However, CD-4 of the CD box-set version opens with Slaves of the Afterlife from Tape 2 and then for some reason it reverses the order of the two Tape 4 tracks, so the track list for CD-4 is as follows:
- Slaves for the Afterlife (27:12)
- Black Pastures (30:05)
- Will You Die for Me? (21:14)
As usual, the CD version playing times are longer than those on the cassette. As usual, the vinyl version is all messed up. Slaves of the Afterlife is split into two parts, one on each side of Disc 4, but each part shares its side with another song. Why couldn't Ba Da Bing Records just put the two parts together on one side and the two other songs on the other? I've heard plenty of vinyl albums that had 30-minute-plus tracks on one side, so its not impossible. The other two tracks of CD-4 are also each split into two parts over Discs 6 and 7, with the two parts of Black Pastures not even on the same platter.
Overall, and especially after all of the noisy calamity of CD-3, CD-4 is relatively quiet and serene. Slaves is another very cinematic track that sounds like the procession for a black mass. Black Pastures is indeed pastoral, almost ambient, and increases in intensity only slightly over the half-hour of its length. Will You Die For Me? starts out sounding like two Brian Eno ambient tracks but played at the same time and soon resolves itself into long, Fripp-ish sustained guitar notes over different calming backgrounds. It's one of the quietest and most conventionally beautiful tracks on DoD. I've posted a link to Spotify's version of the track below, but you can listen to the whole of CD-4, or even the full DoD album, on Spotify, or you can stream it on YouTube.
The full, 21-minute Die For Me track is actually calmer and gentler that the random 30 seconds sampled by the widget suggests.
Two more DoD discs to go! Having fun yet?
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