Metroid Prime - Title Theme [Cover By DAR]
Oh man, you guys have no idea how long I've wanted to cover THIS song! This has been on my Covers To-Do List since all the way back when it was just a humble .txt file. I'm so happy to finally be able to cover this after almost 6 years!
Big thanks goes out to all whom have been voting for Metroid in previous COVER BATTLEGROUNDS! Also shoutout to longtime subscriber "6usfsd adsfe" whom also suggested this song back 2.5 years ago during the first Cover Battlegrounds. Hope this one has been worth the wait! It certainly was for me, I remember just sitting at the start-screen and listening to this song all the time back when I was a kid. Metroid Prime was also my first Gamecube game (and yet to this day, I still haven't actually played it all the way through! Ironic really...)
In some ways, I'm actually glad it took me this long to finally get the opportunity to cover this track. I feel like with all the tricks and experience I've picked up over the years, I'm really confident in feeling that I was able to do this track justice.
As always, I really really wanted to try my best to keep true to the feel and spirit of the original. I wanted to maintain that spacey and electronic element, but I also wanted to inject some nice heavy rock/metal elements too.
First thing I really wanted to get down was the "radio" sort of sound effect. Of course after poking around, I came to realize the crackling and whatnot is supposed to be the sound of the Phazon material. I managed to luck out and find an audio-rip of the game and used the Phazon clip in there (link to the rip is towards the bottom here). I figured I'd take the geiger-counter-sounding sample and try to run it through some granualizer. After a bit of fiddling and using an arpeggiator, I got it sounding pretty computer/radio-like. However in the end, I wound up just combining and layering all three sounds together; the modified sample, the original sample, and even the sound from the original song!
One of the things I always loved from the original was that guitar power-chord (with flanger) part that kicks in throughout the song. At first, I was also going to throw a flanger on to my guitar track, but I decided, "no, it needs to HIT HARDER!". This was a job that not even a distorted guitar could satisfy! I had to bust out the BIG bass and crunch... the DC Murda Bazz synth/plugin (first came across this lovely thing back when I did my original song, "Get Gored"). After getting a nice, powerful, and dirty synth kick/bass, I layered that sucker underneath (or on top??) of the guitar. Then I threw on some other effects on to the guitar and automated them a little. Finding myself nodding along vigorously at this development, I pressed on to the other elements.
For some reason, I felt compelled to try adding some double-tapped guitar parts. Maybe its because I'm still real excited about finally being able to get that sort of tapping sound now. I really enjoyed how the part wound up sounding, as well as how it looks when played in the video!
I also really enjoyed thumping out the bass parts for this cover as well! To back track for a moment, after adding that hairy synth kick/bass, I felt like "no, it needs MOOOORE!", so that's why I went and plugged in my bass. Gave it a nice thump, but I felt like spicing things up a little... Before I knew it, I was already slapping out this almost Doomy sounding bassline!
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy the cover as much as I enjoyed making it! Also, it took incredible restraint to not go ahead and also cover the Menu Theme as well. It was sooo tempting, but I wanted to keep things fair for Cover Battlegrounds. Prime's Menu Theme is DEFINITELY going to be the next Metroid cover that this channel gets! ~DAR
OPUS DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/x67sjhs...[Cover+By+DAR].opus/file
Special thanks to knarkleo for ripping and uploading game-audio: https://www.sounds-resource.com/gamec...
Originally Composed By: Kenji Yamamoto (山本 健誌)
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