Aphotic Apathy is a Space/Dark Ambient project with one main goal and that is to create soundscapes. Involving the lore and themes of the Alien, Prometheus & Predator universe, the music will encompass atmospheres of Horror & Space. Founded by one member Alex Alexander.
No one knows who existed first, but we do know that The Engineers who possessed some of the most advanced technology in the entire galaxy, with a special emphasis placed on their skills in Genetic Engineering and the creation of mankind took it upon themselves to eradicate their own creation. Things turn as they're not successful in the attempt, but yet visited by their mistake.
The album The Engineers, will take you through a very dark perspective in ambiance. It's centered around a team of explorers who are searching for mankind’s creator, throughout their voyage the team experience the excitement of finding evidence of their creators. The Engineers and then survival, after being confronted with the realization of The Engineers true purpose for mankind alike. Absolute annihilation.
Written, produced by Alex Alexander.
Original Album Cover made by CoffeeAndMarkers (Gerardo R. Justel) coffeeandmarkers.deviantart.com Edited by Alex Alexander.
The story continues as The Engineers who were stationed on LV-223 not successful in their attempt due to their own Bio weaponry turning on them. Sends a signal to their home planet of the current circumstances. The Engineers on the home planet, then employ the Predators to test their new Bio Weapons, a species who live by hunting other dangerous species for honor; luckily they lived in a close galactic proximity.
The members of the Predator species are the ultimate hunters, able to survive in many different climates and environments, also able to heal themselves quickly. Who better to determine the worth of this new weapon?
The Engineers informed the Predators of the requirements of the weapon a host, The Engineers early creation (Mankind) could have been made as hosts for this purpose. They then gave the pathogen to the Predators to bring to Earth to test on The Engineers early creation.
The predators visited Earth using the indigenous populations; they commanded early mankind to build Pyramids so that they could hunt the "ultimate prey", bred from the sacrificial human hosts to train young hunters for thousands of years. It was they who taught early human civilizations how to build pyramids for this purpose, and were in turn worshiped as gods.
Written, produced by Alex Alexander.
released March 22, 2015
Original Album Covers by RTyson/ jigsawsstudent Edited by Alex Alexander
Predator Sound Effects Provided by Sidney Turner & ElitePredators.
The crew of The Nostromo consists of seven people from various fields. They include Captain Dallas, Warrant Officer Ripley, Navigator Lambert, Engineering Technician Brett, Executive Officer Kane, Science Officer Ash, and Chief Engineer Parker. All awoken by "Mother" the computer mainframe that served aboard The Nostromo. Mother also operated many of the ship's background systems, and auto-piloted the vessel while the crew were in hypersleep.
Before the crew awoke, Mother partially decoded a unidentified warning signal that started emanating from LV-426, Mother awoke the crew from hypersleep to investigate and hopefully recover a potential parasitoid specimen from a derelict ship located on the moon.. Unbeknownst to the crew.. except one member Science Officer Ash who was given a classified retrieval order by Weyland-Yutani, Special Order 937: Which ensured the retrieval and survival of a sample specimen of the species located on LV-426, and stipulated that this task superseded all other priorities, even the safety and survival of the crew.
This album will take you through a Dark Ambiance of the events that occurred pertaining to the crew of The USCSS Nostromo and what they discovered and recovered back to The Nostromo leading to it's untimely destruction.
released March 30, 2015
Written, produced by Alex Alexander.
Original Album Cover made by Brian Taylor. Edited by Alex Alexander.
The Freesound Project served this sounds.
Track 12 contains an excerpt from Alien: Isolation.
Long before Prometheus uncovered the origins of the Engineer and his species, the mysterious 'Space Jockey' for many the most mysterious thing of the Alien film was held captive in everyone’s mind. The lonely sentinel first encountered by the doomed crew of the ship Nostromo, the haunting discovery of the enormous lonely star gazer remains one of the most memorable moments in the Alien franchise. Based on the iconic bio-organic industrial designs of Swiss artist H. R. Giger, who designed every detail of the fossilized sentinel.
The Space Jockey, a tragic traveler who fell victim to his own lethal cargo and was forever frozen, trapped in time and space.
This album will center on the mystery of The Space Jockey in it's Biomechanical state of being in a Dark/industrial Ambiance.
Words of HR Giger :
"The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs."
"The pilot is conceived as one of my biomechanoids, attached to the seat so as to form a single unit"
"In his seat in the centre of the turntable is the pilot, eight metres (26 feet) tall."
released April 11, 2015
Written, produced by Alex Alexander.
Original Album Cover made by Greg Rekas. Edited by Alex Alexander.
Fifteen years after the events of The Nostromo, Ellen Ripley's daughter, Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival, on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance.
Approached by Weyland-Yutani synthetic Christopher Samuels, who informs her that the flight recorder of the Nostromo was recently located by a ship named the Anesidora and is being held aboard Sevastopol, a remote free port space station owned by the Seegson Corporation, in orbit around the gas giant KG348.
Samuels offers Amanda a place on the Weyland-Yutani team sent to retrieve it, so that she can have closure regarding the fate of her missing mother. Ripley, Samuels, and Weyland-Yutani executive Nina Taylor, travel to The Sevastopol on board the courier ship known as the Torrens, owned by Captain Verlaine. The group arrives at The Sevastopol to find the station damaged and its communications module damaged.
This album will take you through a Space/Dark Ambiance of the events that occurred pertaining to the unrelenting hope of a daughter who undoubtedly tries her hardest to unravel the truth behind her mothers disappearance.
-Bonus Tracks will shed a light on the year 2179, When Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of the incident aboard The Nomostro, is rescued and revived after drifting in space for fifty-seven years in hypersleep.
released May 6, 2015
Written, produced by Alex Alexander.
The Freesound Project served this sounds.
Original Album Cover Art made by The Creative Assembly, Sega. Edited by Alex Alexander.
Xenomorph Sound Effects provided by The Creative Assembly, Sega.
The second album of Aphotic Apathy featuring the lore of Prometheus.
The Elders are a wise, respected race who are knowledgeable and technologically advanced. The Engineers have been around for at least 35,000 years according to the cave paintings discovered by Holloway and Shaw(Prometheus) The other (Elders) are hundreds of thousands of years older than the Engineer and that is evident from the Elder's wrinkled, thin and almost wood like skin. . They have the ability to travel through space. They returned to Earth numerous times to teach various civilizations an unknown number of things. They also partake in sacrifices/ceremonies in which they sacrifice a young Engineer of their own to create a species that resemble them(Humans).
- The Elders- For we cannot create as the gift was stripped from us long ago. As always we will continue our attempts to create a perfect Eden much like our own. You, the chosen one( Young Sacrificial Engineer) will create it in your own image
Not much is known about The Elders, but I believe them to be a non hostile force that seeks only to create life and share knowledge. I guess you can refer to them as Priests.
This album will encompass a Space, Ethereal and Dark Ambient atmosphere that showcases the Elders life in the way they conduct themselves as Creators.
released June 5, 2015
Written, produced by Alex Alexander.
Original Album Cover Art is a screenshot of the film Prometheus. Edited by Alex Alexander.
The Derelict was built by a species that have become known as The Space Jockeys. It was investigated by the Nostromo crew in response to a mistaken S.O.S signal originating from its location, LV-426, where the lonely stargazer pilot remained for several millennia prior to when The Nostromo crew discovered it's distress transmission.
The Pilot's fossilized remains were discovered by the crew of the USCSS Nostromo, lured to the site by the very distress signal that was supposed to keep them away.
This EP will take you through a Brooding, Dark, Space Ambiance of the crew of the Nostromo, a journey through uncharted terrain, A descent into a darker reality as the fate of the crew turns sour from their unintentional discovery that leads to unforseen casualty.
Begins several scenes from the awakening of the crew and the check by Dallas on mother, which leads to events that unfold in The Derelict.
Translated Transmission :) "Do not land here, repeat, stay away from this planet for your own safety."
"Ripley: Ash, that transmission - Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an S.O.S."
"Dallas: [observing the Space Jockey] Alien life form. Looks like it's been dead a long time. Fossilized. Looks like it's growing out of the chair.
Roughly 2,000 years ago, a group of Engineers stationed themselves on LV-223 and planned to destroy humanity on Earth by releasing a pathogen. One way or another, the engineers themselves were exposed to the mutagen, and in the ensuing chaos, most of them were killed.. Three Engineers managed to take refuge within a juggernaut and stored themselves within the Hypersleep Chambers, likely to wait for the pathogen to die off.
In 2093, after the Prometheus' two year voyage, the ship arrived on LV-223. The android David who was aboard the Prometheus successfully found the Hypersleep chambers of The Engineers, Only one Engineer survived while his brethern weren't as lucky, as their Hypersleep Chambers stopped functioning, as a result of which they died, and one survived.
This new offering will lead you through the energetic, dystopian, cosmic ambiance of a group of Engineers based on their military outpost, a journey through survival, an exciting experience of the completely unknown as the mutagen created by The Engineers rebels as their other creations. Biological weaponry takes the wrong turn, the reality of the fate of their group becomes bleak as their pathogen releases upon them and take an unforeseen number of their lives, since only a few are able to outrun and survive.
I believe that there are several factions of Engineers. Seeders and destroyers. The faction in vestments that we see at the beginning of Prometheus, which uses a black mutagen as a way to sow life on planets and those who use a mutagen as biological warfare to erase planets from a pure life that has gone astray. In Prometheus, the Engineers found in LV-223 were about to erase humanity on Earth, but were stopped before they could launch an attack. I suspect that the Destroyer Engineers faction sent an envoy to observe and interact with humanity, until humanity challenged their ways and killed their messenger. In revenge for their loss, the warring faction decided to end humanity on Earth and restart. The Seeders who inseminated the Earth intervened to defend their creatures by releasing the pathogen in the warring faction of their military installation located on LV-223.
"Elizabeth Shaw: We call them Engineers. Milburn: Do you mind telling us what they engineered? Elizabeth Shaw: They engineered us"
"Captain Janek : Where the hell you going, doc? You know what this place is? Those Engineers, this ain't their home. It's an installation. Maybe even military. They put it out here in the middle of nowhere because they're not stupid enough to make weapons of mass destruction on their own doorstep. That's what all that shit is in those vases. They made it here. It got out, turned on them. The end. It's time for us to go home."
"Elizabeth Shaw: You don't understand, this place isn't what we thought it was. I was wrong. We were so wrong. We must leave!"
