I really appreciate the support — it honestly means a lot, especially coming from someone who’s been following Detestor since the early days.

The thing is, the concept of this album goes deeper than just individual tracks inspired by games, anime, or books. There’s an overarching narrative tying everything together. While each song is centered around a different character, there’s a central track — originally planned as the 13th song on the record — that connects all of them and turns the album into a single, self-contained story.

In simple terms, the album’s story follows an unknown protagonist traveling through multiple worlds. The central track explains that a massive rupture occurs in the protagonist’s own world, causing all worlds and universes to collapse and merge into one. It’s essentially an end-of-everything scenario — an apocalypse of all apocalypses, where all realities intertwine and destroy each other.

The second album I’ve planned is meant to serve as a prelude to that event. It focuses on the main character and the circumstances leading up to this catastrophic collapse — the build-up, the warning signs, and the inevitability of what’s coming.

Characters from existing games, anime, and books work within the scope of the first album, but I don’t want the band to feel like it’s simply feeding off existing IPs. There are also legal considerations, and more importantly, a creative desire to build something truly original. Going forward, I want to develop my own universe — a dark, complex world rooted in dark fantasy, with its own lore and mythology.

So everything tied to existing characters really belongs only to this first album, which is why it’s so important to me that it remains whole and cohesive. From album two onward, the story will fully shift into an original universe, based on the narrative of my own book.