We are the outstretched fingers

A friend recently shared a wonderful piece of music with me: a cover arrangement of the seminal melodic death metal album The Gallery by Dark Tranquillity, for piano.

This is an album indescribably dear to me. Since I first heard the opening notes of this disc, I’ve never stopped wanting to engineer a way to have passion like this gush forth from my chest and spill into the lives of others. An example of their lyrics:

Make all the cold trees mourn
Their branches frozen in sightless motion
Waving, reaching for the whipping rain

There was silence, and the firmament withdrew
Revealing all, shapelessly and swiftly
In carmine and crimson stood flaming the sky
The relics of myths that exploded and died

—from Silence, And The Firmament Withdrew by Dark Tranquillity on The Gallery, 1995

I’m not convinced that I’ll ever be able to write of the world or worlds in such terms, but fortunately I’m keeping the option open that that’s a good thing.

Here’s the video.

At first, when I noticed the songs were arranged in an order different from that of the album, I was furious. But this person has really done a fantastic job of stitching them all together, and selecting the most memorable melodic passages without too much repetition.

I recommend you check out his blog, which hosts many more similar endeavors, with audio file versions of each one to boot.

“Those empty frames staring at me!”

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02.28.09 / 10pm
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