Liontamer ⚖️ Posted May 23 Posted May 23 Artist Name: Audio Mocha, AnimeVivi, EndlessRepeat For a while, I had Snake Eater in my head but as a funky kind of tune. I've been more active on TikTok the past few months with performing little snippets of game music and I thought to finally do Snake Eater. I whipped up a backing track for it in Band In A Box and put out a little video, not thinking much about it. Little did I expect that it ended up being my biggest video ever by a massive shot and ended up getting tons of requests to make a full version, which was something I was more than happy to do since I absolutely love Metal Gear Solid 3! The one funny part that I didn't expect but then came to realize is how much people would associate my take on Snake Eater with Persona 5. Even though I love Persona, I had never made the connection with my version of Snake Eater so when I recorded it, all I thought was "this is what MGS3 would sound like if it was a Blaxploitation movie like Shaft". When everyone online started drawing parallels to Persona, I started to see it and then started getting images in my head of a young Solid Snake infiltrating Big Boss' Palace and this being the music that played in the dungeon. These visions are what finally got me to realize the perfect title for this remix, since before, my project name for it was just Funky Snake Eater so in a huge way, the community helped me get a clearer vision of my track. With the pressure of releasing something soon and with a few VGM gigs coming, particularly VGMCon 2025, I thought to myself "I've never done a live song release before, let's try that out". It especially helped that since I've gotten into the habit of running my live VGM shows out of my laptop and lightly managing the sound from there so every performance actually ends up recorded anyway. What made it specially fun is that I'd be performing with two friends of mine, AnimeVivi and EndlessRepeat so I fleshed out a more comprehensive arrangement of Snake Eater to include more of the calls and responses from the original song for them to perform with me. We had a great time during the gig and despite a few hiccups, I ended up with a pretty good set of both audio stems and MIDI play data to work with. After doing a bit of cleanup and feedback from GameGrooves (since by pure luck, they were having the Summer Of Sony for 2025 and Snake Eater was eligible for it), I finally have our recording of our live performance of The Snake Eater's Palace, Outer Heaven! Hope you enjoy! Games & Sources Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Norihiko Hibino
prophetik music ⚖️ Posted June 5 Posted June 5 this was a fun concert live. beat hits pretty quickly, and the clavinet is perfect for this style. it's got a nice tight shuffle right away, and it's immediately recognizable as the original. the switch to cymbals at 0:31 is nice. i wouldn't have minded if the lead line coming into the eponymous "snake eater" line at 0:55 was more in front. there's a solo section after this, and i really like the lyrical approach that you took to it. 1:30 goes right back to the tune, and trucks through a more stylized version of the melodic lead. there's a bit of an outro starting at 2:13, and it's done. i couldn't help but wish there was a bit of a drop section at 1:30 to help stretch the track out a bit, but what's here is fun and fresh. an easy vote =) YES
Liontamer ⚖️ Posted June 9 Author Posted June 9 Glad to also see some of your VGM COM set this year, Daniel! The fun easily shines through here with these spirited performances! Short and sweet vote with how straightforward this call is. YES
Hemophiliac ⚖️ Posted June 10 Posted June 10 We were there! Sweet to hear this one live on the day, and really cool to see it now as a submission. The live recording came out really well. The drums in particular are crystal clear. Endless is invisible in the best way possible, supporting without overpowering. My only nitpick is the guitar could be louder, but really this not a problem. Fun performance, absolutely fresh take. Easy vote. YES
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