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PTOLEMEA Drops "Guilhotina": A Knife to the Past, A Light Through the Dark
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Priscila Da Costa doesn’t sing about transformation, she lives it. And with “Guilhotina”, the first strike from PTOLEMEA’s upcoming second album Kali, she doesn’t just announce a new era. She executes it.
The title, Portuguese for guillotine, isn’t just theatrical. It’s surgical. This isn’t mindless rage; it’s precision. A clean cut through the dead weight. The song pulses with a controlled intensity: brooding alt-metal riffs entwined with haunting, almost ethereal melodies that rise like smoke from scorched earth. It’s the sound of standing in the wreckage, breathing deep, and deciding what, and who, stays.
The video? A fever dream stitched to reality. Shadows flicker, landscapes shift, and Priscila moves through a world both desolate and sacred. Is it memory? Premonition? Grief made visible? The imagery lingers, sparse, poetic, unsettling. You don’t just watch it, you feel the weight of what’s being left behind.
“It captures that fragile moment between ‘what the fuck am I doing’ and the deep knowing that something better is waiting,” Da Costa confesses. And that duality is the soul of “Guilhotina.” It’s melancholic, yes. The darkness is real. But so is the energy. So is the hope clawing through the cracks. This isn’t a lament, it’s a recalibration. The kind that only comes after you’ve stared down the void and decided to rebuild from the ashes.
After the introspective depth of 2018’s Tome I and the immersive Balanced Darkness (2023), Kali, named for the Hindu goddess of destruction and renewal, feels like the inevitable eruption. PTOLEMEA has always balanced atmospheric weight with emotional clarity, but here, the stakes feel higher. The sound is sharper, the vision clearer. It’s not just evolution, it’s emancipation.
To say we’re eager for Kali would undersell it. After “Guilhotina”, we’re invested. This is what rebirth sounds like: not with a scream, but with a song that cuts deep and sings louder.
Now streaming everywhere. The blade has fallen. What grows next?
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