DAR - Breach Code

So there's a bit of a history with this track. This idea has been around since I made my "Solitude of Mind" EP (so about 4 years now). This one has been put off for years, since it always felt too out of place among my previous works.

I was originally going to include it in my SoM EP, but felt that I'd rather save it for the full album that would follow it. However, when RISEN came around, I felt like this one didn't quite fit in, so I held off again until the next album.

I thought about using it in NEW GENESIS, but then once again, I felt that it didn't feel quite right to have it there either. Time passes again, and I did my vocal album, Cyclic Divide.

Then HORIZONS comes around, and I almost included it, but once again, it just felt a little too out of place.

Then I made the first RED PLANET, and I was really excited! I thought that maybe now it would finally find its place. However, when I finished up RP1, once again "Breach Code" was left out, not for being out of place, but because the album felt "full" already.

So now here we are with RED II in the works, and I've been itching to finally give this song a proper home in an album! Finally, this riff would fit in with the generally darker and more aggressive atmosphere that the RED PLANET Saga has brought about.

The riffs are pretty much the same as they were 4 years ago, only with very subtle revisions. One of the new guitar parts I made though was the bit around 2:34.

It used to only be those heavy rhythm guitars in the background, but after working with all the DOOM stuff and the first RP album, I made up a bendy, sinister-sounding lead part here.

The intro was another thing I also added on to my original idea. Actually, its somewhat ironic, its more like the original version of "Breach Code" was added on to the intro! I had originally set off to make a totally different kind of song. Then once the bass part came in, I started thinking of "Breach Code".

Eventually, I decided that I would mash the two together, since I felt it matched the vision I had for it.

The title "Breach Code" comes from how originally I envisioned this tune being the background for some kind of big raid. Where I imagined that one of the protagonists in this scenario would give the signal/code to breach the room. Thus "Breach Code".

It definitely works here though, as I now picture Sin-Slayer making his way deeper into the facility on Phobos. The eerie, tense atmosphere in the intro, as he loads up and prepares to blow the doors leading to the next area.

Then once the distorted guitars kick in, Sin-Slayer starts going to work.

For the outro, I gave it a more hopeful/confident tone, now that the fear of the unknown from earlier is gone. However, there's still more unknowns ahead for our hero. So that's why I had it end on a bit of a cliffhanger. Having the confident mood suddenly shift into uncertainty around 4:14, and abruptly ending.

As for inspirations, the main riff throughout the song was heavily inspired by Tool's "Schism".

Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this track! I'll have another RED PLANET track coming up soon, so keep an eye out. ~DAR

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[NTAD]

The beginning sounds like a theme for a Hollywood thriller.
And I gotta ask...any inspiration from Schism at 1:18? I always pegged you as a Tool fan but it'd be nice if my suspicions were confirmed.
Edit: FFS you actually said it in the description. I always comment without reading lol.

[rnsk]

Tool Schism? I was thinking Brant Bjork :) (Can't find the exact title I was thinking about, but Good Time Bonnie from Gods & Goddesses matches as well :-)) Do like it!