My Top Albums - Almost Alive
- Flex Admin
- Dec 11, 2025
- 1 min read
Almost Alive has spent the past year reshaping what modern rock can sound like, and with the arrival of Hypnotica and its standout single ‘Eclipse Within’, the New Jersey project is stepping fully into its own shadowy, cinematic world.
Created by producer and artist Evan Kanter, Almost Alive blends thunderous guitars, precision-built drums, and AI-assisted production into a sound that doesn’t just evolve — it transforms. Hypnotica is the clearest expression of that vision yet: a record steeped in tension, atmosphere, and the hypnotic slow-burn energy that has already begun defining the project’s identity.
To understand the DNA behind Hypnotica and the immersive intensity of ‘Eclipse Within’, you need to look at the albums that shaped Kanter’s creative instincts. The fingerprints of Tool’s Aenima and Lateralus can be felt in the rhythmic spirals and spiritual weight; the industrial ache of Nine Inch Nails’ The Fragile and The Downward Spiral echoes through the album’s darker corners; and the cerebral, world-bending ambition of Radiohead’s OK Computer lingers in the way Almost Alive pushes rock into unfamiliar territory.
5 Favourite Albums (that inspired Hypnotica and Eclipse Within)
Tool - Aenima & Lateralus
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile & The Downward Spiral
Radiohead - OK Computer
