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Final Fantasy - Random Encounter (Album Preview)


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Greetings! We are very proud to present some of the work we have done for the Final Fantasy 1 Metal tribute album. We began recruiting and working on this album in January of 2010. Our goal was to cover the bulk of the entire original soundtrack in a progressive metal style. Recently, we've opened the GBA remake soundtrack as well for multi-genre remixes. What we present to you now is a nearly 15 minute preview of our work, the album's artwork, and a few new forum signatures. Please support our project by clicking the "Share on facebook / twitter" buttons below, which will link people to this thread.

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The preview features works in progress from the following artists:

AMT - Dungeon

blackguitar - Medley (Shop, Floating Castle, Menu)

Bonkers - The Prelude

Brandon Strader - Airship

Chernabogue feat. Brandon Strader - Dead Music

chthonic - Church

Demonstray - Opening Theme & Undersea Shrine

The Dual Dragons - Battle Scene

Knight of the Round - Cornelia Castle

M-H - Temple of Chaos

Midgarian Sky - Matoya's Cave

NintenJoe64 - Victory

Riders - Gurgu Volcano

TheoConfidor - Ship

I recommend checking out the video above, but you can also...

Download the MP3 Version!

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We are trying to complete the album by mid-December.

After the songs are completed, we will seek album release opportunities.

Thank you from everyone involved in this Random Encounter.

Please tell people about this preview with

the facebook/twitter buttons below.

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FORUM SIGS!

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Wallpaper: http://www.bstrader.net/finalfantasy/ffwallpaper.jpg (1920x1080)

More in the next post... too many images!

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  • 3 months later...

I hope it doesn't hurt that I am reviving this thread, but the album is coming to a close now and I just wanted to let people know. There's only a few artists working to put the finishing touches on a few songs. The final "cover" is ready, but we're thinking it may be a double album. Two discs with about 45 minutes each. It has surpassed the length of 1 disc so making it a 2 disc release is pretty much the only option.

The cut-off is February 15th, and most of the files are already ready to send in to the OCR Staff. Hopefully it will come sooner than that date. We've got a bunch of artwork pages sliced out of two nearly 5000 square pixel paintings, some of which could have some text added to them, such as artist text, etc.

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I'm happy to see that as the cover rather than the piece with the various characters. Not that the other picture was bad, but I think the Chaos one is more slick.

The "Final Fantasy" text is a little hard to read though, IMO. Have you tried it just blue, sans red gradient?

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  • 2 months later...

The album has been SUBMITTED on December 1st, 2011! I'm very excited!! Here's the final line-up and cover art.

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SIDE ONE

101 - Bonkers - The First Story (Prelude)

102 - The Dual Dragons - The Beginning Of A Legacy (Battle Scene) (feat. Brandon Strader)

103 - Knight of the Round - The Power of Cornelia (Cornelia Castle)

104 - Brandon Strader, Chernabogue - Requiem for a Dying World (Dead Music)

105 - Josh Whelchel, Ryan C. Connelly - Onward (The Travelin' Song)

106 - Brandon Strader - Earthrise (Church - Main Theme)

107 - Sir Jordanius - Epic Win (Battle Scene, Victory!)

108 - AMT - The Crawl (Dungeon)

109 - Bonkers - Roaming... Please Wait (Main Theme, Gurgu Volcano)

110 - Benjamin Briggs - Just Passing Through (Town)

111 - Brandon Strader - The Crumbling Facade (Ruined Castle) (feat. halc)

SIDE TWO

201 - mithius, Brandon Strader - Sentient Machines (The Floating Castle)

202 - Midgarian Sky - Secrets Abound (Matoya's Cave)

203 - Brandon Strader - The White Rider (Airship)

204 - blackguitar - Gurgling Desert Pond (Gurgu Volcano)

205 - Brandon Strader - Omerta (Battle Scene)

206 - TheoConfidor - If I Could Sail The World (Sailing Ship) (feat. Eric Golub)

207 - Izkemia, Claudio Lavin feat. Brandon Strader - Dance of Descent (Medley)

208 - M-H - The Caerulean Ruins (Chaos Temple)

209 - blackguitar - Fierce Fairground Fight (Shop Theme, Floating Castle, Menu Screen)

210 - Knight of the Round, Brandon Strader - The Last Story (Ending Theme)

Length: 91 minutes

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  • 8 months later...

I think Devastus was on for that, but then his pipes broke and he had to move out for a while. Since it was from the remakes and not the ORIGINAL NES ff1, I felt it was ok to not rush out a cover of it... We did cover every NES theme and SEVERAL remake/MSX/GBA/PSX what have you themes.. :-P Izkemia even substantially covered the Save Music and other bits and pieces, and their cohesive medley passed the panel, so we're very happy about that.

Quick notes:

+Q1 2012, specifically anywhere from Feb to April

+Gave the album to Nobuo Uematsu. He smiled, bowed, and said thank you!

+OCR pimped ff1 and ff2 at the panel!

-Didn't get anything signed by Uematsu. :'(

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