Talk:Hanging Gardens/@comment-28241499-20130429021553/@comment-5025667-20130501125334

While I am not the first writer to write something based on a song (the most popular example would be the Rainbow Factory creepypasta), I might just be. I really don't know. I stayed away from blood, I threw in the minor details of it appearing to be from thorns instead of some weird mythical crap was to give it a better sense of realism. I wanted the gardens to be these secretive area that took time to reach and such, I wouldn't imagine that it would be very easy to get to. That is not to say that I didn't add in some fantasy elements either though.

I had to be careful in writing about the afterlives in this tale. While in keeping in tone of the song in question, I feared that I could get backlash if I wasn't careful and I have been also recommended to keep my own beliefs to myself in these comments section before upsetting anybody. Not that they're bad by any means or that I'm intolerant of any beliefs, it's just that I don't want to start a flame war.

I wasn't expecting everybody to like the song, after all it's progressive death metal and not many people are into metal to begin with, let alone by some not so well known band. The singer's voice improves on their sophmore album and derives away from the style presented here, but I understand of course. I'm more into the music itself if anything.

That and I'm also online friends with said vocalist of the band.