It’s been a while (no, I’m not about to quote Staind) since my last update… but I’ve been in the process of working on a new song!  The newest song is centered around a Japanese game called Atelier Iris Eternal Mana.  I recently came across an AWESOME streaming radio station called http://rainwave.cc that plays nothing but video game music!  So anyway, I was listening to it the other day and a song from this game came on.  It absolutely kicked me grundle so I thought… “this is IN.”  The song is still a work in progress, but a few of the other inspirations include The Power Rangers Movie Theme, Sonic & Knuckles – Final Boss, Parasite Eve – Aya’s Theme, and Castle Crashers – The Black Knight.

As you can probably tell from the music choices (aside from the Power Rangers Theme), this song is a little heavier… and a lot faster. 

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These past several weeks have been brutally busy for me, and thus, no vocal work has begun on the new Mystic demo.  However, I hope to begin writing sometime tomorrow.  It’s on my list of goals, along with finishing up the final touches on my dissertation and turning it into the graduate school.  Can’t wait for *that* to be over.  Then it’s on to fun stuff like vocal writing!  I’ll keep you posted on my progress.  I just hope I can think of some vocals epic enough to compliment the awesomely epic Mystic.  Yeeeeeeeah.

Until we meet again,

Dr. Vocalist.  MUahahahahahahaha!

Also, we’re going to try to get four of us on there, but we’ll have to wait and see how it goes. I know we’ll be talking about video games. =D

As it stands, the song starts off with a typical power metal intro similar to our other song Angels of Magesty. Instead of having a quicker feel as that song does, this song has more of a “heavy” power metal feel to it.  This is similar to the band Nocturnal Rites if any of you have ever heard them (if not and are into choruses that you can’t get out of your head… get the CD New World Messiah).  Mixed in with the metal, there is also a techno version of Big Blue from F-Zero for the Super Nintendo.  I’m doing a bit of experimenting with metal guitar parts layered under techno synth and drum parts.  So far, the song seems to be shaping up well.  I’m going to be out of town at a WGI Indoor Drumline competition this weekend and won’t have any time to work on it, but expect another update next week!

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This week Donna’s sick, I beat BioShock, Mike’s in a new apartment, and we nerd out about video games.

The second song is codenamed “Mystic” because, as Jordan said, the majority of it is based on the soundtrack from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.  The intro is a variation of the main theme from the game, and the verses are taken from the battle music.  We also have an original breakdown section with a cute lead-in that all of you Final Fantasy nerds will recognize immediately.  The other prevailing theme throughout the song is… you guessed it… a trancy upbeat section.

I’m hoping to begin writing again this weekend, so hopefully we will have some new material very soon.

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Take a listen. We hope you enjoy it!

Angels of Majesty

Mystic