The Rise and Fall of Chernobyl

The Rise and Fall of Chernobyl is an upcoming concept album in the works by unknown artist corlenbelspar1 (Michael Crain, according to his youtube profile), which is about the Chernobyl disaster and all of it's effects and legacy and the lies that were used to cover it up. The album is appropriately titled, as the first half of the album appears to be about the construction of Chernobyl NPP while the latter half is about the accident itself, with the tracks "Prologue" and "Interlude" being narrative breaks which have ambient music accompanying them. The story on the album is also told from many different view points of various people, and even things such as cancer which normally have no sentience, as the album progresses. Each song also attempts to have a different sound in style and contains something unique in it in an attempt to have a little bit of something for everyone.

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Song information
Prologue
"Prologue" is as it's named a prologue for the scenario which this album sets up. It has no singing and only contain ambient music, while a narrator summarizes the events to come.

The City of Prypiat

Peaceful Atom
"Peaceful Atom" is an instrumental piece which contains mainly synthesizers and sounds such as sine waves, square waves, etc.

Chernobyl NPP

A Shadow's Looming Overhead

The Day Before
"The Day Before" follows the events which occured during the tests which caused reactor number 4 to melt down and the melt down itself.

Interlude
"Interlude" is very similar to "Prologue" with very similar ambient music and the narrator summarizing the events that have unfolded and foreshadowing what the consequences of the disaster will be.

The Day After
"The Day After" is a song which is literally about the day after the Chernobyl disaster. It is sang from the perspective of an omniscient narrator who is onlooking the effects of the disaster and knows the potential outcome of the event. Although he appears to know more than everyone else, he isn't immune to the disaster either as he says "My arm's now gone, and so's half my face." The music of this song sounds hopeful but empty and isolated until the song reaches it's break, which the music then suddenly shifts to a foreshadowing ominous tone.

Cockroaches 1
"Cockroaches 1" is another instrumental piece if you discount the inhuman screaming and spoken words. It conveys through music a short story about an unnamed protagonist near death from radiation sickness while cockroaches are already beginning to eat away at the protagonist as can be heard by him saying lines such as "Cockroaches are eating me..."

The Zone of Alienation

The Liquidators
"The Liquidators" is a sad and depressing song from the point of view of one of the Liquidators themselves, telling about what they have to suffer through and how their own families have been effected. This song contains the most number of solos out of all the songs on the album but interestingly enough, bits and pieces of it were taken from the original parts of a remix that the artist made for the song "Battle of the Holy" from the CastleVania series that can be found here.

Terminal Cancer
"Terminal Cancer" is sang from the perspective of cancer itself. It tells of the effects it has on the victim and their loved ones and how when it's terminal it can't be cured. The vocals of this song are distorted to blend in with the guitar that plays the same melody that's sang. This song was once two separate songs, with the introduction being written after the part of the song which plays faster in tempo.

Cockroaches 2

What Does the Future Hold?
"What Does the Future Hold?" goes into detail about what the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are and what the potential outcome is and how it will continue to effect human lives for centuries to come.

Lies and Cover Up
"Lies and Cover Up" ends the album by going into detail what the Soviet Union did to cover up what was really going on and how it seems like its trying to throw people like the Liquidators into obscurity to be slowly forgotten.

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