Rapture Overture

[Opening – Strings] [Pipe Organ] [Female Choir] [Choir – whispered, layered, panning left to right] Grumble… Beast… Grumble… Beast… [Narration – Gothic] [Poetic] [Echoed] “In nights when silence drowns the stars, a lowly murmur coils through hollow halls. Beneath the ribs of men and mountains, a hunger gnaws, ancient and unnamed. Some called it omen. Some called it plague. But carved in bone, the word endures… GrumbleBeast.” [Choir Swell – Latin-style Chant] [Organ Drone] Dies ventris… mors abyssus… GrumbleBeastus… [Narration – sinister] [Low,] [Strings creeping in] “It rises in silence. It reigns in thunder. It feeds in darkness. It breaks in light.” [Build – Choir] [Strings] [Percussion] [Drums – heartbeat pace, [Cymbals swelling] [Choir – layered, echoing] Grumble… Beast… Grumble… Beast… [Female Choir – soaring] In tenebris… vocat… [Climax – Crescendo → Sudden Silence] [Full choir] [Timpani rolling] [Final Whisper – reverb] “…deep within, a storm is rising.”