Volume I: Nightmares
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Track Listing
All The World Is Waiting (6:29)
Hellish Interlude (5:02)
Chained Melody #1 (1:06)
Transitory Phase (7:06)
Rise and Fall (2:25)
No Longer a Dream (11:35)
Chained Melody #2 (1:20)
The Silence of Teardrops (17:05)
Tempest (3:57)
One Last Thought (1:53) |
The Story:
The first volume, Nightmares, was recorded entirely on 4-track equipment as a concept demo. It follows the story of a man who is haunted by his dreams, each of which fit together over the course of ten consecutive nights to unravel interpretive mysteries and hidden secrets about his own values and beliefs. Through his dreams, the man is transformed back and forth between several characters, and through this journey of extremes, we learn about the life of a conflicted soul living in a world that cannot be faced head-on. So, instead, it must be faced through his Nightmares.
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Volume II: Indian Head Suite
(1993)
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Track Listing
Stages (14:44)
Discovery (1:43)
What Once Was (5:19)
How Quiet The Fire (8:11)
Road To Recovery (4:12)
Shadows (12:58)
Upon My Dying (6:37) |
The Story:
The second volume, Indian Head Suite, was recorded entirely on 4-track equipment as a concept demo. It tells the parallel story of urban de-cay and human decline. It is the story of an elementary school, once flourishing and adding life to a suburban town, then abandoned and left to fall victim to vandalism and decay. And a boy, full of dreams and hope for the future, who becomes so encompassed by the human neglect in the world that he too falls victim to a self-inflicted life of depression and fear. But when, as an adult, he searches to find the root cause of his pain, he discovers mysteries about his life that are too difficult to bear - let alone to remember. This is the story of generation and degeneration. It is the story of our instinctive need to destroy what we build and to build what we destroy. And to neglect it all. To just neglect it all... |
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Volume III: The Afterlyfe
(2000) |
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Track Listing
The Passed (1:29)
Instability (5:36)
Memorequiem (19:54)
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The Story:
Cory D'Angelo has a good life. He has a wife, Gina, who loves him dearly, a 5-year old son who looks up to him, and a stable job to support his moderate lifestyle. Cory and Gina are soul mates. They have loved a lifetime and share everything with each other. But Cory has a deep secret; one that he has never revealed to Gina. Alone, in the dark, he re-lives his nightmare. When the memories become too terrible to bear, he decides to do the unthinkable. This is the story of Cory's self-discovery throughout his existence, and beyond. It is the story of mistakes, regret, and forgiveness. It is the story of love. It is the story of life. |
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Volume IV: Our Suffering
(2005) |
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Track Listing
Alone (Prelude) (2:08)
Dear God (3:13)
Dream Builder (4:40)
Golden Tears (4:20)
Back Then (3:44)
A Sister's Love (8:55)
My Son (3:51)
Why (8:33)
Hypocrisy (5:07)
Finding Peace (5:32)
Sacrificial L.A.M.B. (5:15)
What If (6:21)
Over (7:49)
In Memory Of... (5:12) |
The Story:
Volume IV: Our Suffering picks up where Volume I: Nightmares left off. What we thought was only a final dream was really the transferred thoughts of a soldier named Joe Granato who had been sent to war and now lays dying after having been fatally wounded. Our Suffering takes us on a journey through a brave man's final thoughts as he flashes back to tell us the story of his life, and intermittently has premonitions about how his friends and family will react to his untimely death. But are the reactions real, or just a dying man's vision of what might have happened upon his death? |
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Volume V: The Pier
(2008) |
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Track Listing
DISC ONE
Historia (9:01)
Stolen (5:53)
Tillie (6:43)
As The World Crumbles (10:07)
Closure (9:17)
Turns (10:08)
Years Ago (7:39)
DISC TWO
Returns (6:31)
Time (7:00)
A Pier and Reappear (17:32)
Insecurity (7:09)
The Grand Reopening (3:19)
A Different Perspective (9:52)
Admission (9:41)
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The Story:
The fifth volume is a two-disc concept album that follows the story of a seaside amusement pier from its humble beginnings, through its magnificent peak, and finally to its terrible demise and decay. Along the way, we meet a man named Michael Tilliana who attempts to restore the pier to the former glory that it once enjoyed. But the pier holds many secrets, and things aren't always what they may appear to be...
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Volume VI: Love Notes
(2012) |
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Track Listing
LBFA (Intro)
Now, Always, Forever
The Lost Dream
Is It True
How Will It End
My Mistake
Special
From This Love
Heaven’s Gate
The Hopeless Dream
Afar
The Fading Light
Time To Cry
Hold You In My Arms
The Magic
Love Again
The Sun Will Never Set
The Night I Spent Alone
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The Story:
In Volume VI, we meet an introverted young man who loses his nerve to approach women after he suffers an agonizing heartbreak early on in his life. Turning to a life of solitude, he begins to fantasize about having relationships with women who, in reality, he can only admire from afar. Each imaginary relationship is played out through an elaborate love note, which he attempts to set to music in hopes of someday sharing the song with the most current subject of his admiration. But he can never find the "perfect melody", and, so, he ends the relationship in his mind before ever sharing his feelings outside of his own head. We follow this tortured soul throughout his emotional journey, and we watch as his feelings became increasingly more complex and his melodies become more polished and more beautiful with every note. In the end, he finally does compose the perfect song - the one that he is willing to share with the world. But the melody, we find, comes at a deadly expense to those who helped him to write it. |
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