Track · Aug 20, 2026 · English
The Quiet Below
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[MUSIC PROMPT: Extremely slow progressive psychedelic alternative metal, 48 BPM throughout. Never speed up. Hypnotic bass-led intro, sparse clean guitar, eerie harmonics, huge empty spaces. Deep controlled male baritone, intimate and meditative. Tribal toms gradually appear. Shifting 5/4 and 7/8 phrases over a slow pulse. Each section becomes darker, louder and heavier without increasing tempo. Final third: massive drop-tuned guitars, polyrhythmic drums, anguished soaring vocals, crushing slow climax.]
THE QUIET BELOW
[Intro — bass only, long silence between notes]
I dug a hole
behind my eyes
to bury everything
that knew my name.
Found no grave.
Only a door.
And something breathing
on the other side.
[Verse 1 — nearly whispered]
I’ve worn the teeth
of every borrowed fear,
chewed through tomorrow
to remain right here.
Fed every shadow
until it grew,
then blamed the darkness
for what I knew.
[Long instrumental — clean guitar enters]
There is a place
beneath reaction.
Below the wound.
Below the noise.
Where nothing asks
to be forgiven.
Nothing begs
to be destroyed.
[Chorus — restrained]
So I descend.
Not down.
Within.
Past the trembling skin.
Past the hands
that pull me outward.
Past the war
I couldn’t win.
And there…
beneath the weight…
I hear
nothing.
[Pause]
Beautiful
nothing.
[Verse 2 — drums enter softly]
I met myself
without the costume.
No crown.
No cross.
No enemy.
Just an animal
watching another animal
finally
stop running.
The mirror cracked.
I didn’t fix it.
I needed every piece
to see.
[Instrumental — slow 7/8 bass, toms building]
[Bridge — deeper vocal]
Strength was never
in the fist.
Peace was never
in escape.
Both were sitting
in the chamber
I had spent my life
afraid to face.
[HEAVY GUITARS ENTER — tempo remains 48 BPM]
So breathe.
Let it enter.
Let it burn.
Let it leave.
Every scar
is just a doorway
once the wound
no longer needs
to bleed.
[BREAKDOWN — enormous, slow]
I AM NOT
THE VOICE.
I AM NOT
THE FEAR.
I AM NOT
THE THING
THAT BROUGHT ME HERE.
[Pause]
I am the space
between the thought
and the hand
that chooses
what comes next.
[Massive instrumental crescendo]
[Final Chorus — powerful, anguished]
I DESCEND!
Through every layer
I called myself!
I RELEASE!
Every weapon
from the shelf!
No god above me.
No beast below.
Only the center
I refused to know.
I searched the heavens.
I searched the dirt.
I searched through pleasure.
I searched through hurt.
Until the answer
opened its eyes…
FROM INSIDE.
[Final crushing riff — extremely slow]
Nothing conquered.
Nothing slain.
No victory.
No defeat.
Just the sound
of my own pulse…
finally walking
beside me.
[Outro — distortion fades to bass]
The door was never locked.
I was only
pulling
when it opened
inward.
Style
progressive alt-metalodd time signatureshypnotic basstribal drumsdark vocalscrushing riffseerie atmosphere.english
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Prompt by
TheBroken
TheBrokenGeneratedAug 20, 2026
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