History Music / LascaillesShroud

* '''John Yelland:''' Clean Vocals ( {{Judicator}} , Disforia )

* '''Tony Cordisco:''' Harsh Vocals/Screams ( {{Judicator}} , Project: Roenwolfe, Vermiform )

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Vincent and Atlas' ultimate goal is to create a separate universe by consuming so much raw matter from the current universe, that when they matter is converted completely to energy it will produce a secondary big bang. The plan is to create a singularity and detonate the mass of matter in "The Bulk" - the uncharted space between universes.

Lascaille's Shroud is an American ProgressiveMetal / DeathMetal band that focuses heavily on ScienceFiction themes and ideas to create a musical SpaceOpera. Unlike traditional concept albums, that may only share thematic ideas or central themes, Lascaille's Shroud has an actual cast of characters shared between albums. Heavy themes of morality, ethics, and identity color the lyrical ideas and are a reoccurring theme shared within the story arc and the character within it.

Lascaille's Shroud is an American Progressive Death Metal band that borrows heavily from sci-fi storytelling elements. The albums all follow a large interconnecting story line that involves a wide variety of characters and intricate dialogue.

The debut album, abbreviated as 'Interval 01', begins the story of Vincent Tereshkova - A man tasked with preserving existence and time. The complete story arc covers a little over two-billion years of time and details the destruction of Earth. The lyrical content largely focuses on identity and morality challenges on grand scales.

Originating as a "one-man band" headed by Brett Windnagle, Lascaille's Shroud has grown to incorporate many vocalists and guest musicians since it's inception.

* '''Patrick Parris:''' Clean Vocals
* '''John Yelland:''' Clean Vocals

* '''Bryan Edwards:''' Harsh Vocals/Growls
* '''Tony Cordisco:''' Harsh Vocals/Screams
* '''Tyler Sherrill:''' Additional Keyboards

* SpeculativeScience: Much of LS is based on real and theoretical science, taken to [[UpToEleven extremes and grand scales]]. StephenBaxter 's novel "Ring" and XeeleeSequence are a foundation for the immense scale of war and the extreme ideas such as interdimensional travel and the existence of TheMultiVerse

* SpeculativeScience: Much of LS is based on real and theoretical science, taken to extremes and grand scales. StephenBaxter 's novel "Ring" and XeeleeSequence are a foundation for the immense scale of war and the extreme ideas such as interdimensional travel and the existence of TheMultiVerse

Sarah Tereshkova is a geneticist who specializes in designing organic prosthetic's catered to specific patients. Her work, however, has caught the attention of the religious organizations of Australia and Russia as she attempts to design a cure for the sterility plague. She, along with two-thousand other scientists, doctors, and researchers including her husband Vincent, live aboard the Arcturus Station. A state of the art installation hidden in the Kuiper Belt.

For years Sarah and Vincent have worked together to build a cure for the sterility plague. Vincent, is an artificial and synthetic intelligence expert. The foremost designer and programmer for military and defense systems on Earth, and he too has been exiled in secrecy to Arcturus. Their work is neither an antidote, nor a cure of any traditional kind. Their cure...is evolution. Adaptation to a hostile environment, just implemented at an accelerated rate.

Australia and Russia, while ASI is being developed, are contacted by an unknown person promising to take care of their problem with China, all they had to do was shut down long range scanners on the outer edge while they took care of Arcturus Station. They agreed to do so. What they were unaware of, was that that person, was actually The Swarm. 

The Swarm is a collective of super-sentient machines, of unknown origin and technologically advanced beyond all comprehension. Ranging in size from atom sized spies, to Galaxy Destroyers the size of stars, there is no human force capable of even halting their progress. With the long range scanners disabled, their most colossal machines simply stroll into the Sol system. 

On their way in, they send a Divider Squad into Arcturus Station to kill off any humans. Sarah is able to secure both Vincent and ASI's escape, she is injured in the assault and jams an airlock door closed as they escape, not giving them a chance to come back for her. She can hear the sounds of thousands of people dying, slaughtered and left lying where they die. She manages to lure them to her, as the last remaining survivor on the station, to the core of Arcturus.

The engine, the power for Arcturus, is a small artificial star. As they all close in on her she settles in the engine rooms. Typing a few simple commands she overloads the engine and ignites the station in a small supernova, destroying the squad The Swarm sent in, and delaying them ever so slightly.

Just a few short years after they escape the attack on Arcturus. ASI and Vincent remain hiding in Beijing - until they start to receive coded messages in their dreams. The message urges them to go to a specific set of coordinates out of the Sol system. With nothing left on Earth for them, they depart their home planet once again.

Just in time to see Earth destroyed.

He relives his biggest regret over and over. Long before he began his work on ASI or moved to China, he built AI systems for the military of Russia. He built organic machines using brain matter from recently dead soldiers and civilians. However, while he was performing his surgery one day on a young woman, she flinched while he had her skull opened. 

He quickly put her back together, and worked to revive her. Once she awoke, Vincent realized that all his patients were actually victims...alive in the time of his work, an impossibly painful procedure. He took the young woman with him and escaped to the safety of China.

Vincent awakes to darkness, and alone. He is in a massive chamber several miles in size. He looks around but cannot find ASI, and the strange voice from before informs her that she has disappeared. The events he begins to recall, and the weight of all his losses and failures bear down on him.

Atlas, is a massive structure that is not perceivable by any means, it refracts and absorbs 100% of heat, light, and radiation, and is composed of cosmic string. The Structure itself is roughly the size of a two or three galaxies and is occupied by the consciousness’ of two long dead alien beings from the Andromeda galaxy. Their race lost the fight against The Swarm a few hundred thousand years ago, but before their extinction they constructed Atlas, and placed within it Atlas-Rigel and Atlas-Aetheriel. The purpose of Atlas is to create a universe within itself, by destroying the one it inhabits and destroying itself in the process. 

Vincent had been chosen to aid in this process. But before he could do anything, before Atlas could do anything, they had to The Swarm leave the Milky Way so they could work in seclusion. Atlas is the only thing with technology capable of rivaling The Swarm's. They heal Vincent, perfect him, make him ageless and undying. Because, for the next 5,000 years he must wait as The Swarm devours his galaxy. He must accept the deaths of this galaxy, to preserve all life.

!!Tropes relating to the band and music:

* '''The Swarm:'''
** ''Sovereign:'''

* AbusivePrecursors: The story's main antagonist(s) are a group of super-sentient machines nicknamed "The Swarm", varying in size from atoms to stars. They are a based on {{Alastair Reynolds}} ''The Inhibitors'' from his {{Revelation Space}} novels, and {{Mass Effect}}'s ''Reapers''

* '''Atlas-Rigel:'''
* '''Atlas-Aetheriel:'''

* '''Sovereign:'''

* '''Vincent Tereshkova:''' The Protagonist - A.I. Systems developer/creator. Exceedingly intelligent and analytical. He develops the consciousness for ASI and becomes the focus of Atlas

* '''ASI:'''

* '''Vincent Tereshkova''': The Protagonist - A.I. Systems developer/creator. Exceedingly intelligent and analytical. He develops the consciousness for ASI and becomes the focus of Atlas
* '''Sarah Tereshkova''':

* WhatHaveIBecome: Many characters in the story (actually, all of them) experience this moment where they are horrified at what they have become and how they have come to be what they are. This is where the issues of identity come into play in the story.

* WhatHaveIBecome: Many characters in the story (actually, all of them) experience this moment where they are horrified at what they have become and how they have come to be what they are. This is where the issues of identity come into play in the story.

* AbusivePrecursors: The story's main antagonist(s) are a group of super-sentient machines nicknamed "The Swarm", varying in size from atoms to stars. They are a based on {{Alastair Reynolds}} ''The Inhibitors'' from his {{Revelation Space}} novels, and {{Mass Effect}}'s ''Reapers''

!!Tropes relating to the band and music:

Lascaille's Shroud is an American Progressive Death Metal band that borrows heavily from sci-fi storytelling elements. The albums all follow a large interconnecting story line that involves a wide variety of characters and intricate dialogue. The debut album, abbreviated as 'Interval 01', begins the story of Vincent Tereshkova - A man tasked with preserving existence and time. The complete story arc covers a little over two-billion years of time and details the destruction of Earth. The lyrical content largely focuses on identity and morality challenges on grand scales. Originating as a "one-man band" headed by Brett Windnagle, Lascaille's Shroud has grown to incorporate many vocalists and guest musicians since it's inception

Lascaille's Shroud is an American Progressive Death Metal band that borrows heavily on sci-fi storytelling elements. The albums all follow a large interconnecting story line that involves a wide variety of characters and dialogue.