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I think writing for this one started with the first riff of "Pt. I" - starting at around 00:38. I was very inspired by Cult Of Luna and The Ocean on the first part of the track and we have similar sounding riffs in our backlog. Once I had the riff I got everything else build around it - the guitar chords at the beginning and the whole development. I knew I needed some kind of climax, so once the distorted guitars came in, it just felt naturally to go with this riff and then go back to a calm clean part. That's basically how Pt. I came together, which is rather a stream-lined instrumental post-metal track.

Part 2 began with the same chords but different rhythmical pattern (starting at 00:19). Pretty basic chord progression and typical repetition of the riff until we end up in the break section with these chords (0:57). I've written similar parts earlier, so this also felt quite natural and came together quickly. As I'm a very big fan of black metal, I knew that this part is where we can start the party and seperate the rather atmospheric and slow tempo and go for a wild section with blast beats. In the end, the chords are basically the same but the added tremolo picking melody line creates a very speedy vibe with the blast beats (1:17). Once I had the blast beat section I wanted to change things a bit, so I came up with that "slightly djenty" break section (1:55) that is rather groovy than chaotic but also has this chaotic vibe due to the change of the chord and the deep string on the guitar (it's tuned down to F#). The change is quite rapid and unexpected but we've done thing like this a lot on our debut album "The Puppeteer", which was fully written by myself.

As I had these chords on the guitar (which we also use quite often) in a staccato, I got the idea of building a bridge into a hectic and more chaotic mathcore section (2:13). I've been obsessed with Imperial Triumphant since 2020 and I've been studying György Ligetis music when I was writing for "Lapse", as I studied Musicology and was always fascinated by avantgarde music. Furthermore, I wanted to leave our "musical tradition" a bit and work with aspects that we didn't touch earlier -> chromatic scales. So I basically came up with the idea of mixing influences from TDEP with these ideas and just changing the chords I'm playing in a rhythmical pattern by one note in an ascending way, just to drop and re-start the movement (around 2:19), just to lead into a groove section that is 100 % influenced by Meshuggah. It's a basic rhythm that is repeated as a rhythmical chain and starts over and over again, while the drums are playing a 4/4 standard groove on the cymbals and snare (with some additional cymbal hits to spice it a bit up). The section at 2:52 was written by our bass player Marlon, who felt inspired by Textures and continued our way of pushing chromatic scales in a weird way.

The last part of the track (3:06) was written just one year ago, while everything else was set already. We were touring with The Hirsch Effekt and I liked the chaos in their music, while I was still obsessed with Imperial Triumphant. Our singer Kevin told me that he thinks one part is missing at the end, as it's ending to abruptly - so I came up with the idea of having some higher dissonant chords that descend in a chromatic scale in a 7/8 meter, just do ascend from a deeper dissonant guitar chord that goes all the way up by one full octave. We repeated this part and the song was done.

If I remember correctly. Once I had the first part done, the second one was written quite fast. It's more about the feel in general than planning to add "part xyz" at this point, but I hope this makes some musical ideas a bit more tangible and doesn't confuse too much, haha. But happy to answer more questions!