In Cataclysm, Zanias delivers a striking manifesto for personal and political transformation — a decade’s-end reflection that doubles as a call to arms. Written and produced between 2020 and 2024, the ten-track album unfolds like a sonic pilgrimage through the ruins of modernity, each song a distinct world unto itself.
Drawing threads from coldwave, italo disco, witchhouse, trance, hyperpop, breakbeats, and the pulse of drum and bass, Zanias stitches together something wholly her own — an iridescent strain of post-industrial ethereal wave that feels simultaneously ancient and futuristic. The record confronts the fragility of civilisation and the planet’s ecological precarity, yet it refuses to sink into nihilism. Instead, it stands in reverence of humanity’s endurance, urging listeners to “thread the power through the pain.”
Across Cataclysm, moments of darkness are tempered by glimmers of transcendence. As the tempo gradually rises, so too does a sense of defiant hope — a reaching upward toward light, even as the world trembles below. The result is an album that feels less like a descent into despair and more like an invocation of resilience, vibrating with the urgency of survival.
Mixed by Trey Frye (of Korine) and mastered by Alain Paul, Cataclysm breaks free of genre’s gravitational pull. It’s a body of work that merges political conviction with emotional sincerity, and reaffirms Zanias’s position as one of underground electronic music’s most visionary voices.