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Red Queen Rising

from Evil Songs for Evil People by DOUG the Eagle

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An epic track about the psychopathic Lady Jyraneth from the Project Future universe. Dangerous, insane and extremely powerful, this song was fun to write and provided for some interesting experimentation with different styles. The one thing I had a problem with was the lack of a female vocalist. So as an experiment I laid down the vocals myself, affecting an effeminate style and with the tape machine running about 10% slow. When the tape was played back at the normal speed, this happened.

There's a lot of this track I like, but one of my favourite parts is the bridge where Lady J talks about the Hanging Gardens, the backing vocals turning an innocuous scene into something horrific.

Quite a lot of tape editing went into this track, at least three separate edits, one of which is deliberately noticeable, where the tympani suddenly cut into the synthesizer solo. Talking of which, the octave shifting was done on an old Akai tape deck older than me, by switching the speed up and down at appropriate intervals. Practically all my other decks are microprocessor controlled - the Akai was the only machine crude enough to become unstable when changing pitch, which was the effect I was trying to achieve.

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RED QUEEN RISING

I’m the Lady, or perhaps I’m a man
It makes no difference
When you’re in charge of a clan
You wouldn’t like me
When I’m feeling annoyed
But you’ll obey me.
...or I’ll have you destroyed

I’m the mistress of darkness
The princess of pain
I’d rip out your eyes
And then your soul and your brain
I’m the priestess of darkness
The patron of screams
The end of your sorrows
Your hopes and your dreams

I’m the Messiah – I hear the gods in my head
I send my armies to leave the Heretics dead
There’s nothing finer than to watch their heads roll
If you defy me, then I’ll devour your soul

And in my Garden of Delights (The heads are skewered onto poles)
Such wondrous sounds (A few more rebels lost their souls)
and wondrous sights
I like to lie beneath the trees (Dead bodies swing from every bough)
And feel my hair blow in the breeze (I think I’ll execute you NOW)

If you betray me, then all my people shall see,
As you’re beheaded, the fate of traitors to me
And it won’t stop there – for your final release
Your soul is eaten by my secret police

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from Evil Songs for Evil People, released March 19, 2016

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