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Andrew’s Judgmental Album Reviews: Gemini Syndrome: 3rd Degree – The Raising (2021)

December is usually a good catch up month for many, and the JAR isn’t very different. This album came out in October, but let’s see which twin of the Gemini this album ends up as!

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December is usually a good catch up month for many, and the JAR isn’t very different. This album came out in October, but let’s see which twin of the Gemini this album ends up as!

Like with many of the more obscure bands I’ve dabbled in this year, this band popped up during a YouTube rabbit hole. With a little bit of Tool influence, this alternative metal band brings and interesting mixture of music. Establishing in 2010, their first three albums are supposed to tell some kind of story. This is the third installment, so let’s get around to seeing how they punctuate this concept!

  • Artist: Gemini Syndrome
  • Album: 3rd Degree -The Raising
  • Label: Century Media Records
  • Total Track Time: 46:55

Reintegration has those down tuned guitars with the synth fade and when the lyrics definitely feels like a fusion of Tool and Skillet. The fun thing is with the synth effects add to the spiraling void concept, where this song’s lyrics seem to hinge on reintegrating out of despair of some sort. “I lost the light I once had, But I’m sure I’ll find my way again” – is a great lyric in its simplicity. It’s not overly positive, but the prospect of hope compliments the heavy but more Sci Fi instrumentation. Another way of interpretation would work with the title of the album, raising yourself out of something to transcend pain or depression to move on with an evolved perspective. IDK lyrics definitely continue to play in the concept of understanding. With the chorus of, “So far all I know – Is that I don’t know anything anymore – The further down I go, this rabbit hole -The world I know simply disappears”, which is a nice struggle within the song. It takes a lot to admit you understand nothing, so breaking yourself down to build yourself up is a familiar concept to many, especially in the wrestling world, Tetsuya Naito probably feels attacked by this song.

Die With Me is an amazingly educated song lyrically. I mean the line “You Plus Me Equals 23” has great imagery from both Shakespeare and Lao Tzu utilizing the numbers 2 and 3 to represent male and female energies. They even apply Os and 1s in a line, which is binary code, so we get a lot of interesting transcendentalism of finding a higher plane or something with an implied significant other or at least the joining of the complimentary energies.  This also may have been one of the most pretentious few sentences I’ve ever written, but damn. For a cool song with a Nine Inch Nails kind of vibe to be so smart lyrically. I can’t help but be a bit of a nerd. Baptized in Fire this definitely stays in that Tool/A Perfect Circle vein, especially since it’s a bit more of a ballad. The drumming is still fierce and but the guitars are more echoed and complimentary to what’s going on around them. Simple lyrics of being baptized in fire, cleanse by the flame…okay that’s something that’s very easy to get. Especially since, “The Raising” seems to imply a raised consciousness or higher understanding. So much of the imagery has been about shedding your old skin and becoming something new. Children of the Sun instrumentally this has a bit more of a southern rock vibe, and it’s a pretty neat pivot. With the lyrics actually being a little nondescript, I can only glean that maybe this a song about Incan people. I’m pretty sure the Inca were referred to as the Children of the Sun and are definitely a fairly forgotten about civilization which also play into the mixture of beliefs this album has dabbled in.

Abandoned is obviously a more personal song to the singer, but this lyrics alone I feel translates to many, “There was a child who loved everything outside and in, There was a time when my light started to dim”. Even with the cathartic implications of the song many of us have probably felt abandoned by someone or something in life. This depicts the sorrow, anger and grief wonderfully. The instrumentation is Drop D heaviness, the vocals go between clean, growled and screamed to really go through the stages. Everything just resonates so well in this song. Broken Reflection a little more of radio metal sound to this song. Which I think works since the lyrics are easy to parse through of not really recognizing the people in the reflection. It seems to take more of generational implication on broken reflections and not personal demons. Like how every generation makes a different and more broken reflection of the last. It’s a cool song, which makes you think a little.

Sum Quod Eris and interesting little instrumental that kicks off with heavy distortion and some wah pedal action. It feels like impending doom, this song could easily be played to usher in the End of Days. The guitars have this weird echoed hollow effect to make you feel sucked in and surrounded in the depths of wherever this song is taking us. It’s not bad, fits the album well. Best of Me I was not expecting another ballad-esque song that sounds sortuv like Chevelle and Staind had a baby. “Sitting back just waiting for the world to end – Fighting just to stay alive – No one seems to recognize the war within – And I’m too scared to go outside”, a very powerful verse. So this more stripped down song is complimented by very listless lyrics. The complacency of things get the best of you, and you’re just stuck in complacency so you don’t really care. Damn good, especially for the time period we live in.

Absolution no this wasn’t the theme to Paige, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville’s old group. Another more radio rock structure to the song, but when the lyrics are basically imploring that this is our last chance for absolution. So it’s a concept of making the best of things, try to start anew, wipe the slate clean because now would be the perfect reason. Hold the Line starts immediately out of Absolution and the funny thing is it seems like the other side of the coin. Where Absolution is about starting anew, Hold the Line is more about apathy and how people don’t want to atone or change and would rather die slowly in their depravity. Admittedly, these two songs are interesting, but feels a little preachier as opposed to intelligent commentary.

Where We Started From the guitar has a weird little pop punk aspect or maybe it’s a keyboard, but bridges between verses almost sound like Paramore. Lyrically it talks about paradise and returning to the aether. So I feel like this is a song more on rebirth since we’re back where started from, what’s done cannot be undone, and it’s eternal. Could possibly go deeper, but with most of the theme of this album being a higher understanding of self and intellect, rebirth isn’t out of the wheelhouse. Fiat Lux is Latin for Let There Be Light, and it is a Sci Fi spoken interlude about a secret facility housing aliens. Perhaps this is supposed to be a cliffhanger for what the next album could be about, or more that the perspective of the album was all an alien experiment inside a facility. The spoken word also ends with a Children of the Sun line, so maybe the implication is the aliens were who are from the Sun or something and it wasn’t about the Inca. Interesting concept to end the album.

That was definitely a lot to swallow. On a purely surface level, if you like Tool, A Perfect Circle, Fear Factory, or Static X, you’ll enjoy most of the music they present on this album. The last few songs felt like the lost the plot a little or took things into a weird direction that I didn’t personally feel fit exactly right. I will admit that spoken word interlude at the end to wrap up a bunch of concepts and song titles in this weird Area 51 experimental section was cool.

All that said, there are some really great highs and even the songs that miss still make you think. So they’re not just trash wasting up time between decent songs. Still a pretty damn good album and I will have to listen to the first two and see if there’s some overarching story beat.

 

Final Judgment: 7.55/10

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Mitchell’s Hyrule Puro-Resu News Report! (5/9/25)

June will be electric!

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Prepare for the most electrifying even of the HPW calendar!

While the stage is set for Blood & Thunder 4 and the HPW World Trios Championships, HPW must also address the return of KAGE!

 

Thundra Plateau is ready.

Wrestling is Life, but life has its stormy weather. The rain is going to be hot in June, but will the reign continue through the Summer? The Dark Forces may have failed to take the Undisputed Triforce World Championship from Zelda, but they still have the World Trios Championships. Harlequin, Lupay & Glutko will step inside the double ring, double cage to defend their gold. On one side, Arrow Club’s special combination of Fin Balure, Torbevito & Bad Croc Scaly. On the other, a new combination of its own in Cia, Lana & Midna.

 

Speaking of Cia, Lana & Midna…

The three of them are together, dressed in workout attire, in what appears to be a dance studio. This is a collaboration stream for Midna and Lana as they’re both big presences on the internet, aka “influencers.” Lana and Midna wave and say hi, and they give introductions, including Cia, who is reluctant to be standing there. Cia doesn’t know why they need to do this. Lana says they have to improve their teamwork. They may have won against Los Taros Locos, but it was really sketchy there for a second. Midna adds that doing a dance routine together is great for their timing and coordination.

Cia says she didn’t mean that, she meant having to stream it! Oh, well obviously, combining Midna’s viewing audience with Lana’s, and HPW’s overall, this makes huge numbers! So? And huge money…! Cia raises her eyebrow and says, “Oh really?” The trio sets up, and Lana says obviously they first have to learn the steps. Midna brings up, “Wait, what song are we dancing to?” Oh, good point. Lana was thinking something from Lulu. Cia asks, “Lulu? From the Indigo-Go’s?” Midna says Lulu’s got a great solo album. Lana agrees! That’s so great that they like the same music. Cia isn’t as familiar with her solo stuff, so she’ll rely on them for this.

Lana suggests they go with Energetic Me. For one, it has the most energy, duh. And it still has a dance vibe, which is the whole point. Midna says she might’ve gone with Royal Discotheque or Ten Outta Ten, but she sees Lana’s point. Lana shows them the dance moves she has in mind. Left arm up, bent at the elbow, and the hand up against the side of the chest. Then they switch so the right arm goes up to mirror that position while the left hand goes back to the hip. Maybe add a little hip pop as that happens. Do that a couple times, and then turn to the right. This puts the left hand on the back of the hip, right hand on the back of the neck for a sexy pose.

Then you turn to flip it the other way, then do a 360 with a big neck whipping, hair flipping move. Then finish with feet apart and double V’s up by the eyes, maybe with a wink. Cia says, “Yeah, okay…” while Midna says, “I like it!” Midna says she’ll set up in the middle. Cia asks why Midna is in the middle, and Midna says it’s symmetry. She’s the tallest, Cia and Lana are about the same, it makes sense. Yeah, but it also means Midna is the center of attention. Well, that’s just coincidental. Lana says it doesn’t matter, the point is them doing it all in synch. Cia sighs and says, “Fine.” Midna is in the middle, Cia is on her right, and the music plays.

Left arm, right arm, left arm, right arm, pose to the right, pose to the left, 360 spin and neck whip, then double V. Midna nailed it, but Cia was lagging. Cia defends she was not, but Lana says it’s alright, they’ll just keep trying. They run through it a couple more times, they do tighten it up, and all three feel really good about how that went.

The Dark Forces are watching.

They aren’t impressed by the “little dance party.” Harlequin says the Faces of Evil are way better anyway. Especially with the classics like the Thriller dance and Macarena. Zant says, “The Macarena? Pfft, and people think I’m a dork…” Harlequin says, “Don’t you dare mock the Macarena!” Harlequin changes tabs on the computer and starts playing the song! After the introduction, he lifts his right arm up flat, then his left. Then he turns the right hand up, the left hand up, puts his right hand on his left shoulder, left hand on right shoulder, then moves right hand up behind his head, and then his left.

Now his arms crisscross, right hand on left hip and left hand on right hip, to then switch so right hand on right hip and left hand on left hip. And of course, he swivels his hips in one big circle to go with “HEY~ Macarena! AIGHT!” Zant rolls his eyes while Harlequin keeps going, jumping 90 degrees to his left. Ganon walks in, Ghirahim following behind, and he tells Harlequin to “turn that crap off.” Harlequin pouts but he does as told. Ganon seethes as he takes a seat in his big arm chair. “Needless to say… Wrestling is Life didn’t go how I’d hoped. What was Kage even doing there?! Did either of you have any idea he was going to betray us?!”

Zant and Ghirahim are a bit flustered. Zant isn’t even sure Kage was part of The Dark Forces at the time Ganon took ownership. He’d kinda gone rogue at some point, didn’t he? Ghirahim agrees, it didn’t seem like he was even aligned with Cia and the others. All the more reason for Kage to keep his nose out of Ganon’s business! If Kage cared about the Dark Forces, then he would’ve helped them fight back at HyruleMania, or any time since. Kage clearly just wants the title, same as Ganon, so he’s a dead man walking. Speaking of that… Where’s Kevin? He came back in April, why isn’t he here?

 

Somewhere dark and spooky…

Heavy footsteps can be heard echoing as Kevin Gibdo moves down the hallway. He speaks with a low, airy voice, “Majora… Your madness… spread like wildfire… You thought by setting me ablaze… I would crumble into ash… You were wrong! Instead, I have been purified…! Purged of flaws and weaknesses… I now come forth… as gold!” There’s a light at the end of the hall, and Kevin enters a grand hall, with treasure gleaming in the light. At the center is the sarcophagus. Kevin walks up to it, opens it, and then his burnt and tattered bandages fall away before he steps inside. The sarcophagus closes, then the eyes on it begin to glow… Then the entire thing glows!

The glowing becomes a shining light, and that shining becomes so bright that nothing can be seen. It is clear things between Kevin and Majora are not over. Will the Masked Monster even stand a chance once the Gibdo of All Gibdos is restored to full strength?

 

Back to the Dark Forces…

Shabonne says, “I’m sure Kevin is just fine doing whatever Gibdos do on their time off.” Tali says, “What matters is what I’m about to do to that tiny little weasel with the Goddess Championship. If The Dark Forces is gonna have all the gold, then I need to squash her like a bug and take that title off of whatever’s left!” Ganon nods and says he likes the initiative. Tali will start on her own Triple Crown as the Dark Forces will make Hyrule Pro-Wrestling their kingdom! The group cheers while raising a toast! And then Harlequin gets Glutko and Lupay to join in on the Macarena, to which Ganon groans and facepalms.

 

And so, the ThunderStruck card is set!

The double ring, double cage will rattle with Blood & Thunder as the HPW World Trios Championships are on the line! The Gerudo Ace looks to settle a grudge with the Hero’s Shadow! And now, the Million Rupee Championship and HPW Goddess Championships will also be on the line! Will the Dark Forces absolutely dominate the Summer? Be ready to endure the heat on Friday, June 20th!

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