Exodus
Eerie drones, mysterious signatures, and tense tickers give way to a powerful pulsing synth rise gradually building in intensity.
Vanguard presents ASCENSION: LONG RISES, your one-stop shop for slowburn tension and excitement. Just as advertised, each track showcases long (30-60+ second) ascenders, ramps, uplifters, swells, and tension-builders, perfect for your slow-cooking, frog-boiling productions. This collection features a variety of unique instrumentation and gripping sound design, from neo-classical pizzicatto strings and ghostly choirs to pulsing synths and sirens, along with plenty of attention-grabbing signatures, blaring alarms, tense tickers, and slamming hits.
Compositeurs
Pitch Hammer Music
Exodus
Eerie drones, mysterious signatures, and tense tickers give way to a powerful pulsing synth rise gradually building in intensity.
Above The Throne
Attention-grabbing signature benders kick off a long slowburn rise, featuring incessant synth pulses, menacing blasts, air raid sirens, percussion clacks, and heavy hits.
Activate
Low throbbing bass signatures, wobbly drones and muted percussion lead into a tense long rise with intensifying synth pulses, powerful percussive hits and persistent tickers.
From Hell To Heaven
Muted pizz strings repeat an ascending motif and intensify as rising sound design slowly builds around them, culminating in an explosive finale.
Elevation
Roughly bowed string signatures and rattling metals are featured in this tense and slowly building long rise.
Stormcraft Voyage
Mysterious swirling piano textures and benders give way to explosive hits and gritty guitar riffs over a long, slow rise. An action-packed finale features blaring sirens and racing percussion.
Dreadful Ascent
Ghastly choir is featured over dark synths in a mind-bending, disorienting ascent featuring some truly gnarly textures and distortion.
Strike Of Steel
Muted pulsing alarms and perc build and intensify as eerie drones swirl and ascend.
Breathless Rise
Sharp synth signatures and clicky percussion build over long rising synths and pulsing synth basses in this action-packed ascent featuring tight foley and breathy accents.
Sinister Climbs
Solo cello is featured with both long continuous glissandos and short staccato accents, accompanied by rising string and synth textures and accelerating tickers.
Leaving Reality
Bright chimes, piano, and tickers build while swirling string and synth textures descend and ascend simultaneously, culminating in a huge climax with monstrous perc hits and roaring signature blasts.