ReMix: Castlevania II: Simon's Quest 'DarkMadnessResurrection'

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goat is good. Not only as chevon in a number of tasty Greek recipes (love that feta cheese), but also as a guitar-based ReMixer who's given us some great Castlevania 2 metal mixage before and does so again with his latest ode to the men and women of Club Kukeiha via shredded frets and slugger drums. The first minute here is actually rather mellow, with a clean, undistorted electric playing pleasant arpeggiated chord patterns (some of the changes in which reminded me of the music towards the end of the wonderful Truman's Show soundtrack), but things get decisively more menacing and ominous as screeches enter in, the volumes builds, and the guitar gets some teeth with thick metal distortion, accompanied by mucho-tom-fill drums, the classic Kukeiha goth organ, and a deep, picked electric bass. There's a section following the initial hits that rests on rapid-fire shred runs upward that does go on a little longer than I'd have liked, and if there's one downside it's that this is definitely a pattern-based ReMix, with arpeggios, trills, and repeated riffs dominating. But the intro and outro, with lovely solo melody, balance this aspect out and serve nicely as variant bookends. This isn't one of my favorite CV2 tracks, but goat's given it some bite and vitality with his arrangement. Definitely great listening for the many established fans of CV metal or 8-bit metal in general, featuring some very blistering riffs and clean mixing. Cool.

― djpretzel