ReMix: Demon's Crest 'Phalanx(PossessedbyHumans)'
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- Game: Demon's Crest (Capcom, 1994, SNES)
- ReMixer(s): Steve Pordon
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- Posted: 2002-09-13, evaluated by the judges
Steve Pordon defined persistence with this Demon's Crest ReMix. He's revised it, based in part off feedback from yours truly, at least a dozen times, and the end result is much more solid than the initial work. I don't know how many months it's been, but I believe over half a year has gone by; at least over four months. That, to me, is persistence. I'd be the first to tell you that if I'm not happy with something of my own or I don't think it's quite "there", I can play around with it for maybe . . . a day . . . but afterwards end up deleting many of my experiments or early efforts. It takes discipline and grit to stick with something and improve upon it in steps over time, and to me it's a skill I essentially lack but still admire. Now, the end result isn't Steve's best effort to date, an honor I'd probably reserve for his barebones, elegant FF6 piece, but it's VERY heavy, in less an industrial sense and more a speed metal sense of the adjective. If you crave subtlety and have a general distaste for cacophonic orgies of rapid-fire drums and tortured guitars, this probably isn't your bag. But if that perks your interest, come on in. The biggest restructuring of the song over time has been with the drums, which were originally more artificial-sounding and did not yield themselves to the rigorous paces this track puts its rhythm section through. In addition to hyper, machine-gun drums, the guitars are essentially measured, controlled chaos, with triplet riffs on top of dual-panned power chords on top of a moving bassline . . . like I said, subtle it is not, but it certainly has a menacing, satanic ring to it - appropriate considering the game's protagonist and themes. My absolute favorite bit, though it is brief, is the downright sepulchral shout at 0'41 - I wouldn't have minded more of this sort of accoutrement to balance out the dominating guitar presence, in fact. All in all, a ReMix that's been a long time coming, shows much improvement over the original, and - to fans of the genre (important qualifier) - should provide a welcome treat.
Discussion: Latest 12 comments/reviews; view the - DragonAvenger on October 26, 2009
OA;284974 wrote: When everything is fast and heavy, none of it is.
And I think a little more melody would be nice.
Heh. You change any one of these factors, and it's pretty much no longer death metal.
I definitely agree with you, though. That was always my beef with death metal (and that's coming from a metal-head).
P.S.- When it's all Cookie Monster vocals, "none of it is." Ha ha.
- IndyCovaHart on March 22, 2008
And I think a little more melody would be nice. Production is decent, and I think you captured a good, super-old school death metal vibe, but there's a reason this style of music didn't really get big until the Gothenburg era, and the aforementioned suggestions are all part of that.
- OA on June 19, 2007
- DarkCecil13 on December 25, 2006
Paragon wrote: And the vocal sample is cool, where'd you get that from?
My microphone. :P
-steve
- Legion303 on July 2, 2003
And the vocal sample is cool, where'd you get that from?
- Paragon on June 30, 2003
I had heard an earlier version of this song, because I requested for demon's crest remix earlier, and yay! finally we have one in the overclocked archive. :D
I like it, it differs from many other remixes out there. It starts of with in-game music and go over to a hard-rock-metal thing with pantera like drums.
I think this is a great remix, original compared to alot of remixes out there. The game itself is great just as well, with plenty of good remixing possibilities. (If you can take a hint :wink: )
I give it a 4 out of 5.
- Illaminus on September 14, 2002
- EdgeCrusher on September 13, 2002
Max Damage wrote:
Not this, which seems to be the Marilyin (sp?) Manson school of goth. Now, I have eclectic musical taste. I have Rammstein side by side with Ayumi Hamasaki in my playlist, so you can be sure I'll listen to just about anything, but.. Well, I just don't like this much.
Ugh. Manson just plain sucks these days. My influences for this were death metal bands. The chord structures come right from Pestilence.
As I just mentioned in another post, I'm doing a Demon's Crest medley in a black metal style that may be more to your liking--still fast, but it will also have choir and orchestral parts.
-steve
- Legion303 on September 13, 2002
- NSR::Neko on September 13, 2002
Not this, which seems to be the Marilyin (sp?) Manson school of goth. Now, I have eclectic musical taste. I have Rammstein side by side with Ayumi Hamasaki in my playlist, so you can be sure I'll listen to just about anything, but.. Well, I just don't like this much.
Okay, this is shameless self-pimping, but I'm hoping someone can do another Demons Crest track, in the spirit of the original version. My request lies on this thread. Read and beware, mortals!
- Max Damage on September 13, 2002
Well, this really ain't my thing. I've heard various incarnations of this mix, and djpretzel's right - it *has* vastly improved, and there's definitely quality here that some will appreciate. Just not me.
- orkybash on September 13, 2002
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