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The Drake Passage (Fade In)

koff925
Instrumental Introduction Only — No Vocals Until Lyrics Begin, Massive Distorted Progressive Rock, Raw Uncompressed Cold European Art-Rock, Wall-Of-Sound Stacked Guitars, Extreme Panning, Violent String Bends, Tremolo-Picked Lead Over Heavy Drop-D Riff, Maximum Controlled Distortion, Dual Drummers From Bar One — First Drummer: Dense Afro-Latin Ghost-Note Groove, Punishing Snare, Nervous Storm Pulse, Second Drummer: Chaotic Off-Beat Counter-Attacks, Explosive Fills, Kick Dead Center, Tritone Stabs Throughout, Sudden 7/8 Pulses, Verses Tight In E Aeolian, Syncopated Bass Independent From Guitar, Choruses Into E Major Over Minor Foundation, Maximum Width, Bridge In E Phrygian Dominant, No Loss Of Momentum — Song Grows Rawer Each Section, Vocal: Close-Mic'd Male Tenor, Raw And Rhythmic, No Vibrato, No Opera, Verses Almost Spoken, Falsetto Fragile Not Heroic, Whispered Harmonies Wide-Panned, Slapback Delay And Light Phaser In Bridge Only, Mood: Massive, Grooved, Cold
V5.5

[Intro — Instrumental Only No Vocals, Tremolo Lead Over Drop-D Riff, Both Drummers Full Force Bar One, First Drummer Afro-Latin Ghost-Notes Punishing Snare, Second Drummer Off-Beat Counter-Attacks, Kick Dead Center, Tritone Stab, No Build-Up] [Verse 1 — E Aeolian Tight And Grooved, Stacked Guitars, Syncopated Bass Independent, First Drummer Afro-Latin Ghost-Notes Punishing Snare, Second Drummer Counter-Rhythms, Vocal Close-Mic'd Almost Spoken No Vibrato] We rounded the Horn on the fourteenth of March… the sky ran a jaundiced and yellowing light… two oceans declared their old quarrel below and the Jenny was offered to both… (offered entire.) The wind from the south had a tongue of its own… it preached through the rigging and gnawed at the mast… the men at their posts held their silence like faith, but their eyes made their testament … clear to the last. [Tritone Stab, Second Drummer Counter-Attack, Syncopated Bass Surging, No Loss Of Momentum] [Pre-Chorus — E Aeolian Darkening, Ghost-Notes Intensifying, Head Voice Rising Fragile] Then came the cold — not a cold men have named … a cold that had purpose … (that hunted, that chose …) [Chromatic Move Into E Major, Bass Locking To Kick, Maximum Stereo Width Building] [Chorus 1 — E Major Over Minor Foundation, False Resolution, Maximum Stereo Width, Falsetto Fragile Not Heroic, Whispered Harmonies Wide-Panned, Choir Whispered] (The Drake, the Drake,) where the two worlds divide … where heaven has drowned and the ocean is one … where God keeps no name and the compass knows nothing and the south takes what's given and shows it no sun. [Verse 2 — E Aeolian Darker Mutation, Syncopated Bass More Aggressive, Ghost-Notes Denser Punishing Snare, Vocal Close-Mic'd Intimate, Tritone Stabs Mid-Phrase] The ice showed its face on the twenty-first day … a rampart of white where the water had stood … we held to our course as a man holds his oath … (not from courage, God knows …)from the want of what's good. I entered the log what my eyes would not say … "Conditions uncertain — we press to the south" … but my hand wrote the words that my will had refused, and the truth of it dried like a stone in my mouth. [Second Drummer Erupting, Tritone Stab, Head Voice Rising, Momentum Accelerating] [Pre-Chorus — E Aeolian Eroding, Both Drummers Forward, Head Voice Breaking Toward Falsetto] Then came the cold — not a cold men have named … a cold that had purpose … (that hunted, that chose …) [Bass Locking To Kick, Maximum Stereo Width, Both Drummers Full Force] [Chorus 2 — E Major Over Minor Darker Mutation, False Resolution Desperate, Falsetto Fragile Breaking, Whispered Harmonies Wide-Panned, Both Drummers Explosive] (The Drake, the Drake,) where the two worlds divide … where heaven has drowned and the ocean is one … where God keeps no name and the compass knows nothing and the south takes what's given and shows it no sun. [Bridge — E Phrygian Dominant Foreign And Threatening, Sudden 7/8 Pulse, Bass Melodic Exposed, Ghost-Notes Mutating Chaotic, Vocal Dry Close-Mic'd Slapback Delay Light Phaser, Whispered Harmonies Wide-Panned] The stars took their leave on the second night out … the moon kept no watch and the clock made no chime … and something addressed us from under the hull … (something that knew us …)that knew us from time. [7/8 Intensifying, Bass Surging, Tritone Stabs Accelerating, Both Drummers Escalating, Rawer Than Anything Before] I called for full sail …I commanded full south … for a captain holds post while his breath holds its place …. but the cold … Christ, the cold — it had entered the bone … it was learning my name as the living learn faces. [Final Chorus — Maximum Wall-Of-Sound, E Major Over Minor Full Weight, Both Drummers Explosive To Last Beat, Afro-Latin Ghost-Note Storm Punishing Snare, Bass Locking To Kick, Maximum Stereo Width, Falsetto Breaking Maximum, Whispered Harmonies Wide-Panned, Choir Whispered] (The Drake, the Drake,) where the two worlds divide … where heaven has drowned and the ocean is one … where God keeps no name and the compass knows nothing … and the south takes what's given … (and shows it no sun.) [Outro — Tremolo Lead Dissolving, Bass Alone, Ghost-Notes Fading, Kick Final Hit, Tritone Unresolved, Silence]