ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Essenger and Scandroid join forces in a formidable arsenal of vocoder and rock guitar. Reminiscent of early 80s synth pop with a modern cyberpunk edge, Empire of Steel explores the exploitation of AI by a dystopian mega-corporation. Could merging with the machines be the key to restoring balance?
"Empire of Steel" is the final single released in advance of Essenger’s highly-anticipated new album, After Dark. The new song is available as an instant-grat for fans who purchase the full album, and it’s out on all major streaming platforms now from independent synthwave label FiXT Neon
Purchase/Stream: fanlink.to/_eos
Song: Empire of Steel (feat. Scandroid)
Artist: Scandroid, Essenger
Album: After Dark
Label: FiXT Neon
Follow Scandroid:
fanlink.to/fol...
Klayton is Scandroid:
klayton.info
Follow Essenger!
fanlink.to/fol...
Follow FiXT Neon:
fanlink.to/fol...
#Scandroid #Essenger #FiXTNeon
*"You won't automate our roles if we digitize our souls"* 🎶 🫵😤
Both very cyberpunk in theme, but also very smooth and groovy! Loving this project.
Yo, you make awesome documentals.
it's kinda like industrial metal
Thank you for showing me that this song existed
@@Vermbraunt Glad others are getting to experience it!
@@Indigo_Gaming same over here mate thanks.
That line about “automate our roles if we digitize our souls” …. Ssooooo good.
The irony being that “they” want us digitizing our souls. Much easier to control 😉
I’m pretty sure the line is “you won’t ordinate our roles, if we digitize…”” ordinate meaning coordinate
I know!
@@mcren6781 It's automate matey
@@mcren6781No definitely automate.
Found this from Indigo Gaming's Cyberpunk documentary.
same here =D
Same!
This got recommended to me rignt after I saw tne documentary
Same
Same here, great music for a great documentary
MaSu sent me, I have to say, "Yo, this song is pretty good..."
ESSENGER is a huge blessing to the FixT NEON roster... And standing side by side with Scandroid is beyond amazing
thank uuuu ♡
I agree, I like what I am hearing=)
@@Essenger Thanks for your awesome music, i discovered the title After Dark 1-2 months ago, and now this, keep up the great work. :)
whats that?
Machinae Supremacy sent me here with their cover of this and I love it.
I'm really enjoying these Scandroid features. Sometimes I need a break from listening to Scandroid to listen to more Scandroid
I feel ya
I listen to Celldweller and Circle of Dust more, but I like listening to Scandroid from time to time
Basically I take a break from Klayton to listen to more Klayton
🤣🤣🤣🤣
well this got stuck in my head for about 2 days. Thanks to Bryce Episode 2 no less.
same
SAMEEEE
Essenger: Wait, it's Cyberpunk?
Scandroid: *A l w a y s h a s b e e n*
😂❤
"It's Cyberpunk?"
"So's your whole damn reality, pal."
I came here after watching Brandon Rogers' "Bryce Tankthrust" Episode. Love the music by the way💗👌
Same
Same x3
This should absolutely be in the new season of The Adventures of Captain Lazerhawk
Why does it seem like this is 2024s themesong with all the A.i stuff going on? That "automate our roles if we digitize our souls" line hits so hard. I think in the near future, that's probably going to be what we'll have to do to keep up, digitize ourselves.
bro the song is about refusing being made into a human machine, listen to the lyrics, they are saying they refuse to digitize their soles, no enterprise on earth will make us kneel to your empire of steel
WE're still a long way from anything like that, though I'd imagine there's probably going to be a workforce uprising in the decades to come since corpos have been abusing their positions for too many decades . . . and they should know the bill is coming for them. I mean, look at the constitution . . . few if any constitutional laws with regards to businesses and corporations. They keep up their bullshit, there's going to be.
Both the ai and the ever-growing evil of the corporations. It's becoming a prophecy.
Still here, brother, cattle for slaughter all around, 80% are blind and deaf, 1% with power hates humanity, and all other are here only for greed, power and confusing and temporal pleasures of Mara(hinduism), Demiurg(gnosticism) plane without true spirit in none of groups. I estimated humanity much more, when i was younger and valued limited empirical emanations overwhelming me in this purgatory(my childhood strugless/adolescent struggles, being honest). My only shame, that i didn`t see it clear earlier
Son, cyberpunk literature and media is prophetic. That's our future to some degree whether we like it or not.
The rebirth of Donavan
On a train rn and the train noises are blending with the music highly recommended
Im plugging this for cyberpunk 2077s new radio station as their asking for ideas. I want 80s synthwave
I absolutely love the artwork here
It's exactly Scandroid and Essenger themselves standing side by side
Cane here from machinae supremacys cover. Fan of scandroid. Have no idea on how i missed this one.
Same here :D
Holy shit same thing. I'm just obsessed with Sconroid, he's absolutely amazing, how I can missed this song???
oh wow I thought it was an original track by Machinae Supremacys lol
Same, both are fantastic.
Machinae Supremacy brought me here and I'm loving the song and the cover
Congrats on getting your song on Brandon rogers short-film klayton!
New this banger would eventually be noticed
I swear if I ever got around to streaming my Cyberpunk games this would be such a perfect intro song 💙🩵💙🩵💙
If Scandroid has absolutely no appearance what so ever in Cyberpunk 2077 I'm fighting someone.
What are you going to do samurai?
Fight me
@@Zninety burn the world down to cinders
@@Asheriancommand Now there is the kind of reply I was seeking.
I hope CP77 will have more syntwave and industrial music there.
Essenger and Scandroid? Hell yeah 😎
I heard the Machinae Supremacy song and just found out it's a cover of this. It probably said in the description but anyway, love both versions of the song. Most amazing of all is unlike other covers, I like both equally and I must check out more of your songs after this!
We need this kind of music now more than ever before.
Day by day this Genre is gaining momentum
I'm counting down the days
The future feels so distant
A lot of things have changed
And few have been resistant
Devaluation reigns
And fear of self destruction
Adapt or be replaced
And follow their instructions
So lay waste to all we've made
For your corporate palisade
You won't automate our roles
If we digitize our souls
A new force will intervene
Half human, half machine
And no enterprise on Earth will make us kneel
To your empire of steel
Recoded, we'll reboot
An uprising is moving
And the power you misused
Will soon be your undoing
We'll give you what you need
Though not quite what you were meaning
And we'll reap what you have sown
We are the soul of this new machine
So lay waste to all we've made
For your corporate palisade
You won't automate our roles
If we…
*History of Cyberpunk in the 90s*
Nice. It's retro wave time. Remaking the 80's with style as always.💜😎👍
I just want to say, I am listening to this in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, in the year 2023.
Bryce series ya i was there too
This song actually fits CP2077's story perfectly. All the stuff with Johnny, his anti-Arasaka fight, his (literally) digitized soul. Would've been great if they included ANY Scandroid song, but if I could've picked just one, Empire of Steel would've been it. Fits the theme of the game like a glove.
wudv been great if the game devs made things properly
Hopefully we will have mod tools soon so we can add music to radios. I have an entire catalogue of Cyberpunk themed music I have been collecting for years that would be perfect for the game lol.
Помимо пары хороших треков в игре вся музыка была крайне однообразна и скучна. Треки на подобие этого были бы уместны в CP77.
Apart from a couple of good tracks in the game all the music was extremely monotonous and boring. Tracks like this would have been appropriate for CP77.
Gross how true that is
@@altor5438 Exactly.
This is seriously, the best ever. I used to play Netrunner back in the late 90s and early 00s and this is just... it. This gives me chills.
netrunner is fucking fire. Jinteki gang rise up
I’m counting down the days
The future feels so distant
A lot of things have changed
And few have been resistant
Devaluation reigns
And fear of self destruction
Adapt or be replaced
And follow their instructions
So lay waste to all we've made
For your corporate palisade
You won't automate our roles
If we digitize our souls
A new force will intervene
Half human, half machine
And no enterprise on earth will make us kneel
To your empire of steel
Recoded we'll reboot
An uprising is moving
And the power you misused
Will soon be your undoing
We’ll give you what you need
Though not quite what you were meaning
And we’ll reap what you have sown
We are the soul of this new machine
So lay waste to all we've made
For your corporate palisade
You won't automate our roles
If we digitize our souls
A new force will intervene
Half human, half machine
And no enterprise on earth will make us kneel
To your empire of steel
Recoded we'll reboot
An uprising is moving
The power you misused
Will soon be your undoing
We’ll give you what you need
Though not quite what you were meaning
And we’ll reap what you have sown
We are the soul of this new machine
So lay waste to all we've made
For your corporate palisade
You won't automate our roles
If we digitize our souls
A new force will intervene
Half human, half machine
And no enterprise on earth will make us kneel
To your empire of steel
To your empire
We’ll give you what you need
(To your empire)
And we’ll reap what you have sown
(To your empire)
So lay waste to all we've made
For your corporate palisade
You won't automate our roles
If we digitize our souls
A new force will intervene
Half human, half machine
And no enterprise on earth will make us kneel
To your empire of steel
To your empire of steel
To your empire of steel
A true hero up there
Thanks
Recoded we'll reboot
an uprising is moving the power you misused
will soon be your undoing
Перекодировано ⚕ ДНК ⚕ мы перезагружаемся
Восстание движется и сила, которой вы злоупотребили,
Скоро обернётся вашим ⚡️ уничтожением ⚡️
Based and, dare I say, redpilled lyrics?
@@prometortik *сильно!👍*
thanks alot ;)
I just happened to discover this song in a cyberpunk-themed playlist and I immediately thought it was fantastic. This definitely has a permanent spot on my playlist now.
Machinae got me here, both songs are really freaking awesome !
I'm in absolute love with the guitar at 1:47 ❤
Damn this is pretty good! We'll never kneel to their empire of steel.
Damn right F*ck the new world order
This song is awesome 👏
I love this track, and i also bought the "Scandroid - Scandroid" album and got it today, awesome music!
Found this song in SynthRiders and I’m OBSESSED 😁
I just found this dude off " the midnight " Pandora channel. One of my favorite current artists. This song means alot now. But in 50 years this song will be a haunting memory of the last days of humanity. One love essenger. Your light years ahead of everything
Your right the path humanity is on.
Team humanity!!!@@jonathandoe2316
Still here, brother, cattle for slaughter all around, 80% are blind and deaf, 1% with power hates humanity, and all other are here only for greed, power and confusing and temporal pleasures of Mara(hinduism), Demiurg(gnosticism) plane without true spirit in none of groups. I estimated humanity much more, when i was younger and valued limited empirical emanations overwhelming me in this purgatory(my childhood strugless/adolescent struggles, being honest). My only shame, that i didn`t see it clear earlier
I've heard this song a few times in various media, and something about the vocals seemed familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on why. I just realized that Scandroid is Klayton and it blew my mind! I've been a huge fan of Celldweller for such a long time, but I hadn't listened in a while. This song is absolutely amazing! I really should do a better job of keeping up with my favorite artists so I don't miss out on stuff like this in the future.
Check out Circle of Dust too if you haven't already, that was one of Klayton's earliest projects and he released another album around the same time as Scandroid's debut
@@nobodyspecial7340 Awesome! I'll check it out. Thanks!
Adding Scandroid or Day of The Dead just makes everything great.
I love both this and Machinae Supremacy's cover. This feels like something V would listen to and the cover sounds like something Johnny would listen to. For my cyberpunk fans.
Fuck I need to make a Cyberpunk Playlist the in-game radio is too quiet.
Идеальная гармония!
Perfect harmony!
0:56 best part
Dear Clayton, i so love your all projects, but Scandroid i love more, i so love before Crlldweller in my 15 years, in my 25 i hear Scandroid and so love it, and then i see - Its your project, i love all yours project and i know about Scandroid, I did not know that this is your project. I just want say, do a more music in Scandroid, please. I so love Scandroid. From Russia with love💙
Donovan reporting for duty.
Another jewel of this emergent genre.
I love how both voices are harmonizing here
Thank god Apple Music recommended this after Neo Tokyo, freaking love this song. Thank you
Recently got my first VR headset and discovering this track on Synth Riders has honestly been one of the best parts of the whole experience. Been in my head for days so finally had to look it up outside the game 😍
I actually heard of Essenger since that song by Mazare came out on Monstercat (called Berzerker). Pretty amazing one right here! 👍
1:47 I can listen to that guitar solo all day
ITS HERE
Here because of Essenger. Such a cool collab! The joining of two powers
Honestly these two artists making a track together is like a fucking dream come true.
LOVED IT!! Everything was awesome the beat the lyrics that artwork for the vid guess it's time to listen to this song all day! I guess if I had to give one complaint it's that Aphelion isn't in that artwork to xD but this was totally awesome hope you guys do more with each other.
M'aiq wants the future to get here with haste, this one wants to be a cyborg Khajiit and live forever. M'aiq tires of his mortal coil's aches and pains.
Has M'aiq found a caliper yet?
@@JaCoOoOoS M'aiq has found no calipers, but this one has a lifetime's worth of tongs. M'aiq wishes you well.
Oh man, this is the best thing I've heard in years.
I was looking for a theme song for my new Cyberpunk RED campaign. This both fits and lyrics game me more than a few story hooks. Thank you!
This is well cool. The best things I find always have a bunch of worldbuilding behind it, and this song is no exception. Fabulous job here!
Love it! I wouldn't digitize my soul though. There is a Black Mirror episode about it also. I love how current and relevent Klayton's music is.
U cant digatize it
40k fan here, this fits in the setting of a civilized world that's ruled by corporations and that the half human half machine is a description to the Adeptus Mechanicus
Digitize our souls? Wait he’s talking about the relic 😮👏🏻😱
No words.... This is just amazing. Thank you Essenger and Scandroid!!
This tune needs a movie with the same name!
found this song through my dad on a car ride. i will forever love this, love you dad!
That's cool, Klayton! As always cool!
"My sacrifice will mean her salvation"
I see Essenger....I see Scandroid....I click *PLAY!!!*
Good stuff (Even if I am late!)
In Bryce we Thrust
Also,in Klayton we trust.Hahaa!
Essenger, Scandroid and MaSu co-op would be absolutely out of this world.
Yeah, this one is an instant favorite.
Amazing song...After watching the Pantheon series love this even more!
Pretty cool moves guys. You have the electro-synth-voice really into the zone on this one.
Before I deployed in 2019, I found Neo Tokyo and listened to your music for a year straight and forgot your name...
You have F.o.o.l vibes and I wish you both would do a collab 😢❤
holy cow, this is basically subplot of Cyberpunk 2077. Nice edit aswell, one of the best retrowave songs with lyrics I've heard
Yet another Massive Track with a very familiar set of fingerprints. AWESOME.
So youtube randomly put this on a generated play list i listen to at work. definitely going to listen to it some more. It fits an arc of a story I'm working on.
Would like to read it when you finish
@@KaseQueso Going to be a while.
Had the same thing happen to me, is gonna be my "credits roll" back track for a dnd campaign I'm running :)
Hope your story arc pans out ^_^
@@ALVINSTALVIN Thanks. I keep putting it on hold to write other stuff to practice to make certain it is done as well as I can.
@@generalzeta7000 Sounds like a good plan, I hope that it works out!
I would like if I may to pass on a quote from someone I reespect. that "done, is better than perfect"
That if the goal of perfection prevents you from finishing a project, getting it done is worth more :)
For me it gives me the confidence to not be paralysed from completing something, by the thought of it not being as good as I could make it if I delay :)
I hope you find this in some way helpful. And again I wish you all the best with it :)
Love this song..I come back every few weeks to listen to it for the last 2.5 years🤘
Want to hear more from this combo. They are 🔥🔥together.
god this is so goooood
This is the best thing I've ever heard.
"Around me is a burgeoning empire of steel. From my throne room, lines of power careen unto the skies of Earth. My whims will become lightning bolts that devastate the mounds of humanity. Out of the chaos, they will run and whimper, pleading with me to end their tedious anarchy. I am drunk with this vision. God. The title suits me well."
I approve.
idk but every morning i wake, i find myself singing and coming back to this
This song is incredible
Absolutely top notch stuff! Groovy.
I'm so getting this to my playlist!! Thank you so much Essenger! Thank you so much Klayton!
Badass! two of my favorites on one song. The lyrics are awesome, and the harmony of their voices is perfect. Better than i’d hoped for.
The favourite composition! 👍
Incredible!!
Bryce took me here. I searched if we digitize our souls song
Ooh Wowwy!! Sounds Fantastically Futuristically Amazing. Beautiful Metamorphically Well Explained. My Ears Love It the Music and Lyrics.
I've had this on repeat for 3 hours
For 3 months
My god , this is so good, came from the Cyberpunk Documentary.
I've always wonder if I'm human and half machine in my dreams. This song got my soul kindle even brighter and pounding with fuel.
Found this song through Synth Riders and fell in love at the first note. Great stuff.
Loved this track 😍😍
superb!!!