In case someone is wondering: The lyrics being chanted in the background are in Hebrew. "Ishkokum mes mos of she'res" means "Clever man, child of the dead winged creature". Absolutely perfect!
You do such a good job of keeping close enough to the original to make it recognizable, but take it in a new direction that makes it feel very fresh and interesting. I'd love to see a LoK movie or series - your reinterpretations would fit perfectly.
This reinterpretation is IMPRESSIVE. Like, seriously, this is one of my favorite tracks from the entire Legacy of Kain series, and your rendition is simply outstanding. It gave me the chills from beginning to end! It starts gloomy and ends up turning just epic. I a word: impressive.
If a proper remake or remaster of SR1/SR2 were to be done I would hope they'd hire you to do the music. An honestly perfect re-rendition of the original song and style.
Thanks, you're too kind! Honestly, while I would absolutely love to do it of course, I'd just be happy if they did ANYTHING with the series at this point. A full remake of SR1 would be the best possible way to reintroduce the series to a modern audience, but that's probably too much to ask I guess... People these days have such short attention span, that I don't even know if it would be well received.
The elements added feel just about right. Sublime - yet effective. Drawn back, yet - very much in your face. And then, the choir opening the door at 3:11 to a cinematic encapsulation followed by the typical Soul Reaver theme. Then the timeless strings at 3:51, defying the time itself. Then crescendo at 4:42, sublime chanting, perpetual choir, exact strings. And then, a very sad truth. The composition ended, just like this lovely weekend. :> Thank you for this Sunday's gift. It was adorable.
I can't be the only one who would skip around the Dumahim to get the battle music to play heh. One of the highlights of the soundtrack! This is so great, it sounds creepy and haunting
@@biodynamic91 Agreed, most of these recreations change everything just for the sake of sounding new, and accidentally make the reinterpretation sound waaaay to far off from the original content.
3:52 simply glorious my friend, my jaw just droped by how good and modernize this sounds. This made me realize that maybe I love Soulsborne's music thanks to this game, and you made him justice, congrats.
Holy fuck you did amazingly. I remember when I listened to Misko’s interpretation of Ruined City. His experimentation while interesting in my opinion lost a lot of the dramatic flair that Lok’s music is known for, in exchange for a much more tense horror ambience. You managed to interpret it in a way that keeps the essence of the original while doing your own thing very well! Also adding dumah’s specific mixes of it was genius as each version is very much the same song but heavily altered to fit the mood very well!
Thank you! Yes, that's what I was trying to convey, I did my own thing but tried to keep it close enough to the original vibe. I love Misko's interpretations too, he's a beast, but he definitely takes it to another level of experimentation with a lot of edgier and heavier electronic elements, whereas I tend to keep it a bit more 'traditional' so to speak.
wow The Dumahim theme set is one of the most significant musical moments of my life and I rather prefer the original mournful 'Carmina Burana' vibes of it, but your way of approach is really impressive. Especially the world and taiko(referring to the "ronin" aspect of dumahim maybe?) elements. Nice job.
I guess you must love Bear McCreary's score for Battlestar Galactica, no? There are some similarities here and there, like at the beginning of the "Dumah Encounter" part. Anyway, your work is amazing, thank you!
Thanks! I love Bear McCreary's music for sure, although any similarities are purely coincidental, we tend to carry our influences on what we do, so I'll take that as a compliment.
You already told me you will do Elzevir any chance to also get the Sarafan Stronghold and the Pillars OST from SR2 ? Thanks in advance I can't stop listening to your LOK covers and also your album on Spotify is awesome
It's possible, I'd like to tackle some SR2 tracks at some point, and those are good candidates, along with Ariel's Lament. Thanks for listening to my album! :)
@@biodynamic91 I will check it out, But yeah the Pillars and Sarafan keep from SR2 would be fantastic. I listen to this track you did a few times already very well done
Thanks! I'd like to get them onto Spotify, but since it's not really original music, in those types of platforms usually you have to get actual license from the original copyright owners and all that, which is understandable, but might be costly and complicated. RU-vid is a bit less strict with that stuff. But I'd have to really look into it and see what's possible.
Obrigado! Não sei qual som te referes ao certo, mas uso uma variedade de VSTs para os sons orquestrais, uma mistura de Albion One, 8DIO Anthology Strings, Metropolis Ark 1, por aí. O resto vem de vários outros, incluindo alguns da Factory Library do Kontakt e alguns freebies da Strezov Sampling, por aí. O coro é mesmo o sample original usado no jogo.
@@biodynamic91 yh tava a falar do som do vorador principalmente daquele sample de bell / gong que da logo ao inicio, mas yh muita bacano adicionei te no insta vi que eras de leiria, reparei que tambem tocas guitarra como eu xD, eu sou de Peniche ate estamos mais ou menos perto xD
@@DavidRattlz97 Se for o que som que estou a pensar, é um orchestral chime/tubular bell. Qualquer biblioteca de percussão orquestral deverá ter o instrumento. Ali acho que usei da East West Symphonic Orchestra, já bem antiguinho. Se quiseres falar de mais alguma cena, manda mensagem no insta.
@@biodynamic91 obrigado men n sabia que se chamava um tubular bell thanks eu cheguei a manda te mensagem no insta mas deve ter ido parar aos teus pedidos de mensagem deves ter que aceitar acho eu
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