Written By Lucien Drake
Sybreed rare tracks offer a fascinating glimpse beneath the polished machinery of Antares, The Pulse of Awakening, and God Is An Automaton. Released together in December 2025 through the Listenable Records reissues, these bonus songs, demos, and alternate versions reveal Sybreed in transition, with the circuitry still exposed and the machine still evolving.
Some bands leave behind B-sides. Sybreed left circuitry.
In December 2025, five rare tracks resurfaced through the Listenable Records reissues, pulling material from several different points in the band’s evolution.
Bonus tracks, a pre-production demo, and an alternate remix suddenly became available together, turning what could have been dismissed as leftover material into something much more interesting. A small archive of Sybreed in motion.
These songs stretch across the Antares, The Pulse of Awakening, and God Is An Automaton eras, catching the band between finished ideas and unfinished possibilities. Not quite lost tracks, more like exposed wiring.
Technocracy
Originally associated with the Antares era, “Technocracy” carries the same mechanical unease that defined Sybreed’s increasingly futuristic sound during this period.
By 2007, the band had already moved beyond the rawer industrial attack of Slave Design. The music was becoming colder, more layered and more cinematic, with electronics no longer sitting beside the guitars but becoming part of the architecture itself.
“Technocracy” belongs inside that transition. It feels like another corridor inside the Antares machine.
Plasmaterial
Another Antares-era bonus track, “Plasmaterial” offers a second glimpse into the material surrounding that album.
The appeal of tracks like this isn’t necessarily that they reveal some completely different Sybreed. It’s that they show how deep the atmosphere went.
The synthetic textures, metallic rhythm and underlying sense of technological decay weren’t isolated production choices. They were part of a larger aesthetic language the band was building around itself.
“Plasmaterial” sounds like another strand of that DNA.
Flesh Doll For Sale
By the time of The Pulse of Awakening in 2009, Sybreed had pushed their sound even further into electronic territory.
“Flesh Doll For Sale” emerged from that period and sits naturally beside the colder, sharper identity of the album.
There is something particularly interesting about hearing bonus material from a record this stylistically defined. It shows where the borders of the album were.
What belonged inside, remained just outside, and how much material existed around the final version listeners eventually received.
Hardboiled Venus
The most revealing artifact here may be “Hardboiled Venus,” a 2010 pre-production demo tied to the period leading toward God Is An Automaton.
Demos are strange little fossils. They preserve music before the final decisions arrive. Before production hardens the edges and arrangements become permanent.
That makes them valuable for anyone interested in how a band actually develops its sound rather than simply consuming the finished record.
“Hardboiled Venus” captures Sybreed while the machinery was still being assembled.
Doomsday Party: Drop vs. Piano Remix
Then there is the oddity.
“Doomsday Party (Drop vs. Piano Remix)” features Tomáš Kebert on piano and pulls the song away from the framework most listeners associate with Sybreed. That alone makes it worth hearing.
Strip enough machinery away from a heavy band and something else begins to surface: melody, tension, atmosphere, vulnerability.
Sybreed were always more flexible than the “industrial metal” label suggested. This remix makes that obvious.
Sybreed Rare Tracks: Missing Pieces Between Eras
Taken individually, these songs could easily be treated as bonus material.
Put them together and something else emerges. A timeline.
“Technocracy” and “Plasmaterial” connect to Antares.
“Flesh Doll For Sale” belongs to The Pulse of Awakening.
“Hardboiled Venus” gives us a developmental glimpse toward God Is An Automaton.
And the “Doomsday Party” remix shows how far Sybreed’s songwriting could bend without completely losing its identity.
These tracks reveal the spaces between albums. The experiments and alternate pathways.
The pieces that existed before the final versions of Sybreed’s evolution were locked into place.
For longtime fans, they are fragments from familiar eras seen from different angles.
For newer listeners, they offer something even better than a simple greatest-hits introduction. They show the machine being built.
Taken together, these Sybreed rare tracks form a small but revealing archive of the band’s evolution across three distinct eras.
The Rare Track Collection
Technocracy – 2007
Antares bonus track
Plasmaterial – 2007
Antares bonus track
Flesh Doll For Sale – 2009
The Pulse of Awakening bonus track
Hardboiled Venus – Demo, 2010
Pre-production recording from the God Is An Automaton period
Doomsday Party (Drop vs. Piano Remix)
Alternate version featuring Tomáš Kebert on piano
Artwork combining imagery from three Sybreed eras was created by Erik Kirchner Art.
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Tracklist (Official):
01 – Technocracy (2007)
02 – Flesh Doll For Sale (2009)
03 – Plasmaterial (2007)
04 – Hardboiled Venus (Demo 2010)
05 – Doomsday Party (Drop vs. Piano Remix)
What These Songs Are:
• “Technocracy” + “Plasmaterial – Antares bonuses
• “Flesh Doll For Sale” – Pulse of Awakening bonus
• “Hardboiled Venus” – God Is An Automaton pre-production demo
• “Doomsday Party (Drop vs. Piano Remix)” – features Tomáš Kebert on piano
Three-artwork blending by the mighty Erik Kirchner Art
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About The Author:
Lucien Drake is a writer and archivist at Metal Lair, contributing across features, essays, cultural commentary, and long-form series including Deep Cuts, Road Riffs and editorial projects exploring music, memory, and resistance.
Known for treating heavy music as living history rather than nostalgia, Drake focuses on influence over canon, context over hype, and the stories that survive outside official timelines.
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