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The Ghost of the Nereid
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An eight minute epic alternating between quiet and heavy sections.
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Blood Stained Glass offers an eclectic variety of death metal, classical piano, industrial, darkwave, progressive rock, dark ambient, alternative, and experimen
Blood Stained Glass is an eclectic music project by multi-instrumentalist Ben, who plays all instruments and sings. Blood Stained Glass's music explores genres ranging across surf guitar, progressive rock, electronica, death metal, classical piano, folk, and more. Overall it is a third metal, a third rock, and a third electronica. Not content to be tied to any one sound, Blood Stained Glass looks to perform intelligent music in whatever style seems appropriate for the song's artistic statement or fits the mood.
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Genre
Metal • Progressive Metal
Charts
Peak #199
Peak in subgenre #35
Author
Ben Bernard
Rights
2005 Ben Bernard
Uploaded
May 16, 2005
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MP3 7.1 MB • 128 kbps • 7:46
Story behind the song
I had a recurring dream about a huge spider, maybe a dozen times. This is a song influenced by those dreams, by the constant rain that was going on at the time, by a road trip I took the previous October, and listening to a lot of Opeth, Rush, and Yes. The last two guitar parts date back to 1994. The lyrics were written in June 2002, and the rest of the guitar parts were improvised that August. It then sat on a shelf for a while. I then ironed out the tablature for it, and cut out the fat. This resulted in clipping it from ten minutes down to seven minutes. After failing to get the drums right after several attempts, I wrote a computer program to convert MIDI files to wav files using a table of wave-files for each note. This let me get the drums right. The guitars took about 40 takes, with the same equipment problems that plagued Portrait of Nihilism and Silent Starlight Symphony. Having cut my teeth on those two songs, however, I managed to prevent a bad situation like on Portrait. The end result is a six-part epic in the space of 7:46. I think it turned out fairly well.
Lyrics
Half in shadows, half in light I gaze into the summer night The soft trickle of the rain Caresses trees along the lane And through the window lies the storm Reverberating without form The softly spoken thundercloud Reveals the nature of the sound High above the moonlit sky Satellites are floating by Drifting through a lullaby I find the spider, but then I die... All throughout the winter The darkness reigns supreme In the glacial palaces The blizzard blinds the queen Wandering the world Wondering if all in vain All the misty madness Washed away by the rain Summer serenely cleanses me of fear Through the mist I thought I saw her appear The twilight awash in a sea of gray Quietly I thought I saw her slowly slip away Deep into the desert, I disturb the ancient dust Too obscure to find the clues Hidden beneath the crust Wandering the world, Wondering if all in vain Searching for the answer, I am summoned by the rain Here there is no pain Here there's no reality Here there is no why Here there's no morality Only peace leads to prosperity We need no police if we have sincerity This is the battered dream Passed on since the dawn of time A silent requiem Passed down until the end of time Thus it has been and so it shall be Until we pass into what we're made. As if the whole world was a dream I sit and ponder what it means When some misguided soul pollutes The essence of the dream As liars dance and widows weep To an unholy masterpiece The implications of our sleep That we may never know peace But love conquers all And in the end, we're very small In the end, one 'til we fall And in the end, we will stand tall. Be.
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