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NOTES: This song is actually from the OFFICIAL remix project for Howard Drossin’s Splatterhouse 2010 soundtrack. It was a private project organized by Howard (with help from Jeriaska of Gamasutra) that I go recruited to. Howard’s original soundtrack is a lot of metal and a lot of creepy 50′s style orchestral scoring, but not really the two together. I took one of his battle themes and added some orchestra stuff to it and got internet guitar hero and friend Chris Feener to do some insane shredding from 3:35 to 4:20. All other guitars are me.

I wanted to call the song “Splatter Kill” because it’s appropriately gruesome enough to fit the song. Howard decided to name it “Hell House.” Which is still cool, but I like Splatter Kill better . My song is the opening track to the album. Click here to check out the project.

NOTES: Oh God YES! I am finally in a video game! The developing team for Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 hosted a contest and posted a short track for people to remix. The winner was chosen by the team and would be put inside the game. That was me! But…*GASP* I was not the only winner! A_Rival also was picked to win, so we both get in. No matter! Couldn’t have turned out any better!

Knowing that the majority of submitted remixes were going to be of the electronica variety, I knew I had to make a track that was different and stood out from the rest. I always have live instruments in my remixes, but I knew I couldn’t just do straight up metal, because that’s probably just as cliché, if not more than, as straight up techno! I do a lot of orchestral metal music in a “more apocalyptic Symphony X” variety, but I haven’t done one like this. BCR2 Producer Rey Jimenez hit it on the head when he said that my track was “deserving to be a score for Metal Gear,” because that was definitely a big influence for this track.

BCR2 will be coming out early 2011, so make sure you pick up a copy to hear me while you play an awesome video game!

From the arrangement album CONTRA 4: ROCKED ‘N’ LOADED. SERIOUSLY, IF YOU HAVEN’T BOUGHT THIS YET THEN THERE’S SOMETHING SEVERELY WRONG WITH YOU!

NOTES: After 2 freakin’ bullshit-filled, bad luck-ridden years, Contra 4: Rocked ‘n’ Loaded has been released! From 11 of the most metal people in the remixing community, we have delivered only the most manly metal album ever created. With music from BrainCells, Chris Dlugosz, Christian Pacaud, Danimal Cannon, Marc-Andre Gingras, norg, Norrin_Radd, Prince of Darkness, Snappleman, Travis Moberg and the game’s very own composer, virt, the album has 13 tracks of face-melting, testicular-fortitude improving crotch rock.

…and here’s a track! My arrangement of the Base level in pure metal form. We’ve also released norg’s track “Balls of Steel” at the album’s main website. So GO HERE to check it out AND BUY IF YOU HAVEN’T YOU JERK.

From the OCR project DKC2: SERIOUS MONKEY BUSINESS.

NOTES: OverClocked Remix released it’s 17th album a couple weeks ago. DKC2: Serious Monkey Business has been in the works for about 2.5 years and is the best OCR album since Project Chaos. Many people think it’s the best one yet. I’m happy to be just a small part of it.

My song, “This Chase is Haunted” (play of words off of the video game band “This Place is Haunted”) is a relatively simpler arrangement style as compared to my other arrangements. I actually seemed to have a little bit more difficulty arranging the source because it was pretty much the same motif over and over, so I had to add a lot of original stuff (and a Lamb of God reference) to push the song just barely past the 3 minute mark. It’s short and sweet I suppose, and we can’t have 7+ minute epics all the time!

As a funny sidenote, ever since I got on DKC2, projected deadlines and release dates have always been within a week or two of Contra 4: Rocked ‘n’ Loaded’s dates and deadlines. So SnappleMan and I kept trying to plan around this, but it always came back to bite us.