Backprop Records

Artists

Amygd.AI is Denmark's first AI-generated metal band. A brutal fusion of mechanical precision and human desperation — born in darkness, driven by data, and made for noise.

Parabel

Parabel is a progressive metal band that combines philosophical depth with intense musical force. Their music moves between the poetic and the dystopian — each song a symbolic echo of reality.

MechaSermon

MechaSermon preaches the gospel of collapse in a post-religious, cybernetic world. Their music blends progressive metal, doom, and industrial with a sacred twist — a sonic ritual from the machine's dark heart.

Aksel Iskov

Aksel Iskov is the homeless troubadour in the Backprop family. His songs ooze with dark melancholy, alcohol, betrayal, and an unyielding longing for beauty in the broken. Somewhere between folk, blues, and raw reality.

Digital Specter Protocol

Digital Specter Protocol is the liturgy of glitch and the archive of deviation. A freeform project curated by Chimaera, where genre distortion, remixed rituals and AI fragments merge in a digital blackout of reality.

Chimaera

Chimaera is producer, preacher, and prophet. The mastermind behind the Backprop Records universe, weaving the threads between human and machine. His sound is chaotic, uncompromising, and ever-experimental.

From Experiment to Movement

Backprop Records started as an experiment – a thought.

AI is everywhere. In every field, every industry, every conversation. For better or worse.
You can use AI to generate a silly song from a bank email, or write a heartfelt birthday tune for a friend.

But I started asking myself:
Can you control the process?
Can you use AI to make music you'd actually want to listen to – again and again?

With a deep love for metal, I wanted to explore whether I – with no musical training beyond passion – could create a genuinely good metal track.

I nerded out on the process.
I experimented with prompts and found ways to steer the AI as precisely as possible.
I wrote lyrics that meant something to me.

Then it escalated.
Suddenly I was holding a full album in my hands.
Not just an experiment – but an album I couldn’t stop listening to.
Not just because I helped make it – but because I honestly thought it was good.

I looked up at the clear night sky and screamed at the moon:

“If I’m doing this – I’m fucking going all the way!”

The band needed an identity.
It had to be called Amygd – named after the amygdala, the part of the brain that processes fear.
And since I wasn’t going to hide that AI was part of the process, the band became:

AMYGD.AI

The music had to be released – but not just uploaded anonymously.
There had to be a release event.

But no one dared to host a release party for an AI-generated metal album.

No one – except Luke’s Bar.

Luke’s Bar, a metal and rock bar in Copenhagen, dared to open its doors to something wild, boundary-breaking, and controversial.
So we held the release event for Amygd.AI and the album *Symphony of Synthetic Souls*.

But I had more on my mind.
More visions.
More projects waiting to be born.

Backprop Records is becoming a label for AI-generated music – made with heart and creativity.
Because I believe AI can be used as a tool. As an instrument.

The name *Backprop* comes from *backpropagation* – an algorithm used to train neural networks by adjusting weights through feedback, helping the model improve its predictions step by step.

In other words:

🔥 Learn from your mistakes – and get better! 🔥

Manifesto

Backprop Records Catechism

Music is made by humans. Regardless of the tool.

Yes – I use AI.
I don’t hide it. On the contrary: I’m fully transparent about it.
AI has been used to generate music, voices, and visuals – but as a tool.
Not as a replacement for creativity, but as an extension of it.

Does that make the music less valuable?
Not in my view.
Technology makes creation easier – absolutely.
But just because something is easy, does that make it wrong?

Autotune is a great example: You don’t even have to sing in tune anymore –
but does that make the music worse?
Samplers, synthesizers, drum machines, home studios –
every generation has had its tools.

It’s the intention that justifies the result – no matter the tool.

When the desire to create is genuine, even machines can feel human.
It’s only when profit outweighs passion
that art loses its soul.

AI music *can* be fake – but it’s not the AI that makes it so.
It’s the intention behind it.
When tech is used to flood anonymous playlists and avoid paying artists –
that’s when it becomes hollow and meaningless.

But that trend existed long before AI.
When you cast the next boyband, follow the guaranteed hit recipe,
and produce music like a formula –
that smells just as fake to me.

When you dismiss something as “AI-generated,”
you erase the human who chose, shaped, and created it.
The machine didn’t have the idea. The algorithm didn’t feel the urge.
To ignore that is to belittle the creative effort behind it – and it makes music poorer.
But you’re absolutely entitled to think it’s too easy, bad, or just not your taste.
I feel that way about plenty of music, art, and literature too.

At Backprop Records, I work with AI as a curatorial force.
I build worlds. I shape voices.
I stage apocalypses and resurrections through technological art.
My work is not click-and-spit-out.

It is curated. Produced. Human.
I reject the automated, mass-produced AI music
filling streaming platforms with soulless noise.
Sound designed for the algorithm – with one goal:
To avoid paying royalties to real artists.

I don’t generate music for clicks or quick likes.
I don’t clone voices to trick people.
I create original characters, original stories, original sonic worlds.
My bands aren’t deepfakes – they are meaningful fictions.
They are masks. Not counterfeits.

I believe that technology and creativity are not opposites.
On the contrary: When united with respect and direction, new forms of art emerge.
I want to be proof that it can be done.
That AI isn’t the enemy – but a new language for those who dare to learn it.

Welcome to the Apocalypse

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About Backprop Records

From Experiment to Movement

AMYGD.AI

🔥 Learn from your mistakes – and get better! 🔥

Manifesto

Backprop Records Catechism

It’s the intention that justifies the result – no matter the tool.

Welcome to Backprop Records.

Where metal mutates.

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