Right, ITPOE was first for SC
That's what I thought, and I'm also pretty sure that "In The Name Of God" was the first song written during the TOT sessions as well. I'm not so sure about SDOIT, 8VM, and BC&SL, though. Anyone know about those albums' first songs written?
-Marc.
If I remember correctly, I Walk Beside You was originally written in the TOT sessions, but was omitted because it didn't fit with the rest of the album (thus making it the first song written for Octa).
If we go by the demo track-lists as the writing order (which I don't know why they'd be in any other order), we can also figure out the first songs written for the classic albums:
WD&DU: Afterlife
I&W: Metropolis
Awake: Scarred
FII: Take Away My Pain (or Raise The Knife if you wanna be technical)
SFAM: the 20 minute instrumental demo (which included elements of Overture 1928, Strange Deja Vu, Home, The Dance Of Eternity and One Last Time)
TOT: In The Name Of God
After that it gets tricky.
I've already mentioned how (if memory serves) IWBY was the first song written for Octa.
The making of SC documentary also points out that ITPOE was the first song written for that album (though technically they probably wrote Part I first).
As stated earlier, it's been confirmed that STR was the first song written for DT12.
& it's been confirmed that AWE was the first song written for DOT.
That leaves SDOIT, BC&SL, ADTOE and TA, which I don't have a clue on. If anyone has any other leads, I'd be interested to know.