I love this idea. I took it quite sereously
FRONT COVER:
BACK COVER/TRACKLIST:
TRACKLIST GUIDETHROUGH:
01. Overture/Big Bang: This would be very similar to the SDOIT Orchestral Intro. The first 4 minutes would use strings, tubes, bells, cellos and it would end up mixing with a lead sound like the one used in the intro of TCOT. From there on, it builds up to a climax where JR's soft pad resonates in the BG while James sings for about 3 minutes. The main melody would be soft, yet evolving to the second song Light Waves (which continues directly from this song)
02. Light Waves: A Song that has some more energy into it. Its a bass driven song, a la FIF era. However, the last minute of it is a guitar solo that ends up with a thunder. You can hear a nugget if you increase the volume a lot (you can hear the piano intro of ANTR).
03. Baraka: Well, fun fact is that Baraka means THE MEANING OF LIFE in some ancient language (history class). It would be a song with the usage of some percussion a la Frank Zappa for the intro. Then, it would evolve into something more "post-rock" ISIS like. It would evolve, evolve, evolve into a gradually heavier state until it reaches the next song, which starts from where Baraka ends.
04. U.F.O 43: Heavy Slayer-like song. Pretty much a TDEN without the intrumental section. However, after three minutes of heaviness, the song just fades out as a reprise of the Overture orchestra fades in at the same time.
05. Cosmic Conspiracy Pt.1 : This first two minute part would be a quick instrumental where JR demonstrates the Eingehard, iPad, iPhone and all kinds of other lead stuff. It would be a "drumless" and "guitarless" song, but there would be a pretty kick ass bass backboning everything while JR goes crazy in the lead.
06. Cosmic Conspiracy Pt. 2: This would naturally start where Pt. 2 ends (we know how this works already). This would definably be a song that reminded everyone of a post-rock Tool-ish version of Scarred (its hardto imagine isn't it?). But pretty much it would begin pretty intense with some heavy riffs, drop out to a more calm ambient thing and then rise up again until it fades out.
07. Our Earth: This would be a surprise for the DT community. It would actually be EVE but with James singing. Since this is all imaginary, we can also pretend Kevin Moore came to the studio to help in this one.
08. Black Holes Of Salvation: This song would feature an Opeth contribution. It would be like "Bleak" where the song starts with death metal singing from Arkfield and then it would calm a little down for LaBrie.
09. Spacetime: This song would be written by LaBrie. It would be somehow like "Slightly Out Of Reach" from his solo album, mainly piano driven with some catchy riffs. After 6 minutes though, there would be the first guitar-lead tradeoff solos (just cause we know there will HAVE to be one)
10. Darkness Approaches: Very dark and atmospheric instrumental. Pretty much there would be pad and bass where the guitar would just suddenly come in with this agresive chords. But they would be played once and then resonate over time. Near the end, the drums kick in, the guitar gets into hyperspeed mode and before we notice, we are already on the final epic track.
11. The Big Crunch: This song would begin with heavy 3 minute intro with some seven stringing (a la Mirror style). Then there would be a cool drum fill that would be the transition to the second part of the song where there is a tradeoff between Mike portnoy, LaBrie and John petrucci. There is playing around with Right and Left channels as if one represents science and the other religion for their respective versions of the end of the world. After some of that cool stuff, there would be a piano break a la Blind Faith and then some 4 minutes of choirs singing while the guitar and bass do a unique tradeoff a la Majesty times (maybe not even that). When the instrumental is over, the piano starts playing with LaBrie doing some soft singing as if the world is ending. Then the guitar comes in, the main riff is played again in a faster tempo and LaBrie sings this super high note that echoes for a while. While it does so, we have explosion sounds and some distorted guitar and leads, implying that the world is over.
Hidden track: This would be a nugget and pretty much we would have the main riff of the Overture played, but this time with backward vocals from Mike Portnoy saying "In memory of BONGO."
Man, i got inspired on this one...
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