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Lyrics
There, here I am.
Don't you see me?
Meet me as I am.
Cleansed of desire to guide,
To pray or judge, to fall into line.
A play you’ve managed to tame
Is just a snare, a zero-sum game.
The cost we bear is sky-high.
We're stripped of the freedom to live our lives.
No, I’m done with playing endless games.
The scripts imprinted on us
Were carved in blood, a lie in disguise.
The truth you choose to believe
Is it you, or just a crafted deceit?
Stop pulling the strings.
Your kingdom falls.
I'm breaking the links.
I won't fight day after day,
Chasing ghosts in never-ending play.
Yeah, I refuse to play merciless games.
I'm not a villain, neither a saviour nor prey.
I'm not your hero
I'm not your...
You know, mind games could just be over.
They were never real.
Game over.
So let it go.
About
Achille Pérès was formed in Dunkirk, on the North Sea coast - a city shaped by its port, industry, and the restless energy of a historic borderland. Located in French Flanders, Dunkirk stands at the crossroads of cultures and identities, influenced over centuries by the legacy of medieval Flanders, the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands, and the region’s later integration into France. This sense of existing between worlds lies at the core of Achille Pérès.
The memory of both World Wars remains deeply embedded in the region, particularly through the battlefields of Flanders and Operation Dynamo. That legacy is reflected in the band’s name. Achille Pérès was a real person from the Dunkirk area who was arrested in 1944 and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp, where he died in 1945. The name stands as a reminder of the value of human life - a subject that remains painfully relevant today and holds a deeply personal meaning for the band, shaped by both inherited memory and lived experience.
Musically, the band combines modern metal heaviness, a dark electronic atmosphere, dense synth textures, and subtle Armenian musical motifs with deep, thought-provoking lyrics.
Achille Pérès creates thoughtful modern metal - atmospheric, heavy, and rooted in identity.
Creative Core
Dzhulietta Avanesian is the voice and lyrical force behind Achille Pérès. As lead vocalist, lyricist, vocal producer, and music producer, she brings emotional weight, intensity, and identity to the band’s sound, shaping both its atmosphere and its message.
Denys Lushchenko is the composer and guitarist of Achille Pérès, as well as a vocalist, vocal producer, and music producer. He builds the band’s musical backbone through heavy riffs, layered arrangements, and a clear sonic vision, giving the songs their strength, tension, and impact.
“Mind Games” is a song about breaking free from manipulation, imposed roles, and the systems that shape the way we think, feel, and define ourselves. It captures the moment when a person sees through the illusion - when it becomes clear that the struggle was never really about truth, but about surviving within a constructed reality designed to control, divide, and confine.
At the centre of the song is a lyrical voice moving from confrontation to liberation. Refusing to accept the roles of victim, saviour, villain, or hero, the protagonist rejects the entire mechanism of control behind them. In that refusal lies the core of the song: the reclaiming of personal autonomy, the right to exist as oneself rather than as a function within someone else’s game.
Built around images of scripts, strings, links, and manufactured truth, “Mind Games” reaches beyond the boundaries of personal conflict. The song speaks to psychological control, social pressure, and systems of meaning that enter the human mind and begin to dictate who a person should be, how they should think, and what they should believe. These forces demand submission, strip away freedom, and replace reality with something artificial.
At its heart, “Mind Games” is about the realization that freedom does not come from winning a rigged game, but from refusing to play at all. The song’s closing movement is one of conscious release - the ending of something that should never have held power in the first place.
Clear, confrontational, and deeply introspective, “Mind Games” is a statement about inner clarity, broken illusions, and the courage to step outside someone else’s script and return to the self. It is a song about the moment freedom begins: where imposed meaning ends.