SCORN 23,11 is the new single from Euthymia, a piece born from the meeting of atmosphere, philosophy, and esoteric imagery. It moves through a borderland between the sacred and the profane, between order and chaos, between the need to believe and the impossibility of finding a definitive answer.
The track builds a dark, apocalyptic vision in which humanity confronts forces that seem to precede it, and to outlast its very existence.
At the heart of SCORN 23,11 is a personal reworking of several great archetypes of the Western tradition. The symbolism and imagery of the Bible, in particular that of sacrifice, judgement, storm and revelation, is reinterpreted through a contemporary and deeply personal sensibility.
To this is added the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche, above all his reflections on nihilism, the crisis of values and the gradual erosion of the certainties that have traditionally given existence its meaning.
The third key element is the world of H. P. Lovecraft and his cosmic horror: the idea of a universe immeasurably vaster than humankind, governed by forces that do not necessarily possess a morality, a purpose, or any interest in humanity.
These influences are not used as simple citations, but as raw material to be transformed.
The biblical, the philosophical and the cosmic are made to converge into a single language.
The result is an atmosphere in which the sacred loses its certainty, nihilism becomes a possible form of knowledge, and chaos takes on an almost ritual dimension.
SCORN 23,11 does not simply tell a story of destruction.
It is an immersion in a world where destruction has already happened, or perhaps has always been present.
The title itself, SCORN, evokes contempt, rejection, and distance from an established order. The number 23,11, meanwhile, becomes a coordinate, an enigmatic reference, almost a date or a code, deliberately leaving the way open to interpretation.
Euthymia thus builds a track that offers no consoling answer.
There is no moral to follow, and no definitive truth to reach.
There is, instead, a question left hanging:
What remains when the meanings we have built begin to collapse?
In SCORN 23,11, chaos is not simply the absence of order.
It is a language.
The storm is not only destruction.
It is a presence.
And humanity is no longer necessarily the centre of the universe.
It may be only a fleeting fragment of something immeasurably greater.
SCORN 23,11 is a manifestation of Euthymia's conceptual universe: a meeting point of mythology, philosophy, literature, and extreme music, where ancient images are broken apart and reassembled to speak of a profoundly contemporary condition.
Not an answer.
Not a prophecy.
A signal from the fracture.
EUTHYMIA – SCORN 23,11
