A Memory of Salt and Stars

Avant-garde Progressive/Ambient Metal, Slow tempo, No blast beats, no crushing riffs, Focus on ethereal, airy female clean vocals and rich ambient synth pads creating a deep underwater soundscape, Fretless bass must carry a prominent, slow melody, Drums should utilize complex, low-volume, Meshuggah-style polyrhythms and hypnotic percussion, creating a bizarre, unsettling groove, Saxophone plays only sustained, haunting drones, The Brass Orchestra must provide deep, harmonic warmth, Male vocal is replaced by Airy Female Synth Vocal, used only for a deep, sustained, distant drone in the outro, ***OUTRO INSTRUCTION:*** The final moments must introduce a faint, low-volume dissonance, and a subtle pulse of **crushing saxophone riffing** and **fast, subtle technical drumming** to create a seamless transition into the intensity of the next track, "The Replication Scar Pt, 1"

Technical Death Metal, inspired by The Zenith Passage - Datalysium, Aggressive yet intricate drumming, complex fretless basslines, crushing saxophone instead of guitar, and dissonant brass orchestra hits, Features melodic saxophone solos, ambient synth pads in the background, and ethereal, airy female clean vocals

Technical Death Metal, inspired by The Zenith Passage - Datalysium, Aggressive yet intricate drumming, complex fretless basslines, crushing saxophone instead of guitar, and dissonant brass orchestra hits, Features melodic saxophone solos, ambient synth pads in the background, and ethereal, airy female clean vocals

5/4 time signature, prog rock, gentle rhythm, polyrhythm, 11/8 grouping rhythm, tension chord, breathy vocal, separate and open sounds, slow tempo, classical guitar, add slow piano solo, ‑double bass drumming

**AVANT-GARDE PROGRESSIVE METAL, ** Slow Tempo, Genre focus on a bizarre, beautiful fusion of Technical Death Metal and a distorted, unsettling underwater Tango (inspired by The Little Mermaid), **RHYTHMIC MANDATE:** The music must be built on a powerful, unnerving **POLYRHYTHM**, The main instrumentation must pulse in a highly complex **13/8 time signature** while the **vocal melody and snare drum** pulse in a contrasting **3/4 time signature**, The drumming must be **Aggressive, intricate, and technically dense**, utilizing complex polyrhythmic cycles over the slow tempo, **INSTRUMENTATION:** Focus on ethereal, airy female clean vocals (melodic) and female synth vocal (aggressive parts), Rich ambient synth pads create a deep, unsettling underwater soundscape, Crushing saxophone plays technical death metal style riffs and features **cold, mechanical solos**, Prominent, complex fretless basslines, Dissonant brass orchestra hits, Complex piano accompaniment

avant-garde progressive metal at a slow tempo, grounded in intricate 12-tone atonal lines, The song begins with quintuplet-driven rhythms from crushing saxophones, layered with dissonant brass hits and minimal classical guitar plucks, Percussion morphs gradually from quintuplets into triplets, quintuplets again, 8th, then 6th note patterns, creating evolving, staggered pulses, Ambient synth pads float beneath, intertwining with ethereal, airy female vocals, The texture grows dense with orchestral brass surges, abrupt metric modulations, and the classical guitar providing a brittle harmonic anchor amid the chaos

**AVANT-GARDE PROGRESSIVE METAL, ** Slow Tempo, Genre focus on a bizarre, beautiful fusion of Technical Death Metal and a distorted, unsettling underwater Tango (inspired by The Little Mermaid) **RHYTHMIC MANDATE:** Polyrhythm fuses **Tech Metal percussion** and *, Drums: Precise, layered polymeter with complex transitions (**Matt Garstka style**), Vocal sections use **Single Pedal Blast Beat**, **INSTRUMENTATION (Style & Tone Focus):** **Vocals:** **Female Spoken Word/Clean Delivery**, Must sound **evil and angry**, **Saxophone:** **Haunting lead, ** Plays **hyper-speed, chromatic, arpeggiated technical metal riffs**; melody follows **Jazz scale**, Replaces solos with crushing blasts, **Brass Orchestra:** Full ensemble, Plays **hyper-speed, chromatic, arpeggiated technical metal riffs** with the sax, **Piano:** **Dissonant, clear tone, ** Plays **fast, chromatic counterpoint riffs** and unsettling chord clusters

Atonal hymn-style female soprano vocals float unsettlingly over sparse, icy synth pads and distant reverberant piano, Layered for eerie, choral density, the fragile voices bend into chilling, dissonant phrases, weaving through unpredictable melodic lines, No fixed structure, just ghostly texture