History Music / LascaillesShroud

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

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

* AGodIAm: Vincent, Atlas, and The Swarm are all entities who have so far exceeded normal evolutionary standards they are beyond god-like. Their power knows no bounds, and in war they do everything from throw entire galaxies as weapons, to erasing entire areas of space to combat each other. With all life in the universe destroyed, everything left, every piece of dark or baryonic matter becomes a viable weapon: Planets, stars, galaxies, The Oort Cloud, Star Factories, nothing is off limits in this war.

* AbusivePrecursors: The story's main antagonist(s) are based on Creator/{{Alastair Reynolds}} ''The Inhibitors'' from his {{Revelation Space}} novels, and ''Franchise/MassEffect'''s ''Reapers''

* ShoutOut: The Bands name is a reference to Creator/AlastairReynolds novel RevelationSpace. Named after the character Phillip Lascaille, who enters an area of warped space that no human prior to him returned from. The area of space is inhabited (likely) by ancient aliens who use this warped space barrier to protect themselves. For whatever reason they allow Phillip passage, although "He'd come back back mute, either unwilling or incapable of talking about his experiences. His emotional connection with other human beings had become autistically impoverished..."

* AffectionateNickname: Death Metal {{Ayreon}}

* [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness Speculative Science]]: 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

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 to avoid literal execution.

Every night when she closes her eyes, Sarah sees the Earth she can never return to, and dreams to rebuild her glory.

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 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.

This comes in form of ASI (Advanced Synthetic Intelligence). ASI is not human, nor is she alien, robot, or cyborg.

Sarah, builds the perfect body. Genetically pure and free of disease and aging. Vincent, builds the consciousness and mind to inhabit the body. But, he leaves no restrictions on her ability to learn or think. ASI can successfully reproduce with plagued humans using the most minute amounts of DNA collected through intercourse. ASI both looks and gives birth much like a human, except her cybernetically enhanced body accelerates the development of the fetus while ensuring it is perfectly healthy.

Interval 01 is the beginning of the Parallel Infinities story arc, and it's history begins in the year 2188, when Earth is mostly a barren waste. The remaining land - located mostly in Russia, China, and Australia - has been built to the edge of the sky. These parts of Earth are glorious testaments to terraforming and engineering, yet their presence is a constant reminder of how close humanity came to bringing about its own extinction. That reminder is still not enough, however, to unite the remaining factions on Earth. Australia and Russia are largely controlled by religious organizations seeking to limit the progress of science and technology. China, caught between the two, is the only 'free' nation on Earth, home to the scientific minds and engineers who struggle to rebuild whats left of their home planet. Political pressure, and threats of military action force China to develop new technologies in secret. 

The year is 2265 - the world is at a stalemate, barely above the precipice of annihilation. Mankind has to now face another obstacle in their path to rebuild Earth, a sterility plague. For the past several decades all men, women, and children lost the ability to reproduce. No one knew the cause, or how it could be cured. For the longest time it seemed there was none, until two brilliant minds came together.

** ''Interval 03: (TBA 2015 / Pre-production )

** ''Interval 03: Earth Furnace'' (TBA 2015 / Pre-production )

After returning from one of the towers, and his new found knowledge, Vincent is greeted by a horrific sight. ASI, has returned. Presumed dead by now, Vincent had long given up hope of her being alive, but yet here she stood. She was....damaged, and amalgamation of repairs and cybernetic parts ripped from dead Swarm soldiers, making her immensely more powerful. She has spent the last tens of thousands of years jumping across the universe attempting to help people escape and combat The Swarm, but she has never succeeded. Eventually she was forced to start performing mercy killings on people, knowing their fate at the hands of The Swarm would be far worse than the painless death she could give them. These deaths stained her mind, her consciousness permanently, and Vincent could tell. She knows of his plan to destroy this universe, to try and leave it behind while creating a new one. "Coward" she calls him, running away from what he could fight - and her unbridled anger is focused into action and she tries to kill him.

Vincent struggles with her and tries to explain how it is the only way, but ASI is too far gone for reason and understanding. Though she is far stronger than she was, she is still damaged, and Vincent is eventually forced to kill her. His own daughter lay bleeding out before him, and in the moment of death he finally sees her return to the person she was. The first Neo-Human, and now the last. She dies in Vincent's arms.

** ''Interval 03: The Promethereal'' (TBA 2015 / Pre-production )

Technically dead for an unknown amount of time, Vincent awakens submerged in a massive ocean. He looks around and see's endless water in all directions. Panic invades him and he rushes to the surface. Breaching the surface he finds himself inside the familiar room of The Structure, strangely opposite of the endless ocean he just witnessed.

As the terror, and pain leave him he can feel the humanity inside himself dwindle. Suddenly, there is a void inside him where his persona, his “soul” if you will used to be. Then, a terrifying and foreign feeling overcomes him, he feels something inside... wake up.

* HarshVocals: A focal point of the music, low growls and high contrasting screams are used for depicting the extremes of certain ideas and emotions in the story.

* ProperlyParanoid: When recording, main composer Brett Windnagle never uses a tempo that is divisible by 5 (anything ending in zero or five) out of fear the music will sound "stock" or "predictable".

Interval 01 is the beginning of the Parallel Infinities story arc, and it's history begins in the year 2188, when Earth is mostly a barren waste. The remaining land - located mostly in Russia, China, and Australia - has been built to the edge of the sky. These parts of Earth are glorious testaments to terraforming and engineering, yet their presence is a constant reminder of how close humanity came to bringing its own extinction. That reminder is still not enough, however, to unite the remaining factions on Earth. Australia and Russia are largely controlled by religious organizations seeking to limit the progress of science and technology. China, caught between the two, is the only 'free' nation on Earth, home to the scientific minds and engineers who struggle to rebuild whats left of their home planet. Political pressure, and threats of military action force China to develop new technologies in secret. 

* '''Prologue'''

* '''Evolve'''

* '''Resist'''
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, but what they were unaware of, was that this "person", was actually an agent for The Swarm. 

The Swarm is a collective of super-sentient machines, of unknown origin and technologically advanced beyond all comprehension. Ranging in size from atoms, 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 could simply stroll into the Sol system. 

They send a Divider Squad into Arcturus Station to kill off any humans, a small group of 20-30 highly stealthily operative that can eliminate large populaces in small amounts of time and with little attention. 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, slaughtered and left lying where they die. She manages to lure this "Divider Squad" 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 and delaying The Swarm ever so slightly by creating an explosion that catches the entire attention of Earth. She makes the ultimate sacrifice.

* '''Extinction'''

The Swarm comes in fast, and as Vincent and ASI drift past a crumbling Mars, they witness the destruction first hand. An Armada with numbers so great they blot out the light of the sun, The Swarm leads a massive machine towards Earth. Massive 'hands' wrap around Earth, spanning the entire globe, and slowly squeeze Earth into an ungodly explosion.

* '''Dreams'''

* '''Shattered'''

* '''Epilogue'''

* '''Integration: Into The Posthuman Continuum'''

* '''Reborn: The Lamentation's Of A Dying Universe'''

Crawling onto solid surface, he begins to notice and feel things he is unfamiliar with. Inside his head he can hear screaming. His limbs feel pain but the pain is not his own. With every frantic and uncontrolled heartbeat he can feel life disperse from the universe, every gasp for air consuming stars. He balls himself into the fetal position and clenches his eyes shut, unwilling to see the horrible truth of the universes current state of existence.

As the terror, and pain leave him he can feel the humanity himself dwindle. Suddenly, there is a void inside him where his persona, his “soul” if you will used to be. Then, in an awkward and unpleasant way...He feels something inside wake up.

* '''Awakened: Not Even Remembered The Dust of Stars'''

* ''In Galactic Waves Of Immeasurable Death'' (Demo, 2011)
* ''Leaving Earth Behind'' (EP, 2012)
* ''Parallel Infinities, Interval 01: The Inner Universe'' (Full-Length, 2013)
* ''Colossal'' (Single, 2013)

Interval 02 takes place right after the end of "Epilogue" from Interval 01, in which Vincent went in hiding until The Swarm left the Sol system, and moved onto the rest of the universe.

Facing a task too great for a mortal being, Vincent undergoes a massive transformation of body and mind. To better help him fathom of what is happening to the universe, Atlas-Rigel and Atlas-Aetheriel completely alter his perception and abilities. Inside the structure he is submerged into a massive pool of liquid, and his body is slowly disassembled atom by atom and replaced my nanomachines and organic machinery. When the transformation is complete, Vincent now finds his body (at least as he can perceive it) to extend into the wider universe, being able to feel and perceive all of existence.

As Vincent struggles to adjust to his new body and mind, he starts to panic in his inability to adjust. However, his being is entwined in the universe and the violent panicking creates violent external phenomena. Stars begin to collapse, the seas on planets fall apart as the world splits in half, and all of this could attract the attention of The Swarm so he struggles to steady his body and mind. As he settles down, his mind begins to clear - and he can sense all life in the universe. At first it's insanely overwhelming, as he can feel all life dying out slowly across the universe. Finally, bringing his mind into some kind of equilibrium - he has a terrifying moment. Something inside him turns off, was it is humanity? Was it just part of the process? He couldn't be sure, but immediately after that something disappeared...He felt something he had never known, wake up inside him.

Finally Vincent has finished his transformation, and he begins to think ahead on what needs to be done. The monumental size of the task has him doubtful, despite his new abilities. He ponders on if this task should really be left to him, what happens if he fails? He begins to think on the irony and hypocrisy of himself and the Atlas twins, being just as destructive as The Swarm - and with a solution that is theoretically impossible, and foolish to attempt.

Interval 02 takes place right after the end of "Prologue" from Interval 01, in which Vincent went in hiding until The Swarm left the Sol system, and moved onto the rest of the universe.

As Vincent struggles to adjust to his new body and mind, he starts to panic in his inability to adjust. However, his being is entwined in the universe and the violent panicking creates violent external phenomena. Stars begin to collapse, the seas on planets fall apart as the world splits in half, and all of this could attract the attention of The Swarm so he struggles to steady his body and mind. As he settles down, his mind begins to clear - and he can sense all life in the universe. At first it's insanely overwhelming, as he can feel all life dying out slowly across the universe.

[[folder:Interval 01]]

!!!Story Synopsis

[[folder:Interval 02: Parallel Infinities, The Abscinded Universe]]

Facing a task to great for a mortal being, Vincent undergoes a massive transformation of body and mind. To better help him fathom of what is happening to the universe, Atlas-Rigel and Atlas-Aetheriel completely alter his perception and abilities. Inside the structure

* '''Rae Anna Parris:''' Clean Vocals

* '''RaeAnna Parris:''' Clean Vocals

* '''Mercedes Victoria:''' Clean Vocals
* '''Bryan Edwards:''' Harsh Vocals/Growls ( Ex-Seven Kingdoms, Vermiform )
* '''Tony Cordisco:''' Harsh Vocals/Screams ( Music/{{Judicator}} , Project: Roenwolfe, Vermiform )
* '''Tyler Sherrill:''' Additional Keyboards ( Steamforged )

* '''Emerald Bixby:''' Clean Vocals

* AbusivePrecursors: The story's main antagonist(s) are based on {{Alastair Reynolds}} ''The Inhibitors'' from his {{Revelation Space}} novels, and ''Franchise/MassEffect'''s ''Reapers''

* ShoutOut: The Bands name is a reference to AlastairReynolds novel RevelationSpace. Named after the character Phillip Lascaille, who enters an area of warped space that no human prior to him returned from. The area of space is inhabited (likely) by ancient aliens who use this warped space barrier to protect themselves. For whatever reason they allow Phillip passage, although "He'd come back back mute, either unwilling or incapable of talking about his experiences. His emotional connection with other human beings had become autistically impoverished..."

* AbusivePrecursors: The story's main antagonist(s) are based on {{Alastair Reynolds}} ''The Inhibitors'' from his {{Revelation Space}} novels, and {{Mass Effect}}'s ''Reapers''

* ConceptAlbum: All Of Lascaille's Shroud are intimately connected to each other through characters and events.