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Game: Terraria Calamity Mod
Title: The Filthy Mind
Composer: DM DOKURO
Nominator: @NFUN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NbQFGnQaCE

yea i love progressive metal, that genre. oh yeah you genius, if yuou can really call yourself that, this is so much like Panic Attack by Dream Theater which is the song that i've seen a high single digit number of people (including myself) say made them think that Dream Theater was less proggy than other prog bands when it was the first song they looked uip. but then they heard other songs later and realized that dream theater was way more cool than simply that. but it is true that plain 5/8 does not seem that crazy once you have been to the movies. that does NOT matter to me in regards to this song (tho it could regarding other songs), i am just commenting about that perception of it sounding like the leasy crazy song by a crazy band

the thing that makes DM DOKURO the most distinctive to me is how good DM DOKURO is at chord changes; like the pat metheny typ(DONT SAY THAT TOO MUCH or you wil lbe made foun of)e. but not always applied to the calm music in the way you hear it when he is being patrick. with dokuro you can get this same tonality ; these same soaring progressions and melody lines connecting those crazy unanticipated modulationcore chords ; but now you are hearing this idea in other genres such as progressive metal. also in ""edm"", which, by the way, i am a parody of nfun.

these are the numbers i wrote down on my 'blog' before:

(0:00 - 0:27) 20 bars of 5/8
(0:27 - 0:48) [6/8+5/8, 9/8]x4
(0:48 - 1:59) 52 bars of 5/8
[loop]

i did make it clear that i think it's actually very likely that this was written entirely as "10/4" in software, since the section at :27 would eventually add up to 10 quarter beats. and you wouldn't have to change the timesig the entire song that way if u wrote it that way. but the way i hear it is definitely not going to be that naturally, i'm going to hear those jagged cliffs of sharp barline shift moments, and breaking longer containers down is the "correct" way to write these things so that a conductor knows where to move that stick they are holding and have it line up with material in a more meaningful way

the thing this reminds me most of these days that i wasn't able ot say in 2018, is Raiden V haha, it's exactly that. fake dream theater but with more modulationcore chord changes, in both cases.

glitchiness at the beginning, and crunchy dissonance, certainly sets the tone. it's nice for introducing the track with a less typical exterior for this sorta composition too; like i LOVE when it is "literally dream theateer" but i like even more when you are hearing the imaginary world of if dream theater made idm which they have definitely never done(oh wait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_WjsYWgb7U
)

dm dokuro's youtube channel actually has a couple playlists of influences (one of vgm and one of non-vgm) and i was pretty surprised that in the non-vgm playlist there wasn't any big prog metal bands in there. it was mostly like latin jazz from the 70s in really low quality haha. the vgm influences playlist made way more sense though. i guess dokuro just made prog metal by liking proggy vgm but then deciding it should be on a guitar, which is the inverse of what usually happens (where a prog fan makes vgm so then they make prog on a roland sc88pro instead of a guitar)

very neat playlist of VGM btw (OMG i didn't even notice it has sonic shuffle in it until now):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbrAnF1cQ0SCA1x8fSHd_D59YfpH-HzIW"