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THE BLACK MAGES discography and reviews
The Black Mages is an arranged soundtrack album of video game music from the Final Fantasy series of role-playing video games. The album contains a selection of musical tracks from the games, arranged and performed in a hybrid of hard rock and progressive metal by The Black Mages. All the selected tracks are "battle themes" from the blogger.com: Instrumental rock, hard rock, progressive metal, . The first Black Mages album certainly holds up to that concept. Ran by the composer of Final Fantasy music himself, Nobuo Uematsu hand picks and revamps some of the more intense pieces of music from the beloved Final Fantasy Games. He sticks with the older games and picks songs that truly fit in this more progressive metal style. Most of the album is fairly enjoyable if you can get over the. 1/10 Limited White Label Copy Includes unlimited streaming of Black Magic EP via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Random nugget for you, but I've never played any of the Final Fantasy games. Now, the black mages album download, I'm not usually a big fan of instrumental albums.
While I do enjoy the music, I find it tedious sitting through so much of it in one go, so it's surprising to me that 'The Black Mages', the bands first outing, is a personal favourite of mine, and was awarded as such, with five stars. The songs seem more guitar-oriented, and the fun and enthusiasm of the first the black mages album download to have been replaced by super seriousness. It's not bad, but this album just lacks that joyful energy.
There's two songs with vocals this time around. Both are good songs, and the vocals do break up the monotony a little. On the instrumental side of things, tracks like 'Hunter's Chance', 'The Man With the Machine Gun' and 'Battle With the Four Fiends' are notable tracks that make this album a worthy purchase, but sadly none of them live up to what's come before.
There's some good songs and some bad ones. There's a lot of styles covered which keeps things somewhat interesting, and the musicianship is of a high standard, though sometimes wasted on uninteresting arrangements. Overall, it's a good album, but if it's your introduction to the band then you're better off going with their self-titled debut. I've always had an appreciation for video game music, even though my gaming days may have died out around the same time the PS2 did, the moods and atmosphere in the music, as well as the nostalgia they incite, always struck a chord with me.
I had a keyboard player friend who was a fan of the Final Fantasy series of which I've never playedand he turned me on to the music of Nobuo Uematsu, the games composer. In particular, he played me the song 'Clash on the Big Bridge'. I loved it! It was catchy, energetic and fun to listen to, taking me right back the black mages album download my childhood days playing my Sega Master System, Super Nintendo and my Game Boy the original, big white brick with a green screen.
I still own it, it still works. Nostalgia rules! So who are the Black Mages? Formed by Nobuo Uematsu, the Black Mages are essentially an instrumental band who do the black mages album download metal versions of Final Fantasy soundtracks Not that I'd recognize them anyway, I've never played the games, the black mages album download.
Video game music and prog? Yes please! Overflowing with vibrant energy, the black mages album download, excellent musicianship and lavish orchestrations, the Black Mages self-titled debut album is just a fun listen from start to finish.
And the great thing is, I've never even played any Final Fantasy games! Just goes to show you don't need to be a fan of the source material to enjoy something. Review by JLocke Prog Reviewer. Some of the tracks here are indeed tracks that had that 'Heavy Metal' edge anyway, the black mages album download, and I suppose Uematsu chose which tracks he felt were best suited to be turned into full-blown Metal music.
Despite that, though, The black mages album download found myself wishing these guys had ventured into the more orchestral territory of Uematsu's back catalogue. But no matter. After all, if you want to hear the Final Fantasy music as it was originally composed, buy the soundtracks to the games themselves.
In fact, I would recommend that. The Black Mages are a different breed. They are taking the most majestic, heavy-hitting tracks from the series and beefing them up with Prog Metal stylings. It works, but it may shock some listeners who were expecting more of the same. There are variations made to the arrangements in some cases, and more often than not I agree with them. Some of them are minor and seemingly unnecessary, but they suit the style of music better.
Other changes are more drastic, and the songs in those cases have been expanded and fully realized from the stubs they once were. This takes place when playing the much older work from the midi days of video game composition when real instruments weren't a part of it. Now we get to hear what was in Uematsu's head the entire time when all we heard before were blips and beeps representing a much more majestic song hidden underneath. I find this all very fascinating the black mages album download it makes the album worth listening to, even if you're already familiar with the music as it existed before.
However, I do feel that Prog Metal is only one aspect of this man's musical abilities, and you want to truly experience his genius full-tilt, you'll need to hear ALL sides of his work, and not just the heavy stuff.
Since The Black Mages don't really deliver in that regard, and I know what else Uematsu is capable of, I feel I cannot give this album a super-high rating. It's good. Very good, the black mages album download. But I have heard better from this man, and while I enjoyed this music very much, it merely whetted my appetite for the main course, which is his vast, expansive work in many other musical realms. If you enjoy Prog Metal or video games, this will be especially remarkable for you.
If you don't really like Prog Metal OR video games, I think you might still like this, though personally The black mages album download think it would be the wrong place to start if you want to get into Nobuo Uematsu's work. This is a japanese metal band headed by Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. Their style is symphonic power prog, and I quite enjoy it.
The songs are fairly straightforward, though. None of them hold up too well to the prog label, and it shows. Some of the songs feel like Dream theater mixes, while others are almost opera style in their instrumental metal approach. Consisting of battle music from the game series, each one tends to pack quite a punch, and the black mages album download listens, but show their slight shallow nature with repeated listens. The melodies are fantastic, the playing is top notch, and the memories some of these songs bring up are more powerful than the songs, themselves.
One track of note, is Dancing Mad. This 12 minute long masterpiece of music is the main reason I recommend this album. It is extended, powerful, progressive, and the album's one true highlight, the black mages album download. I could give this album an extra star and a half just for this song, alone, the black mages album download.
The black mages album download for everyone. If you aren't too keen on power prog, the black mages album download, or symphonic metal, you won't like this, and if you aren't into instrumental music, this might put you off.
In all, it is an excellent release. Fans of the series should buy this, now, the black mages album download. Four Stars. Review by Sinusoid Prog Reviewer. Japan geek-metallers, The Black Mages are back for more, but something seems the black mages album download be missing this time out. While the band has released two exquisite albums before this one capitalizing on making progressive-metal out of the soundtracks to the Final Fantasy video game series it seems by this point the band is running out of ideas.
While there's still a few classic moments to be had on this album for the most part it feels samey and, the black mages album download, at times, uninspired. One of the biggest draws for the black mages album download game fans is the knowledge that you're going to hear your favorite 8-bit tunes brought to life by some excellent musicians. One of the biggest problems with this album is it's selection of such tunes. While the previous albums rang true on just about every track it seems that the band ran out of familiar tunes and has had to revert to using the more obscure songs from the soundtracks.
Only a few of the songs are recognizable, even to the hardened Final Fantasy veteran and while this certainly would not be a valid point if where the only thing holding the album down there's other factors at play as well. The songs that are recognizable are the shortest of the bunch, and while that's not a bad thing in general there's always the hope that a song like the excellent opener, Bombing Runwill run for more than 5-minutes, but to no avail.
Some songs should have been very noticeable off the bat, especially a tune like the final-boss fight from FFVNeo EXDEATHa tune that if you're familiar with the series most hardcore fans could whistle to you at a moment's notice.
Here it sounds familiar, but vaguely. The musicianship on the record is impressive as always, but there's a certain energy that is strangely absent. Even in the good songs like Bombing Run there's an overplay of a strangely soft keyboard that doesn't seem to demand much of the audience.
One of the best things about these guys is the aggression that they've put into some of their previous albums, especially on songs that are meant to represent grand battles. Assault of the Silver Dragons is a the black mages album download where this does not apply - and this one is an absolute classic that every Black Mages fan should hear.
This is everything the band has done well before - aggressive guitars and keyboards with flashy soloing and a good hook. Most of the rest of the songs on the album are strangely unremarkable.
What's odd about that is that on the band's previous albums most of the tunes had a life of their own and each one had a kind of personality. On the first record, even Battle Scene and Battle, Scene II were very different in approach and memorable in their own ways.
On this record it gets hard sometimes to tell a distinct difference between something like The Extreme and Grand Crossand everything turns in wailing on chords.
Luckily the end of the album is supported well by the band's most ambitious effort to date, the minute long title track. For those who are unfamiliar with the game series, there's a scene in Final Fantasy VI in which one of the characters has to perform in an opera, and this song is the score to that opera. Of course, in the game the cut scene was not 15 minutes long, so the boys had some room to experiment and add pieces here. The singing is in Japanese and in an operatic manner with spoken word throughout.
Some parts come off as forced while others shine through beautifully as the song makes its way to the end. A few weak moments, but overall a great track that has made significant improvements on the style of the title track from the previous album, The Skies Above. After that the album ends with a reflective and short, touching piano piece called Life ~In Memory Of Keiten~.
So while the album has its moments this one is definitely aimed more at the hardcore fans than a general populous. Fans will the black mages album download get a kick out of select songs while the broader range of people might just wonder what it is they're listening to.
If someone were to ask which Black Mages album to buy, however, this would be the last one in line for recommendation. Review by ProgBagel Prog Reviewer. Another solid and best so far effort from these gamers.
Nobuo Uematsu and his team came back very strong after being quite for nearly 4 years. They seem to have decided to span the tracks from across the vast timeline that is Final Fantasy; grabbing a little bit from here and there.
The musicianship is again, a top notch performance. The main difference in all of the Black Mages albums is the choice of songs, in my opinion, the black mages album download I feel like they chose some great tracks and kept it varied very much.
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1/10 Limited White Label Copy Includes unlimited streaming of Black Magic EP via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. The Black Mages is an arranged soundtrack album of video game music from the Final Fantasy series of role-playing video games. The album contains a selection of musical tracks from the games, arranged and performed in a hybrid of hard rock and progressive metal by The Black Mages. All the selected tracks are "battle themes" from the blogger.com: Instrumental rock, hard rock, progressive metal, . The first Black Mages album certainly holds up to that concept. Ran by the composer of Final Fantasy music himself, Nobuo Uematsu hand picks and revamps some of the more intense pieces of music from the beloved Final Fantasy Games. He sticks with the older games and picks songs that truly fit in this more progressive metal style. Most of the album is fairly enjoyable if you can get over the.
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