Sweet. Two more minutes left in this section of the song. My plan for this one, if I haven't mentioned it already, is for it to be at least half an hour long. I'm hopefully going to write it about Annigan and his sister, Malina (tw: rape). It's not a nice story. Like, seriously, it's awful.

Hopefully, I can have the song broken up like this:

Annigan - 8 minutes
Malina - 8 minutes
Eclipse - 8 minutes (instrumental)
Annigan - 2 minutes
Malina - 2 minutes
Malina's escape - 4 minutes (instrumental)
Annigan's punishment - 4 minutes (instrumental)
Final ending - 4 minutes

So, that's set up for it to be 40 minutes already, but I'm setting my sites at only 30 for the time being. I'm already close to finishing Annigan's first part, which also includes the intro to the song, which is kind of long already.

If you're wondering why I would actually choose such a terribly dark and disturbing story for this song, it's actually because I'm rewriting a very old song of mine, which was about the phases of the moon. Since it was about the phases of the moon and nothing else, it was actually kind of boring. But, I had the song pop into my head again a few weeks ago, and figured that, since it was my first attempt at a really long epic, I would give it another shot.

So, I did some research into moon mythology and found that moon mythology is quite boring, with the exception of Annigan and Malina. And while this story is, like I said, frankly kind of disturbing, it's honestly the only moon mythology that was not, "And this girl did a thing and became the moon". Like, this is a really meaty story.

So, since my songs that are actual stories are my biggest ones and because this is a story that no one really knows, I figured I would go with it and hopefully make it work.

If I have to, though, I will split the song into two or three smaller ones. I did plan on making the next album with only 7 or 8 songs, because I want them all to be really long (8-15 minutes each), so I could have this song broken up and end up being tracks 2, 4, 6, and 8 or something. Possibly just 2, 4, and 6. I don't know. Whatever happens with it will happen. I don't want to make any big plans yet.

It would be really nice to have a female vocalist on this one, too.

You can listen to the demo I posted HERE.