"Down the hill it rolls; the head of he who will be known as Britain's first Christian Martyr. Blood stains the grass with each meaty thump as gravity pulls it further and lower away from the body it was once attached to. It finally comes to rest at the base of the hill, dead-eyed face gazing upwards at the awe-addled crowd; a little beyond where it rests, a spring of the purest and freshest water bursts forth from the ground. Silence falls on the onlookers, in reverence of the miracle they just bore witness to.
All except you.
After all, the moment your blade finished cleaving his neck, your eyes burst from their sockets."
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Happy Halloween everybody! I've been up since about 2 A.M. GMT, and started working on this track about 5 in the morning or so. I had maybe an hour's break around lunchtime but otherwise I've been going flat out working on this cut. I am very, very tired.
As the bit of prose suggests, this track is loosely inspired by the legend surrounding the execution of Saint Alban- important local folklore for me, what with being a resident of the city of Saint Albans. If you've never read the story surrounding Saint Alban, give it a look; it's surprisingly Metal™.
Total honesty: the track was mostly inspired by the guillotine foley sample that closes out the intro. Which... y'know, isn't how Saint Alban was beheaded, but hey ho, semantics. Quite where the impulse to do something that clocks in at 189bpm came from I've no idea; obviously I've still got the Rotterdam Techno bug. I'm sure this'll be my last ridiculously fast and aggressive track for a while.
... Yeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhh probably not.
This tune uses the following sounds from freesound(.)org:
- Crowd/Mob/Riot Noise (Voices Only) - 14 people, 2 minutes HENRY VI (FillMat)
- Morphing Drop (staticpony1)
- impact 2.wav (neezen.)