Catalytics
Catalytics
Original Release Date: 11/08/4658
This album is currently being decoded. New information will be available on November 8th. The following first appeared in Issue #4 of Heart Beets.
Nitrogen dioxide was the chemical of choice for most sub-adults in the planet cluster known as the Ethereal Platform Animus. Technically legal, it could be easily obtained during the production of fertilizer. If heated properly, the reddish-brown gas would employ hallucinatory properties on anyone who ingested it.
Growing up on the smallest planet in the EPA cluster, the members of Catalytic were more than familiar with the temporary toxic properties of the byproduct. Like most their age, they too had dabbled in its effects but were turned off by the devilish dreams and haunting sounds that the gas triggered.
Determined not to pass judgment on those who were forced to toil in fertilizer factories, and in return had become addicted to the gas, they decided to document their descent into the temporary high. While, unfortunately, the incapacitating feeling of the gas made them partially immobile, it was the nightmares that proceeded their return to reality that became the basis of Catalytics.
Both beautifully haunting and uncomfortably positive, the album was a rollercoaster ride through each of the four members’ brains at high speeds. Never one to mix politics and pleasure, they refrained from making a broader statement on the record, instead, allowing the music to showcase the intensity of nitrogen dioxide. The listener was allowed to make up their own minds.
Not only did Catalytics’ success bolster the band, but it brought renewed attention to the epidemic that was threatening their home. Legislation helped, piracy did not. Eventually, Catalytic was forced to abandon the production facility planet under the threat of annihilation, the album a reminder of the time they had lost in the nitrogen haze.
Side A
Redox Reaction
Stoichiometric
Side B
Fecral
Liquid Monolith