@@realeavocado488 well. Let me say something. The smitin tabke is used to make the netherite tools. This means a tool and weapon use. And that work with a mineral. It will need more minerals. And this mean 1 thing... The cave update is coming
I dont know how Mojang can make character development for the Nether even though it's just an inanimate dimension, but somehow they made it from "ooh scary bad place" to a home that you aren't welcome in, It doesn't exist to just torment the player but is just a place that is unfamiliar.
Well, it is named and meant to be another "dimension," so developing it like they have makes it complete as a dimension ought to be. Now that it's a "unwelcoming home" and unfamiliar place, it really is like another dimension to parallel the overworld, just like the end had been developed to reflect that
To the people thinking that C418 is no longer making music for Minecraft... C418 still has an album planned for Minecraft, and he said it would be bigger than both Volume Alpha and Volume Beta. So, that means that both Lena and C418 will compose the music for Minecraft. Both of them are incredibly talented composers, and having both of them working on Minecraft music just makes the perfect combination. I really cannot wait to see what they have next.
Wouldn't it be awesome if the cave update was near and they added some special music for the underground? Like several tracks for types of caves/biomes
@@LetsGoChaz I don't think that is it. You could easily make the sun fade away, or go away past the horizon. Even a beginner programmer could do that with some OpenGL tools. If we are talking about the same thing, they must have changed their mind and wanted something different.
While I love C418’s music I think Lena knocked it out of the park, the nether feels like a place you shouldn’t be in. Imagine if they do a collab for an entirely new dimension or boss
I read somewhere that C418 is planning another album for Minecraft that's bigger than both volume alpha and volume beta. Perhaps a possible collab awaits us in future updates?
They are great too! The first song that played when I went in to the nether was actually "Taswell" - I got a bit confused first because it sounded so much like C418. 😁 So his tracks are in there still!
First 3 minutes seems too tuneful at first (nice but too melodic, almost as if the composer wants to give us something we can whistle/hum to) which isn't what the Nether is - however from 3 minutes on - just wow!! Strange how the shittest part melodically (>3 mins) is actually the most masterful; then score music is like that, so 3 mins - unnerving/dissonant (the way it should be and fits C418's VERY unnerving stuff)....so all in all you are probably right lol
I think the piglins should be at war constantly with the pigmen, and that the pigmen should have cross bows too, and as the player without full gold armor both will kill you, on hard difficulty it is hell so it shouldn't be a peaceful world, the ghasts could be the protectors of the world so they only attack beings from the over world but everything else should try and kill each other. It's been like 20 years Minecraft needs better AI especially now that there is a new high end block game in town called Hytale. Spread the word.
exa@@tonythegreat4275 there's small examples of that in guardians killing squid, wolves with sheep, fox with chicken, but those are all animals, the piglins do attack the pigmen, so I'd expect them to be able to be overrun by the pigmen attacks and not just take it like a sheep, but with other types I feel it's too easy to get them to fight if it was all for all. The way I see it, pigmen are going to be at a level with zombie villagers, so you can guide them, cure them, and trade, but since they are smarter as both a pigman and piglin, it will be tricky to interact with, unless you use double speed, prepare a piston trap in the overworld, and cure them, but the same type shouldn't fight, undead, illagers/ witches, but definitely the "sentient" types should be more self aware, like pillagers should target mobs, but not how they target villagers so you can exploit them by drawing them to a trapped zombie, and even a witch should attack dumb monsters outside their hut that get too close to the property. They are mobs, but villager species nonetheless, so naturally they shouldn't be a monster among monsters, but not just constant random confusion
@@tonythegreat4275 also, instead of going to games like hytale, people can just play with Minecraft mods and do whatever kind of additions fit their playstyle, it's kinda got a cult following
@@Jeff4theRaid what Hytale? Nah people Are just excited for a brand new high end open world voxl game, I can't blame them something completely new and fresh but similar to the legend which is Minecraft.
Without knowing it I said that same sentence while hearing the new songs. "Huh, Lena? let me see some of her songs, it sounds familiar" *Goes to her channel; discovers the truth* I am happy
Also both these words have to do with alchemy. Rubedo is the 4th step of making a sorcerers stone. Which is when it turns red. Chrysopeia also might have to do with piglins with their obsession of gold
They actually tried to do that initially when they first added music, but they abandoned the idea because players spent so little time in biomes that it didn't work. Idk if that would be different now
Whenever I’m in the Nether, I don’t just feel like I’m in a hellish dimension anymore. I feel like the devs really outdid themselves on this update. It’s not just endless amounts of netherrack and lava. It’s interesting. Whenever one of these songs play, especially the first one, I feel like my player character. I imagine what the Piglins would be thinking about me if they suddenly saw a man with a strange face walk in with armor that they haven’t seen before and gold boots. I imagine what the Bastion Remnants used to look like in its prime. I feel there. I feel like every step I take has meaning, and yet it can all end in an instant with this new Nether. The forests, the new mobs, the new biomes. It’s perfectly balanced, and rewards exploration heavily. It gives a use for gold. It gives us new light sources and recipes. It pits rivalries between mob races. And best of all, it gives a hint towards the fact that we aren’t the only intelligent species in Minecraft. Outstanding update.
I've seen a lot of older players saying that C418 should have made the music and while I would love that too, Lena's music fits the Nether, it's different to the Overworld, the two places are complete opposites and I think that having two different artists for two vastly different places is a great idea and that if an End update comes there should be a third artist so that each dimension has a different feel to it. The Overworld and C418's music feels calm while the Nether and Lena's work makes it seem like a mysterious and forgotten land and her music absolutely fits that vibe.
To anyone who wasn’t aware C418 did made nether music and it is still around along with these new tracks. He’s also still Minecraft’s sound designer and not going anywhere, I read somewhere in the comments that he’s working on another Minecraft ablum.
I love how the original nether is called the “nether wastes”. It makes it seem so much more mysterious. If it’s the wastes, then what was it before it turned into that?
If you add a couple mods it really gives tue feel that something happened to humans like steve in the overworld now extinct existing only the ruins of their structures like relics of a bygon age that you try to avenge by killing every boss
"So Below" really speaks for ir's name. The drums and didgeridoo combined music makes that "above lava" feeling, as the basalt deltas are a volcanic biome, and.. Well, after you go "So below", you have arrived to hell.
It feels like a song of war that destroyed the nether the imprisoned souls of the past creatures that where there and the piglin war with the wither skeletons and destruction of everything due to the balst Delta
it doesnt feel like "Hell" anymore, it feels like a twisted corrupted dimension full of sadness are pain, dangerous and some freak of nature, forming in there.
Well, someone figured out all song names are associated with alchemy. Chrysopoeia is basically making gold. Rubedo is the last stage of an alchemical transformation. And 'So below' is from a phrase 'As above, so below', which refers to Hermeticism (other medieval mystical practise) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_above,_so_below
Awe, I just remembered, the first time I played Minecraft as a kid, I kept trying to capture ghasts in a giant glass container. But I would come back and they'd be gone. I thought someone was killing them to prank me. I didn't understand how spawn rates worked than lol.
cave sounds scare the crap out of me when they come out of nowhere 😭 I was just minding my own business mining and then I jump to the moving Minecraft or train sound and close Minecraft for the rest of that night 😔
I noticed the name for “so below” was familiar. Then I remembered it is part of the phrase “As above, So below”, which can be connected to two origins: The phrase, and the movie. The movie is interesting, as it is based on the catacombs and the layers of hell. Obviously, the Nether is literally hell. But, Soul sand, as e name implies, is connected to the Essence of the deceased. The Basalt delta also seems to be the bottom layer, the caves of the nether. As for the phrase, this one is more philosophical. “As above, so below” means that the grander society/universe is reflective of the day to day life. The pits of hell in which suffering flourishes, in this context, is an offset to the problems of the world. The nether is the below. Maybe we’ll get an overworld song called “As Above”.
I think the piglins should be at war constantly with the pigmen, and that the pigmen should have cross bows too, and as the player without full gold armor both will kill you, on hard difficulty it is hell so it shouldn't be a peaceful world, the ghasts could be the protectors of the world so they only attack beings from the over world but everything else should try and kill each other. It's been like 20 years Minecraft needs better AI especially now that there is a new high end block game in town called Hytale. Spread the word.
I personally think that it means that you can make connections between the biomes from the overworld, like oak forests and crimson forests, desert and soulsand valley, tundra and basalt delta. As the biomes above, so the biomes below
I was playing on a new survival in the Nether and was surprised to hear how well Lena’s and C418’s tracks fit together. Outside of Minecraft they seem pretty different but when you’re actually playing in the Nether they both fit very well and going from one artist to another was hardly noticeable, even for me as someone who knows which artist composed which track
Chrysopoeia has ancient Greek origins, literally meaning "transmutation into gold", in the pretense of alchemy. It perfectly fits with the importance of gold with the piglins in the nether. Awesome touch.
what if it implies that the nether fungi are responsible for the abundand gold deposits? maybe minerals from netherrack accumulate and transmutate in shroomlights, giving them their golden coloration. over millions of years these trace amounts of gold could become natural deposits under layers of soil and sediment
Minecraft has consistently been in my life, it's gone beyond any other media. No movie, no book, no music or any other game has stayed with me both throughout my childhood and my adulthood. I started playing in the late years of elementary school and now I'm about to have my first child. Seeing how minecraft has grown in popularity again has given me hope, I know that initial spark of curiosity that led me to play and build for myself isn't going anywhere, not for me or the younger generation. I think this game touches on human nature, not emotion like other media but nature. To explore, to discover, to design, to build and to grow. I know a new game will eventually take it's place but nothing will in my memories. Thank you mojang, notch and importantly all of you for continuing the legacy of this beautiful game.
I agree... This isn't just a random game the history and community and all the other little things makes minecraft wonderful. This is not a game where you can make a new part like fifa every year and the fact that it's still played from so many people (also the younger ones) says how great this game really is 🔥👍
I do not know who I would be without Minecraft's impact on my life, the friends I've made and the people I've met both on and offline, among other things, may not even have existed. Who knows who I'd be without it? It's unimaginable. Congratulations on your child, by the way!
The Nether is a place where all souls come to parish and make you want to screen when your portal is broken because you know the nether will never forgive a soul who dares to come !!
To the people comparing the old Nether pieces to the new, you're just itching for a fight aren't ya? Both C418 and Lena composed beautiful pieces of art that tell the story of the Nether quite well. C418 did an amazing job telling a story of a place devoid of variety. Meanwhile, Lena did a really good job capturing the new update and giving us the alien feel of the new places in the Nether.
And it resembles what C418was going with when he made the original 4 tracks back when everything was nether wastes. that mysterious and lonely feeling where there appears to be nothing around yet you have the will to explore further and see if there really is something out there beyond the lava lakes.
i love how the crimson biome is like a forest that you can almost feel is alive and breathing with sounds of something big stomping in the background. and the warped forest is almost like a gateway to another dimension that nobody is meant to uncover with occasional static and whispers. soul sand valley with its desolate cave like structure filled with the trapped souls of the damned which you can still hear screaming for a release. the basalt deltas a strange ashy biome with volcanic aftermath that can't sustain life and has occasional Geiger counter noises as a sign of radiation from its activity. and the nether wastes almost seeming abandoned and crumbling with sounds of cliff edges collapsing in the distance. the nether is so much more.... alive.
That's a very lena raine thing to do. She also made the soundtrack to celeste, which us one of the best games I've ever played, soundtrack, gameplay and storywise
This music tells me that simply "I shouldnt be here". Some place so foreign, so hostile and alien, a place where no creature except the cursed, undead and banished roam. *You travel here alone, you will die here alone*
That description also matches Ikana Canyon from Zelda Majora's Mask. A wasteland of dry, cracked ground, with small broken huts dotted across the landscape. The ruins of a castle sit to the south, where the undead king still sits on his throne. The land is inhabited by the souls of the cursed. The broken kingdom lies under the looming shadow of the thing that caused its fate: The Stone Tower.
@@skyfire12306 Ancient Long forgotten Newly discovered Houses dangers inside Has history Hides a mystery Yea that fits the description of both now Really hope that Lena keeps working with Mojang on music. The old composer is good but this game needs a touch of mystery and ambience
So Below is the standout track of this update. It sounds at once ancient, grim, regal and tragic. The implication of tectonic activity within the basalt delta biome, and the relative light/visibility in that biome compared to the rest of the Nether, almost gives the impression that you could be close to the overworld--that all you'd have to do would be to dig up and you'd break through to the light of day. Yet the driving music counters that impression, setting the Nether up as a harrowing, inescapable place.
I actually felt tears coming in when I heard So Below, even if it isnt an old song. Its instruments and notes sound so similar to older minecraft songs, which is why So Below is beautiful to me. Chrysopoeia gives the Crimson Forests a strange feel, the look is intimidating, but the song makes it seem strange and ethereal almost. Rubedo has this echo feel, which makes the wastelands seem vast and huge, and it gives a new feel to the wastes even though they were what made up the entire nether before. It makes you feel as if... as if these empty wastes aren't places you built cobblestone bridges in, and lost your stuff in, and fought ghasts in, but like an abandoned area, collapsing, being forgotten, as they are devoid of life in this landscape of burning fire and hot ashes. Its.... sad... because its true. We're spending a lot of time in awe over the Basalt Deltas, the Soulsand Valleys, the forests and the new blocks, that we're forgetting what the nether first was. These wastes. These annoying wastes that we lost our diamonds in. Yet these memorable wastes that we felt accomplished even getting to.
Same, but Minecraft has kinda always done that. I've noticed Living Mice being played at Dawn and Dusk, and Haggstrom playing just about everywhere in the Overworld.
@@mcfeddle minecraft's music is determined by every new daylight cycle, whereas terraria's music is almost completely biome-dependent (unless you're fighting a boss and night variants of overworld themes)
@@Jeff4theRaid He needs to get on it then! Its been 7 years since volume beta, and several years since the nether and ocean music. Lena can obviously deliver when it comes to good music, I just hope they both can contribute more in the future.
Personally I'd like to see c418 do it since the overworld is sorta his home but if he doesn't (since he's already working on ANOTHER overworld theme) I'd like someone else to take the spot cause the caves are far different from this new nether, instead of both being "scary" the nether is now "unknown" and the caves could be anything, scary, mysterious, wonderous, etc
the subinio don't worry dude, we won't forget anytime soon. Those 4 nether tracks stand as out as some of the best videogame music of all time. Arguably top 10 Minecraft songs, concrete halls and dead voxel especially.
When i first heard the music it was so intense, me and my friends were on a rescue mission to save another friend from the nether, then i think the nether wastes song came on and we had just retrieved my friend from a nether fortress. I'm glad they added new music these songs are amazing.
Dude, I am so happy there is new music for the Nether. No matter what it is, if there is new music in Minecraft, it's gonna be good :) Both C418's music & Lena Raine's combined with the ambience both visually and auditory makes me love the Nether even more now. Although I love all of the new stuff Mojang have added to the Nether, to be honest, the ambience is my favorite part. It really does just set the mood & feeling to everything.
Family Grimes yep, I think the music throughout Minecraft gives the game its unique and legendary vibe. It’s times when the music comes on that I’m reminded why I love the game so much. These tracks are also great additions to the game, spot on with the build up, peak and ambience.
13:50 Rubedo is just.. amazing.. i love it.. especially this part. It sounds so.. I dont even know how to explain it. It's beautiful. It gives a whole new vibe to the Nether. You should've seen my face when i heard this for the first time. Oh my god.
I was at shock when I heard the new nether music for the first time.. it was honestly everything I’ve ever wanted, but at the same time.... didn’t. It made me feel shocked, depressed, and mesmerized, all at the same time... if that makes any sense at all.
sʎɐƃ llı̣ʞ | Well, I suppose the Music can’t be THAT good, I think the music should be quiet and really atmospheric since the music isn’t the main focus of the game, and this nails that imo.
AlphaPiggy Well I mean, Lena is going outside of her style so I’ll give her that. Crysophoeia is my least favorite but So Below and the other one are good
If this is the update for the Nether, I’m kinda wondering now what will happen if they *ever decided* to make a cave update. Edit : Past me would've been so happy.
I'm at a point where I may just pretend like the Nether is one big hazardous cave and proceed to live down there. Have some friends occasionally drop off supplies like water buckets for cauldrons and brewing and sugarcane for books. I'd be set. Trade them Netherite for diamonds and live the life of a hazardous crazy hermit and slaughter way too many ghasts.
What is this cave update stuff? Why update caves? It’s pointless, you only go in there for mining and you’ll instantly leave once you’d gathered your material, people don’t live underground and if they do they make a cave that best fits their vision. Biome oriented caves is all it really needs, nothing more.
I despise a majority of human creations That may be how a lot of people play, although I agree with folks (they’ve probably have played terraria or other exploration games) that the caves are lackluster in interesting design, have no real variety in color, and aren’t that challenging. Something rewarding and dangerous for venturing even further down the caves, more than just diamonds and lava. i think what they did with biome generation in the nether update is so great, something similar done to caves would be the perfect upgrade they needed
I'm still wondering if there is gonna be a theme for the warped forests. If so, it should be a combination of the nether and the end. As the warped forests are, well, warped by the end. (Endermen spawn more there)
6:45 that’s chilling, like a soft music box playing its tune for the first time in to decades all dusty up in a attic, bone chilling and a soft few notes are turned and then it’s put away never to be heard again.
I love how C418's music is more peaceful, only using piano and string instruments, which matches the feel of the overworld a lot, while Lena's music is more alien-like and more chaotic, with the use of drums and synth, which fits the nether really well.
10:33 remember when you first found a nether fortress and were rushed immediately by wither skeletons. Now think this: Wither Skeletons and Piglins fighting as hoglins help the wither skeletons fight their gold obsessed counterparts as the mysterious endermen transform a crimson forest into the mysterious warped forest as the screams of the lost souls rage on in the soulsand valley and the radioactive waves of the basalt delta flow on. This is the nether now. No longer a burning lava filled hell. But.. remains of a old world destroyed by war..
I don't think the hogs hate the piglins then again they get hunted Maybe if mojang made variations of hoglins like one piglings tamed so they dont kill them randomly and wild ones they hunt that defend themselves
Carinha aleatório Que gosta de youtube Real life animals are no different and do eat their own species as well. Although I feel it isn’t *completely* cannabalism as Piglins have obviously evolved differently from Hoglins
I see this as a precedent that Mojang is setting, slowly. Update Aquatic revamped the oceans, Village and Pillage revamped villages, and the nether update will revamp the Nether. My guess is that caves will be next, then perhaps forests or something that has been the same for a while. The end was revamped a few years ago so I bet it will probably be a bit until it gets revamped again
@@DDub04 Imagine if at the end of this update, the worlds merge, and become connected, where if one digs deep enough with a diamond pickaxe, past the hardened stone infused netherack, they'd break through and fall into the nether... plunging down into the fiery depths. Thatd be amazing. Of course, portals would still work, but would just be faster way to get up and down after your first several visits. They would have to require something from the nether to create. Maybe crying obsidian instead?
Ill be honest, music for the nether that C418 made was more scary in a way, giving a sense of hopelessness. But this new nether music makes me feel kinda uneasy.
@@horrorfan8785 It refers to a certain part in the creation of a philosopher's stone. So Below is also a reference to the alchemic adage "as above so below" The song writer obviously took some inspiration from alchemy.
@@emeraldblack842 All the songs refer to the philosopher's stone. Rubedo refers to the Magnum opus which is the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone. Chrysopoeia is the transmutation from mecury to gold or silver (done by the philosopher's stone). And So below refers to ''As above so below' from the alchemic text "the Emerald Tablet". It refers to macroism and microism where things in heaven are done in the lower way on earth but still are the same. It also refers to that immorality is possible on earth using the elixer of life/philosopher's stone. The artist also stated that she wanted a more "alchemical" balance with using the paino comparing to the old Minecraft songs.
@@RK-ew6wv and the nether is the birthplace of some important alchemical ingredients and reagents. Nether wart, blaze powder from rods, glowstone, ghast tears... The nether is the birthplace of most of minecraft's magic.
It was ethereal, it made me actually feel unfamiliar with the nether, as if I really am in another dimension, not just another world with fire all over the place
14:10 feels like C418 briefly walked out of the studio to take a break, but he forgot to lock the recording room door, and Hans Zimmer snuck in to finish the song
@@moty9248 I'm aware. I just sense that Lena's music feels heavily inspired by C418's, while a standout difference to me are the more grand/epic/cinematic crescendos reminiscent of Hans Zimmer. To me it works perfectly with the mysterious and otherworldly atmosphere Mojang is going for in the Nether update. 🤷🏻♂️
I think that was the intention with these new tracks, as the nether is now being warped into its own unfamiliar landscape, rather then just what hell is in concept. It was genius that they got the composer for Celeste on it too, not only because of their really good music but it also gives a new aura around these tracks because of their own style compared to C418's familiar tracks
@@honeyhiveunderscore I feel like even though the nether had very little apart from just "oh its hell" c418 still did a decent job making a unnerving but old style theme for it
What an interesting update adding these new tracks to the nether. Can't wait to see what else is coming up! :D In other words the first song is just relaxing and beautiful to hear.
They already Sound so mysterious but somehow calming.. I Love every track in minecraft and besides the nostalgic feeling of the other tracks "So Below" may be my favourite now
Since both the Overworld and Nether already have their respective composers. It would be cool to get another one for The End, you know like different dimensions for different composers.
OHHHHH BOY WAIT UNTIL THE END IS UPDATED JUST imagine how ethereal and mystical the end would be because it’s a “burning hell” imagine how many biomes there could be sooo many more mobs other than the elder man and the shulkers and Don’t get me STARTED on the caves imagine what the caves would be like currently Minecraft has soo much potential and could be made into an even better game than it ever was just think about it...
@@Overqualification how in the world is the end "perfect as is"?Seriously,by now the end is just like the old nether,empty,pointless,uniteresting and boring
Abram Seus Óleos 14 Yeah, it’s the end. It shouldn’t be changed cause if it was, it wouldn’t feel like the end. You can’t tell me that the end doesn’t FEEL like a boss fight compared to the other dimensions. If it were changed to have end trees or something stupid like that, it would just feel like a normal world with oh a boss battle cool. It is mainly circular and open and empty with pillars because that’s what most boss battles are like in other games as well.
the first time I heard it on youtube I was like "meh, not bad". But when I heard it in game it was totally amazing, it fits perfectlly with the atmosphere... This is truly beautyful
Chrysopoeia is what led me to this video. It was the first thing I heard when I entered The New Nether for the first time... Man I was gobsmacked. It's super beautiful, starting my new adventure in the mysterious Crimson Forest. It was cool... Till I was jumped by both Piglins and Hoglins😂. But really, outstanding work Lena.
The particle effects are really giving me Stranger Things upside down vibes. I love it. That's what the nether is, too, pretty much. A desolate and creepy, horrifying and dangerous, empty and fear-striking wasteland dimension where dark creatures lurk. Much like the upside down. Holy shit, I can't believe I just described a kids game like that.
Ill tell you what i imagine when i hear Rubedo. Imagine house in forest, in 80s. A family lives here. The family gets murdered, And the house is haunted and abandoned. Now imagine the small, haunted and abandoned house in todays 2021 with the music. *"what happened on this place.....?"*
These tracks are amazing, especially loving So Below! I had no idea they were composed by someone else until I searched them up after exploring the new snapshot 😦 the other two tracks remind me of the underwater tracks which are some of my favourites!
I’m going to be vibing in the new biomes and I’m gonna be like “why do I hear boss music 😳” So cool, my new favorite update next to ocean update and pillager update.
It's nice that Lena managed to capture a C418 feel in the nether music and also making it sound not so c418. It reflects what the nether is. It has life, but not quite lively. It's pretty chill, but not really. Such a masterpiece
For those asking if C418's old nether tracks have been scrapped, I conducted a test by standing in each nether biome till 10 songs passed. Here are my results: Nether wastes 1. Dead voxel 2. Rubedo 3. Rubedo 4. Ballad of the cats 5. Rubedo 6. Dead Voxel 7. Concrete Halls 8. Warmth 9. Concrete Halls 10. Rubedo Crimson Forest 1. Chrysopoeia 2. Ballad of the cats 3. Ballad of the cats 4. Chrysopoeia 5. Chrysopoeia 6. Chrysopoeia 7. Chrysopoeia 8. Ballad of the cats 9. Dead voxel 10. Chrysopoeia (Idk whats up with the ballad of the cats here for me) Warped Forest **endermen screaming noises** Soul Sand Valley 1. So below 2. So below 3. Warmth 4. Concrete Halls 5. So below 6. Warmth 7. Concrete Halls 8. So below 9. Dead voxel 10. So below Basalt Delta 1. Ballad of the cats 2. So below 3. Warmth 4. Warmth 5. Dead voxel 6. So below 7. So below 8. So below 9. So below 10. So below Conclusion: I think for all biomes, there is a 50% chance for Lena Raine's specific track to play, and a 12.5% chance to play each of C418's 4 old songs. If you think about it its pretty balanced :)
im still so blown away by these tracks. each one is so uniquely exotic and mysterious, but manage to hit these emotional highs that rival even the best of C418's work. each one is so atmospheric and carries so much otherworldly energy that you really feel yourself exploring a strange new landscape. that oppressive, tense buildup of So Below, as the choir of souls relentlessly rises alongside a primal, distant drumbeat, feels like you're being hunted by things with a terrible history, older than you could even imagine, and that you're an intruder in their domain. Chrysopoeia brings this awe-inspiring type of alien serenity to the forefront, bringing the least intensity but somehow managing to convey the curious wonder of stumbling across a beautiful, thriving ecosystem with those first piano notes that suddenly envelope you and pull you into this dreamlike reverie before bringing you back down with that organic, swaying percussion at the end. Rubedo is the one that overwhelms me the most, evoking not only the intensity of a dangerous hellscape, but acting as a sort of elegy for something unknown to the player, something lost that we could never appreciate the significance of as outsiders. that mournful, wailing sound just keeps building and building to even greater heights until the mounting tension shatters into a sort of horrifying epiphany, this climax that can't even be described as a conclusion because the wailing continues, quieter now, eventually fading away and then dying out entirely before it can reach any resolution. the amount of unspoken worldbuilding, emotional impact, and immersive power these three tracks have is just totally staggering, and i can't thank lena raine enough for her amazing work! cant wait to see what this game has in store for the future.
I think having a composer other than C418 do the nether tracks was a good call in making the dimension's ambiance fell very strange and "other" compared to the overworld. With that being said, if they decide to add biome-specific tracks for the overworld, I'd be a little more enthusiastic if it was C418 composing them, as it'd keep the overworld's tracks consistent, and very distinct from the new nether ones. (although Lena Raine could definitely do a stellar job with that setting as well)
So below: discovering a beautiful place, yet you feel something wrong Chrysopeia: you think you are safe, but you feel danger are coming Rubedo: you feel you shouldn't be here anymore, but you didn't explore anything yet.
"so below" fits absolutely perfectly with the dark, Erie vibe the basalt Delta gives off. Even just thinking about the biome name with this song gives it a little oomf for me
today i actually got to the new nether in survival and hearing the soundtracks made me happy because the nether music was already my fav but these new ones were on a new level
