Battle
Song: Cyaron’s Gate
“Cyaron’s Gate” will always hold a special place in my heart, since it was the first composition for which I won an actual award. (1st Place, Audio Division: 2000 Utah State Multimedia Festival). As you can tell from that date, this piece was completed last century… a.k.a. 1999.
Song: Defiance – REMIXED
What better way to release some new music than this – a remix of one of my favorite rock themes. Video game battle themes have moved away from orchestral themes in recent years, opting instead to use a lot more guitars and drums…and thus we have the newly remixed Defiance. Soundfonts have been used to render the entire song and a new intro lends itself more to classic RPG boss battle themes. The end of the song has also been remixed, including more than 60 seconds of new material. This remix originally appeared in the TGP/TLA project of 2000-2001 but I’ve never released it online – until now!
Song: Retribution
Retribution is my favorite rock/battle theme to date. It’s a great mix of old and new RPG elements, and the whole feel and pace of it turned out better than I could have hoped for…
Song: King of the Desert
While I like the melody and structure of “King of the Desert,” the real masterpiece, however, is the countless subtle effects used throughout. The strum of the guitar, the pitch fades on the high power chords, realistic harmonics on the guitar solos (I’ve never heard a synthesized song use them correctly until this); this song is a product of a lot of carefully implemented effects. I love way it all came together…
Song: Reign of Anarchy
This song is, in a word, random. Sometimes I get a bunch of ideas in my head and I can’t think up a whole song for each one, so I throw them together into one big mess…like this.
Song: Defiance
Ah, sweet “Defiance.” I’ve gone through hundreds of variations and modifications of this theme, but still I love the original incarnation of this piece. Yeah, it’s repetitive; yeah, the layout is awfully simple; yeah, that’s a weird techno-ish sound in the middle of what should be a solid rock song. But somehow it works. I don’t know how, but this song still rocks (and I’ve heard it probably a thousand times)…
Song: Dark Knight
“Dark Knight” is one of my oldest compositions. I wrote the initial 8-10 measures of this as a sophomore in high school, but it wasn’t until years later that I sat down and actually completed the song as a full-length battle theme. In this form I’m not even sure it embodies its name, but since it’s gone by this title for so long it deserves to stay this way…
Song: Now or Never
In writing this piece, I envisioned a captain touring his camp, readying his troops for the morning when they will stand and fight in defense of their country. Soldiers are shining their boots, checking and double-checking their guns, and the captain inspires each with a gentle nod and a grim smile…
Song: Ominosity
Ominosity is such a clever name. :) I hate naming songs (I’ve got no less than twelve unfinished songs with the name “Battle” ), so I get excited when I actually think up something witty. Simple things for simple minds, as they say…
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