Illusion of Grace

Ambrotype’s debut album “The Revelations” is the essence of all the desperation and dismay I’ve experienced throughout my life and during the Syrian crisis. The candle of dismay is, of course, still lit, and this work is the first of many to come. I’ve been attracted to progressive rock and metal ever since I first heard Opeth’s Ghost of Perdition at age 13; since then I was inspired to get involved in music by any means. Opeth and Steven Wilson’s music greatly inspired the sounds of this album and my mentality in general.

The idea for this band started a few months after I bought my first guitar at age 16 and wrote a song for my departed brother. I wasn’t sure at first what genre I wanted my music to be, but it forged and developed itself over the years to become Progressive rock and metal. I started the serious recording for this album a year ago and had been slowly composing it for the past two years. The Revelations is a concept album that talks about a man who lost his faith in his tribe and decided to flee with his lover. Nevertheless, his lover was too mind-washed by the tribe’s beliefs, so she betrayed him and led him to his death. The protagonist never stopped believing that his lover wouldn’t change her mind even after his death, so he made a deal with a divine entity to come back as a beast, purge the earth, and try to save his lover. He failed after so many tries, and had to watch her burn. The protagonist then became delusional and schizophrenic and was bound to walk the earth eternally in solitude. Each and every one of these songs resembles a stage I went through, but of course they are all masked by the story and by metaphors.

I humbly think that this album is unique because I devoted my life over the past three years to make it happen. This is the start of a big dream for me that I will never stop striving to achieve. I recorded all the instruments and vocals myself, and had 3 guest guitarists record some solos. Ambrotype is a solo project for now, but I am looking forward to finding devoted band members in the near future after the first release and I already have some people in mind.