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FLAC (38.1MB)

Metal remix of "Dwelling of Doom" from the NES game Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. I added my own harmonies, changed some of the riffs a bit, and added some acoustic parts as well. The song kind of has a beginning, middle and end; it starts fairly close to the original tune, then has an acoustic interlude with a tempo change, before coming back again with an altered riff & solo.

The song was written and recorded from September '09 to February '10. I spent a few months on-and-off mastering and tweaking, with the final edit done on the 6th of June 2010. Yeah, I'm not the fastest worker... but this was my first time really getting to grips with the software, and the whole "mastering" process. I ended up re-recording the song three times, starting from almost scratch twice cause I wasn't happy with where it was going. I think I'm finally ready to accept it as finished!

Hopefully now I'll be able to get things moving a lot faster, now I've had plenty of practice!

Original tune: Castlevania 2 - Dwelling of Doom

FLAC (18MB) [mirror 1] [mirror 2]
OGG (Q8 - 4.5MB) [mirror 1] [mirror 2]
MP3 (256kbps - 4.5MB) [mirror 1] [mirror 2]

This song was recorded some time ago, before I had major problems with my recording software due to installing a new soundcard. This week I discovered a program that works far better than what I was using before (Mackie Tracktion 2, if you're interested), and this is the result of a quick remastering session.

New songs will be of better quality (with any luck) and I'll no doubt revisit this song again in the future and record an even HEAVIER version, cause it's just so damn good! :P

All comments welcome!