Extinction Events by Sidetrack Walker

“Extinction Events” has been ready for two years, quietly awaiting its turn. The music was finished, but I couldn’t get past the mental blocks: hunting for the perfect artwork and timing, worrying the album wouldn’t be good enough, letting life get in the way.

It began with my first vintage synthesizer and a deep dive into the cinematic pulse of the 80s. I embraced that sound as a creative limitation, not for nostalgia but as a lens to explore fractures in society and in ourselves, the painstaking process of letting go, and the quiet potential that can rise from the ashes of collapse.

I’m publishing it the day after my 40th birthday – as a gesture of release, a present to myself, and a reminder that sometimes it takes a long fallow season for new things to grow.

The Bandcamp album features two exclusive bonus tracks: “Space Port Blues” is a song that didn’t make the final cut of the album. I feel that it has a lot to offer on its own, though, and at some point it will return as a single in slightly reworked form. The shorter single edit of “The Devil’s Craft” offers a more immediate take on that song.

Tracklist

1.	Pillars of Extinction	0:58

2.	Visionaries	5:51

3.	Cheesecake ’81	4:27

4.	The Tin Man’s Privilege	6:39

5.	Orange Starships (Drifting Above Zero)	4:30

6.	Terminal	7:22

7.	Thirst of a Lifetime	6:49

8.	The Devil’s Craft	6:26

9.	Unbecoming	4:23

10.	Death of the Architect	5:11

11.	Hyper-Dimensional Funk Engine	4:32

12.	Further Behind the Scenes	13:16

Credits

released October 31, 2025

All music and lyrics written, arranged, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Dominik Sonders, 2023–2025.

Featuring:
• Dominik Sonders – vocals, synths & keyboards, programming, samples, electric guitar, egg shaker
• Andreas Lukas Glaser – electric guitar on “Visionaries”, “Further Behind the Scenes” and “Space Port Blues”; additional lead guitar on “The Devil’s Craft”
• Andrii Tkachenko (Vin de Mia Trix) – chorus lead vocals on “Terminal”
• Antonia Behne – violin on “Thirst of a Lifetime”

“Further Behind the Scenes” contains material from “Behind the Scenes”, originally released on the album “Come What May” in 2019. Original bass guitar performed by Ben Beck, included here as a sample.

Web: www.sidetrackwalker.de
Contact & booking: info@sidetrackwalker.de

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