OCR00355 - Castlevania II 'Bloody Hell'

[Saunders]

Castlevania 2 'Bloody Hell'

Holy crapamoli. Kaijin + Ailsean = Amazing. Two excellent mixers at work here, making one of the best guitar mixes on the site. Classic rock style makes this a truly great mix for me as I absolutely love a good electric guitar thrashing. I don't know who did exactly what in this mix, but regardless of that, the two mixers here did some splendid work and and it definitely doesn't dissappoint. Recommended.

[BigDRS]

BEST MIX EVER.

[Dev]

Rocks the fucking house does this song. Two great mixers jamming a great song. What else could you want? Download now.

[Advocate005]

I love the song redo. I hope they respond and tell us how they did it. I think they used a REAL guitar. There is no way they could have made those guitar riffs using a keyboard synthisizer. Heck no. I think its one of the best thus far. Next to say "Sonic 3 IceCapped"-By McVaffe. This song though never sounded better.

[kaijin]

I wrote the original mix, including the drumline and whatnot. Sent it on over to Ailsean, who recorded the guitars (inspired by Billy Idol) and mixed it even further, then we worked together on producing the track. The harmonized guitar solo (inspired by Pata of X-japan) was more my idea and the awesome phaser was his. I recall him saying that his hands were bleeding from trying to record that solo. Yes, the guitar work was done live. I'm honestly glad that everyone seems to like it. It's some of our finest work.

[Advocate005]

Thank you for responding. It has to be one of the best songs on this site. Its an unbelievable remix. Are you planning on making more like it?? I mean that sounded like ti took alot of work and time. Do you have a CD?? If not...you should you should try and get job in the music industry.

[Nordamerikanischegestreif]

Easily one of my favorite fast-paced battle music. Gotta love it when it comes on during an Eq raid :twisted:

[kaijin]

Thank you for responding. It has to be one of the best songs on this site. Its an unbelievable remix. Are you planning on making more like it?? I mean that sounded like ti took alot of work and time. Do you have a CD?? If not...you should you should try and get job in the music industry.

To be honest, I don't have a cd out. I am, however, working with EgM Studios www.gamemusic.ca and OneUp studios on a project or two. I'm also looking into a job in the industry, hopefully with producing.

[Lat]

Rock on! Yet another excellent rock remix of a Castlevania song. Is it just me, or does most Castlevania sound best when done in a gothic rock style (Rize-Rude Awakening Remix, Dracula Battle)? "Heavy-metal" is the operative word here, folks. Ailsean does an excellent job on guitar, and the fairly high pitched organ style synth is excellent and compliments the guiatar, and vice versa. (Kaijin pretty much did everything outside of the guitars). The guitar solo at 1:22 is crazy, and the synth sound starting at around 2:05 is incredible. All in all an excelent remix by two talented people. Download it as soon as you possibly can. You'll be happy you've done so.

[GameBlazer]

Mmm...massive metallic tasting bloody tears...where can you go wrong? I have a friend who is a die hard fan of Castlevania, and he nearly wet himself when I played this song (Bloody Tears happens to be one of his favorite CV tunes ever)

This mix kicks some serious ass. Satisfactory Job! Nice Work!

[Rayagon]

This is a union of two masters, and it shows. Combining ambient and sweeping elements with just the damn guitar blazing away, Ailsean and Kaijin kick this old melody all over the place. I've heard Ailsean's stuff in the past, mostly of the site formerly known as VGMix, but I hadn't heard of Kaijin until I checked out his Terra mix from FF6, and realized in one instant, "hey, this guy kicks ass". My one suggestion would be the blast the opening guitar solo a bit more, but then again what do I know -- they're the virtuosos. Nice work by both artists.

[The Coop]

Nice. Very nice.

A well blended mix of ambient background synths with a driving lead guitar that is wonderfully played... all while the gothic background of the series stays lurking behind it all so that it can poke it's head out from time to time (like during the end of the song with the chorus).
Well done guys. Konami would be proud :nicework:

[FlankingLine]

Beyond words. This one is definitly in my top 5 from this site. If you don't already have it, your life is unfulfilled. Get it now.

[Rapyer2986]

I had this one around in the drive for a while, though I'm quite behind on reviews this one desevres to get some words! I really like this one. Bloody Tears is just oe of those tracks that you like instantly. I don't get much rock in my life. but can recognize when something is just plain good. Gets my vote for a must-have!

[Mahjong No OujiSama Yoshi]

Wow, this is so cool, the guitar is awsome, the BGI (BackGround Instruments) totally give the song some added flavor, the Square Wave, the Triangles 1 & 2 totally rock and the spooky organ at the end totally make this a hot song for instant download. Did I mention "WOW!"?

[Vash the Stampede]

Dudes, this is OUTSTANDING!! Out of all the Castlevania tracks throughout the site, this one's always been my undoubted favorite!! Thats a badass guitar ear you got there, this ReMix is the shit!!! :P KUDOS!!!

[Inimitable]

What I need for this post is a englishman saying something along the lines of "Bloody hell, this mix is outstanding!" Because it just wouldn't feel complete without that horrible pun.

Anyway. This mix, which I've had for quite a while now (I'm lazy), is easily in my top 10, if not my top 3. Awesome guitar work by Ailsean here, and it'd feel empty without Kaijin's work on the mix itself. I enjoy this one more than RiverCityRammstein - which is saying a lot, in my case.

You two gotta get together again for another mix.

[Flux]

I can't believe how much good music I have found at ocremix.org and in my opinion this is one of those remixes which can be considered as Good Music. I loved this music when I was playing Castlevania 2 in NES so naturally it was a positive shock to find this remix. Great job!

One of my favorites, of course. 8)

[Sunshine]

First I thought it was something british. But it Rocks.

[anclunn]

Added to my playlist.

[Phil1450]

Wow, this does rock, I can't believe Kaijin finds this to be his worst remix evar. (Check out the user reviews for Terra Black Crystal to see exactly what he said.) Anyway, sorry to hear the creator doesn't like it, but I'm diggin' it. Thanks Alisean and Kaijin!

[Alzheimers]

My first impression of this track was, When did Joe Satriani start doing remixes? I haven't heard slashing like that since the G3 tour! The guitar work in this remix is unbelievable, and if that's all there was then this would still be one of the best remixes of all time.

To complement the excellent ax grinding is a perfectly arranged synth layer, which ties the wild guitar riffs in with the tight, solid drum beat into one complete package.

I wasn't familiar with the original track before this, but going back and comparing the two you can really see how much extra work went into this. Some live instrument tracks tend to follow the original pretty closely. These guys kidnapped this melody, kicked it's ass, gave it a mohawk and tatoos, and now proudly displays it up as a challenge to any who would doubt it's coolness.

So how does it rank? Top five? Top two? Wingless's bubbleman remix "Teardrinker" and Vigilante's sweet ode to Super Metroid in "Zebesian Midnight" were alternating 1 and 2 depending on my mood. This is now definately 1A.

[DragonFireKai]

I love both of these remixers, the guitar is excellent, the arrangement is great. this is the perfect Castlevainia song. Just jaw dropping.

[SixthFlyingMan]

To make a terrible pun on the title of the mix: Hella' good. That said, It sounded really good. I'm not sure really how much I liked the melody line, but... These guys could remix "Pop goes the weasel" in this style and still have it sound awesome. Nice job, guys.

[Broken Saint]

Ailsean, you are Lord of the Guitar! And Kaijin is also among my top remixers now. Besides Terra in Black, this would have to be my favorite remix EVER! I added this to my Castlevania Remix CD. (yes, all of the tracks are cv remixes)

Well done, Ailean and Kaijin!

[BlueMage]

So freakin good, it made me want to download the original to compare it against. Meh, either way, this sounds fscking awesome. To not like this, is to truly lack good taste.

[ghaleon]

When I saw Kaijin AND Ailsean I nearly pissed my pants, and the song didn't disappoint. The only problem is some awkward harmony around 1:15, but this is still worth a download. Great work guys!

[Stalwart Jester]

Two words.

Holy FREAKING crap. o_o

Okay, that was three...but can you blame me? This mix is completely, and TOTALLY kick butt. I salute you, Ailsean, and Kaijin. You rock. SO hard.

[meccaneer]

Dude, can I hire the guitarist? The technical skill is pretty slick. I'm not a big fan of the synthesis in this one, though. That's gotta go.

[Selios]

Rock'n roll! yeah, sure, the guitar is perfect, but... hey, I've never played Castlevania (i know, i know, shame on me) but the soundtrack must be rock all the way, aint it?

[Trentdaddy]

This rocks hard, plain and simple. Something you can bang your head to, but not break your neck. It just really rocks. CV music tends to go well with rock and this is no exception.

And for the previous post, this remix was based off a NES game, which would be pretty tough to pull of rockingness on the NES (but there may have been a few "rocking out" songs on the NES. Somebody mentioned Marble Madness - Level 2 I think once). They just seem to translated to hard rock/metal/whatever it's called so well, that is why there are so many remixes in that style at OCR, from goat (powergoat.com), Megadriver (megadriver.com.br), Minibosses (minbosses.com), and Konami themselves (check out http://www.classicgaming.com/castlevania and go to the multimedia page).

[CheezSamich4Hire]

You know, people only do rock covers of Castlevania songs when remixing. But you guys did it right! This remix is badass!

[Indrik]

A. This is pure awesome. I love the work of both Ailsean and Kaijin. Nice job.

B. I was simultaneously listening to this and browsing the internet. I happened to be on the OneUp Studios forums. While reading one of Mustin's comments, I couldn't help but pay closer attention to his signature image than I usually do. Wait until about 12 seconds in and then look at this image:

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5307/cutegirlvp5.gif

You should do something with that on this forum too Mustin. :D

[Dunther]

I don't like the Castlevania games...but I love their soundtrack, and this remix is awesome!!!

9.67 / 10

[Liontamer]

This one is awesome as hell, just for being used in that local car commercial. The intro totally has that feel. ("OH SHIT, U GO FAST IN THIS PENIS CAR, NO MONEY DOWN!)

For its age, this one actually holds up pretty well, way better than I remember it, as I was only big on the intro back in the day. The phasing synth in the middle handling the melody could have been more graceful in terms of the sequencing, but was a great concept. Pretty nice stuff that was very interpretive and creative.

[Txai]

Definitely one of the best collabs I have heard.

[Kaleb.G]

This one is awesome as hell, just for being used in that local car commercial.
What? I have to see this!

And this remix is still great for being as old as it is. I really like the style of it. Reminds me of a high-production doujin arrange.

[JP_Wright]

Honestly the best CV remix I've yet heard. Blew me away when I found this -- screams on a good sound system.

[Sir_Downunder]

Downloaded this long ago, still love it to this day. The gothic backgrounds stays to to CV series, while the guitar kicks seven different types of ass.

Awesome stuff here by Ailsean and Kaijin. :nicework:

[OA]

Pretty good stuff, considering the age, it's exceptional. There's a reason that several of the old school guys have such a monster reputation, and tracks like this reinforce the notion. Great stuff.

[bjnartowt]

In addition to everything said so far, I would like to point out how I really like how the remixes of "Bloody Tears" seem to ascend in urgency: Alexander Prievert's probably being the least-urgent, and DigiE's "Castle of Tears" having a "the curse is about to kill me...hurry up!!!" kind of feel to it. This would be middle of the road for me, in terms of "urgency". I like the choir at the end...it sounds like the familiar "horrible night to have a curse" is about to fall.

[Phonetic Hero]

This totally sounds like something straight out of an over-the-top ludicrous and awesome power metal band like Edguy or Hammerfall or Angra's earlier stuff. Dig it, as I was an avid power metaller back when I was a (younger) chap, and would listen whilst creating far too much mayhem in the far too conservative reaches of my homelands. This would've fit into the rule-breaking ("Don't spank us too hard!") playlist very nicely, with the rich harmonies and powerful chords, choir/pad breaks, running synth lines, and ultra-high guitar leads and harmonixx. The only thing missing is some machine gun drums, but I don't think those were invented till like 2009 or something right?

[GravitySuitCollector]

This is from 2001...? Really?

Great remix. The guitar sounds great, The synths in the background back it up well, and the drums and the second guitar keep the beat. The only thing that I could pick out was some panning with the drums could have been done without (listen for the crash answer/response from right to left). Very small. Great metal remix from you guys. :)