Max Rael debut album: ‘The Enemy Is Us’ – 20th June 2025.

After all these years, finally I’m releasing my debut solo album!
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Max Rael 2nd single: ‘Slightly Less Than Human’ – 21st May 2025.

I was always one of those kids who felt very different from everyone else growing up. Desperately waiting for the spaceship to finally arrive and take me home to my people. Inspired by the author Osamu Dazai, (the book, ‘No Longer Human’ can be seen in the artwork of History Of Guns 3rd album, ‘Acedia’), this is a song about not feeling like a proper person, putting in continuous effort to ‘pass’, and feeling slightly less than human.
The lyrics have taken on a deeper significance for me personally since being diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder after they were written, which has given me a new context for some of the struggles I’ve had with life,
The single comes with exclusive b-side, ‘When the Only Winning Move Is Not to Play’ – inspired by 80s film War Games, Robert Anton Wilson, Eric Berne about the futility of arguing with people who have already made their mind up. As Timothy Leary once said, ‘You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.’
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Max Rael debut single: ‘Brighter Future’ – 22nd April 2025.

Yes, I know what you’re thinking, positive songs *are* notoriously harder to write than a good wallow in misery, and faced with the current geopolitical state of the world, and the general acceptance of an inevitable dystopian future, there’s maybe not too much to be hopeful about. To paraphrase the mighty John Higgs: in 1977 it was shocking when The Sex Pistols said, ‘No Future’. In 2025 the opposite is true; to stand up and say, ‘Yes Future’… A Brighter Future.
The new single comes with exclusive b-side, ‘The People We Love Have Won (Persistence Is All)’
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The Enemy Is Us:
Electronic Music, Loud Drums, Meets Spoken Word

Max Rael’s debut solo album, The Enemy Is Us is scheduled for release on June 20th 2025. It fuses a range of electronic music styles, big drums and spoken word, with other genres to create journeys of existential exploration into humanity, self, society, reality, psychology, philosophy and the future.

Max Rael is a musician, writer, actor, engineer and producer. He has remixed diverse artists such as Fish (ex-Marillion), Last July, Robots In Love, Bienheldenschafgegenstand and Freudstein

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Things What People Have Said

Discover what listeners and reviewers are saying about Raelism’s unique blend of electronic music and spoken word.

Freedom Within the Prison EP

“In its entirety, Freedom Within the Prison’s twists and turns are what make the thrill ever so special and engaging. Not knowing what to expect at any point just when you thought you figured it out is something to appreciate in a time when music can sound so samey. Volting through 80’s synth electronica grassroots prove to be well under Rael’s forte.”

Raquel Olmedo

Ear Milk

Self-Soothe Mechanism

“a psychological horror in short form and the title of the song might seem counter intuitive except that when someone repeats what he wants to believe to himself to soothe a guilty conscience over some actual or imagined wrong it definitely serves that purpose. Like a mantra that can also serve to heal through reaching into that personal darkness deeply and bringing forth deep seated feelings that haven’t been allowed expression by the conscious mind. And yet the chilling aspect of the composition especially given the video treatment while unsettling is also calming. The combination is like if Alien Sex Fiend made a chill, ambient track with an A24 director directing the music video.”