"Dancing Mad" Comparable to Opeth?

[BrandonS]

For those of you who don't know.. I'm talking Dancing Mad from Final Fantasy 6. It's about 18 minutes long and is a brilliant composition. It has been performed by a band called The Black Mages as well, but is available in an inferior MIDI format! If you haven't heard, search for a midi.

I think the song has a lot of changes, many of them unexpected and a bunch of classical influence. If you're talking the band version, it's got great guitar work and soloing. And it has a very grim sound at times. Honestly I thought that was what Ghost Reveries would sound like back when Mike was saying the 30-minute long black metal opus!

...Anyone concur? Plus it has what could be called an "Opeth ending" but after that ending it goes into another part... sooo.... Yeah, pretty cool.

 

[Ermz]

Can't say I've heard The Black Mages, nor that I recall that track by name. But from all the Nobuo stuff I have heard, whilst it is truly fantastically composed music... particularily the cover of One Winged Angel done on the Advent Children soundtrack, I don't see many similarities to Opeth at all.

 

[A Darkness Coming]

the FF6 sound track is the best in any video game ever man

 

[MegaMoose]

The whole series pretty much has great music. I'm personally a big fan of the soundtrack of FF7 (even though the game itself is overrated).

A little bird flew down here and pecked out my uterus, even though I am not Saddam.

 

[Jon Snow]

Yea, Dancing Mad basically pwns. But I don't think it's similar to opeth.

 

[R0l0]

the FF6 sound track is the best in any video game ever man

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I've said this every time a video game music thread came up on this board, only to get shot down by all the FF7 fanboys

 

[Yoda]

Just downloaded midi and opened it up with Cakewalk to see the score. Pretty cool stuff. Don't really see how you could compare it to Opeth at all though.