After nearly a month of fiddling with the same damn song I think i'm finally done with this piece. The track, which was originally to be a re-make of "Sixth Circle" has evolved into something else entirely. While maintaining some similarities to the original, this piece is considerably more elaborate, featuring the original acoustic guitar arpeggio piece, but then backed by more varied acoustic guitar work, full symphonic orchestration, heavier and more elaborate drumming, much heavier electric guitar work as well as a fairly elaborate solo piece near the end. The entire piece has become more progressive, more powerful and has a considerably more "epic" feel to it (for lack of a better word).

And, quite honestly, this is by the far most complicated song i've ever composed (see pic). Not so much in the sense of the music (though I have tried to break away from some bad compositional habits I have), but no, i'm referring to the sheer technical complexity of this piece. The massive amount of tracks and different instruments that i've got going on at once made this song a real challenge for me to mix and properly balance without things getting lost and/or muddy. However, it has been an enormous learning experience for me and the effort, I think, has been worth it. I am (mostly) pleased with the results and hopefully others will be too!

So, for now, i'm going to rest my ears, and tomorrow I will be doing the final master runs on the track, encode the files, and have them ready for download. Hopefully i'll have the piece on my fancy new Youtube channel as well, with some pretty visuals to go with it.

Appropriately, this new song will be entitled Coming Full Circle.

So... Many.. Tracks..