Crystalanthemums - Homestuck [Vol. 5]

Homestuck Anthem

“The Ballad of the Dead Man’s Cutlass” is a brutal and cinematic dark-pirate score from Two Paces from Pandemonium, featured on the epic instrumental album Anvil of Sound.

This track storms across a cursed ship’s deck with a relentless fusion of distorted electric guitars, industrial metal percussion, ominous brass stabs, and a low, growling male choir.
Dark maritime motifs twist through the mix — a frantic fiddle and sinister accordion line — giving the piece a uniquely cursed-pirate identity.

Chains rattle.
Metal groans.
The timpanis thunder like demonic cannons.
The entire piece feels like a desperate chase through fog-choked waters where the dead do not rest.

Gritty, powerful, and dripping with tension, this track captures the sound of steel, blood, and black magic clashing beneath a storm-torn sky.

Credits & Copyright
Lyrics & Music © 2025 Siddhartha Chen (RealAsianRobot). All Rights Reserved.
This track was created with AI-assisted production tools under the artistic direction of Siddhartha Chen (RealAsianRobot).

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TPFP - The Ballad of the Dead Man's Cutlass

Rooms Gone Quiet is a peaceful, almost serene reflection on the spaces left behind by every soul lost. The cinematic and epic writing gives those empty rooms a wide emotional resonance, while the alternative metal and rock undertones signal the weight each of those lives once carried. You feel the absence, but you also feel the strength and responsibility that rested on their shoulders.

As the piece unfolds, the progressive rock and metal elements act like a testament to the continued presence of those souls in memory. Motifs return and evolve as if the rooms are still holding voices, habits and stories that refuse to disappear. The alternative and symphonic metal colours then soften, the tone lightens just enough to make room for a solemn moment of reflection. It is a movement that quietly says: we know you are no longer here, but somehow you still are. For anyone who has suffered a meaningful loss, this is hard to describe but easy to understand.

About the album

Rooms Gone Quiet is Movement XIII of Whirl: Ukraine in Sound, an instrumental cinematic and neo classical suite with symphonic metal intensity and Eastern European folk and Balkan colour. Across 15 movements the album follows a journey from peace to war, through loss and mourning, and toward a scarred return to calm, written from the perspective of those living through aggression rather than watching from afar.

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