![]() More instrumental variation and better attention to dynamics helped this one improve though. The progressive influences helped, but more of them would really help push this over the top. The drum writing in the originals was very steady and beat-keeping, whereas that was usually not the case here. I'm still on the fence about the overall instrumentation approach being different enough from the sources, which are all heavy rock, but it got better during the second half. The structure was fairly similar to the previous submission, but I was glad to hear more personalization of the arrangement this time around. Solo at 6:59 was rockin' the casbah, but the sheer volume got a bit grating on headphones. What were those clapping noises at 4:30, 4:33, 4:44, 4:47 & 4:49? Was that hissing underneath the guitar from 5:21-5:30? Not quite sure what that was, but didn't necessarily sound intentional not a huge deal. On the plus side though, the instruments all sounded pretty clean.īass at 3:41 sounded odd in the back briefly seemingly didn't quite match up right with the melody. I agreed with TO that the textures don't quite gel right per se, and it's difficult to articulate, but the overall mixing is ok even if it could be adjusted. During 2:50, things started clicking together more with the timing. There's some slight timing issue as well which prevent the total delivery from sounding smooth (most exaggerated example, piano playing late at 1:12), but it's not too bad. The drum writing's aight, but the writing tends to be too plain it's probably more a matter of the production, as a beefier snare would solve most of the problems. Once things get moving at :25, the drums are just buried and the tone on 'em is really weak just doesn't sound properly balanced or fill out the track. Yeah, I'm pretty much feeling TO's conclusions. Quake 2 Soundtrack - 7 "Quad Machine", 2 "Operation Overlord", 3 "Rage", 4 "Kill Ratio" & 9 "Descent Into Cerberon" Twice in the song (at 2:00 and 7:18) I quote the first bit from Doom's famous E3M1 melody (which itself was "borrowed" from Pantera's Mouth for War except Bobby Prince's is much better), because we wouldn't have Quake without Doom.Īs a final note, this song is heavy and loud and full of bass. Some of the extra parts added include compressing some of the themes together, for instance the rhythm parts from Rage now serve as backgrounds for the piano melody taken from the middle of Quad Machine (at 1:24). The guitar solo in this section is also an interpretation of the Operation Overlord theme which is stated literally by the piano in the following section. Not to say it's not a fantastic song to allude to, but the effect was initially coincidental. The piano interlude at 4:30 is a very liberal interpretation of the Operation Overlord theme that unintentionally sounds just like Dream Theater's (my largest inspiration musically along with Nobuo, Mitsuda, and Yamaoka) Trial of Tears. On lead guitar, as well as mixing and recording, is my dad who contributed the frosting on the cake at 6:59 until the end. My brother is playing the rhythm guitar and bass and contributed (among other things) the kick ass bass line underneath the "chorus" at 2:51 and again at 6:22. The piano is of course a real piano, which always sounds nice while the strings and synth are courtesy of my wonderful Korg. The string, synth and piano are all new to this mix. I'm playing the drums, strings, synth, and piano parts. Nonetheless, I was inspired to redo the song in my normal composing style - Progressive Metal! This verison of Stroggicide has a lot more going on in terms of arrangement and instrumentation. That's what was intended although not the goal of OCRemix. The last submission was rejected because it was too similar to the original material. Misc.: Here's is the new and improved version of Stroggicide. The music was done by Sonic Mayhem and was quite good, hence the compulsion to honor it in ReMix form. Info: Quake 2 was, of course, Id software's glorious FPS from wayback in 1997. ![]() Songs: Quad Machine, Operation Overlord, Rage, Kill Ratio, and Decent into CerberonĪdd.
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