The indestructible one- woman band returns with her 12th manifesto of overwhelming and dissonant cyber-psychedelia, just 7 months after her last album. In “To Become Unreal”, composed at the end of 2014 while going through dark times, Anna C. Chaos once again documents the human confrontation with personal and impersonal demons. Recorded, mixed and mastered by the artist in the second half of 2020 it ends up becoming a sound portrait of the current apocalypse.

With 2 tracks and 25 minutes length, the artist provides an immersive musical journey experience: more of a soundtrack than a conventional Rock record. The final part of the Tetralogy of Solitude, along with the three previous albums, is inspired by Jung, Joseph Campbell, João Cabral de Mello Neto, Vidas Secas and biblical iconography. Lyrically permeated with agonizing images of search for internal truths, amid desert and eroded landscapes of the human spirit.

Like previous works, it appropriates the method of Metal and Hardcore, but abolishing the formula. It pays tribute and uses the teachings, but distorts, angulates and subverts them. It is slow, severe, psychedelic, intense and aggressive. It explores dissonances and guitar textures, with long and angular riffs, extended chords. Visceral howls, noises and effects, coexisting with tablas and slide guitars. Whispers and chants alternate with strange times and dynamics, always forcing more complexity of drum-machine programming.

The current tetralogy focuses in being more sonically concise and overwhelming, and To Become Unreal is the more poignant declaration of these principles. Trying to put some ugliness in melodic parts, with some beauty and harmony in the dissonant ones, is also an effort to find meaning in the human experience of tragedy.

"Opening with a Swans "Half Life" methodical rhythmic pound into a psychedelic whirlpool that belches out another world heaving tempo before morphing into a killer slide guitar accented drone crawling toward golgotha. Swans, Godflesh, Eisenvater floats your boat, sinks your enemy's battleship. This is one to lend an ear to."
(Starkweather/facebook)

"Totally non-conventional, apocalyptic, with great subtle transitions, so, a record that deserves to be appreciated with time. Only this way the beauty in it are revealed."
(metalmindreflections.blogspot.com/search?q=umbilichaos)

"To say that the release is heavy is probably the biggest understatement I could make in this article. Honestly, the best way to describe the content of this album is "crushing". (,,,) It's like a slow-moving, unstoppable monolith edging forward, but you're tied down in its path and it slowly crushes you as it passes."
(cavedwellermusic.net/reviews/post/710138/umbilichaos-to-become-unreal-album-premiere-and-review)

"Un disco claramente donde nos muestra la turbulencia entre sonidos y la pesadez del doom, donde también podemos notar gritos fuertes y concisos, incursionados en las oscuras melodias que rompe las puertas del umbral, sin embargo hemos notado la gran influencia de atmosferas instrumentales? podría decirse así? o pasajes sonoros que acompañan el estilo único de Umbilichaos? Sin duda un proyecto para ponerle mucha atención."
(cielosciegos.wordpress.com/2021/06/17/conociendo-la-musica-de-umbilichaos-desde-brasil-y-su-ultimo-album-the-become-unreal-2021/)

"The production is excellent and is perhaps the strongest offering that UMBILICHAOS has released to date with some rich “Post-Metal” and “Shoegaze” methodology being used to great effect. The vocals are bang-on point and you can feel Anna’s frustration with the world and the growls providing a convincing argument against the excellent instrumental work."
(outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com/2021/06/umbilichaos-to-become-unreal-ep-review.html)

"2 monolithic slabs of sturm und drang melding Swans, Godflesh and Neurosis pummel, psychedelics and old school industrial future primitive flair. Even detect prog rock and doom metal elements circumambulating through these compositions."
(Starkweather/facebook)

"So heavy that it becomes opressive, and it fits the spiritual and existentialist lyrics. Brutal guitars, slow tempos, and intense rhythim section give the tone, showing how Umbilichaos wanders through many styles."
(blogartemetal.blogspot.com/search?q=umbilichaos)

"Bells, rain and cold. Experiences that could cover the next creepy thriller film. Post-hardcore noise, rhythms and sounds documents the human conflict with personal and impersonal demons.
A chaotic beauty, and with this same beauty, crushes the most inaccessible and intimate places of each one of us. Among this endless comotion, it describes the struggle of the search for a inner truth."
(www.rocknrollmonuments.gr/magazine/album-reviews/check-also/item/1998-umbilichaos-to-become-unreal-sinewave-label-2021.html)

“Emotionally charged, blending different music and philosophy influences. Not far from the existencial thoughts that permeated our heads during these tough times. We may not find the way out of them now, but music certainly helps to cope with all of that.”
(I Wanna Be Your Grrrrl Zine)

"Not just a record, but a big work of art (...) It escapes from patterns and metrics, and yet is beautiful and intriguing. Anna flows along with her craft, transgressing rules, destroying formulas, and not giving permission to be labeled, and that's why she's so unique and necessary - her denial to compromise to stereotypes. Her essence, her truths and the depht of her shadow epically collapses within her songs."
(www.headbangersnews.com.br/resenhas/to-become-unreal/)