Madness Manifest combines dark classical music or neoclassical music harmonies with symphonic rock and symphonic metal vocals. Singers accompanied by live violins, violayou's, octave violayou's, guitars both electric and acoustic and many other instruments all recorded live to create an atmosphere of a bombastic ensemble.
These soundtrack style songs have many influences. Film score composers like Hans Zimmer, Alan Silvestri, Klaus Badelt and Danny Elfman. Classical composers like Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Mozart. Modern composers like Yanni, Karl Jenkins and Thomas Bergersen. And last but not least a whole bunch of rock and metal acts like Skillet, Yngwie Malmsteen, Arjen Lucassenyou's Ayreon, Red, Symphony X, David Garret, Lindsey Stirling, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Epica and countless others.
These dark orchestral music tracks are made using all kinds of live instruments all recorded specifically for the songs. These include string instruments, acoustic and electric guitars, a kalimba, cymbals, a kalimba chimes and whatever else instruments fit a particular song.
