Have you ever felt like you were just going through the motions, like everything around you was real but you were stuck behind glass, disconnected and barely holding on? “Synthetic” by One of Many doesn’t just capture that emptiness: it detonates it, then rebuilds it into something raw, honest, and powerful. This is metalcore with teeth, and it’s not letting go.

From the moment the guitars kick in, “Synthetic” grabs you by the collar. The riffing is tight, chugging, and laced with just enough dissonance to keep you on edge. The drums are a barrage, never content to settle into a groove for too long before launching into a fill that feels like it could crack concrete. There’s a cold, mechanical edge to the production, but it never feels sterile; instead, it’s the perfect backdrop for a song about feeling artificial, about the tension between what’s real and what’s manufactured.

The vocals are a gut punch: roaring, anguished, but with enough clarity that every word lands. There’s a genuine sense of frustration running through the lyrics, a demand to break out of the numbness and find something real. Instead of just wallowing in self-pity, the song calls out the daily grind and pressure to be someone you’re not, to keep up appearances in a world that often rewards the fake over the genuine. The breakdowns are cathartic, the sound of all that pent-up emotion finally being released.