musical conspiracies or videogame conspiricies

[wayne the goblin/robot]

heres mine:

Dream theater composed the music for starcraft.

Rhapsody originaly composed the music for fable but was removed during the editing process.

symphony x did prince of persia soundtrack

whats yours?

 

[Kronikle66]

The Starcraft music sounds nothing like Dream Theater. :-\

-Kronikle

P.S. I thought this would be a great time to plug http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/starcraft_brood_war_d.txt

 

[SevenString]

Here's one: TNT does the music for Sonic the Hedgehog.

oops, that one is sort of true...

 

[the alumnus]

ok, someone needs to post that dreamtheatre-nes.mp3. i would but i don't have file hosting.

 

[Cat5Messiah]

Dream Theater or at least John Petrucci did music for a Sega Saturn game named Necronomicon. The Prologue and Epilogue used to be on the John Petrucci website but they're not there anymore. Some good shit though.

 

[Kronikle66]

I think I remember hearing that Symphony X did something for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I'm probably dead wrong though.

 

[kazahana]

Dragonforce wrote all pre-32 bit console music ever. EVER.

That's not a conspiracy. That's a fact.

 

[Kenneth R.]

SyX did do that castlevania bit, JP of DT did do Necronomicon,

i want to know who did the final battle metal song on FFX, and the shred solo on the battle results screen for FFX-2

 

[dargormudshark]

didn't Buckethead do the song in the Mortal Kombat movie when ever Goro is fighting someone?

 

[Ryöpsäyttelijä]

If I remember right, Meshuggah have made some music to the game. I don't remember the name of the game, but I remember the song that they made.... Straws Pulled at Random

 

[karelrulez]

I thought Symphony X didn't do Castlevania..

 

[The Stormbringer]

I thought Symphony X didn't do Castlevania..

They didn't. It's just a widespread mix-up swirling around on file sharing platforms.

 

[the_satanic_rabbit]

Marty Friedman's "Nasty Machine" is the title music for a PS2 game, I think some racing game. They want him to do some music for the sequel too, I heard.

Don't mean to crash the party, but this might help to clear a few things up if you have questions.

http://www.vgmidi.com/html/composers.htm

 

[Kenneth R.]

there's a lot of sick music on Transworld Snowboarding, but its all listed so no conspiracy there....

 

[dargormudshark]

Well now I know that Sun-Caged did not do the music for Sonic

 

[ElPredicador]

i want to know who did the final battle metal song on FFX, and the shred solo on the battle results screen for FFX-2

The partial answer:

Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX [NES, FC, SNES, PS1]- Nobuo Uematsu
Final Fantasy X [PS2]- Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano
Final Fantasy X-2 [PS2] - Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi
Final Fantasy XI [PS2] - Nobuo Uematsu, Naoshi Mizuta, and Kumi Tanioka
Final Fantasy XI Vision of Ziraat [PS2] - Naoshi Mizuta

 

[Kenneth R.]

its not Nobuo Uematsu (though his stuff rules) this is definitely a semi popular metal band, cause i know i've heard the song before. my vague memory suggests Disturbed... but i can't be sure.

 

[Zax666]

I think Nine Inch Nails did the music for Quake.

 

[Cat5Messiah]

I though Uematsu quit composing for Square after FFIX....

 

[symphonyXjapan]

I have metioned on this board a million times about the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night/Symphony X mix up. In Japan the Castlvania series is actually called Dracula X. Because of that and the particular game in question having the subtitle of "Symphony of the Night" there tends to be a mixing of the series title and the subtitle sometimes and that results in the phrase Symphony X being used sometimes.

I don't know anything about DT or Rhapsody doing any music for videogames but I do know there could really be a future of prog and progmetal with game music. This I believe is because there is definately a correlation between the two types of music, and this is especially true now that game music is using a lot more guitar and orchestrations in their music over the last few years. I have a "gamer" friend who loves game music as well, like me, and he isn't really into other types of music at all. But a lot of the music he hears me listen to of the prog and power metal genre he has told me he likes, and on ocassion we can give examples of what particular games music sounds like the song I am playing. In game soundtracks, especially those of the rpg genre, the composers try to use many different instruments to give the feeling of a different or strange culture, or the mood of what a specific character is like or the situation they are in. Because of this they have to use and expirement with all kinds of diff sounds and insturments. This is the same in prog and prog metal too. I don't think either of them were influenced in general by the other, but that because they are both aiming for the same goal musically, they happen to correlate so closely together.

BTW: I thought that that metal song at the beginning of FFX (also used at the end) was some US release "let's americanize" strategy at first too. But that song is also in the Japanese game. The song on any soundtracks that have that song say it is by Nobuo Uematsu and it is prob true. You don't think he could pick up a guitar and play it just like he would any other instument?