Twilight in Olympus
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| Studio album by Symphony X | ||||
| Released | 1998 | |||
| Recorded | Trax East Recording Studio in South River, New Jersey; Symphony X Dungeon | |||
| Genre | Progressive metal, neoclassical metal | |||
| Length | 52:40 | |||
| Label | Zero | |||
| Producer | Michael Romeo, Steve Evetts, Eric Rachel | |||
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Twilight in Olympus is the fourth studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X, released in 1998 through Zero Corporation (Japan) and Inside Out Music (Europe); a remastered special edition was reissued on January 13, 2004 through Inside Out. The album features drums played by Thomas Walling, who filled in for regular drummer Jason Rullo after he temporarily left the band for personal reasons. It is also the last Symphony X album with longtime bassist Thomas Miller, who left the band during the album's tour.
To date, Twilight in Olympus is one of only two Symphony X albums with no title track; the other being their self-titled debut. Instead, the unfinished compositions from these sessions which would have formed the title track were later reworked and distributed in fragments throughout V: The New Mythology Suite (2000), particularly on the final track "Rediscovery (Part II) - The New Mythology". Guitarist Michael Romeo has since confirmed this: "About half of ["Rediscovery (Part II)"] is the song 'Twilight in Olympus', maybe a little more".
As of 2014, all songs from the album have been performed live, except for "The Relic" and "Orion - The Hunter". "Smoke and Mirrors" has endured as a mainstay on the band's setlist since the album's release, and is included on their 2001 live release Live on the Edge of Forever, along with "Church of the Machine" and "Through the Looking Glass".
"Smoke and Mirrors" cites Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B Minor (Kyrie eleison) (1749) in the instrumental interlude after the second chorus.
"Sonata" contains parts of the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 (Pathétique) (1799).
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