Most people who talk about Donkey Kong Country’s music only talk about that final boss song from the first one, but I didn’t play that one so I didn’t listen to that song until the Internet became a thing. This may not sound very metal due to the sounds they chose for the music (this is a game about monkeys doing somersaults, after all), but make some arrangements and they wouldn’t be far from Iron Maiden songs. The thing is that the 6 year old me didn’t know that, he just knew the music from Doom was the shit. This is kind of cheating because a lot of music from the Doom games is made of stolen material taken from other songs: you’ve got Metallica’s Master of Puppets, Slayer’s Behind the Crooked Cross, Pantera’s Mouth of War, Alice in Chains’ Them Bones and Black Sabbath’s After all (The Dead), to name a few.
It was meant to be metal from the drawing board. This was the audio queue that said “This isn’t happy anymore”.ĭoom is about shooting demons from Hell that came through a portal on Mars. They were probably going for an organ kind of sound, but that theme and the Ghost House theme are straight up Black Sabbath. The Mario games are generally all about pretty colors and tunes, and in Super Mario World you go playing in jolly rainbow-puking worlds until you hit that first castle and listen to the music. Here are some examples of both overlooked tracks and those that might make you get “them feels” and waste your day on. In fact, my first encounters with metal came through videogames.
Game developers didn’t take much time to figure out that shooting nazi-demon-aliens in the face could be enhanced by putting killer riffs in the background. Like (probably) many of you, I discovered tons of music by playing videogames.
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