ReMix: Final Fantasy VII 'The Twelfth Commandment'

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Midee (Jason Zaffary) writes:

"This is a goth/thrashy rock-opera rendition of FF7's "Judgement Day" in the style of the brit rock group, MUSE. This song borrows from "Apocalypse Please" and a little from "Stockholm Syndrome". This was originally a DoD entry for this past summer, and was revised since. Arrangement, production, and everything but guitars is by me. Dan "prozax" Orosz did the guitars. Violins are real (performed by me) mixed with Sonic Implants strings."

I've actually just gotten into Muse this year, but they were on the cover of Keyboard awhile back and I remember reading about them and thinking they'd be worth checking out. Strong orchestral elements achieve synergy with heavy drums and guitar; the arrangement also cleverly utilizes piano eighth-note chords at 2'32" in a rather Beatlesque turn, when the strings break. Jason's done an ace job of playing with the string dynamics - SI is a fantastic library, but you still need to work to get the best out of it, and he's done amazingly well. 3'16" exposes Dan's clean electric guitar more, as one part panned right covers the melody over backing chords on the left, with faint choral pads in the distance; quite beautiful. Immediately following is the section that seems "Musest" to me, as things get both heavier and more metric/classical. Jason's clearly honed an ability specifically for string arrangement, which is strong here, and it mixes great with Dan's guitar work and the hard rock motif. Even if the arrangement was missing the bit at 2'32", it'd be great, but I felt like that addition in particular made the piece quite memorable and creative. Dan and Jason previously collaborated on a kicking Lifeforce ReMix, and this FF7 follow-up cements the clear success these two have working together - great stuff.

― djpretzel