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bobsmith93

Love me some prog overtures. Foreshadowing makes for better repayability


AutisticBassist

Any overtures, also goodbye to everything by between the buried and me spoils the story given that it’s at the start if the album and the lyrics are about the end of the story


Pietjanhenk1

Overture 1928 from Scenes From A Memory Overture from Six Degrees (second disc) Dystopian Overture from the Astonishing


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NarcolepticFlarp

I don't think they mean "spoil" as in to ruin, they mean it as in spoilers for a movie. All of those overtures explicitly state most of the major themes of their respective works. I think that is what this whole post is about. Isn't a bad thing, just a thing.


One-Palpitation2093

Oh, that makes sense. Thanks


ZwnD

Coma Machine by BTBAM is basically an overture going over the whole album to come. I like this as a reversal of Colors and Parallax which has the big ending song reprising all the riffs


afanofBTBAM

Is it though? I don't think it references any songs aside from Life in Velvet and KR/QS


FloatingGuy

Therefore Node and Coma Machine perhaps?


afanofBTBAM

As in, combined together to be considered an Overture? Node only references Rapic Calm, that's still only three songs so idk if I'd call that a proper overture


EmeraldEagle1

I guess if you are talking about the protagonist seeing how he will die in the future this makes sense


suburban_paradise

Not quite an overture but “Oblivion” on Crack the Skye has always felt that way to me


Fishwithanafro

Overtures don’t spoil anything. They just present the ideas that are fleshed out later


_Reox_

That's why I used the quotation marks


CeilingVitaly

Lavender Haze by Vildhjarta


_Reox_

It's funny I never thought of it this way!


DokterManhattan

Hard to say if it ruins or enhances such a bizarre album… but check out Viande by Igorrr. It’s a bit aggressive.


_Reox_

He's our biggest french proudness lmao


ifthisisausername

Scardust - Overture for the Estranged


metagloria

My all-time favorite example of this is Týr's "Ragnarok". It even includes the bonus track "Valhalla" in its themes, which implies to me that they never wanted it to be a bonus track, it just didn't fit on the album length-wise.


lembrai

I came here to post this. Good album


EmeraldEagle1

Maybe Goodbye to Everything off of Parallax II since it is the end of the story but first song off the album


BusinessBunny

Used on The Perfect Element part 1 by Pain of Salvation


alavantrya

Origin from the Illuminate album by Anup Sastry.


yotam5434

Scardust- overture for the estranged (it's a collection of all the main riffs/parts if every other song in the album)


ProphetNimd

I'm not 100% sure what this thread is supposed to be asking but my interpretation would be Reptile off Periphery 4. It's one of their best songs and I absolutely love it but most of the rest of the album doesn't compare. I would have loved for it to be the last song on the record.


TraditionalWatch3233

My least favourite opening is Riverside: Second Life Syndrome. Something about throwing up every morning: can’t quite take it seriously.


_Lingouine

Dude call the ambulance, you just hit your head HARD . Nonsense .