Brandon Strader Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 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. 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! 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. FORUM SIGS! Wallpaper: http://www.bstrader.net/finalfantasy/ffwallpaper.jpg (1920x1080) More in the next post... too many images! Quote
Bahamut Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 This actually sounds quite interesting. Looking forward to it! Who was the one who ripped off the intro to Helloween's "I Want Out"? Quote
OceansAndrew Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 that warrior is running like a little bitch in every fight Quote
Chernabogue Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 Yeah, preview time! Great job, Brandon! Quote
M-H Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 Who other than I would ham-fistedly cram an ancient Helloween riff into a FF arrangement? Quote
Chernabogue Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 Who other than I would ham-fistedly cram an ancient Helloween riff into a FF arrangement? This was the best idea ever. Quote
Mirby Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 Holy crap. That was epic. Although Joe's take on the victory theme made me laugh a bit. Still, can't wait, man! Quote
Brandon Strader Posted October 2, 2010 Author Posted October 2, 2010 I'm glad ya'll like it! This is the only preview that was planned since the timeline for the album was only a year and we're ending soon. I personally would love to have it released on OCR, but time will tell how well that works out! Quote
Brandon Strader Posted January 23, 2011 Author Posted January 23, 2011 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. Quote
Otakatt Posted January 24, 2011 Posted January 24, 2011 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? Quote
KyleJCrb Posted January 24, 2011 Posted January 24, 2011 To add, it is pretty sweet, but the "Various Artists" bit is unnecessary, I think. holy crap comma abuse in that sentence Quote
Brandon Strader Posted January 24, 2011 Author Posted January 24, 2011 I'll try it just blue, or maybe with a subtle blue gradient with the higher blue being a brighter highlight. Thanks for the suggestions too, that "Various Artists" part may be changed with "An OverClocked ReMix Album" Quote
Brandon Strader Posted April 15, 2011 Author Posted April 15, 2011 The album has been SUBMITTED on December 1st, 2011! I'm very excited!! Here's the final line-up and cover art. 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 Quote
knighTeen87 Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 finally a FF1 arrange album! Can't wait to hear it! Quote
Mirby Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 Where's the final boss theme? And what's going on with this, might I ask? Quote
Chernabogue Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 Where's the final boss theme? And what's going on with this, might I ask? It was dropped as far as I know. And it's coming Q1 2012, according to djp/Brandon. Quote
Mirby Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 Blast, that theme is awesome. Oh well. Can't wait! Quote
Brandon Strader Posted January 9, 2012 Author Posted January 9, 2012 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.. 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. :'( Quote
Frederic Petitpas Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 Yeah! I'm glad to see the direction you took with this project and it'll be a pleasure to listen to when it's all done. I like the fake embedded too. Quote
Brandon Strader Posted January 10, 2012 Author Posted January 10, 2012 You like the fake embed eh? In that case, I'll use it once more! I'll just leave this funny little youtube link right there... Quote
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