A new hope: Since its evolution from jazz, blues and rhythm and blues, Rock and Roll has exploded in the past 60 years to so many different genres it is hard to keep up. Each grouping of music spawned its own offspring. In the late 70s into the 80s, Rock and Roll had a step-child called New Wave, which then led to Nu-Music, Alternative, O.D.O.R. (Only Dance Oriented Rock), Progressive (the re-hashed term), Hardcore, Industrial, Gothic, Darkwave, Trance, Electronica, Grunge, Rap-Rock and others. All led to even more crossover styles from one to another, enough to make your head spin faster than a DVD.

Man is an adaptive ever growing, ever evolving species. When it comes to our music, we are forever searching for that “feeling”. That feeling that makes us feel special. That feeling that makes us want more, or even a feeling that helps us relive a specific moment in our lives. That near “religious” experience type of feeling. Industrial (the danceable Heavy Metal of New Wave, primarily using sounds taken from odd sources like the sounds of pipes clanking), Grunge and Hardcore (music to mosh to) all made us feel angry. It represented our angst but never truly let us feel released from it. Rather, it sucked us into its rage and tightened us into a knot of bottled rage. Gothic and Darkwave made us feel closer to the ethereal world as we ampted to touch God and death but seemed to leave us wanting and unfulfilled, depressed and sorrowful. In the end we are left still feeling incomplete. Trance, Electronica, and even Techno made us feel detached and lost in the rhythm, but no MESSAGE or story ever truly told our tales of woe. After battling years to think of ways to create an ever-existing feeling reminiscent of a religious experience (sometimes found at concertsor within songs of iconoclastic groups of years long past). The attempt was to think of lyrics that told our tales and relayed our thoughts to the effect of making us feel triumphant, as if our exact moods were expressed and our angst released.

The Theory: Remember going to a really good movie? Be it adventure or comedy, tragedy or horror, some triumph ensued and there was a euphoric high that swept through the audience and lingered long after leaving the theatre. Part of the euphoric feeling came from the musical score, another part was the storyline and the characters. All of these elements culminated into a grand end result one that left you feeling almost like you wanted to BE that character or hero. You felt you had experienced an epic saga and yearned to live it and its pleasurable feelings over and over again.