TITL also talks about "cast[ing] off the monsters inside."
Don't see how that relates to Epica, either, but I thought I'd just throw that out there.
The opening song doesn't relate to Epica. But the fact that I was listening to Epica when I was is a clue.
Just one question though: why not Scarred, Finally Free or The Great Debate?.. The three of them match the description too..
Interesting.
It's Finally Free IMHO.
bosk1 finds interesting that the song is being suspected as the opener. I agree with jsbru, that reduces the hypothesis to those 3 songs Scarred, Finally Free or The Great Debate.
Opening the show with Scarred or TGD would be an unexpected choice because it has never been done, but still a good thing to hear them as openers.
But Finally Free? That is really unexpected! (especially if they play the tape "You are once again surrounded by a brillant white light...")
First, it's a fan favorite.
He emphasized the fact that they did not
open with that song.
Bosk, have they EVER opened with this song before?
Opened? No. And I think the reason it didn't register is that it has been played in recent years, and I knew it is a crowd pleaser. So despite it being in the #1 slot, I just skimmed right past it without thinking.
So I though they may have
closed with it in the recent years.
It appears that, during the 2014 tour, they played songs from SFAM for it's birthday (saw them twice in Paris that year).
And they closed with Finally Free.
bosk1 is an Epica listener, maybe he just fees good when he listen to them ?
He was listening to them friday December 2nd, so he was "feeling good
this that friday afternoon"... ?
That Epica part relly needs improvement.
Finally, It's a monster song because...
well first Portnoy
second it's 12 minutes long (and bosk1 seem to have a different idea of what an epic song is ; you may think an epic is 20-minutes long, but to him, it may be 10-minutes ?)
and then during the last 4 minutes, the drums seems to be really difficult (to me as a non-drummer).
Mangini would not want to improvise that part, but play it the way it has been written by Portnoy, hence the fact he wants to transcribe it...
What do you think ?