mod, Administrators
11,352
edits
Changes
→Live
{{song
| title = The Mark Has Been Made
| album = ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]''(Right)
| length = 5:15
| BPM = 120| versions = The Mark Has Been Made<br>The Mark Has Been Made (Alternate Version)<br>The Mark Has Been Made (''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'')
| live = [[Fragility v2.0]]
}}'''"The Mark Has Been Made"''' is the fourth track on the Right disc of ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]].'' It is an instrumental track.
===Halos===
*''The Fragile''
*''[[The Fragile: Deviations 1]]''
*''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'' (CD/DVD/VHS)
* On certain commercials in the Los Angeles area (circa August 2007) for Bryman college, the intro to this song could be heard in the final seconds of the commercial.
* ''Need For Speed: Undercover'': Played during introduction to the game. Also plays a snippet after completing a race or being caught by the police.
* ''The Sopranos'': The entire track was used to score the trailer for Season 6.
* "The darkness 2" (2012) : Appears in the official game trailer.
* "Sons Of Anarchy" (2013) : Short cut of the song in the season 6 teaser trailer presented at the Comic-con.
==Versions==
===The Mark Has Been Made===
The piece consists of a dark and quiet introduction, featuring a beat with a wah effect, deep synthesizers, strings, and guitar. This section ends suddenly, quickly transitioning to a lone wah guitar melody. It is soon joined by a loud beat and percussive bass and guitar and the return of the guitar melody from the first section. This is followed by a buildup with a new distorted guitar riff, increasing in intensity until it gives way to a beatless reprise of the introduction. On the CD and presumably cassette versions of ''The Fragile,'' "The Mark Has Been Made" ends with a short fragment of the song "[[10 Miles High]]," a track cut from these formats but that appears after "The Mark Has Been Made" on the vinyl versions of "The Fragile," albeit on a different side.
===The Mark Has Been Made (Alternate Version)===
'''''Running Time: 4:45'''''
Released on ''The Fragile: Deviations 1''. Also known as "The Mark Has Been Made" (Alt) when it was originally released on Apple Music as part of ''The Fragile Instrumental''. This is a significantly different mix of the album arrangement.
===The Mark Has Been Made (''And All That Could Have Been'')===
==Live==
"The Mark Has Been Made" made its live debut on [[2000/04/03 Los Angeles, CA|April 3, 2000]]. Backed by watery and flaming visualsfrom Bill Viola, the live structure remained basically the sameexcept for the ending: the first section before the wah guitar was shortened, and the buildup following it was more concise, . The last section saw the band erupting into an entirely new guitar riff , one that seems to echo the ascending notes and rhythmic motif of "[[Somewhat Damaged]]" and "[[The Wretched]]", with Reznor wailing on top. It segued directly into "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]." Musical notation of the live ending bassline:<br>[[Image:Markhasbeenmade_end_score.png]] "The Mark Has Been Made" was performed at every show of the [[Fragility v2.0]] tour, but has not appeared since. It is one of a small number of live [[NIN]] songs to feature Reznor on bass.
{{Succession box