Traveller (Slough Feg album)
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Traveller is a concept album
by the American folk
/power
band The Lord Weird Slough Feg
. The album is based on GDW's 1977 science fiction
role-playing game
, Traveller
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Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...
by the American folk
Folk metal
Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music...
/power
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
band The Lord Weird Slough Feg
The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Slough Feg is a Heavy Metal band that formed in Pennsylvania in the early 1990s and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Taking their name from the Celtic folklore-influenced comic Sláine, the band released their self-titled debut album in 1996...
. The album is based on GDW's 1977 science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
, Traveller
Traveller (role-playing game)
Traveller is a series of related science fiction role-playing games, the first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop and subsequent editions by various companies remaining in print to this day. The game was inspired from such classic science fiction stories as the Dumarest saga series by...
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Track listing
- "The Spinward Marches" (1:22)
- "High Passage/Low Passage" (3:42)
- "Asteroid Belts" (2:22)
- "Professor's Theme" (2:50)
- "Vargr Moon" (6:07)
- "Vargr Theme/Confrontation (Genetic Prophesy)" (6:10)
- "Baltech's Lament" (4:12)
- "Gene-ocide" (4:26)
- "Curse of Humaniti" (2:26)
- "The Final Gambit" (4:35)
- "The Spinward Marches (Return)" (1:24)
- "Addendum Galactus" (4:34)