Good analyzing! Once I finish a song I completely forget about the time signatures I used and have to re-listen to figure them out myself, haha.

Yeah, there are two 6/8 polyrhythms in there, one at the beginning when I change to a major key, and one before the end solo with the double bass.

The main riff is in 5/8 exactly! Except for the two times I run through that diminished ascent in the middle of what sounds like another measure starting, it actually switches to 4/4 very quickly and goes back to 5/8.

The soft part is all 5/8 except the last measure, which is 9/8, then a quick little 3/4 bit, then the 6/8 polyrhythm I was talking about earlier. Yeah, you heard right, there's a 10/8 in there too, during the solo. It has a 4/4, then 10/8, 4/4, 10/8 etc. pattern.

yay prog XD

Thanks for the review! I've only heard little of the Mars Volta, I'll need to check them out more. I've got plenty of Dream Theater already though, they're quite kickass.

Um, everything doesn't need to be SPEED SPEED FAST FAST PLAY REALLY FAST.

Composition and songwriting comes first, dude.

Thanks Bad-Man!

haha, yeah prog metal's not for everyone, stupid time signatures, major keys and homo soft parts. But I'm a little fag so the homo soft parts are for me. :3

This was originally a jazz song, but then I got to some polyrhythm double bass and was like "Fuck it, more distortion"

I fuck up in the outro solo when I do the slide-fr attack-up the diminished scale though, I should redo it. ;_;

Thanks again Bad-Man!