<🎧 Song Recommendation: In The End by Linkin Park (inspiration song!)>
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By the time Von and Alex walked back into Studio A the following evening, the atmosphere had completely shifted.
Patch was sitting at the massive console with a smug, satisfied grin on his face. He didn't even say hello. He just pointed a finger at the leather couch, telling them to sit down, and immediately hit the spacebar on his keyboard.
The studio monitors came to life.
It started exactly how Von had envisioned it in the Zone State. A single, echoing piano melody rang out through the speakers. It was lonely, isolated, and deceptively calm. It played for exactly four bars.
Then, the bottom dropped out.
A massive, violent wall of sound slammed into the room. Heavy, distorted electric guitars roared out of the speakers. A drumbeat soon marched forward, layered over a deep sub-bass that Von could actually feel in his chest.
