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EPK – Silas Fernandes – Carbon Purge Acceleration (2025)

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“Even without lyrics, each track carries a narrative that mixes the future, technology, and chaos. It is an invitation to reflect, while intense riffs and solos draw highly unconventional soundscapes. Musically, I do not follow ready-made formulas. The album blends fusion, modern prog metal, and eighties references in a sound that reinvents itself with every track. Instead of compartmentalized styles, the result is a true creative cauldron. The great thing about the work is precisely not being constrained by labels. Everything is mixed all the time.” – Silas Fernandes

For fans of Steve Vai, Fear Factory, Meshuggah, Devin Townsend, Periphery

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Album Title: Carbon Purge Acceleration
Release Date: Sept 21, 2025
Label: SelfRelease
Genre: Instrumental Metal
Location of Band: Charlottesville, VA

Track Listing:
1. Earth Was Boring – 4:21
2. Escape the Reality Room – 3:47
3. Heavy Droids – 4:09
4. Flight Of The Navigator – 3:39
5. John Hughes Didn’t Direct My Life – 5:19
6. The Death of Synthetic Curation – 5:05
Album Length: 26:20

Album Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Silas Fernandes
• All songs written by: Silas Fernandes
• Produced by: Silas Fernandes
• Mixed by: Silas Fernandes
• Mastered by: Adair Daufembach
• Album Artwork by: Jukka Nieminen from Grandio design.

Album Band Line Up:
Silas Fernandes: Guitars, bass, programming of drums, Production, Mix

Live Band Line Up:
Silas Fernandes – Guitars
Raphael Arruda – Drums
Nikolai Ck – Bass

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About The Album Artwork:

It’s a digital/ divine being worshiped by people who didn’t realize this creature is destroying everyone.

About the album as a whole:

Musically, the album is a palette of aggressive to sweet and pensive music.

Track by Track:

1. Earth was Boring: Heavy and aggressive song that mixes modern metal with some metalcore vibes, ending with a melodic shred solo.

2. Escape the Reality Room: Alternate thrashy modern metal riffs with calm and melodic moments a la Joe Satriani.

3. John Hughes Didn’t Direct my Life: This one is super 80s vibe, with lots of melodic ideas, like a mixture of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.

4. Flight of the Navigator: It’s an intense and fast prog metal with harmonically fusion ideas mixed with aggressive and melodic solos and ending with weird tempo signatures.

5. Heavy Droids: It is a 7/4 prog metal with melodic slow tempo moments.

6. The Death of Synthetic Curation: This is an ethereal song played just with one guitar, interacting beautifully with some special ambient effects.

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BAND STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS:

1. Before social media, I released an instructional video about licks and riffs on VHS. In the video, I told the audience that I have a broken pinky finger on my left hand. After that, “fake news” was spread that I didn’t have the pinky finger on my left hand.

2. At the beginning of the song “The demon called algorithm”, from the album “Improve”, there is a choir of Buddhist monks vocalizing on a very low tone, which matches the tonality of the song.

3. The voice of the robot on “Heavy Droids” and “Earth was Boring” was sampled from “Fulgor”, a character from the game “Killer Instinct”, and reversed to produce a distinct tone.

4. My first album, “Silas Fernandes” from 1995, was recorded at a studio that belongs to a corny Christian record label. The owner, who was my dad’s friend, allowed me to use the studio for free in the middle of the night. I just had to pay for the sound engineer.

5. In addition to being a guitarist, a music producer, content creator, I am the owner of Electric Eye Audio, a company that makes guitar pedals and digital files for metal guitar.

Photo Credit – Marisa Terra Fernandes

Silas Fernandes began in music as a teenager, playing in the heavy metal band of the legendary “metal” scene in the ABC region in São Paulo (Brazil) in a band named Esfinge, along with Andreas Kisser, who would later become the guitarist for Sepultura.

During his 35-year career, Silas had the opportunity to develop his skills through various opportunities, which included positions as a guitar instructor at IG&T (Guitar Institute of Technology Brazil), producer, business consultant, and finally, as a guitarist who has worked with many names on the Brazilian Music business, including your solo career with more than 5 releases already.

He began his solo career, releasing instructional videos and teaching, in addition to playing with several different bands and artists as a hired gun

As a producer, Silas always kept up to date concerning the styles of bands and tricks involving music production by working as a “guitar tech” for renowned artists in Brazil as well he writing The Book “Set Up” and later becoming a course in EM&T (School of music and technology).

He kept his solo career in workshops and clinics throughout Brazil, parallel to his work as a music producer and guitar instructor.

In 2014, he started his own YouTube channel, which shows another characteristic of Silas Fernandes: a humorous, relaxed, and most importantly, an expert in technological content related to electric guitar equipment and music production tips.

In 2015, Silas moved to Virginia in the US, where he delivers his own successful YouTube show called Rig on Fire every Thursday.

In 2020 started an English version of his Rig on Fire Show on a new channel on Youtube.

Now sponsored by EMG pickups, Solar guitars, Black Smith strings, and Electric Eye Audio.

In July of 2024 Solar guitars team up with him to release his first Signature Model the A1.6 Silas Canibalismo!

He just released, his new solo album, it was released in September 2025 CARBON PURGE ACCELERATION!

Released Albums:
2025 – Carbon Purge Acceleration – EP
2018 – Improve – EP
2013 – Must Be the Wrong Year – LP
2011 – Live for Real – DVD
1999 – No Apologies – LP
1995 – Silas Fernandes – LP

EPK – Silas Fernandes – Carbon Purge Acceleration (2025)

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