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- 1 Gilgamesh - Master of the Blades
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pu_freak - Game:
Final Fantasy V - Source Track:
Clash on the Big Bridge - Composer:
Nobuo Uematsu
Director's Note
From the first note in the album opener you can just hear the aggression in that low bass intro transforming as it turns into a choral pad with a beautiful, yet ominous music box. The piano that comes along is soothing yet haunting. If there was ever a track that set the tone for the rest of the album, this would be it, and so it is. Hope you're comfortable, 'cos this'll be a hell of a ride. Welcome to BadAss!
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- 2 Vergil - The Curse of Yamato
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RoeTaKa - Game:
Devil May Cry 3 - Source Tracks:
"Devils Never Cry" (Staff Roll), Vergil Battle 3 - Composer:
Tetsuya Shibata
Director's Note
When I first asked Roe if there was a boss theme he wanted to remix, he said, "Hell yes there is! Devil May Cry, you dig?" Well, maybe he didn't say it quite like that, but you get the gist. Devil May Cry seldom gets remixed, if ever, so I was excited. Roe's known for making beat-thumping orchestral tracks mixed with electronica elements. If that's what you expected here, then, by golly, you got it! Roe took Vergil's DMC3 theme song & kicked it up into ass-kicking action movie territory. Bombastic horn staccatos, slick synth licks & beats to make your booty quake... if listening to this track doesn't make you want to fight some undead monsters, then I just don't know who you are anymore.
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- 3 Laughing Octopus - Routine of War
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The Dual Dragons - Game:
Metal Gear Solid 4 - Source Track:
Laughing Octopus - Composers:
Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori, Kazuma Jinnouchi
Director's Note
This track almost didn't make it to the project thanks to my old crappy headphones. Soundtrack to my life, if my life was as hardcore as my more aggressive dreams... which sadly they're not. Alas, we can live vicariously through the Dual Dragons' awesome music. "Laughing Octopus" is a track I wouldn't have thought could make a good remix, but they done gone and did it! What was once a simple, almost ambient electronic tune has now become death, as well as metal masterpiece!
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- 4 Donkey Kong - Duel of the Apes
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Big Giant Circles - Game:
Donkey Kong (Game Boy) - Source Track:
Sources: Stages 9-5, 9-6, 9-7; Stage 9-8; Stage 9-9 - Composer:
Taisuke Araki
Director's Note
BGC was one of the first, if not the first, completed tracks we had. When I first heard it, it sounded good. Damn good, in fact. It was smooth, epic, and full of just that good ole fashioned swagger. I told Jimmy to make it darker anyway; he delivered. If the first half got you ready for adventure, then the second makes you fight for your ever loving life. Your life, damn you! If you wanted big, sweeping, smooth, choral rock, then by Crom you got it.
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- 5 Luca Blight - To Slay a Butcher
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Arcana - Game:
Suikoden II - Source Track:
Cornered (Battle BGM ~ Luca Battle) - Composer:
Miki Higashino
Director's Note
Arcana had started this track back when Off Topic was still around. If I remember the story correctly, they had a boss album that never went anywhere, so he put it on hold. Then we had to come along and poke the beehive with a stick. So he blew off the dust, and found an evil relic ready to unleash its wrath upon the world. Upon us. Industrial electronica with some of that good orchestral awesomeness!
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- 6 Nightmare - Lights Out
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Lashmush - Game:
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Source Track:
Shadow Battle - Composers:
Kazumi Totaka, Minako Hamano, Kozue Ishikawa
Director's Note
Straight up instrumental metal. Pro-tip: Secret to beating Shadow Link, head banging. Also, moshing.
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- 7 Ultimecia - All Existence Denied
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Skummel Maske, LuIzA (vocals), pu_freak (additional programming) - Game:
Final Fantasy VIII - Source Track:
The Extreme - Composer:
Nobuo Uematsu
Director's Note
That intro right there, man. Skummel, a well-known Dwelling of Duels artist, made this track for one of their monthly contests. He wanted to do some more work on it, make it rock even harder. So I said, "if you can make it rock thrice as hard as that, you're in." So he did. LuIzA lends her voice to the track, while pu_freak provided some tweaks to the piano and harp to give the track some more muscle.
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- 8 Dr. Wily - A Daring Escape
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Jago - Game:
Mega Man 3 - Source Track:
Dr. Wily Stage 2 - Composers:
Yasuaki Fujita
Director's Note
A little change of pace here, though don't expect us to go soft on you. While not as evil as the tracks before, Jago made sure this track is still just as foreboding as those before. Big orchestral kick-assery right here, player! Jago delivers us some of that cinematic flair, giving you just enough hope that everything will go smooth and evil scientists will be slayed, just to squash them dreams with some of that symphonic kick-assery. Hope you enjoyed that, it only gets darker from here on out.
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- 9 Dracula - The Belmont Revolution
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Chernabogue, NintenJoe 64 - Games:
Castlevania series - Order of Ecclesia, II: Simon's Quest, Harmony of Dissonance, Dawn of Sorrow, Symphony of the Night - Source Tracks:
Dissonant Courage [OoE], Last Boss (Last Boss BGM) [II], Incarnation of Darkness [HoD], Evil Invitation [DoS], The Horde's Festival [SotN] - Composers:
Michiru Yamane [OoE / SotN], Ken-ichi Matsubara [II], Soshiro Hokkai [HoD], Masahiko Kimura [DoS]
Director's Note
Son of the Dragon indeed. Chernabogue and NintenJoe give us some of that good old symphonic rock. Keeping with the sound that the Castlevania series are known for (and using themes from almost every game for good measure), this duo gives us a gritty medley filled with guitar shreddage, pausing just long enough to get that blue-blooded orchestral that all us miserable pile of secrets could only hope to achieve one day. The rock intertwines more and more as the track goes on, the nobility still apparent as the guitars bare their sharpened teeth. One more orchestral break, to get you complacent, then bam... What a horrible night to have a curse.
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- 10 Astaroth - Astaroth's Awakening
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The Dual Dragons - Game:
Shadow Hearts: Covenant - Source Track:
Astaroth (Fallen Angel Battle) - Composer:
Yasunori Mitsuda
Director's Note
The Dual Dragons are back doing what they do best. Making awesomeness! Much like they did with Laughing Octopus's theme, the Dragons take a song that's not rock, and make it rock bigtime. What was once a more Middle East-influenced track, becomes a friggin' heavy just, just... a legendary beast of an arrangement. Hard rock with a bit of orchestral (because that's how this project rolls), make for dark, just ominous as all get out sounds that get the heart pumping.
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- 11 Cobra - Real American Hero
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Nutritious - Game:
G.I. Joe (NES) - Source Tracks:
Cobra Vehicles, Mission 6 - Composers:
Nobuyuki Shioda, Yusuke Takahama
Director's Note
You may think we're going symphonic on your ass, and we are. We just like to mix some of that electro rock in there for good measure. Next level electro, 'cos we mix genres like most people mix... stuff. For a game that hasn't ever had a remix, to my knowledge, this is one hell of a first. I heard this on the WIP boards, and had to get it on the project. Luckily, Nutritious said yes, and we had another high octane killer of a track.
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- 12 Ridley - Dragonfood
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Rozovian - Games:
Super Metroid - Source Tracks:
Big Boss Confrontation BGM (Ridley, Draygon) - Composer:
Minako Hamano
Director's Note
Keeping that old school Metroid vibe is nice and all, but then we said it wasn't hardcore enough, and Rozo added some steroids to the mix. Digital steroids. As dirty an electronic song as you'll find outside of dubstep, yet still haunting in that future way we love so much. Synthetic epicness at its finest. That outro is nothing short of chilling.
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- 13 Saren - Saren's Prayer
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Mazedude - Game:
Mass Effect - Source Track:
Saren - Composer:
Jack Wall
Director's Note
What do Mass Effect and Sully Erna have in common? Mazedude, that's what. Maze came in late into the project, but finished really quickly. He had Sinner's Prayer on the mind, and, in odd ways that us mere mortals can't fathom, thought, "this screams Saren." Emulating that track, then going insane on it in that way that only Mazedude can, he made this mystic sounding journey of a track that leads us straight into hallucinations that are sure to scare us straight.
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- 14 Jecht - Dreams of Death
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Brandon Strader - Game:
Final Fantasy X - Source Track:
Otherworld - Composer:
Nobuo Uematsu
Director's Note
Keeping the original genre intact, yet taking it to heights of badassery, Brandon gives the track an aura that is just evil and nasty. Growling death metal vocals, angry double kick stampedes, and next level guitar wankery, you can't get much more death in your metal without straight up dying. Music to mosh to, if you were so inclined (answer: you are).
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- 15 Shredder - The Shredder
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Sixto Sounds - Game:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time - Source Track:
Technodrome ~ The Final Shell-Shock (Stage 10 BGM) - Composer:
Mutsuhiko Izumi
Director's Note
Sixto does what he does best, taking old favorites and adding a generous heaping of awesomeness to it. If there was a song that lives up to its name, it's this one. Juan's guitar shreddage is insane here. Those nostalgic notes are giving new life with energetic rock'n'roll! You think, Sixto's finished with this lesson in badassery, then he comes in with that final attack, and you're left asking, "Please, sir, may I have another?" You may, hater, you may.
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- 16 Sephiroth - BadAzz
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PrototypeRaptor - Game:
Final Fantasy VII - Source Track:
One-Winged Angel - Composer:
Nobuo Uematsu
Director's Note
With the exception of one letter, we present you our title track. I first heard this track on Soundcloud and instantly knew we needed it on the project. Raptor agreed, and so it was done. Some said "One-Winged Angel" was a track that was untouchable. Well, we touched it! Raptor gives it that high energy, dirty, gritty electro he's known for, and the end result speaks for itself.
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- 17 Kefka - The Sound of a Thousand Voices Screaming in Unison
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Kidd Cabbage - Game:
Final Fantasy VI - Source Track:
Kefka - Composer:
Nobuo Uematsu
Director's Note
Nihilistic. Anarchistic. BadAsstastic. These are the words that this track screams. Screaming in a thousand different voices, from a thousand different directions, all at the same time. If you didn't understand the tracks name, you do now. Kidd Cabbage has made, in his own opinion, the heaviest song he has ever made. I'm hard-pressed to disagree with that statement. We're almost there, the ending is in sight. Hopefully you've not gone insane yet. We got one more in store.
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The Joker - Game:
Kirby Super Star - Source Track:
Great King Dedede's Theme - Composer:
Jun Ishikawa
Director's Note
I'd been listening to Dedede's theme, the Smash Bros. version to be exact, and thought it'd make a great downtempo, trippy, ominous track. I figure, anyone who's king of a bunch of cutesy things has got to be going insane little by little, and I wanted to convey that in the track. pu_freak and I thought it sounded like a good ending track, so here it is. Congrats, you made it to the end. Hope you enjoyed this ride, and hope that you feel a little more badass because of it!