Black metal in video game soundtrack
Black metal has made it into video games. This first foray actually looks promising: Undead Knights, by Tecmo, out this fall. The player's objective is to build an army of zombies — the fast kind, evidently — to fight humans. How awesome is that? I am not familiar with video games, and promo animations are more high-powered than actual gameplay. However, the above trailer is enticing. It's hard to go wrong with armies of the undead. (See Army of Darkness.)
Lightning Swords of Death - Invoke the Desolate OneValdur - Blodhevn / Vendetta
Even better, the game will have a metal soundtrack. It looks not to be the usual major label B-side snoozefest. The first two acts announced for it are über-kvlt: Lightning Swords of Death and Valdur. They put out an absolutely killer split last year. It's hard to believe these guys are from SoCal. This stuff is killer! Lightning Swords of Death bring a bestial attack, with jabbing and piercing guitars. Valdur are also delightfully ugly, but more atmospheric. Yet who listens to splits now? Licensing music is the way forward. So much media now needs soundtracks — films, video games, multimedia art. Moby licensed out every track from Play. It's time to fight back!
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5 Comments:
"Yet who listens to splits now?"
The right people.
I just reviewed this split. Valdur fucking kicks ass. They're from the eastern Sierras in the middle of nowhere.
Lightning Swords of Death can lock into an impressive groove on "Invoke..." for this type of music. And Valdur's got that special blurriness that I love so much about black metal, when it's done right. This is great stuff. Good news for the game. I need to pick up this split.
Plus, in an interview with LSoD, the vocalist mentions some really interesting books that I need to check out, too. Shit--books, music, and videogames? Finding these bands has been great on all fronts if you ask me!
Wow, what a find! I especially lked Lightning Swords. Kind of a European feel to them. The clips on their MySpace are even better. Thanks for the post!
"It's hard to go wrong with armies of the undead. (See Army of Darkness.)"
I'd like to agree but it is actually very easy to go wrong. (see Evil Dead videogame franchise.)
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