Part I: The Beginning

Infinite Singularity is a solo project founded by singer/songwriter Lukas Szrot in the year 2000. Szrot’s interest in music began in childhood with classical instruments and composition prior to picking up a guitar and writing his first song, “Ostracized,” in 1998. After multiple youthful band ventures failed to gain momentum, Szrot began a solo career, developing as a guitarist and keyboardist while learning bass guitar, drums, and vocals.

The Infinite Singularity debut album, Ruins, was released quietly into the underground metal scene in 2002 while Szrot was still in his teens. Fully self-financed and self-produced, the album received mixed reviews, both in the local Dallas/Fort Worth scene and in the global metal community, on account of its limited production value; however, the album solidified a trademark sound that continues to animate the project today. After a follow-up album, Silence, which showcased some of the most diverse and technical soundscapes produced by Infinite Singularity to date, the project fell silent for some 18 years.

Part II: The Long Hiatus

During the interim, Szrot remained active in music. Beginning in 2006, he co-founded and fronted a band, According 2 Legend with Victor Muñoz [The Initiative, John Wayne and the Gacys, The Horrifics] in Fort Worth, Texas, which played some gigs and made some waves in the local scene. Szrot, Muñoz, and guitarist/bassist/longtime friend of Szrot Kenny Newman later co-founded an underground live music venue, The Annex Fort Worth, in 2009. Szrot also performed hundreds of solo acoustic gigs; and occasionally performed infinite singularity songs as a solo keyboardist/pianist or appeared on stage as a session musician on vocals, guitar, bass, harmonica, or drums throughout Texas from 2008 to 2013. Though The Annex closed in 2013, and According 2 Legend announced an indefinite hiatus shortly thereafter without completing their debut album (which is unfortunately now lost), Szrot self-produced two CD-only acoustic albums, Moderation (2009) and Perspective (2015) while still living and working in Texas.

Szrot married his longtime girlfriend in 2013 and returned to academic life, earning his first fellowship and part-time teaching position in Arlington, Texas in 2014. They relocated to Kansas in the summer of 2015 where Szrot completed a PhD in sociology at the University of Kansas in 2019, beginning a full-time academic career thereafter. He briefly resurfaced as a busker in Lawrence, Kansas in the summer of 2017, playing his last live performances to date and releasing a third CD-only acoustic album, Candidate, that year, which mostly featured acoustic versions of According 2 Legend songs. All three acoustic releases will be available for the first time on all streaming platforms as Texas Acoustic 2005-2014 in September of 2024.

During his time in Kansas, Szrot also composed prolifically in his limited free time. He recorded a large catalog of instrumentals and jam sessions, which were released for the first time on all streaming platforms in two volumes, The Lost Kansas Instrumentals 2015-2016 and 2017-2018, in 2023. A third Infinite Singularity album, Monsters, was recorded 2018-2019, featuring a sparser and gritter direction which in many ways anticipated recent singles.

Szrot also recorded Postscript/Pseudopsynthphony, a neoclassical-inspired, all-instrumental album, immediately after completing Monsters; and shortly before relocating to the present shed in the north woods of Minnesota. At the time, Szrot considered this fourth release to be a farewell to music and a desire to move onto other forms of expression. However, a series of acoustic and piano tracks recorded live during the pandemic suggested otherwise. A fifth, more prog- and thrash-influenced Infinite Singularity album, Hemiboreal, was recorded in the summer of 2022, anticipating Infinite Singularity’s return; and is due to be released beginning in summer 2024.

Part III: The Return

In September of 2022, and from a shed in the north woods of Minnesota, Infinite Singularity officially returned to active status with the release of Monsters, followed immediately by Ruins Revisited, a re-recorded version of the 2002 debut album. After a year of testing the waters with back-catalog material, a gritty, stripped-down, up-tempo post-punk single “Silence, Broken” appeared on October 27, 2023.

As this new direction gained gradual but encouraging attention, a series of singles followed. The eerie, synth-laden, “To Fall [With the Snow]” was released in November, featuring one of Szrot’s deepest, darkest vocal performances to date. In January 2024, a new version of “A Forgotten Name” was released for the song’s 20-year anniversary. This track, originally released as a single for the sophomore album Silence in 2003, was an audience favorite; widely requested and often performed by According 2 Legend as well as during Szrot’s solo acoustic shows between 2006 and 2017. A fourth single, “And Then You Were Gone,” followed in February, a lament for the passing of Szrot’s beloved dog in 2023. A fifth, “Disassociate,” appeared in April, a sparse goth-rock track chronicling an unraveling mind and descent into madness. The sixth in the series, “Light My Way [Into the Void],” which included more doom metal influences, was released in May.

Infinite Singularity has begun to build a reputation around steady, organic growth and a DIY ethic that prioritizes music over image, prolifically creating “Fellow Travelers” Spotify playlists to connect with and support fellow independent artists; and receiving scattered but encouraging support for the project’s newfound direction since October 2023. There has long been a theme of nature imagery to accompany the bleakness and introspective solitude found throughout Szrot’s work; and recent Infinite Singularity releases have featured nature photographs taken by Szrot on his long and frequent walks through the north woods of Minnesota during all four seasons of the year.

Part IV: The Multiverse

Given the range of the extensive back catalog collection, and in the interest of preserving continuity while chronicling change, Infinite Singularity is being reorganized into “universes” that feature different releases and aspects of the project at different times/places.

The current incarnation of Infinite Singularity began on October 27, 2023. To date, six songs have been released as singles, and more are on the way. To learn more, visit the ”discography” page by clicking here