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sheerbeautyreigns · 3 years

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DESIRE

Part 53

"I thought there were perks to sleeping with the COO?"

Paul awoke the next morning just after 8am. Joe was asleep next to him, lying on his stomach. He could see the welts from the Kendo stick in last night’s match had come up a lot more now. He knew how sore they must’ve felt. Gently, he moved the loose strands of hair away from his face. His eyelids fluttered gently as if he were having a dream. They had been through so much over the past couple of months and were somehow still going. Part of Paul still had his reservations about Wednesday night but he’d already committed to going. It would look bad if he went back on his word now. He wanted Joe to be involved but he needed to be careful who with.

He rolled onto his back and grabbed his phone from his side. He scrolled through Twitter, reading some comments on Clash of Champions. The positive feedback made him smile and even more so when people had loved Joe and Colby’s match. He looked down on Joe and smiled. His expression changed when he had an incoming call from Shane. The volume was off but the vibration caused Joe to stir. “Sorry baby, I gotta take this.” Paul got out of bed wearing his boxers and walked into the living room. Joe was so tired that he instantly fell back asleep. About fifteen minutes later he awoke to the sound of Paul talking in the other room. He rubbed his eyes and rolled onto his back, looking up to the ceiling. He could feel the ache from the kendo stick come into play. He got out of the bed, wearing only his boxers and walked over to the floor length mirror by the window. He had three large welts on his back. He thought they looked pretty gnarly so he took a photo with his phone and sent it to Colby.

I hope you’re happy. He smirked to himself. He was happy with how the match went and he was glad he and Colby were on good terms. “What are you smiling at?” Joe looked up and saw Paul standing in the door frame holding his phone. “Nothing.” Joe smiled setting his phone aside watching as Paul approached him. He looked up into Paul’s eyes as he was mounted and caressed at first, then kissed sweetly. Joe eased back onto the bed. “Sleep OK?” Paul asked sweeping his hair back. “Uh huh.” Joe answered wide eyed, searching Paul’s hazel pools. “Turn over baby.” Paul moved aside, letting him flip onto his stomach. “These marks…they look so good on you.”

“They don’t feel so good.” Joe replied before Paul ran his finger along one. Joe gritted his teeth at his touch. “Does it hurt?”

“Yes Sir.” The young man turned his head to look at him. “Eyes front.” Those two words caused Joe skin to prick up and within seconds, Paul was taking off his boxers and parting his legs. The older man lowered between Joe’s legs and teased his opening with his tongue. A tingling sensation filled Joe as Paul’s warm, wet tongue snaked inside. “Aww please…feels so good…” Joe lowered his head into his arms as Paul pleasured him. Paul smiled to himself hearing the pleasurable moans and groans from above. He repositioned himself sliding two fingers in, milking his prostate. “…please…”

“Please what baby?” Paul said pushing his fingers in as far as they would go. “Please Sir. Please, I’m gonna cum.” Paul grinned, fingering him hard and deep. Joe shut his eyes, fisting the sheets below as his body shuddered when he came. Gently, Paul slid his fingers out of his now moist ass got up off the bed, walking to his bag, which lay near the wardrobe. He caught Joe starting to get up in the side of his eye. “Stay.” Joe did as told, laying motionless on the bed, his legs slightly spread.

Paul returned, shifting his weight onto the bed. Joe moaned, feeling the cool sensation of the lube drip onto his ass. Paul massaged the opening. Moments later he began to insert his cock. A deep groan escaped Joe’s throat the further Paul slid in. “That’s it baby. Take my cock…”

“Yes Sir.” Joe nodded burying his head in his arms and shutting his eyes. He could hear how satisfied Paul was from how he moaned from above as he started to fuck him. “Aah fuck! Yeah!” Joe said through gritted teeth rising up from the bed, looking over his shoulder. “Eyes front,” Joe obeyed “… unless you’re craving a whipping?”

“No Sir…” The young man replied as he looked straight ahead. “You might not have a choice.” Paul grunted and smiled devilishly, thrusting him harder now. Joe eyes shot open at the impact. “Oh Jesus!” Joe cried out as Paul raked along his back, touching on the welts. “Argh!”

“Sorry baby, did I hurt you?” Paul mocked. Joe pursed his lips as his eyes began to water. He shut them to ward off the tears. Paul fucked him hard and fast before eventually shooting his load.

“What do you say?” Paul pulled out and let Joe lower to the bed. “Thank you Sir.” He curled up, breathing deeply while Paul climbed towards him and forced him onto his back. He swept Joe’s hair away from his face to see how teary his eyes looked. “Baby?”

“I’m OK.” Joe dismissed rubbing his eyes as he turned away. “No you’re not. Come here.” Paul pulled him against his chest and cuddled him, kissing his forehead. “Aww baby.” He trailed his hands along Joe matted hair. He tilted his head up and kissed him on the mouth. “Sorry it’s the welts. I’m a bit sensitive.”

“We’ll take care of those. You also have a nice massage booked at 1pm too. You’ll be feeling right as rain soon baby, I promise.”

While Joe was being taken care of downstairs, Paul caught up on some work. The Draft was starting tonight on Raw so there was a lot of back and forth between him and the McMahons. He and Joe were due back at the arena again but weren’t expected there until about 6pm. He just had to do a couple of promos, nothing physical thankfully. Paul was in the middle of a spreadsheet when his phone rang. He paused, seeing Michael’s face appear on the screen. He scowled at the phone before answering. “Hey.”

“I thought I’d just check in with you for L.A. Have you planned anything specific yet?” Michael asked speculatively. “Not really, works been busy so I’m fairly relaxed about it. Why?”

“I was just thinking how I’d like to fuck your boy again. I feel I’ve got some unfinished business with him.” He sounded so arrogant. Paul remembered the conversation Joe had with him in the car the week before about Michael. It appeared he too, wanted to be with him again. “I’ll have to ask him.”

“What do you mean ask him. I thought he was your submissive?” Michael didn’t sound impressed. “You know it goes deeper than that. I don’t want him getting hurt.”

“He can handle a bit of pain, I should know. C’mon, what do you say? Maybe you should get involved too? After all, it’s been a while since we hooked up?” At that moment, Joe opened the door. Paul glanced at him with a small smile and stood. “It has…” He opened the sliding door and went out to the balcony, shutting it behind himself. Joe made himself at home and lay on the sofa, flicking between channels until he settled on a football game. Paul came back in about 10 minutes later. “You feeling better babe?”

“So relaxed. It was such a nice massage. Thank you.” Paul leaned down and kissed him, perching at his side. “I’m glad. I’m planning on getting to the arena for about 6 so what do you want to do for dinner? Do you want room service?”

“I’ll go with whatever you want.” Joe said softly clasping Paul’s hand on his own chest. “Good boy.”

“Have you heard anything more about the draft tonight?” Joe asked. “There’ll be a few surprises in there for sure.”

“Like what?” Joe asked. “I’m not telling baby. It’s top secret, you’ll just have to wait like everybody else.” He smirked.

“I thought there’d be perks to sleeping with the COO?” Joe teased. “There are…down on your knees where you belong.” Paul motioned for him to get down on his knees in front of the sofa while he undid his bathrobe, letting his cock fall into Joe’s hand. He licked the head, taking it hungrily into his mouth. He slid down the length of his hard cock, his head bobbing up and down. “Aww baby, that’s it…” Paul moaned from above, running his fingers through his hair. Joe continued to suck hard, massaging the head with his tongue. “Fuck yeah…” Paul held Joe’s head in rhythm to the bobbing, forcing it along until he could hear him groaning and coughing. Trails of drool slid out of his mouth but he kept going. Eventually, Paul came hard in the back of his throat. “Swallow every last drop like a good boy.” He let go of his hair, allowing him up for air. His facial hair was a mess of saliva and cum. “Dirty boy, just how I like you.” Paul smiled wickedly cupping his jaw. “Why don’t you go and freshen up and I'll order us dinner.”

#roman reigns #wwe #tribal chief #roman reigns fic #smut #d/s #seth rollins #triple h #paul levesque #slash fiction

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singing-and-humming · 5 years

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Under My Skin

Written for the @cloudfiveclub writting challenge. I’m so sorry for the delay.

I really don’t know what i went for there, i don’t really like it but it’s waaaaay too late for me to rewrite it so…

Désolée

Title from Ben l’Oncle Soul - I’ve got you under my skin (Frank Sinatra cover)

I’d tried so not to give in

I said to myself this affair never will go so well

But why should I try to resist when baby I know so well

I’ve got you under my skin

You’ve been working on the tour for a few weeks but you still not believe it. You started being serious about photography only a few years ago but that was enough to get noticed by some artists. It was one of them that recommended you to Clara when she was looking for a photographer to document CNCO’s new World Tour. You still had a part-time day job when the call came but you couldn’t let this opportunity pass so you took some days off and flew to Miami to meet the team. When you arrive you get explain what is expected of the person filling the position and they give you more details about the contract.

You also got asked to take some pictures and record some footage to see how you’d work around them. You tried your best not to be in their way too much but asked each of the boys to pose for a few portraits. Later that day, you got dinner with the team where you get to know each other a bit. Everyone seemed so nice, you were getting even more more anxious to get the job.

The “trial” must have gone over well because a week later you got the call announcing that you were hired.

—

At the very beginning, you spent a good amount of time with the PR team to make sure you get whatever would appeal most to the fans. They love the candid pictures you released from when they’re rehearsing or just goofing around. You made a compilation of the band just sleeping wherever they can. Everyone always jokes that Zabdiel is the sleepy one but really, you often stumble onto one in every quiet place they can find. The amount of time you found Chris asleep, his head on someone’s shoulder or lap, is getting ridiculous.

You’re often with them in the van, or the break-rooms, following them during soundchecks or in the studio. You get a lot of footage of them writing and recording new music but you have to keep it under wraps until some of them actually get released.

You hang out with pretty much everyone, being the boys or the staff, in any combination but you make sure to never be alone with Christopher.

You get that he probably thinks that you have a problem with him or that you simply don’t like him when, in fact, it’s the opposite. Christopher was your favorite band member when you were still just a regular fan, but you truly expected your opinion of him to change when you’d get to discover his private persona. However, you soon realized that he was always genuine in his interactions with others and that was you saw before was exactly who he actually is, a sweet, funny, smart and reliable man.

Though, what was also true was his flirtatious moments. You have experienced it first hand, starting with that first dinner. He didn’t even tried to be subtle about it and easily brushed off any of the teasing remarks from the crew. In the following days, he has asked you to go out for coffee or some food on several occasion but you always found an excuse to refuse.

The truth is that you were tempted to respond to his advances but you can’t get out of your head that getting involved with someone from work wouldn’t be a good idea for now. The fact that he is a public figure is also a major obstacle to you. You know that he isn’t supposed to be openly in a relationship, so you don’t know if you’ll be able to handle the hiding and seeing continuing to flirt with other women to not arouse suspicion or just because it’s in his nature.

You know that you are overthinking it and whatever might happen between you wouldn’t necessarily be serious but you’ve seen the comment of fans whenever one of the boys was suspected to date someone. You have no doubt that they’re not going to find you good enough for him.

–

It’s been two months since you started working for CNCO. In all this time, you’ve already been to 12 countries. You didn’t expect the kind of exhaustion travelling could bring/cause.

That day, being a somewhat functioning human being a little harder for you. Not for any other reason that you missed your friends and family. The fact that you didn’t have a place to settle is starting to sink in as well. You had to live out of your suitcase and be ready to work as soon as you get them down. You know this is what you signed up for but even all the great opportunities couldn’t prevent you from being homesick.

You are seated in a corner waiting for the guys to finish getting dressed to go on a promo event. Chris is the first one to exit the dressing room. He finds you crumpled in a sofa, catching up on loved ones’ life on Facebook. Not a lot has happened, or nothing too important; you’ve haven’t been going for that long but still, it makes you feel closer to them.

You quickly wipe a tear that escaped your eyes as Christopher approach, a concerned expression on his face. He might seem like he’s always goofing off but you saw him checking on people on several occasions, making sure they were alright and even once bring water to some overworked crew member on the verge of passing out.

“Y/N, are you ok? What happened?” he asks you, squatting down before you, putting a hand on you knee.

“Nothing. I’m just feeling homesick, it’ll pass, don’t worry.

- Oh, I get it. It happens to all of us. It’s hard to be far from everyone but we always try to remember that we’re blessed to do what we love. We have to stay strong for our family, for the people that believe in us. We have to enjoy each day because we don’t know how long it’s going to last.”

You nod your head showing your assent so he continues.

“It’s not just words when I say that this whole team is family. They’ll never replace your but everyone here is important and knows that they can go to anyone to talk. I hope you know that this apply to you too.We might not be very close but I’m here for you if you need me.”

His hand comes up to your face to wipe another traitorous tear before returning to you leg.

You stay quiet, reflecting what he just said. Obviously, you know that what you were feeling was going to pass but it felt good to get some encouragement from someone that has to deal with the same thing and for a longer period of time. You look up to thank him and got caught into his big brown eyes. His had such a gentle look on his face, smiling softly at you, making you feel a pinch in your heart. How can you accept the comfort from him when you don’t think you deserve it from him.

You hear someone call your name so you get up to join them to go to join them but you come not long after back because you forgot your drink on the table. Zabdiel must have finished getting ready in the meantime because you overhear the conversation between the two men.

“Did you talk to her? Asked Zabdiel.

- Not really. It wasn’t the right time.

- It’s been weeks Chris, you should talk so you’ll know where you stand. It’s starting to get awkward for us and I don’t like to see you like that.

- I know, Zabdi but she was feeling sad, I wasn’t about to bring out whatever problem she has with me on top. I can wait. It’s not like we can’t still do our job or like we don’t talk at all.

- I guess. But you should solve it as soon as you can. If she can’t get past her issues with you I don’t know how it’s going to work out long term.

- I’m not about to make her lose her job because we don’t joke around! Not everyone has to like me, I mean I know that I can be a bit much sometimes.”

“You know that he’s never going to do it, right?”. You jumped in surprise from Richard appearing behind you.

“I’m sorry what?

- He’s not going to ask you why you’re avoiding him. He’s just not a confrational guy. He’d rather stay away than make you uncomfortable, he explains, so you better talk to him and resolve whatever issue you have with him.”

You decide to take his advice and talk to Christopher after breakfast the same day. You catch him on his way to his room.

“ Christopher, can we talk for second?

- Sure. What is going on?

- I wanted to apologize to you.

- About what?

- Com’on you know! I have been acting distant and towards you and I wanted to make sure you knew that it wasn’t your fault.

- Umm okay?

- I have some issue that I shouldn’t have taken on you. I am sorry if I made you feel like it’s was because of something or that i didn’t appreciate you, because i do. So I promise to get over myself and stop acting like a lunatic towards you”, you attempt to explain.

“You don’t need to say sorry. If i make you uncomfortable for any reason you shouldn’t have to force yourself to change for me. I’ll be fine.

- I won’t be forcing to anything. I actually wasn’t behaving like myself around you and…

- Stop! Don’t worry about it. What about we forget everything and start over?” he suggests.

You look at him confused about how can this man be real. He just accepted your half-assed apology and decided to give you a second chance to act like a decent human being. He holds out his hand for you to shake. When you do, he starts walking again and uses his grip on your hand to drag you behind him. “Let’s go! We’re need to buy some snacks for the bus drive!”

After that you make an effort to be more friendly like you are with the rest of the team, not that it is particularly difficult. You never could stop answering to any of his smile. It kind of starts to show on the pictures you take of Chris. You have way more of goofing around or doing silly poses which are your favorites.

—

It is finally your birthday. You’ve been asked when it was when you first arrived but you didn’t think anyone would actually remember it. You get down to the hotel’s dining room only to find most of the crew waiting for you, even if some of them are half asleep on the table. Erick is the first one to give you a hug and presents you with a paper crown. It is obviously home-made with a lot of messages written on it.

“It is your birthday card so don’t lose your crown, reina!” he warns you before placing it on you head.

It is a touching attention that starts to get you emotional. You’re so grateful that they remembered it let alone plan a “surprise party”. You usually don’t make a fuss about your birthday, you don’t even celebrate it every year, but it’s always nice to get some attention from time to time. Everyone got you nice gifts, some of them pitching in to buy something more expensive.

Christopher is the last one to offer his gift. As you guessed it from the simple shape, it is a book. The title sounds vaguely familiar. Wait, was it…? You turn it to read the synopsis at the back. It really was.

“Un libro? en serio? Chris, if you didn’t have any idea what to give her, we could have bought something together”, says Erick.

“No it’s ok. I told him I wanted read this one.”

You didn’t feel like sharing why this book was important to you. Some time ago, you were talking about your childhood and you mentioned that your late grandmother used to read a book to you pretty often. You couldn’t recall its name but you shared with him whatever details you could retained about it. No one from your family knew what it was and you had pretty much gave up on finding it again. The fact that Christopher had recalled this conversation and that he would hunt down the book for you is astonishing.

This is making you realise that he might be more serious that you thought. The gift was certainly the cheapest you have received but he had spent more thought and certainly more time to find something meaningful to you.

You hug him to thank him and to hide the emotions that are surely showing on your, in shoulder.

“Is it really okay? I know it’s not much.

- Yes, it is. It’s perfect”, you reassure him. He tightened his hold on you for a second before releasing you.

After that, you start to lower your defense a bit more. He doesn’t really flirt anymore, or at least it doesn’t to do it with the same intensity ; you’ll still get the odd compliments sometimes, a hug or even a brush of his hands on your arm but it all seem more natural.

You get to spend more and more one on one time with him, just watching funny videos on youtube, jamming to old rock songs. You ask for his opinion on the edits you make because you like that he isn’t afraid to be honest about it and didn’t hesitate to tell you when he doesn’t like it or when something could be improved.

One evening, you notice him starting to pace the room. You stop what you’re doing because it wasn’t like the Ecuadorian to get nervous about trivialities so you know that something might be wrong.

“Christopher, what is going on?

- Nada, no te preocupes. No! No es nada, tengo algo que pedirte pero no sé si es una buena idea.

- You know that you can ask me anything. I will tell you if I don’t like it”, you tried to reassure him.

He sits next to you and clear his throat.

“ Would you like to go on a date with me?” He finally asks you, anchoring his eyes to yours.

He must catch your hesitation in it, because he tries to redraw what he said.

You stop him by laying your hand on his.

You explain to him your reservations and that you still need a bit a time to think.

He obviously understands and decides to give you some space. The team notices and thinks that you are back on your bullshit or that the both of you got into a fight. They get worried that you will eventually leave if you couldn’t fix whatever is happening between the two of you. Christopher succeeds in convincing everyone that it was nothing, just that you were a bit tired and that he decided to not impose his hyperactive loud self to you so you could get some rest.

Even though, you continue to see him every day, you start to miss him and got to the conclusion that he really got under your skin and there is nothing you could do to change that. He’s definitely not perfect so you do get annoyed quite often but his character N made up for it. In a short amount of time, he became such an important person in your life and you weren’t convinced that you wanted it to be any different. Was a relationship with him worth possibility of losing everything though? You’re not delusional about the fact that if you get involved and it goes wrong that the situation could become so complicated that you’ll have to leave.

You find him in a meeting room. He doesn’t even notice you’re arrival due to the fact that he’s engrossed into whatever he’s writing. Probably a new song. You lean against the door-frame and you can’t help but smile knowing that he will sing it to you first when he finishes, like he always does.

And just like that you knew what to do. You couldn’t believe how long it took it to reach that conclusion but was it really a decision or simply an evidence.

He really got under your skin.

Christopher finally notices your presence in the room and gives you a curious look.

Your answer by locking the door behind you and marching towards him.

I’d sacrifice anything come what might

For the sake of having you near

In spite of a warning voice that comes in the night

And repeats, repeats in my ear

Don’t you know little fool

You never can win

Use your mentality, wake up to reality

But each time that I do just the thought of you

Makes me stop before I begin

‘Cause I’ve got you under my skin

#i am so sorry i wrote this #cnco #christopher velez #cloudfiveclubwc #my writing

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improbablecarny · 5 years

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The Best Good Parts of The Mystery of Time

As according to me

Knock knock, 2013! Who’s there? It’s Tobias Sammet with a fresh delivery of Avantasia, this time in the form of the spooky gothic tale that begins here. We’ve got old faces, we’ve got new faces, and we’ve got clock faces, so let’s get ready to face what lays at the heart of The Mystery of Time!

Storyline: On a cold winter night in a sleepy little village, a young scientist named Aaron Blackwell happens upon a nightmarish scene: spectral figures and the poor old victim at their center. After rescuing the Antiquarian, Aaron is gifted with a broken old mantlepiece clock, and becomes the center of a mysterious Nobleman’s plan to re-align the world’s seemingly fractured timeline.

Quick Notes:

This album utilizes a real orchestra in numerous songs.

The special edition came with a purely instrumental version of the album, which was pretty cool.

The storyline in this one hit the happy medium between The Metal Opera and The Wicked Trilogy: there still aren’t interludes or spoken parts, and the songs all stand on their own out of context, but there is a more obvious degree of dialogue between the characters. There’s a couple characters who aren’t real people but most of them are. The special edition also came with Aaron’s journal entries, which makes it much easier to follow the plot.

Relistening to TMOT and its sequel, I have to say these albums do some CRAZY cool sound design shit. Listen closely... can you find all the time/machinery motifs?

Come unravel the mystery... by listening to the album for free, officially, on Youtube! (Or Spotify)

Spectres

We all know how I feel about The Seven Angels, but I have to say that in terms of introducing the story, building the setting and setting the mood, Spectres may just be my favourite introductory song.

The dramatic 3/4 intro... it BEGS for choreography

Very strong first verse!

VERY strong second verse - again, where are the dancers at? There’s this languid, macabre sense to the pace of this song that makes it SO easy to visualize

“DANCE IN THE GLOOM / DANCE IN THE GLOOM! EVERY MOVE’S A STEP TO YOUR TOMB!” Chills! Chills! Chills!

Bring in the dancing ghosts!

The bassline before...

HARPSICHORD SOLO!

“Wiiiide open MIIIIIIIiiiiiiiii-iiinds”

The drum strikes at the end of the chorus but especially at the end of the song sound like fireworks and it does things to me.

The Watchmaker’s Dream

That time signature... of course I love it

The bright and forward-marching pace in the intro... *dreamy sighs*

The chugging of the guitars as you dip into the first verse? Divine.

“oooooh NOOOOOoooooo”

THE WATCHMAKER’S DREAM!

(The Watchmaker himself doesn’t show up until Ghostlights but Boy Howdy it’s worth the wait)

“SIMPLIFY SIMPLICITY” GOOD entrance

Arjen Lucassen guitar solo immediately followed by an insane Ferdy Doernberg organ solo... thank you for my life

Biff Byford outro lines... “for ALL the world TO see...”

Black Orchid

The intro... is sexy. That orchestration tho

The piano backing the first verse

“NO TIME FOR DREEAMIIIING”

Joe Lynn Turner’s entrance... “As above / so below!”

THE FINAL HOUR... WHEN NEVER AND NOW.. BECOME.. ONE!

“Everybody’s craving”... that beat

The unforgettable “bllLAAACK OOOOoooRCHIIIiiiiiIID... strAAAANGE and bEEEAUTIFUUUuuul”

Where Clock Hands Freeze

The orchestration takes the intro again but in a much more lighthearted, rousing melody

Which quickly becomes...

the MICHAEL KISKE POWER METAL NUMBER YEAH

The prechorus rolling back the beat with the strings and piano... ahh

“There’s no time to lose... no chance to refuse....”

“....aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”

The only disappointment here is still that Tobi doesn’t also go “aaaaaaaaaaaaaa” at the end of his verse

“Through your dark swamp / I walk on deductive conclusion” oh Aaron... you’ve got a big storm coming

(literally... we’ll get there)

Sleepwalking

This one was used in the promo for an airing of The Titanic on a German tv station so that’s fun

Cloudy is cool I miss her

It’s the heavier-pop duet of the album and it’s extremely good

The second verse when the momentum really picks up... mwah

Savior in the Clockwork

This is the first whopper of the album at nearly 11 minutes, and for good reason

The orchestration again gets a chance to shine in the intro - listen to those soundscapes and soak it all in!

NAH NAH NAAAAAAAAH... NAH NAH NAAAAAAAAH

CHOIR!

“I envision how you lie awake and agonize” time to groove

“Oh every MOMENT everyBODY’S gonna THINK ALIKE!”

“Mind by mind / check the pace for all mankind” time to REALLY groove

When Tobi said “Am I half-asleep or half-unconscious... half a-dream?” I felt it in my soul

This is another one with a live arrangement that fucking rules if you can find it

“Do I dream?” GROOVE TIME AGAIN

Slow down and tap that cymbal baby

“Journey to the first sun... to the BLACK WOOOMB OF SPAAAAACE”

“FATHER PRIMAL SPAAAAAAAAACE”

“WOHOHH YEAAAAHAAH”

Are you STILL GROOVIN’?

The whole back and forth starting “I’ve seen the ocean swallow the ancient harmony”

Then again at “At crack of dawn...”

“RAISE YOUR MIIIIIIND” hi again Michi

When they switch and he takes the melody and then Tobi does the background choir embellishments

That last chorus run! The POWER

Invoke the Machine

The sailing guitars in the intro... *chef’s kiss*

Introducing Ronnie Atkins! I’ve gushed about his performance as the Nobleman before and I’ll do it again!

The second verse is a primo example of what I mean with him - “these dreams that you hummed to yourself once / how far will you reach out to make them come true? Will you turn around and shirk from duty... ” A kind benefactor who may be just who you need to find answers...

“Ō̸̡̫̟̗̬̞̯̭̯͙͓̲͇̪̈́͝R̵̛̯͍̲̐ ̷͎̤̹̬̼̉̿̀́̋̕͜͠͠F̵̛͎̫̾̀͒̂͌̇̅̑̐̅̔O̵̱̟͉̾̀Ṛ̴̢̨͍̳̟̼̞̉͆̆͑́̀̅́͊̔͠C̴̢̧͓͖̝͍̭͖̯̻̯̤͈̞̓͊̀̿̓́̍̽̋̽͠Ë̷̡̮͙̒̓̿͑́̕ ̴̡̠̦͕̯̖̺̪̻̺̗̃̌́̽̑ͅͅT̷̛͉̮̲̦̭̜̭̝̝͙̭͖̗̉͋̈́͘͜͜H̶͚̖̩̪͕͌̀͘Ẻ̷̤̯̤̯̒́̑͌͘̚ͅ ̶̧̢͍̣̭͚̰̥̟̉͋̔̋͌̔̓̔̓̕͘P̶̛̮͈͗̍̿̃̎͑̃̀̀̓̾͝Ă̸̗̙͇̯̘͇̹͔̫̫͎̞̾́̒͐̊̅̕͠C̴̢͉̖̳̱͍͚̭̤̖̖̙̫͜͠Ę̴̝̦͇͈̯̬͍̖͗̃̏̃̒̔̿”

Oh haha, ok, so THAT’S definitely the bad guy

“As my glance wanders to... the far off land in the sky”

“Oh, hissing and SCREEAMIN’ - almost ALIII-III-IIIIiiive!”

IN THE NIIIIIGHT - can you hear that in the chorus? It’s happening: Meatloafification. (To transform, over time, into American rock musician Meat Loaf)

The instrumental when they actually invoke the machine... more chefs kisses

The journal entry for this one states that the Nobleman “literally exploded” into a monologue, which still tickles me

What’s Left of Me

It’s Eric Martin, baby! Despite being on a whopping 3 studio songs his involvement in the tour lineup and bluesy, hearty voice have cemented him as an integral part of the Avantasia experience for me.

The string intro... the vocal intro... the duet...

When I first saw the name of this song in the tracklist pre-release I went “oh, this song will end me”

I was right

Dweller in a Dream

“OH OHHHHHHHHHHHWHOAAAAHH”

“Memories / Of good intentions ghosting me“ Time to groove again!

“God if you’re out there / why do you make ME SPIN YOUR WHEEL?”

CHOIR CHORUS

These lyrics are wild

“Are you for real now or just a dweller in my dream?”

DO YOU HEAR ME / DWELLER IN A DREAM!

“Ooooooh.... why would your god-given will come off the track?”

“COME OFF THE TRACK?”

“DWELLER IN A DREAAAAAM”

The Great Mystery

The closer to this album is another great Bob Catley megasong, and I regularly sing the entire thing in the shower.

CARRY THE FLAME TO ACCELERAAAATE THE EVOLUTION OF AN AAAAAGE

The dramatic instrumentals behind “don’t be afraid / just look around!”

DON’T QUESTION WHAT YOUR EYES CAN’T SEEEEE

It’s extremely hard for me to just not quote the entire passage that begins at “I see a cold moon rise above those empty streets”

...AND AS YOU MARVEL AT THE ARTWORK IN YOUR HANDS / RICH IN DETAIL / SO FRAIL AND BEAUTIFUL

AND YOU FORGET THE RULES THE ELDERS ALWAYS MADE UP FOR YOU

TO SAVE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME

OH!

Both passages that begin with “I see tears shed over days...”

... and answers you DID FIND

To dare what YOU WOULD FIND INSIIIIIIDE

THE LAST CHORUS

“OOOOH IS IT REALLY NOT A DREAM?”

“THE GREAT MYSTERY”

“AAAAAAAAH”

“WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH”

waaaaaah 😭

BONUS TRACK: THE CROSS AND YOU

To my knowledge it has nothing to do with the TMOT story. It sounds a lot like a lost Edguy song more than anything.

It has a hard rock edge that sets it apart significantly from the more symphonic songs on the album

“Allllll... the ways...”

I do dig the theatrical tone at “The cautionary voice that shatters your brain”

It’s the end of the album, but the story doesn’t end there! We’ve got a world of revelations ahead of us in the next leg of the story... and you can make time for that, right?

Cast List:

Tobias Sammet as Aaron Blackwell Michael Kiske as The Antiquarian Ronnie Atkins as The Nobleman Eric Martin as The Beggar Cloudy Yang as She Bob Catley as Epiphany Joe Lynn Turner as Reason Biff Byford as Science

#avantasia #the mystery of time #metal #symphonic metal #music #avantasia breakdown blog

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Dutch blackened death metal band Bleeding Gods has unleashed a phenomenal record, titled Dodekathlon, a story of gore, and labours of Hercules. This tale is depicted with brutal sounds of classical music blended majestically with blackened death metal. A story worth listening to, one that will sweep you off your feet. We had the chance to chat with Ramon Ploeg about the process of the album and the current line up, check it our down below. Make sure to get your copy of this amazing album out now via Nuclear Blast Records.

The new album Dodekathlon is out world wide as we speak, what goes through your mind now that you see your creation out for the world to enjoy?

“The album Dodekathlon is released today, it is big and important we are very excited. It has always been a big dream for us since I play guitar for 24 years now, I always wanted to make metal and music of course. I had only one dream and that was to become a Nuclear Blast artists; I had to work hard for it.”

The story of Hercules’ labors is brutal and a band like Bleeding Gods can tell this story with magnificent music, how did you go about composing the majestic sounds of Dodekathlon?

“We started writing the first riffs somewhere around two and a half years ago, we wanted to make more music than only to the face value of death metal. We are musicians and Rutger Van Noordenburg has a classical music background. We initially wrote about 16-18 total songs, deleted some stuff and changed stuff as we would work. Mark, our singer is like a walking library and knows all the stuff about history and big fan of the 12 labors of Hercules. We could write 12 tracks right now and we had 18, it took in total about a year to chose the right tracks for this album but also the writing of lyrics and vocal lines.”

In terms of recording what was the process for Dodekathlon?

“All the basic songs were already written and Dann Klemann (drummer) like that, it became a real band process. I start but writing basic riffs and skeleton songs, send it to the rest, Dann did his drums parts, soon after we did solos and second guitar from June until the first week of Septemeber. The last process was quick, we wanted to take our time, that is recording under pressure and build a great package.”

With five years on the trenches and a couple of line up changes, is this the definite and ideal Bleeding God’s line up?

“Yes, we are happy with the line up now, it works togerther for us it has always been about competition. All the noses and heads are in the right mind, and direction we are sort of a family, hopefully this line up will stay, I cant look in the future but totally hope this is it.”

How easy was it for you to recruit Dann Klemann as you new drummer?

“I think it took us almost a year to find the right drummer for the band. For us, it needs to be ok on a personal level but of course on the professional level he has to be good. We were looking for the good package, some drummers don’t have time for the band, and he was a friend already it took him one month of listening to the tracks, he learned them, it was a difficult and important decision he knew we were almost signed with Nuclear Blast, it was tough to make a call with out a deal of course.”

I saw the making of the music video from “Feast To Beast”, along with the actual video itself, this is a concept album would you be making any videos that depict the story it self?

“We really don’t know yet, we have to choose new song for the video. That was the first single and first video clip. I know there is a lot of great video clips with a lot of stories, but we wanted to do more of a live experience video, so only band shots. I think we are gonna make a lot more videos it is just too early in the year to determine what video, the content and such.”

Tour wise are you planning on coming to the United States?

“It is all in the planning, there is nothing concrete yet; but we are talking to promoters and booking agencies. I think touring USA is priority number 2 when Europe is priority one, its a difficult process for European bands to travel to the States, hence we will focus on Europe first then work our way to America.”

What track was more complex to track down?

“All songs were complex, there are some easier songs, but also some difficult and fast songs of course. The song “Triple Anger” was one of the hardest including “Multiple Decapitation” because of all the parts we needed to let some parts for Martin for all the keys and orchestras. if you remove all it is still a regular death metal album.”

You did metal with classical sounds in this album how did you come up with that concept?

“In 2016 we recorded three track promo with 3 new songs on it, and Martin Foul from England, former Cradle of Filth keyboard player did a phenomenal job. I asked him if he could do something with keyboard and orchestra, maybe it would sound good. We liked it and we told him we wanted to have his music on it, he stunt us and we decided to do the album like this. We added a classical track too, combined it with all and you have what Dodekathlon is about.”

We closed the interview with a few notes, and personal chat about the album itself. This talented musician has accomplished a life dream and that was to become a Nuclear Blast artist. With Bleeding Gods on the metal battlefield we can assure you will rage and be blown away by their sound. Dodekathlon is out now and it’s sound will reign for years to come, get your copy.

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Bleeding Gods- Dodekathlon, The Gore Behind Hercules Dutch blackened death metal band Bleeding Gods has unleashed a phenomenal record, titled Dodekathlon, a story of gore, and labours of Hercules.

#Bleeding Gods #Dodekathlon #Gore #Hercules #Netherlands #Nuclear Blast Records #Ramon Ploeg

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