Final Fantasy IV - Battle with the Four Fiends (The Dreadful Fight) Orchestral Remix 

Rubicante, now there was a boss with style. Healing you up after your long slog to reach him, apologizing to Edge for what Lugae did to his parents.

Remember kids: before you celebrate defeating the first of the Four Archfiends, reverse your party's row order. Why? ...oh, no reason in particular.

I still remember the pure terror I felt when hearing this for the first time. I was but a young child and had just breathed a sigh of relief after a difficult battle against Milon. I proceeded immediately across the bridge only to be surprised with a back attack by a fiend of a monster and this dreadful tune. My mages stood no chance in front and fell quickly, soon followed by Cecil. I can not think of a more fitting theme for this fight. btw, probably the best rendition of it I have ever heard throughout the years.

"Come, I shall heal your wounds. Face me at full strength!"

Can't wait to see what happens to this track in FFXIV

Thank you, finally someone who has some proper emphasis on the drums. Lots of other versions seem to ignore them or diminish them greatly, but they really help set the dire tone.

This absolutely blows my mind that this exists! I get goosebumps just hearing this.

Still my favorite boss theme in the entire Final Fantasy series.

they are COMING

"it is time to fight me, the elemental fiend, Rrrrubicantee- Hey, where are you going? I was going to heal you before our fight." *"Im not a total ---hole."*

One of the best boss themes in the series, creates such a grand and terrifying climatic stage straight away.

The Bell Ringing makes a decent touch, this version has a ferocity that makes it stand out, but I am loving the killer base line!

BACK ATTACK!! Being a kid and not knowing how to do a row-switch when resurrected zombie Milon attacks you from behind is terrifying! And you're confronted with a brand-new boss theme making it ten times more epic! One of the reasons why FFIV was an early masterpiece for SNES. Malcolm Robinson is by far the best arranger of SNES music I've encountered. He seems to have little ego, lets all the original notes speak for themselves while using his powers to enhance the piece with high end orchestral libraries and creative subtlety in all the right areas. It's like what the original composer WOULD have done if they had full access to a complete modern orchestra at the time. Simply marvelous.

Excellent work! I can see the battles going on in my mind just as they would have played out when I was young. Amazing quality!

Final Fantasy IV was the first FF game I ever played. I don't usually prefer music remakes over the originals, but that's not the case here. This remake is awesome! I'd love to hear you remake Zeromus's theme. :D

"You think our rage, a weakness?! Then let me show you... HOW WRONG YOU ARE!"

This song shook me to my core as a kid

Great job, probably the best orchestration of this song I've heard so far! Battle with the Four Fiends is one of my favorite FF battle themes, and your arrangement really captures the intensity of the song.

*Rubicante enters the scene* Edge: Rubicante.... For this.... For this!... YOU WILL PAY! Rubicante: It was Lugae, who made chimerae, of your parents. I shared no hand, in his perversities. They shame me, as they grieve you. Edge: Don't speak of shame! Rubicante: I respect men like you. Men with.... Courage. But you are a slave to your emotions, and so, will never know true strength. Such, is the curse of men. Edge: You think our rage.... A WEAK-NESS?! Then let me show you!... HOW WRONG YOU ARE! *Edge's anger awakened his latent powers. Edge learned Flood and Blitz!* Rubicante: You, are an interesting one, indeed. Such powers, unleashed by anger alone. But they will not avail you! The frozen winds of Hell's ninth circle, could not penetrate this cloak of flame, I wear. Come, I will heal your wounds! *HP and MP restored!* Rubicante: Face me at FULL STRENGTH! *Battle commences*

._. WOOOAAAAAHHHH!!! Malcom... You...you really outdid yourself this time! There's just so much power and energy in this track! You could not have captured the intensity of the original track better!! Incredible!!

last time you taught me a great truth.....that many are more powerful then one!

7 people didn't "Kain, jump now!" and meet their untimely deaths at the hands of Barbariccia. What a shame.

This is the best remastering of Four Fiends to date. Thanks for the awesome work!

Oh god, this is SO good!, seriously, I love it! This track still gives me goosebumps, and your version is so vibrant and full of depth and nuance. I can't wait to hear you do the final battle (Zeromus theme)

Honestly, no boss theme can hold a candle to this adrenaline pumping madness.

Masterfully done, I LOVE this song it always got me hyped for epic battles and you've done it complete justice. I can't believe I've never come across Malcolm Robinson remixes until today.

You deserve more subscribers with all these great arrangements! I can tell you put a lot of work into this and every other song you made. I expect great things from you in the future.

I just discovered these awesome orchestral arrangements of some of my favorite music in the world from my favorite games in the world, and I just have to say THANK YOU for making this stuff. It's so good.

That moment when Adult Rydia came to save you from gloves was so epic

You do a phenomenal job of orchestrating the SNES tones. Great work!

When the bells sounded I got chills. Good job!

the original music is good on it's own, but this has taken it to a whole new level, really lovin it.

Love this - can't quite hear the bass line which is funky as well in this piece and a huge contributing factor to its greatness

Well, I have something to congratulate you on once again. Why this remix has always been great, it now seems Soken has taken passing inspiration into the same direction with his remix for Final Fantasy XIV's newest patch. Only thing missing is a very slightly sped up tempo and electric bass and a guitar.

Love this song! Great work!

square should really hire you for remake musics

It would be nice a movie about this final fantasy

Brings back many memories.. Nice work, thanks for sharing Malcolm!

Awesome! Congratulations. you are very talented.

Nicely done!

I just noticed there's a small passage in this song that Uematsu uses in the Zeromus battle. Guy is a genius

So amazing! Love the odd time signatures on this song and try to count them!

about 25 years ago, I played this game, enjoying the music. For now, there is no music enjoyable than that of FF4

This theme is used in several other battles besides the Elemental Fiends. Several of the more epic weapons in the game are guarded by monsters that use this theme in their battles. Awesome rendition!

You did awesome, thanks a bunch! 😃

I cannot wait to hear this in Final Fantasy 14

Kinda surprised I've gone without hearing you do this until now. XD

You are amazing! Ff 4 is one of my fav. This and rudias theme are my fav song on the game

Just Awesome! Essence maintained while updating the quality.

one of my favorite of all the FF games ever. Very nice cover, it feels like it will be a tough one.

damn,it sounds amazing :) Everything sounds perfect,great work:)

This is boss af. Shoutout to Kainazzo.

This is the best remix of this melody ever!!!!

People who never played FFIV will never know true fear in fighting a boss fight.

This theme could be remade for FF XIV's next expansion since it's themes are heavily based on FF IV.

As soon as I start listening to this, I can hear the sounds of Rosa and Rydia frantically casting spells in my head and it gives me goosebumps. This is such a great remix and very true to the original.

Outstanding! Seriously, this is quite possibly the _best_ version I have heard. This is what the younger me playing through the Advance versions (SNES was a _long_ time ago, okay?) was hearing...

This is amazing

the bass line, Love this

Hearing this exact rendition in FFXIV was a goddamn treat. Barbariccia is one hell of a crazy-ass fight lmao

Love this.

Rubicante... That's one hell of an antagonist. He's just amazing.

After playing through FF2/4 so many times as a teen, I started doing Cecil-only challenges and Side-character-only challenges (No Cecil). This is the theme of the hardest battle, and one of the only 2 difficult battles in the entire game for Cecil-only. Barbariccia ends fights.

So far, best version of the song I've found.

ohhH my goD, the pure "oh fuck" in my eyes as I realize these bosses were about to beat my ass so damn hard

One of the best boss battle themes ever.

This is seriously the greatest version of this song out there

EPIC

Thank god for this, honestly. Finally, a reorchestration that doesn't use the shitty default trumpets that comes with programs. They kill me! This is wonderful.

I forgot the epicosity ( I think I just made up a word) of this theme!!! This might sound odd, but how you transitioned from all the power of the song into 1:03 and then the timpani rolls in 🤩 I dare say it's better than the original. It's like taking a deep breath before rolling back into the epic fight. Spectacular sir!

THE FIRST BACK BATTLE EVER

I am turning 40 and even i know boss fight music when i hear it

As great as the original, nicely done :D

i cant wait to hear this in ffxiv

0:40-0:50 is my favorite part of this song

YESSSS YOU DID THIS ONE!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Overture for the Apocalypse. 🤯

Real video game music How I miss you

Can you also do "Golbez, Clad in the dark", please?

The best boss theme in final fantasy series :)

Must stop her spin attack! Kain, hit "like" now!

Time to JUMP !!!

this theme would be an absolute banger in ff14, on the same pair with e4 refulgence maybe

Face me with full strength!

When you hear this music, you know you are in trouble.

Only thing is, everyone knows this is "battle with the four friends", otherwise this ranks up there with top remixes

YES best orchestration of this piece I've heard yet Superb job! Edit: Did you try making that long note with the decrescendo->crescendo at the beginning a trill? Might sound a little cooler.

iconic

Battle with the Four Fiends + Ogopogo, Plague, Dark Bahamut and White Dragon

Yeah.

Everyone: One Winged Angel is the best boss theme of all time The Dreadful Fight: Hold my elements

Meteo!

I like how Rubicante has honor.

SOOOO GOOOOOD LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO

OHHHH MY BODY

is there any way to post a mp3 for these remixes so i can play them over dissidia these are beautiful and you shod be proud

need mp3 download!

Can you do a remix on Premonition from Final Fantasy VIII?

After being surrounded by the four fiends: Rubicant: FIGHT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT! Me: surprisedpikachu.jpg I remember playing this game for the first time when it came out, and I got to this part. As soon as the music started my eyes got as wide as dinner plates and proceeded to literally fight as hard as I could and still got my ass handed to me. The music really set the stage, never forget how epic that ass handing was.

Weeeeeesh!!! Arcane Blast!!!