The synth intro is called Absentia. Was even more unoriginally titled 'New Synth Day'. I got a new soft synth. I made a song. I snuck it on here as an intro. (Thanks NI, you make good stuff.)
The main song is the 'gravitas' thing. Any reader of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels will recognize this as a riff on the fantastic spaceship names he created. Did I say spacechip? Of course I meant General Systems Vehicle (GSV). Hyperintelligent, all-powerful sentient moving cities supplying mankind's every whim. Who would not want to live there?
The Philly trio have been making technical but not impenetrable instrumental metal for nearly two decades. Their latest shreds, of course. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 8, 2016