Lionel Cohen Presents

Steampunk Zed

Impossible Machines  ·  Victorian Fury  ·  Industrial Requiem

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Steam hisses through brass valves. Gears grind beneath flickering gaslight.
Iron hearts beat in rhythm with forgotten empires — and one extraordinary figure
walks the thin border between the possible and the utterly absurd.

Steampunk Zed is a musical chronicle: two albums tracing the impossible life and the improbable death of a Victorian anti-hero forged in coal smoke, aether, and the melancholy of worlds that never were.

The Complete Chronicle

Album cover: The Impossible Life of Steampunk Zed by Lionel Cohen (2014)

Volume I

The Impossible Life
of Steampunk Zed

· Steampunk · Industrial · Orchestral
Tracklist
  1. 01The Somebodies Without a Name02:06
  2. 02The Secret of the Humbug03:44
  3. 03Ideas of an Eccentric02:51
  4. 04Nautical Invasion02:39
  5. 05A Summer Amid the Ice03:35
  6. 06The Stockade Gunners02:54
  7. 07Tribulations of the Nineteenth Century02:19
  8. 08The Disappearing Diamonds02:05
  9. 09Frratt-Flocc01:40
  10. 10Ten Hours Siege03:20
  11. 11A Floating Metropolis02:47
  12. 12Eleven Days Hunting02:48
  13. 13Around the Sun01:19
  14. 14Travel Through the Improbable02:04
  15. 15Backwards to Begin03:01
Album cover: The Improbable Death of Steampunk Zed by Lionel Cohen (2019)

Volume II

The Improbable Death
of Steampunk Zed

· Steampunk · Victorian · Requiem
Tracklist
  1. 01The Sound of Things to Come02:58
  2. 02Night of the Comet01:41
  3. 03The Invisible Machine02:41
  4. 04Begotten Places of the Heart01:51
  5. 05Waking Sleep01:33
  6. 06The Gears of Chance02:08
  7. 07Island in the Moon01:55
  8. 08The World of Meanwhile01:33
  9. 09Secret Passions of Friends02:21
  10. 10Bulpington Brynhild01:50
  11. 11Lady Utopia02:04
  12. 12History of the Gods01:57
  13. 13Love and the Sea02:16
  14. 14The Wheels of Time02:49
  15. 15The Days See it Through02:21
  16. 16The New Worlds02:59
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The Composer

Lionel Cohen is a composer of retro-futuristic soundscapes — conjuring worlds where brass gleams under gaslight and every clockwork heart has a story. Steampunk Zed is his most ambitious narrative: an operatic journey through an alternate Victorian age powered by impossible machines and darker ambitions.

The Sound

Blending industrial percussion, cinematic orchestration, and haunting synthetic textures, the two volumes form a diptych — birth and oblivion, hubris and elegy. Each track is a chamber in a vast mechanical cathedral, designed to be heard in candlelight with fog at the windows.