[INTRO: D minor, 68 BPM, extremely sparse] [COLD WIND, distant alpine horn] [SOLO PIANO: low notes, enormous reverb] [NO DRUMS, NO GUITARS] [DEEP BASS-BARITONE: intimate, nearly whispered] Before the fire... Before the sound... Before our cities scarred the ground... There stood a mountain against the sky, Watching generations live and die. [PIANO: single low D] We called it silent. We were wrong. [8 SECOND INSTRUMENTAL SPACE] [DISTANT MALE YODEL: pure, haunting] Yo——de——lay... Yo-de-lay-ee-ooo... [BARITONE, quietly] I heard you. [VERSE 1: piano only] Beneath the snow, beneath the stone, Something ancient sleeps alone. No machine. No beating drum. Still I know the time has come. [DISTANT YODEL, slightly closer] Yo-de-lay-ee... Holadi-oo... [BARITONE] Are you calling me? [YODELER] Yo-de-lay-EEEE... [BARITONE] Or am I calling you? [LOW SUB-BASS enters almost imperceptibly] [PRE-BUILD: heartbeat kick every two measures] I put my hand against the stone. [LOW RUMBLE] And felt a rhythm not my own. [PIANO begins repeating D-F-C-Bb] One... [HEARTBEAT] Two... [HEARTBEAT LOUDER] Three... [DISTANT METALLIC IMPACT] [BARITONE] Breathe. [SILENCE] [YODELER: enormous sustained cry] YOOOO-DE-LAY-EEEE-OOOO! [SUB-BASS follows yodel pitch downward] [BARITONE, whisper] Again. [YODELER: faster] YO-DE-LAY-EE! HOLADI-EE-OO! [INDUSTRIAL RISER] [BARITONE] Again. [YODELER + DISTANT CHOIR] YO-DE-LAY-EE-OOOO! [BARITONE, full power] WAKE. [COMPLETE SILENCE] [BARITONE] UP. [THE AWAKENING: instant 136 BPM] [DEVASTATING 8-STRING RIFF + DOUBLE KICK + SUB DROP] [INDUSTRIAL METALCORE + DUBSTEP] [CHORUS: huge] WHEN THE MOUNTAIN BREATHES— THE WHOLE WORLD SHAKES! [YODEL CHOIR] YO-DE-LAY-EE-OOOO! WHEN THE MOUNTAIN SPEAKS— THE SILENCE BREAKS! We are thunder! We are stone! We are echoes coming home! [BARITONE] YOU WANTED THE MOUNTAIN— [ALL] NOW THE MOUNTAIN IS AWAKE! [DUBSTEP DROP] [WOBBLE BASS + GUITAR CHUGS] [VERSE 2: mechanical industrial groove] Iron against granite! Fire against snow! Old world above us! Bass down below! A thousand-year echo inside every note, Thunder in the chest, fire in the throat! [YODELER] YO-DE-LAY-EE! [GUITAR copies melody] [YODELER] HOLADI-OO! [DUBSTEP BASS copies melody] [BARITONE] Now they understand. [BREAKDOWN I: half-time] [BARITONE] YO. [8-STRING] CHUG! [BARITONE] DE. [SUB-BASS] WUB! [BARITONE] LAY. [GUITAR + BASS] CHUG-WUB! [YODELER] YODELAY-HEE-YODELAY-HOO! [GUITAR + BASS synchronize exactly with yodel] [YODELER: rapid register flips] YO-DE-LAY-EE-OO! YO-DE-LAY-EE-AA! [DUBSTEP BASS follows vocal pitch contour] [8-STRING follows vocal rhythm] [BARITONE] The voice... [ALL STOP] ...is the riff. [BREAKDOWN II: impossibly heavy] [YODEL CONTROLS THE BAND] [YODELER] YO! DE! LAY! HEE! [BAND] CHUG! CHUG! WUB! DROP! [YODELER] HOLADI-HOLADI-OO! [BAND mimics every syllable] [BARITONE] LOWER! [SUB-BASS DROPS OCTAVE] [BARITONE] HEAVIER! [DOUBLE-KICK + POLYRHYTHMIC CHUGS] [BARITONE] MAKE... THE... MOUNTAIN... [LONG PAUSE] BREATHE! [MASSIVE BASS DROP] [BRIDGE: sudden silence, return to 68 BPM piano] [DEEP BARITONE: vulnerable] And when the thunder fades away, When night has swallowed up the day... Will you remember what you heard? [YODELER, distant again] Yo-de-lay... [BARITONE] A mountain doesn't need a word. [PIANO] It only needs... [SUB RUMBLE RETURNS] ...a voice. [SNARE BUILD] [FINAL CHORUS: 136 BPM, MODULATE Dm → Em] [FULL CHOIR + METALCORE + DUBSTEP + ALPINE HORN] WHEN THE MOUNTAIN BREATHES— THE WHOLE WORLD SHAKES! [YODEL CHOIR] YO-DE-LAY-EE-OOOO! WHEN THE MOUNTAIN SPEAKS— THE SILENCE BREAKS! We are thunder! We are stone! We are every voice that found its way home! [BARITONE: huge sustained clean vocal] WE... ARE... AWAKE! [FINAL YÖDELCORE DROP] [CHOIR yodel + 8-string + wobble bass locked together] YO-DE-LAY-EE! [CHUG-CHUG-WUB] HOLADI-OO! [CHUG-WUB-DROP] YO-DE-LAY-EE-OOOO! [DOUBLE-KICK ACCELERATION] [BARITONE beneath choir] BREATHE! BREATHE! BREATHE! [FINAL BAND STOP] [ONLY WIND] [DISTANT YODELER] Yo-de-lay-ee-ooo... [PIANO: single low E] [BARITONE, whisper] It breathes. [END]
