[Disco Dan]

Castlevania 2 'No Flesh Allowed'

Lemme break this down for you:

a a' b a

That being said,

a) main theme done heavily in 6/8 time

a') main theme done heavily in 4/4 time

b)solo section (because there has to be a solo section (though slightly out of tune)

a) see above

Relatively simple, short, repetitive piece. Not my style, though the guitar work is done very well. It's almost a shame because some of the bass and drum work drowns out what would otherwise be some technically exquisite guitar work. Check it out. Might be your cup of meat.

DC

[Joe Redifer]

I was just gonna post this review, but Disco Dan beat me to it by one minute. Oh well. :)

I like this. It does sound like Castlevania meets Lords of Thunder with a little bit of muffled Yngwie Malmsteen "Far Beyond the Sun" thrown in. I think it's done pretty well. The original tune lends itself to being redone in this style. If you like guitar, then you should have already downloaded this!

[Legion303]

*Eargasm*

This sounds like something out of Metallica ca. 1983. My sole complaint is that the drum patterns are too basic and loop-ish sounding. Nice work overall.

-steve

[Aimaina Hikari]

Bottom Line: Solid Castlevania guitar mix.

The Good: The guitar work is fantastic, if you're into that kind of thing. Even if it is repetitive, the melody is really catchy.

The Bad: The drum and bass really need to be redone with better instruments, and the melody needs to progress a bit more.

[bloodydust]

metallica? not bloody likely. i'm very strongly reminded of iron maiden, however. especially the intro, which SORT OF reminds me of where eagles dare.

this thing is as close as it gets to maiden covering a CV song.

ironically, right after i hear this song it goes to another one on my playlist - IM's transylvania.

[edited to make more sense]

[Legion303]

Originally Posted by bloodydust

metallica? not bloody likely.

Listen to that solo again. Although I'll grant that the slower parts do sort of resemble Maiden.

-steve

[goat]

Cool! An argument over whether it sounds more like metallica or maiden! I was at an iron maiden concert a couple years ago (2000 or 2001) in which Bruce Dickinson went on a rant against MTV and the current crop of teeny bop music, and then they broke into awesome metal...with huge burning props and fog and lasers.....good stuff.....I was much more into metallica than iron maiden, but there are definately things in this song that metallica don't really like to do (arpeggio melodies), and the guitar tone is snarly instead of full crunch which is more old metallica/maiden. That solo was just a convulsive spaz, and I lucked out at the end to discover a note I was repeatedly hitting had a good harmonic squeal, so you can almost hear me think "aha!" as I hit it again hard and let it ring to end it I hope to improve my recording skills to address the comments about the bass and drums. Or I could just make the guitars louder...thanks for the comments

[Ryan8bit]

Well it's gonna sound like either Maiden or Metallica since they were partially influenced by Maiden.

Anyways, cool stuff. A neat interpretation of the mansion theme (I think that song is full of untapped possibilities). I did one, once, pretty much the same style although no real reinterpretation. But I like this, despite some claims to repetition.

Like you, I know how it can be hard to get guitars sounding right. Most people use electronic samples to make their songs, and of course that is gonna be easier.

[AvangionQ]

I always did like Castlevania 2 music, despite its repeating melodic loops ...
This remix does Castlevania justice and I *did* enjoy the heavy guitar theme ...

[EdgeCrusher]

that is not a kirk hammet solo, maybe a sloppy dave mustaine from metallica in 83, but definately not kirk.