OUTER WILDS: Elegy for the Rings (Metal/Post-Rock Cover) 

Hi folks, since I've had a few requests to make this cover downloadable, you can find it as a free download on my Bandcamp page now: joshua-lee.bandcamp.com/track/outer-wilds-elegy-for-the-rings-cover Thanks for listening!

In the game, you just see them on a casual Tuesday night. This is them on a Saturday night.

Hearthian: Hey guys, what's going on in here- * headbanging stops *

This is why the owlks don't mind spending (almost) eternity in their virtual world, they're playing FIRE in there🔥🔥🔥

I was honestly kinda skeptical when I saw "Doom Metal Cover", but hot damn dude, this honestly goes really hard. Great work!

YEAHHHHHHHHHH the shift to acoustic around 4:00 is really well done. Felt like a neat reference to the overworld songs like The River. also, stranger howl at 5:00 was funny. Definitely conveyed that 'running for your life because you've been spotted' vibe lmao

So I know 5k views isn't a lot in RU-vid numbers, but this video has almost 5,000 views which feels like quite a lot! Thanks folks for enjoying this and be sure to go support Andrew Prahlow, the original composer of the Outer Wilds soundtrack. I do sometimes make original music, most of which is on my Bandcamp pages linked below: josh-lee.bandcamp.com/ (electronic music, soundtracks, etc.) pale-star.bandcamp.com/ (ambient, drone, doom stuff) I don't always make music like this but keep an eye out - I'm always working on new stuff 👁

A year has passed and I keep coming back to this absolute masterpiece

this gave me an insane idea... A game that's like a fusion of Outer Wilds, Everhood, and a little bit of Doom, where you have to kill each of the Strangers to free them from their twisted digital immortality that they're too afraid to lose.

I've been hoping for a metal remix of some of the Outer Wilds\EotE tracks. This is great. I really like how you incorporated the "ejection scream" at 4:40.

I’m picturing the Doom 2016 cover art, with the Hatchling in place of the Doomslayer, fighting Elks, while the titan’s skull in the background is replaced by an anglerfish fossil. Amazing work, truly.

Красота. Если оригинальная Elegy была воспоминанием, то этот кавер - то, о чём это воспоминание.

This was crazy awesome. That howl at 5:00 is just 🤌🤌

This cover works so damn well with this track. The original has the chords on what I think is a bass, so this version definitely fits the tone and mood of the game. Still for me one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played, specifically EotE. I recently played through Re: Village and the baby section for the first time, pretty horrific. For me though, honestly, I found this DLC more scary. The lack of any voice acting, no stuff to read like in the main game, just pure visual storytelling, and the dark sections take me back to when I was little and was petrified of the dark. I think that's why I found this DLC so freaky, but the way it encouraged me to find the answers in the dark made it an experience I hold in such high regard, and one that I sadly can never experience again for the first time. Sorry for the little tangent, I just absolutely love this game. Once again, solid cover.

As soon as i heard this song in game i was like "damn this is so doomy" This is amazing and i cant wait for the end of the universe.

I love that you kept the distorted whine of the original that gave it an extra creepy edge, and I'm a big fan of the way the acoustic moments add a touch of melancholy to the otherwise dark and heavy flair of this cover. You just got a sub on the first video of your channel.

Love it! Hope to hear more Outer Wilds covers. Let me know if this ever makes its way to Spotify!

Love this version, so raw and yet captures the original spirit of the song so perfectly! How does this only have 12,000 views? Needs a lot more imho, fantastic work!

This GOES!!! And love the use of the in-game sfx, great work dude!

Amazing!!🤩 Would 😍 to see "Outer Wilds - The River" metalized

You'd think Doomguy would be able to just shotgun his way to victory. Then you remember you're sent into the dream world without any equipment but a lantern. Eh, he'll weaponize it anyway.

The owlelks were around for around 250,000 years before the end of the game, and probably much longer after the sun went supernova, so I believe they came up with this version in universe

Metal is not normally my genre but damn. As a player who enjoyed the game, I can say you pretty well captured the anger and sorrow of their story perfectly with this piece. Awesome tribute.

I fucking love this in my opinion I oh so wish you added a blowing air noise at the end like the strangers blowing out the lights but still badass song Edit: idk why but at 0:46 it reminds me of the Metro series OST

A year later, and I still love coming back to this masterpiece.

2:30 when the owlelks had enough of your trespassing 5:03 owlelks pull shotguns out with malicious intent

This cover popped up on my recommended, and I'm so glad it did! I remember just sitting by the water side house and listening to the Owlk jamming out this tune, so it's awesome hearing it expanded out like this. Great work!

I keep coming back to this it's just so incredibly well done. Really breathed new life into this piece of music and turned it into something really fucking awesome. Well done!

Just perfect. I have no words.

Never would have thought a metal Elegy would sound so good! Sounds just as eerie and beautiful as the original but at the same time much more epic. Amazing cover

Someone send this to Andrew Prahlow I think he would love this, absolute 10/10. Please make more stuff like this.

Well this is going in my "Good songs," playlist.

i can't even consider myself a metalhead, but i vibe so hard to this!

Those occasional howls were terrifying. I had to look around because I couldn’t tell if it was the music or my dog

This cover is so much better than I thought initially. I loved it. It's become one of my favorite songs, period. However, it mirrors the species' journey quite well. It begins with an ominous, somewhat mysterious tone. It gives you something to entice you. It enters the primary section, which you could read as anger or action. The 'metal'. The next section I read as a mix of regret and hope. It's beautiful. It's an attempt at finding peace. Finally, we enter the rejection. A relapse in anger. The species let themselves lose their humanity (owl-manity?). They let themselves die. Finally, they are lost. The song ends in anger. Obviously I'm reading into it more than is likely there. I just love this song a lot.

we gettin out of the dream world with this one !!!!

After having reset my settings for Infinite because of reinstall and finding out I actually really like the music at least by itself, man.... This is awesome

the Owlk dying at the very end was a great detail! Amazing cover!

Oh my god I’m getting chills from the first 5 seconds

Excellent work. The buildup is so well executed and the result is just so powerful. I was also sitting here watching the video like "man it would be so sick if the owlks vanished due to the flood when the song ends" and THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID what a fine detail.

I'm surprised by how well metal fits with this track, but it makes sense now that I think about it. Given what the people went through, they'd definitely make metal music to express their anguish.

Incredible cover. Also, glad you changed the description (although it does have doom metal influence, I think too many people were expecting to hear something influenced by Mick Gordon).

This is so awesome! Great cover. I run a D&D campaign set in the Fallout universe (New Vegas specifically, for anyone who cares!) and this track is PERFECT for an upcoming confrontation my players are running into. I'll be sure to share with them this track in particular. :)

This song is new to me, But I am honored to be apart of it.

this is awesomeeee wow, loved it keep up the good work!

I couldn't imagine straying half as far from the original and still retaining the magic, but you've certainly managed it! Truly some skillful work!

this goes so hard, great work dude! love that sludgy guitar tone. great use of the Owlks' screams during the acoustic section as well!

The effect re-using that melody in this composition is unlike anything i've heard before. I literally can't put it into words the feeling it evokes. Sorrow, gratitude, rage, pride for your entire species with an intensity unqiue to this version. You made one of the best videos on this platform imo

This is so awesome! The coolest cover of the Elegy for the rings I have found yet.

I really want to see a metal cover for the main theme, haven't seen it done well yet and i feel it'd sound great as a metal song

Love the detail of the strangers flames going out right at the end, well done.

Awesome work. Just finished playing Outer Wilds and the DLC the other day, and now I stumble upon this. Being a huge metalhead (100 points if you recognize my pfp), I can be pretty particular about how a metal cover of a video game song should be done, but this is just perfectly executed!

I discovered 65daysofstatic through No mans sky and love the game and its music. This seem like the perfect combination of the two soundtracks. Love it.

When two of my worlds collide beautifully

This is soooooooooooooooooooooo good! Can't stop replaying it!

Maaan, honestly one of the best covers ever, if not the best. Its fire!!

This goes so much harder than I expected, good shit

"The Nomai" track from the OST would also make for an incredible funeral doom cover. Imagine those slow, atmospheric, plodding riffs as a piano plays that somber melody. I can already picture it in my head. You know what? I'm gonna try it.

_The only thing they fear... is eye_

Wow just revisited this, probably been a good 7-8 months since I last heard this cover, It's really good. It does sound less like a doom cover though and more like a rock/metal cover though. Still I like it! EDIT: Ok maybe I don't know my genres :\ I thought this was supposed to be in the style of doom (the game).

Holy hell, this is incredible

I was saving the phrase "This goes hard" for the right moment. This, it turns out, is that moment.

I can just imagine the strangers rockin out in their cabin. Beautiful.

man this goes SO HARD

Incredible cover!! You captured the right tone and everything here. Well well done!!

Incredible!! Love the arrangement, and absolutely fantastic production :) congrats!

This is fantastic, I can't believe this is your only upload!!

Just discovered this recently and i haven't been able to stop listening, this bangs so hard man

Great stuff, ~3 minutes in gave me chills. This tells me that all the birds needed to do was invite the Hearthians in for a jam session and they would've been in a way better mood. Which I guess is part of the lesson of Outer Wilds to begin with!

The people in the comments not knowing what Doom Metal is and making forced references to the game DOOM are beyond embarrassing

They just wanted to go home.

OMG !! This is incredible

That Melody at the start was to great to be left unexploited

This is fucking incredible!

Something I didn't know I wanted.

Just got into metal and seeing the one song that greeted me when I first played this gem of a game turned into a metal track makes my head spin; this is fire as all hell

Oh I wasn't sure what to expect, but this is amazing.

I can’t stop listening. Amazing

Yes, my favorite game and my other favorite game. Though I seem to remember doom metal is also on its own a metal genre and not necessarily about the game... Anyhow this is great, love it

this absolutely fucking rocks

Please release this to Spotify if you haven't already! A lot of people would appreciate it!! Keep up the good work

PLEASE post this to the Steam community hub for Outer Wilds. I know a lot of people there would enjoy this as much as I do, and it should bring much deserved attention to your other works as well.

I just realised that this song was a lament for the home planet the aliens destroyed to create the vessel they used to search for the eye in the Hearthian solar system.

i'd love to see a doom metal cover of travelers i truly dream with it

Dude, 4:40 totally blew my mind. Like 3 tone downsteps from e back to F#, back to E, and it perfectly fits. That's your addition, right?

Masterpiece well done.

Haha the flute playing in the distance keeps spooking me like it did in-game. Awesome cover man!

The vibes are IMMACULATE

Good job, sounds great

This is incredible music! I love the slow start and buildup to the bigger sounds

this is really sick, nice job

This feels like a mix of spec ops: the line and outer wilds. Never thought this combo could exist, but it slaps real hard

Honestly, this is so great that I half expect Andrew Prahlow will be commenting in this comment section soon. He lurks around sometimes

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SICK

It's intense, but perfectly so. Love it.

Awesome work! Gives the feeling of a majestic lonely dangerous journey... I am waiting for the following covers!

You definetly have to show this Andrew Prahlow and put it on Spotify. This is gold

Amazing

"Something in the way.. Mmmm.."