There are few things in the world quite as exciting as seeing a track is longer than 15 minutes. Is it going to be one long drone? Is it going to be made up of distinct parts? Is it simply going to be a song with more verses and choruses than normal? In the case of On the Corpses of Giants, the one track that makes up the album of the same name, it's somewhere between the second and third options. It's essentially made up of multiple different movements, but one of those movements is its own ten minute long song.
The track opens with a singular organ chord coming out of the spookiest church on Earth before being interrupted by the full band joining in with the same chord over and over again:
Bah-bam! Bah-bam! Bah-bam! Bah-bam!
It goes for two minutes. Slight variations in the bass and the drums help it to feel triumphant and epic rather than obnoxious and boring. Honestly it could have gone on for 20 minutes (and I suspected it was going to) and I would have probably enjoyed it. Instead what happens is a sort of audio demolition of glitches, modulators, and noise for 90 seconds before going into the song proper.
The main song bit is proggy psychedelia defined by a largely monotone vocal part complimented by rich harmonies. Drums thud, pianos twinkle, and guitars ring out with shimmering harmonics. It's quite majestic, and has an air of importance to it, even if the artist's own description suggests it's "a joke", albeit "not one without a certain biting irony".
I'm not sure if the joke comes through, but I do think there's a certain confidence or perhaps even arrogance that comes with asking people to listen to your 20 minute opera. I think people should, though. Throughout that runtime I never once got bored. I never once thought it was about time to wrap up. Not once did I think it needed even a second edited out.
Lie on your bed, turn off the lights, put on FIN, and let yourself travel through the planes of existence.