Evan Zegiel Firestorm
for tuba and fixed media (heavy metal band)
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Firestorm takes a hard le turn from Blossom on the track list of e Human Element. Whereas Blossom evinced hope and a beautiful future, Firestorm imagines a catastrophic failure in our efforts to curb climate change’s effects.
e title is another rumination on themes I explored in Fire in the Sky, from my Heavy Metal Concerto. Firestorm takes things a step further, and it is arguably the heaviest track on e Human Element and does not incorporate any clean guitar tones. is track is metal through and through, imagining the firestorm of a world that the Earth could become without efforts to slow down global temperature rise.
On another note, for fans of old real-time strategy games, I also wanted to write a piece that would be a tribute to one of my favorite childhood video games: the expansion pack to Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, which was titled “Firestorm.” I can’t possibly count the hours I spent playing this game, and the soundtrack is ingrained in my brain. While it wasn’t as heavy a soundtrack as my piece, there were a few hard rock-influenced tracks that I always loved jamming out to while playing
Instrumentation
Solo Tuba Heavy Metal Band* (Rhythm Guitar, Electric Bass, Clean Guitar, Lead Guitar, Drums)
— Evan Zegiel 2024
*A backing track covering the heavy metal band parts is available from the publisher; the work is typically performed in a solo tuba & tape configuration.
Duration: 3:52 minutes
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Copyright © 2024 Evan Zegiel (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. Published by Just a eory Press | www.justatheorypress.com First printing of this edition, March 2024