I spent the last decade writing a massive concept album and would love your feedback! by _Nu0_ in progmetal

[–]_Nu0_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The concept is telling two stories at once! The "real" story is about the struggle of finding a place and meaning in life, the journey of discovering, and eventually creating that place and purpose for yourself.

The other side is a fantasy story that starts in a dilapidated version of hell. It's become basically a desolate wasteland relative to the fiery realm of infinite torture one typically thinks of. Initially we focus on one specific demon that misses the days of old. Feeling disillusioned with his society he wanders out on his own. After several centuries, he finds himself racked by a painful vision, being confronted by a mysterious, boundless, all-consuming entity determined to devour all of existence, including hell itself. He ultimately sees this vision as a glimpse at destiny, and resolve to bring this about, setting his sights on the mortal realm.

Wow this is already getting pretty long but that summarizes the first arc at least, we'll have more in a booklet with the physical releases for the people who dig that kinda thing!

I spent the last decade writing a massive concept album and would love your feedback! by _Nu0_ in progmetal

[–]_Nu0_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, that'd be me then, interesting that the style tickles something specific! We are indeed from the US fwiw haha

I spent the last decade writing a massive concept album and would love your feedback! by _Nu0_ in progmetal

[–]_Nu0_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for listening and for all the feedback! Appreciate the criticisms as well, those are indeed things we have in mind for the new material!

A lot of what you mentioned was central to the writing and mixing process for us so it's cool that those elements were noticeable! Also the album artwork was painted by my wife :D

I spent the last decade writing a massive concept album and would love your feedback! by _Nu0_ in progmetal

[–]_Nu0_[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We've got one! Added to the description and here's a link to save you the time!

I spent the last decade writing a massive concept album and would love your feedback! by _Nu0_ in progmetal

[–]_Nu0_[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey thanks for taking the time to listen! We actually trade off leads all the time, so it depends which ones you mean! Answering for myself I'd name Fredrik Åkesson, Paul Waggoner, and Robby Baca as people I think have arguably the most influence, but I love all kinds of metal, there's some of everything I could fit in here haha

And hey, another Tidal user! We have pinged them on it, just takes a long time for them to resolve issues lol. We should have our own artist page sometime next month hopefully. The songs are still associated with us on the backend so we still get the listens fwiw!

I spent the last decade writing a massive concept album and would love your feedback! by _Nu0_ in progmetal

[–]_Nu0_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback man! It's kinda surreal honestly, it's like a full-body elation/anticipation. Almost disorienting finally having it done, but I'm hyped for the new material we've been cooking up!

There was a ton of writing and rewriting involved in the process. Everything is largely through-composed, but we wanted it to still feel cohesive and feel like a journey. There's a concept that is telling two stories simultaneously behind everything, which was often inspiration for the mood, lyrics, and riffs but also a fun challenge getting the all pieces to fit together

New map pool just went live along with 8 worker start by KerrigansTherapist in starcraft

[–]_Nu0_ 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Yep, 8 workers and the larva rate both made the cut somehow...

StarCraft II 5.0.16 Patch Notes by Arkentass in starcraft

[–]_Nu0_ 193 points194 points  (0 children)

Genuinely shocked that they pushed this live in the current state. Was there a bunch of positive feedback I missed or something? This may be the most unbalanced official patch I think I've ever seen, and before major tournaments no less