Chernabogue Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 http://www.vampirevariations.com | VGMdb | Facebook Vampire Variations is a tribute album to the very first Castlevania game released in September 1986. Our aim is to celebrate the series' 25th Anniversary by arranging the whole soundtrack from the original game, while including various references to other themes from later games. The project started about one year ago and is set to be released on October 31st. Musicians and artists from several different places joined the project: come listen to OverClocked ReMix-ers (Guifrog, Brandon Strader, The Dual Dragons, Dj Mokram, etc.), Dwelling of Duels participants, The Shizz legends or simply newcomers to the VGM scene! While the album has a strong rock/metal core, the variety of musical genres goes from Jazz and Acoustic to Orchestra and Electronic pieces. The album also comes with astonishing art from artist FoxxDragon and his team who did an amazing job in recreating the atmosphere of the Demon Castle. Be sure to give it a listen on Halloween! What a horrible night to have a curse... Act 1: Nightfall and Tragedy 01 Stemage ft. Chris from Arm Cannon - Prolapse (Prologue) 02 The Dual Dragons - Flames of Passion (Heart of Fire) 03 VikingGuitar - Swamp Ripples (Stalker) 04 Lidawg - Enough Time to Dance (Out of Time) 05 Dj Mokram - Heartbeat Shift (Medley - Heart of Fire, The Silence of the Daylight, Ecclesia, An Empty Tome) 06 Guifrog - Wild Night (Stalker) 07 Brandon Strader - Vampire's Kiss (Vampire Killer) 08 Daemon9623 - What a Horrible Night... (Black Night) 09 Bonkers ft. VikingGuitar - The Gate of Nightmares (Medley - Poison Mind, Nothing to Lose, Heart of Fire, Out of Time, Black Night, Vampire Killer, Underground, Player Out, Voyager, Wicked Child, Stalker, Poison Mind -Another Nightmare-, Game Over) Interlude: Prayers of Midnight 10 Chernabogue - Underworld Pulse (Underground) 11 SuperGuitarBros. - Of Whips and Strings (Medley - Prologue, Vampire Killer, Poison Mind, Heart of Fire, Voyager) Act 2: The Hellfire Symphony 12 Daemon9623 - At the Gates (Prologue) 13 VikingGuitar - Ballad of the Gears (Out of Time) 14 Hat - Heartburn to Death (Heart of Fire) 15 Bonkers - Children of the Wicked (Wicked Child) 16 The Dual Dragons - Edge of Darkness (Walking on the Edge) 17 Omigadrive ft. VikingGuitar- Veneficus Mens Mentis (Variations on a Theme of Simon) (Medley - Poison Mind, Theme of Simon Belmont) 18 Chernabogue - 'And Now, the Finale' (Medley - Nothing to Lose, Illusionary Dance, Black Night, Player Out, Poison Mind) 19 Existence Zero - Path of the Voyager (Voyager) Note to mods: Sorry if this is the wrong place to promote a such album, but since it has several artists from OCR, I thought I'd better post it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleJCrb Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Awesome album is AWESOME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Album of the decade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Looking forward to hearing the final product Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Congrats! I hope it's good. Like I said though, from the trailer, I really wasn't crazy about a lot of the guitar tone. Some sounded awesome, like Brandon Strader and I think Bonkers' track. Most of the other guitar tracks....not so much. My opinion anyway. I'll have to hear the full album of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragnBreth Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 This looks awesome. Can't wait to download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONKERS Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 This. Will. Be. Awesome. Even though i've already listened to it a billion and 1 times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chernabogue Posted October 25, 2011 Author Share Posted October 25, 2011 A quick news for people interested in hearing some tracks from the album: the Nitro Game Injection podcast will feature 5 songs from the album on its special Halloween show on October 30th (Sunday)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 This thang is gonna drop like a hot tamale in just 2 short days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravitySuitCollector Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Awesome. I'm looking forward to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chernabogue Posted October 29, 2011 Author Share Posted October 29, 2011 Forget what I said: Kyle's show will feature not five, but SIX tracks from the album! Go listen to it tomorrow evening on KNGI! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omigadrive Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 For those who want an exact release time right now... Midnight, US Central Time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 In other words 1am est, right? EST -- where time matters EDIT: I just want to point out if this had released in EST, I would have had it for 20 minutes already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Downloading now. If you disappoint me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadiePC Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I tried to grab it, but all I'm getting is an invalid archive. Why do you taunt me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelCityOutlaw Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I tried to grab it, but all I'm getting is an invalid archive.Why do you taunt me? Same, on both FLAC and MP3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I think they had a last minute problem with one of the files, and then people probably went to bed. Please be patient and I'm sure they will have it up and working today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleJCrb Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 There were some file problems. The archives are back for your downloading pleasure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpretzel Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 You seem to be charging $8 for a physical. We had similar issues w/ Harmony of a Hunter doing this, as it's basically selling the album & profiting from it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I wouldn't have been cool with them selling the albums for profit.. and these knuckleheads printed up like a $60 poster for the album to put in a store, among other things.. I wouldn't be surprised if they funneled all the cash back into printing and marketing costs and still came up short. I will ask them because I want to know myself, I remember them saying they were going to print a pricy double-album with all the artwork pages though, and those are much more expensive than a regular single disc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omigadrive Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 The "sale" thing is just a miscommunication problem at the moment that will be sorted very soon, sorry about that. Physical copies are going to be made based on demand simply for the joy people get from a physical version of an album and I have to stress, there is definitely no profit to be gained from them. Anything after recouping costs for the creation of the physical copies will be donated to charity as discussed a long time before the album was released between the people involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleJCrb Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I've commented the image out of the site's code for now until the guys can rethink how to present this. I'm all for physical copies, but the way it had been presented raised a few concerns on my end. Maybe Mustin or other album sellers can provide some insight on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpretzel Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Thanks, guys. We're just a lot more comfortable pimping stuff that's either free, or $$$ AND licensed through Harry Fox, etc. IMO, the only surefire way to handle covering costs of album printing is to sell at the ACTUAL cost per album, and not above, meaning prices more like $2-4, or to do a kickstarter, cut if off, and ONLY make that many copies, divided evenly among contributors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omigadrive Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Considering the CD would come with a poster to boot I imagine it would actually end up closer to $8. In truth, I feel that we're far more likely to lose money on this than anything else but we've pretty much expected that from the start. I've already went further than I had to out of pocket to promote the album where possible and I don't expect nor mind not seeing that money again. Either way, sorry about the mix up concerning all that. Now people can talk about the actual album ... Hat anybody? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleJCrb Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Hat's track is like the best thing ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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