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This powerful SSANTG x FOREST-FANGS collaborative cover features a cyberpunk girl with mechanical implants, fusing human sensuality with technological coldness. Her body has been reconstructed with robotic parts, hinting at a future society where flesh is just a basis for code. The distorted aesthetic and the metallic details protruding from the chest, abdomen and shoulders reflect an augmented reality, where the biological is no longer sufficient. His blindfolded eyes and red horns evoke a struggle between control and rebellion, while a vertical translucent ribbon with the word ‘HIVE’ covers his mouth and torso, symbolising both enforced silence and direct connection to the decentralised network. The visual elements accompany the sonic environment that this piece represents: a sound world of glitch, dark synthesizers and binary pulses, inspired by the HIVE blockchain, where this figure represents an avatar, an emissary encoded in living flesh to speak for the digital hive.