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Released 4/13/2020.
Duration: 2:52.

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Chromaphasia: (composer, booklet commentary)

For starters, this song took absolute ages to create. While writing it, I was listening to a lot of Japanese Alt-Rock/Metal, as well as some of the Homestuck tracks of those genres, like the Strife album and David Ellis' work. Those definitely influenced a lot of the choices I made, especially in reference to the guitar tone and the drums. In terms of the technical theory behind it, I used a Phrygian mode, which is very similar to the Minor mode, which most Rock/Metal uses. The extra flat second from the Phrygian scale really lends a lot of interesting possibilities for resolution, because of the way it clashes with the root note, being only a half step above it. I mostly used a jazz guitar tone for the guitars to keep the sound more clean, however there is definitely a more liberal use of distortion on some of the leads.