[Ginnsu]

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon 'Rude Awakening'

While far from my favorite genre, a lot of work must have gone into this. I don't care for the soud of the drums, but they are very well put together. The guitars are amazing, but then again, I'm sure that was obvious. I think the part that gets me about these drums, is because of the panning that seperates the guitars, they seem to stand out to much. When I listen to a piece of music like this, I don't expect to be able to identify every beat indifidually, and so easily. Or maybe thats not it at all. I'm not sure. Great work Rize.

[Ryan8bit]

Well I heard this over at vgmix back when it was up and going. So I'm eagerly awaiting something different by Rize. Of course, this piece rocks and it is what made me download Legendary Strings at vgmix as well.

I think it's good to hear drums and not have them be lost in the shuffle. These drums are more aggressive, so the snares and cymbals are going to stand out. And of course, the guitar is very good; the quality is good, the playing is pretty good, the solo and improv are very cool. I'm just curious, Rize, how long have you been playing?

[danny B]

Good God.

I usually never have the energy to review songs. Jesus man, finally, more real metal.

The drums are pretty simplistic, but fit the style perfectly. Great use of ride cymbal bell in the middle portions, gives it a great late 80's groove. The mixdown is great, the different instruments all complement each other greatly, and guitars scream cleanly into each other.

As a drummer, It's my nature to think I'm a better than anyone else. That's how we are. I would have made the drums a bit crazier, but I think in this context, they played an integral role in creating a cohesive work.

Please, please keep making more metal.

-SM

[JTD121]

I don't know what's wrong, but I can only downoad a 21 second clip of the song...And it has that 'nbsp;, 0kbps' thing....Is there something wrong with the server or my computer?

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

EDIT: Okay...Must have been a cache thing, it's downloading now.

EDIT 2: Grr...Now it's downloading a 2:37 clip....I'll have to fluch the cache anyway...

[goat]

This song was good to hear after the frustration I had over the weekend beating Circle of the Moon. I was playing it on a tv (have an adapter for gameboy advance) and got mega-frustrated at the Battle Arena rooms (or whatever it is)......never did pass the Battle Arena section but luckily it's not necessary to beat the game. Unfortunately, my DVD copy of Big Lebowski that someone gave as a birthday gift was not so lucky...in my frustration I mangled the case with the dvd inside....oops.
I like this song. I like the way the drums flow with the verse...I also heard this on VGMix and it was a motivator to get my own first metal remix up here. Rize has some mean metal crunch skills and I look forward to more...I did not like the repeated high root note (done by a synth in the real song) as I don't think distorted guitar can convey the coolness of that note as well as a synth, but everything else was tight and great fun. Hopefully all of us metal remixers will make popular this most-worthy genre of music ;)

[Rize]

Man, OCR is taking a beating right now.

JTD: does your player support variable bitrate songs? My MP3 is variable bitrate (unless DJP doesn't allow them and resampled it into a fixed bitrate).

Ryan: I've been playing guitar for 9 years now, but I really stopped progressing after about five years and have only marginally perfected what abilities I had then since. I've been playing drums for about the same, which is why my drums are rather distinct (not saying they're great, but I think they're kinda fun to listen to at least).

I love a good metal/rock remix, so it's only natural that this is what I intend to do next. It's possible I may throw a little synth in from time to time, but that's not really my thing and I probably wouldn't be very good at it.

Goat: glad to here I inspired someone. I would think that Ailsean's Bloody Hell or Terra in Black would be more inspiring to guitarists, but I suppose my tracks are a little heavier.

[Vortex RuneCutter]

Rize, I like your style. I downloaded this remix when VGMIX.com was up (seems like months ago, funny that we get it here now...)

I too am eager to hear your future work.

V-Man

[LotusChild]

I must say, after comparing this to technomancy, I must say they're both different styles, and I love them both. The countermelody and counterpoints were put in beautifully. I think it'd be better to hear the bass clearer... you sort of just hid it within there. Must agree, it's put great to the late 80's style as well as the 8-bit chips of technomancy.

Yeah, I know thats a different mixer, but they're the same song, right? There ya go, then.

[Rize]

Technomancy is what first inspired me to do this mix. Shael Riley uploaded an incomplete version to VGMix by accident.

I heard it and decided that he had befouled a good song :) so I set out to do better. I've since heard his final version, and it's quite good. Especially after beating mine own to death in the mixing stages.

By the way...

if you got this song off of VGMix previously, download the OCR Version too. It has a slightly different EQ which you may prefer.

[Jarrid]

I've got one word for this..Excellent.

One of the best guitar remixes I've heard in a while, thanks a lot for this song.