EPK – Marco Bojkovic – Powercore (2025) – Out Jan 24th

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Track Listing:
1. Anesthesia (No Easy Way Out) – 3:58
2. From Within – 5:29
3. Sacrifice For Sanity – 3:50
4. What We Accomplished – 3:17
5. Find Your Flame – 4:00
6. Thrown – 5:41
7. To Reminisce – 4:54
Album Length: 31:11

Album Credits:
Songs Written by Marko Bojkovic
Produced and mixed by Patrick Finster
Mastered by James Lewis
Artwork by Regis Lima

Album Lineup:
Marko Bojkovic – Guitar
Chris Thomas – Growling vocals, clean vocals
Gabe Vermund – Clean vocals

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About The Album Artwork:

Three power cores come together to form a molecule, which serves as a metaphor for strengthening yourself and the bond you share with your loved ones.

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

Lyrically: The album is meant to send positive messages such as being able to accomplish anything you set your mind to and believing in yourself.

Musically: The music is my own genre of metal called “Progressive PowerCore.” It’s a blend of progressive metal, power metal, metalcore, and djent! I have a lot of influences that went into making this style of metal, so you can imagine how hard it was for me to choose 5 artists! There are also influences from other genres such as jazz fusion and classical music.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

1. Anesthesia (No Easy Way Out) is about me addressing my uncertainty about returning to the medical field. I had almost died in medical school and was cheated out of nursing school. I spent all of last year wondering what to do next, but a family friend offered me his help to introduce me to a great medical profession called anesthesiologist assistance. It is of peak interest to me and I am going to go for it!

2. From Within states that we all have a power within us, and we already have that power! We didn’t get it from training or experience; we just have it! All you have to do to realize you have it is to believe in yourself! This song also has the best guitar solo that I’ve written by far because it’s the perfect showcase for my current style!  

3. Sacrifice for Sanity is a self-reflective experience for the listener. I have lived a very blessed life with hard-working parents who run a very successful business but they had to deal with a lot of bullshit to get to where they are today. The question that this song asks the listener is “The better the life you want for yourself, the more bullshit you have to deal with. Are you prepared for it?” This song also doesn’t feature a solo; I let the riffs do the talking (And Chris, of course)! It’s also the proggiest song on the album due to the constant time signature changes, subtle key changes, and the harmonic djent breakdown.

4.  What We Accomplished is the first song that I wrote for this album. In spring of 2023, I went through the roughest moment of my life. People spread lies about me and because of that, I couldn’t be with an amazing group of friends that I made as long as we were hoping, which caused me to go through heartbreak. When I tried to state my innocence, they fought alongside me and helped me try to stay with them. Although we failed to keep me with the group, we formed an even stronger friendship through the experience, and we accomplished a greater goal…becoming eternal friends. This song is dedicated to them.

5.  Find Your Flame is a cover of the song from the video game Sonic Frontiers. It plays when you fight the titan Night on Chaos Island. For several years, It Doesn’t Matter was my favorite Sonic song, but Find Your Flame dethroned it due to its djent riff, amazing chorus, stellar guitar solo, and beautiful clean outro. When I first heard the song, the first thing I thought to myself was “I NEED to learn this song on guitar.” I covered it on Youtube along with the other Titans’ songs (I’ll admit I played it incorrectly, but you live and learn!). The power metal-style vocals that the Mourning’s Johnny Ray did add to the power metal feel of my version, enabling it to keep with the progressive power core feel of my album!  

6. Thrown is about losing your best friend over something completely foolish. A lot of people lost best friends for the stupidest reasons, so this song can provide them with some closure. It happened to me with Spiritual Chaos. It was a band I co-founded with my ex-best friend, only to be brainwashed by someone who was jealous of me.

7. To Reminisce is the last song I wrote for Spiritual Chaos, and I guarantee you the band would’ve considered it the best song.

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Fun Facts – Story Angles

1. I was stranded on a Caribbean island after a category 5 hurricane, Maria. I was in medical school at the time, but eventually left due to my health deteriorating following evacuation.

2. I use Jackson and Ibanez guitars, and I have a kickass Aristides on the way!

3. The album was mixed by Patrick Finster and mastered by James Lewis

4. My favorite gig was in August 2019 with my first band Particle Effect. We opened for a very popular local Tampa band called Voxx. They’re dear homies of ours and I hope Particle Effect can reunite in the near future!

5. I come from a musical family. Both my sisters play piano and my dad plays accordion. It was genetically imprinted on me to play music!

Discography:
2011 – Memories Revisited…How Quickly Time Flies – Album
2011 – The Newcomer – Album
2012 – Shadow of the Pain – Album
2012 – The Statistics Album – Album
2015 – Emerald Theory – Album
2018 – Guitars Roasting on an Open Fire – Album
2022 – Venom – Album
2025 – PowerCore – Album