This is a cover of Battle - Vengeance for Reclamation - by Ryota Kozuka from Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance. I have remade the track in the style of Shoji Meguro's rock battle tracks around the PS2 era of SMT games, as if Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance released on the PS2 in the mid to late 2000s.
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This track is easily one of the highlights from SMT V Vengeance’s new soundtrack, being the battle theme for the new form of the Nahobino (that’s as much as I’ll say to avoid spoilers). I thought this track would be a fairly easy remix to do in this style at first, but the later sections made things very complicated. The first section is very classic SMT sounding, extremely fast tempo, guitar power chords and a super cool riff. A lot of these aspects are already very Meguro-like, so not much had to be changed. The B section in the original track has some nice pads and a male opera sample, neither of which fit the style very well. So I took some cues from Formidable Foe and used some tremolo strings instead. I have kept the piano for the final section of course, while also bringing in some trumpet and guitars.
Thanks again to the Persona Sound Resource, I have managed to get ahold of the piano plugin that Meguro has used since the PS2 era, New York Concert Grand Piano by Native Instruments. While somewhat of a pain to get working, finally putting it in these mixes makes things sound much more authentic I feel.
Of course, Meguro's signature guitar tone is always the most important element of these remixes, for a more detailed breakdown of how I recreated it, I'd advise checking out the description for the cover of An Honour Befitting That Name I made here: • An Honor Befitting Tha...
As someone who already enjoyed Shin Megami Tensei V back when it released, Vengeance has given me a whole new appreciation for the game. Hearing this track in-game for the first time is a really cool and invigorating moment and makes the rest of Canon of Vengeance just that little bit better.
I’m tossing up on which other new tracks from Vengeance to cover. Be it battle or area themes, let me know! I want to know what everyone would like to hear covered.
I hope you enjoy the cover!
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7 июл 2024
