Fourth Immortal First Look: The Song That Waited Eight Years
Creator Spotlight · First Look · Fourth Immortal
Bobby Watts had the melody, the guitar and the lyrics for “Stars Apart” years before the finished recording existed. What took longer was finding a way to complete the music without losing the song he had already written.
Fourth Immortal is Bobby’s rock and hard-rock project. His album Hybrid brings together material developed across years—and, as Bobby explains it, sometimes decades. He writes his own songs and lyrics, works out the instrumental direction and uses AI-assisted production to help turn long-held ideas into finished releases.
A song written in Florida, finished years later
While living in Florida around 2018, Bobby wrote “Stars Apart” in GarageBand. The lyrics, melody and verse–chorus–bridge structure were already in place. The song follows a lonely traveller heading toward a new world in space while missing the loved ones left behind.
Bobby wrote it as a slower ballad in 6/8 time. He had the arrangement and the playing, but not the lead vocal he wanted for a release. He says that he tried for years to find someone to sing it, while remaining dissatisfied with his own scratch-vocal recording.
When he began experimenting with Suno, older recordings became possibilities again. For “Stars Apart,” he sought a more expansive orchestral feeling to support its emotional story. The important distinction is that he was returning to an existing composition, not asking the system to invent a song from nothing.
What Bobby played—and what Suno produced
Bobby says he uploaded a GarageBand demo containing his guitar solo, bass, drums, scratch vocal and completed lyrics. Those were his performances and creative decisions. Suno was then used to produce the final output, including the vocal and finished mix.
An important credit distinction: Bobby recorded the original guitar solo himself. The solo heard on the released version is Suno’s output based on his original playing—not an unchanged recording of his guitar take. Bobby specifically clarified this during his factual review, and it is central to representing the collaboration accurately.
For creators considering AI-assisted production, this example shows why descriptions such as “I played the guitar” and “the released recording contains my exact guitar performance” are not always interchangeable. Here, Bobby supplied the original performance and guided the result, while Suno produced the final rendition heard by listeners.
Songwriting and production credits
Bobby Watts: songwriting, lyrics, original guitar performance and demo instrumentation, arrangement and production direction.
Suno: AI-assisted production of the released recording, including the final vocal, mix and interpretation of Bobby’s original solo.
Credits reflect Bobby’s supplied account and his October 21 factual clarification; they do not independently establish ownership or copyright status.
Why a long-standing song matters here
There is a meaningful difference between generating a new musical idea on demand and developing a melody that has stayed with you for years. Bobby describes Fourth Immortal as a way to revisit unfinished riffs and melodies rather than abandon them because earlier recording options fell short of what he envisioned.
That makes “Stars Apart” a useful First Look for Jack Righteous readers. Its story is less about a specific AI feature and more about creative continuity: holding on to an idea, deciding what it needs, and assessing whether a new production method serves the song or changes it too much.
Listen to Fourth Immortal
“Stars Apart” is the focus of this story, and it appears on Hybrid. Bobby also shared “Embrace the Chaos” as a later single. He supplied a video for “No One Else to Blame,” which is a different song; there is no “Stars Apart” video being presented here.
If the album player is unavailable, open Hybrid directly on Apple Music.
Explore the music: Hybrid on Apple Music · “Embrace the Chaos” on Spotify
Video: “No One Else to Blame” on Facebook (a separate song)
Official channels: Fourth Immortal website · Facebook
What this First Look leaves with me
What interests me is not whether AI can be assigned the whole story of a release. It cannot. With “Stars Apart,” the starting point was Bobby’s songwriting, the original demo and the emotion he wanted to carry through. Technology offered him another way to finish that work, but it also changed how parts of the performance appear on the final recording.
That is the honest, useful version of this story: a musician who kept the song alive for years, made deliberate production decisions and can explain which parts of the finished release are his original performances and which are AI-assisted outputs.
