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Hello everyone, I'm not sure if it's the right forum or not, but I wanted to share with this community an album I made, composed of heavily inspired VGM songs remixed in an atmospheric black metal style. You can find it here : Track List : 00:00 Pandemonium (FF9/FF2 - Pandemonium) 08:28 Espers (FF6 - Terra's theme) 17:09 A Scent of Lavender (Pokemon - Lavender Town) 25:12 Endless Battles (Age of Empire 2 - Pudding Pie/Pork Parts) 33:42 Eternal Rain (FF9 - Freya's theme/Bluemecia) 41:04 White SeeD (FF8 - Succession of Witches) 51:55 Old Knights (Knight Online - Intro) 01:00:00 Cetra's Memories (FF7 - You can hear the cry of the planet) 01:07:07 Dreaded Mist (Silent Hill - Lisa's theme) I've got a lot of support from this channel and I'm really happy about it. I wonder what you guys might think about it. I'm not sure if one song can be submitted to OC-remix due to the lenght and sometimes repetition due to the AtmoBlack genre. Thanks for your attention !

Also, hopefully this isn't derailing, but since @Wassup Thunder mentioned it, I wanted to share some of my favorite examples of atmospheric black metal or similar styles for anyone who may not be familiar with it. if you're looking to dive deeper into the genre, or would like some context for listening to Black SeeD's album, here's some good entry points!

YESSSSS!! As an aficionado of atmospheric black metal, I've been dying to hear this genre on the site for a long time. As far as I'm aware, there's only one track in this style that's been submitted and approved thus far. I feel like I have a good ear for how the genre is supposed to be produced and arranged at a professional level. At the time of writing this, I've listened to the first three songs with the intention of checking the rest out shortly, and I love what I've heard. Each of the three arrangements were dynamic without relying on pure repetition to fill out space and intense without compromising dynamics. From the two sources I was already familiar with (Terra and Lavender Town) you kept the core of the original melodies close and recognizable while still taking them in a unique, transformative direction. Your mixing style tends to bury the lead melodies beneath the rhythm guitars and drums, which may register to some as a production error, but as someone who has spent a lot of time with this genre, I would argue emphatically that this is definitely a feature, not a bug. The wall-of-sound is a defining characteristic of atmospheric black metal where the melody is often alluded to rather than explicitly placed at the forefront, but I have no trouble making out the connections to the original sources. I can't speak for the rest of staff, but in my personal opinion, I would be thrilled to hear any of these songs pass through our submissions queue and have a chance to give it a more critical ear as a submissions evaluator, and see what the rest of the judges think I would need to do a source check to sign off on track #1, but at the very least I would strongly suggest submitting Espers and A Scent of Lavender to the site. I'm keen to hear the rest of this soon and I'm glad you chose to share this project with us. Much love for bringing an underrepresented genre to OCR!!

This is some beautiful work, really enjoyed listening to these! I think I need to look up more AtmoBlack music now. I'm no expert on the submission process, but long remixes definitely have a chance. If you wanna ask for evaluation on a specific song, you should learn all you need from the "What is evaluation" post in the forum! Regardless of whether or not you get a song on OCR, you've accomplished something great with this!

I'm the same, both sources are really good. But surprisingly might work in a key change or something. Ideas are endless lol.