Songs of Phantasia
Discography
Chocobestiary
Extras
"Songs of Phantasia" is a tribute to the music of Tales of Phantasia. Fantastic game with an amazing soundtrack that unfortunately don't get love often by VGM Cover artists, except "Fighting of the Spirit", of course. A similar situation with that of Super Castlevania IV with Theme of Simon while ignoring all the other great tunes.
Tales of Phantasia is also in my TOP of all-time favorite videogames and the soundtrack has (in my opinion) some of the best stuff Sakuraba ever composed. Full of variety, catchy melodies and extremely tricky stuff when it comes to arranging and playing.
So it was a matter of time this project becomes a reality. 11 covers, arrangements, remixes or whatever, of 11 different songs. A wide variety of styles and moods but mostly with metal as a base. Featuring a big bunch of talented artists all around the world.
All tracks arranged, produced, mixed and whatever by Unknown Pseudoartist at Ancient Computer Studios (except track 7, mixed by minusworld).
Original source tracks composed by Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura, Ryota Furuya except track 1 (Toshiyuki Sekiguchi).
Check each individual track for more info, credits and stuff.
You can download the full album for free in Bandcamp.
Original title: “The Dream Will Never Die”
Style: jrock / popwer metal
Original title: “Mysterious Japon” or “Ninja Village”
Style: jmetal, or “metal with flutes”
Original title: “Aviators”
Style: “doujin” energic metal
Original title: “Desolated Road”
Style: chill folk (intro), viking metal (later)
Original title: “Castle of Dhaos”
Style: “doujin” metal
Original title: “Abyss of Thor”
Style: industrial metal
Original title: “Conclusion”
Style: experimental/prog/groove/whatever metal
Original title: Decisive
Style: dark orchestral, slightly metalized
Original title: “Overcoming Difficulties”
Style: Jazz-ska-latin-whatever
Original title: “Hurry!!”
Style: pseudo-prog, fast “hurry hurry!” nonsense
Original title: “Fighting of the Spirit”
Style: metal
