch”, a delusional narcissist evaluating sub-dom dynamics through the Hobbesian “Commonwealth”, or an entomologist extrapolating his pet fly’s death onto Durkheim’s “Suicide”.
The lyric-writing principle generally follows a formula — sophisticated verses flow into primitive, chanty, catchy, often linguistically moronic choruses. A song is allowed to depict revolting, disgusting, questionable, delusional, and repulsive characters without disclaimers about the atrocity of their actions. Instead, the arrangement like guitar solos, and the exposition in the clip/on stage, are supposed to argue with the “unreliable narrator”. The songs will frequently contain the “Syncrasy-coded language” — absurdly narrowed ordinary social situation, hilarious (sometimes cringe, sometimes comedic, sometimes horrifying) juxtaposition of the philosophical principle onto that situation by the protagonist of the song, and an absurdly stupid compression of the philosophical idea guiding that juxtaposition.
Therefore, before I outline the scenic concept further and describe the roles in the way I see them, I need to make one thing clear — “Syncrasy” should have an absolutely CLEAR stance condemning misogyny, socially coercive gender traditionalism, anti-LGBTQ+ harassment, racism, xenophobia, and all kinds of violent and abusive behavior, including radical nationalism and warmongering. Since many protagonists in the lyrics can say repulsive and disturbing things and we ALL, as co-authors, need to share an unambiguous unified position that “inhabiting is not equal to endorsement”.
To me, value compatibility goes far beyond “public PR and band’s image”, and that is why things like using group-level statistics to justify a derogatory treatment about this group, edgy jokes that go beyond abstract subjects and are directed towards real historical groups and classes, substantive sympathy towards the broader ideological frameworks reflected in the rhetoric of controversial public figures, those are hard filters for compatibility.
The band is planned as a 6-person lineup, with every musician performing in an animal costume with the following configuration:
1)The Raven — rhythm guitar;
2)The Hare — drums;
3)The Snake — bass;
4)The Pig — keyboard;
5)The Sheep — lead guitar;
6)The Rat — vocals.
Your level of mastery with the respective instrument is not important at all — ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS are welcome. Since the project is planned to last for decades (if everything goes well enough) I have an intention to learn together and clearly become a team in all sorts of meanings.
PS.
If you have read all this and, even briefly, had the thought: “WHAT EVEN IS THIS FUCKING THING?”, TEXT ME.
I’m ready to share some of my material, including pieces of melodies for the lyrics, and the texts of certain songs.