As Is Proper (02:46)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nIn my friend\u2019s honor, the original theme and structure of this album are based on Warhammer 40k, specifically the Space Marine Legions, which is why there are 20 tracks. The track titles, as well, were drawn from my friend\u2019s interests: tracks that represented Loyalist Legions in the lore of Warhammer were named for phrases randomly obtained from the Horus Heresy novel Vulkan Lives by Nick Kyme (a book I first discovered through this friend), and the Traitor Legions\u2019 songs were named for phrases randomly obtained from the Piers Anthony novel On A Pale Horse (which was one of his favorites). (The two unknown Legions\u2019 track titles were taken from Brothers of the Snake by Dan Abnett, a non-Horus Heresy Warhammer 40k novel.)<\/p>\n
If all of this Warhammer nerd talk is nonsense to you, know no fear! The music itself has almost nothing to do with Warhammer, or anything really else. They\u2019re explorations of electronica and music theory, almost entirely instrumental. (Three tracks – those with asterisks above – have limited, generated spoken vocals.) Quite a few of them have been described by listeners as reminiscent of dungeons in an RPG – which is quite on brand, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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