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. It contains seven studio recordings of previously unreleased original compositions. The album was released on CD and two different versions of vinyl. The first version was a red/black splattered vinyl colour limited to 300 copies and the second was a white/red splattered vinyl colour limited to 200 copies. Both versions of the vinyl came with a copy of the CD as well. The CD and both LP versions were released by Black Market Activities, but only the CD was distributed by

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. The Jordan Rudess solo in "Transient Exuberance" samples from his portion in Dream Theater's "Octavarium"

Track listing

Personnel

Colin Marston Colin Marston (born September 13, 1982) is an American multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer residing in New York City. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music technology in 2004, and runs Meneg ...

– bass guitar, recording, mastering, mixing * Mike Lerner –

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

, additional recording, additional editing *

Charlie Zeleny Charlie Zeleny, also known as Charlie Z, is an American session drummer, music director and solo artist. He was also a member of the progressive metal bands Blotted Science and Behold the Arctopus, has played in a duo with keyboardist Jordan Ru ...

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drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

, additional recording, additional editing * Dani Koesterich - Recording (Rudess solo) * Terry Grow - Artwork * Stacy Wakefield Forte - Layout

Guest musicians

Mick Barr Krallice is an American black metal band formed by New York City musicians Colin Marston, Mick Barr, Nick McMaster and Lev Weinstein. They play an experimental, highly technical style of black metal. The band has released twelve studio albums a ...

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Guitar solo A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music, pre-written (or improvised) to be played on a classical guitar, electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. In 20th and 21st century traditional music and popular m ...

("You Are Number Six") *

Jordan Rudess Jordan Rudess (born Jordan Charles Rudes; November 4, 1956) is an American musician, software developer and composer best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the progressive metal supergroup Liquid Tension Experime ...

– Continuum solo ("Transient Exuberance")

References

Behold... The Arctopus albums 2007 albums Albums produced by Colin Marston {{2000s-metal-album-stub