"Hell" - Liner Notes - October 18, 2000

"The musical inspiration for this one came after a night of bar-hopping with Bernie 
Wilkens last December through the Irish drinking establishments of San Francisco. Around 
2 AM in the final pub, we ran across were some folk musicians doing a really annoying 
version of the "Titanic" theme with a folk harp and a strangely gigantic set of uilleann 
pipes. 

After a few shots of whiskey, Bernie picked up a bodhran and, oblivious to the pipe 
player and harpist, started banging a march rhythm on it with his gnarled left hand. 
The musicians were very annoyed and quickly got us thrown out of the bar. In his drunken 
state, Bernie had produced a very memorable rhythm, however, that gave me the structural 
basis for this tune. 

You may recognize one of those beats which dominate the beginning 
of the second minute of the piece if you played through the second set of levels in the 
original Diablo. I loved the animating tiles in the lava set in this level, though I 
still feel like Act IV could have used still more love, both musically and otherwise."

- Matt Uelmen