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Arcade Game Inspired Thrash Metal
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on October 06, 2025, 07:39:22 pm ---I got eviscerated over at the Neo-Geo forums for >ghasp< the project being AI... (even though I was up front about it)... so in their honor I was thinking my next project will be a Neo-Geo dedicated project... dedicated to those fine chaps who stuck my post in their War Room (thereby killing the post as I don't do war rooms anymore... just too old and not enough time in life)...
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Magician Lord in the style of the band Falconer would be awesome.
...they may already have songs that are close, lol.
The Irritating Maze would be interesting.
FrizzleFried:
Hmmm... Falconer. Never heard them. Listening now. Nice. Power Metal... Folk Metal... what other genres would apply in your opinion?
FrizzleFried:
Hell, lets do this here in the thread...
First step: Being I have very little experience with Magician Lord, perhaps someone with more experience can assist me? Otherwise I'll go bone up on the game via youtube, etc. so I can go through this for accuracy....
[Verse I]
In the ruins of ancient Arcadia,
Where the moon bleeds silver flame,
Darkness stirs in the tomb of Gal Agiese,
A tyrant reborn without shame.
Seven tomes of forbidden power,
Scattered through cursed domains,
Elta awakens, last Magician Lord,
To purge the world of chains!
[Pre-Chorus]
Through catacombs and haunted halls,
He walks where shadows scream—
A sorcerer forged in pixel fire,
Bound to a dying dream!
Chorus]
Arcane rebirth!
Elta ascends with wrath unchained!
Through beast and flame,
He strikes with magic arcane!
Transform, transcend!
Dragon, Shinobi, and flame-born fiend!
The Magician Lord returns—
To crush the demon’s scheme!
[Verse II]
From man to beast, the glyphs ignite,
A dragon’s breath, a samurai’s blade,
A water elemental’s icy spite,
A shadow form in midnight shade.
Each realm a trial, each boss a curse,
From Hydra’s maw to Golem’s roar,
He casts his fate in runic verse,
And shatters every lore!
[Pre-Chorus]
Through towers tall and lava seas,
He fights with spell and steel—
A warrior-mage of neon wrath,
Arcadia’s last ordeal!
[Chorus]
Arcane rebirth!
Elta ascends with wrath unchained!
Through beast and flame,
He strikes with magic arcane!
Transform, transcend!
Dragon, Shinobi, and flame-born fiend!
The Magician Lord returns—
To crush the demon’s scheme!
[Bridge]
(Spoken in a growl, doom metal style)
“You are too late, Elta… the tomes are mine…”
But Elta stands, eyes blazing with divine fury.
“I am the seal. I am the flame. I am the end of your time.”
(Sung)
In the final chamber, blood-red skies,
Gal Agiese chants his blight—
But Elta, cloaked in spectral guise,
Unleashes holy light!
[Solo]
[Final Chorus]
Arcane rebirth!
Elta ascends with wrath unchained!
Through beast and flame,
He strikes with magic arcane!
Transform, transcend!
Dragon, Shinobi, and flame-born fiend!
The Magician Lord returns—
To crush the demon’s scheme!
[Outro]
The tomes reclaimed, the evil slain,
Arcadia breathes once more—
But deep beneath the pixel plane,
A darker god keeps score…
Worthy lyrics? Any change? Lemme know...
FrizzleFried:
I did a quick search and I do believe there should be "EIGHT tombs of forbidden power"... right?
:D
BadMouth:
I don't have all that much experience with Magician Lord either. It's one of those games that I thought would be cool to play all the way through, but never got around to it. I'd be referring to the manual and YouTube videos same as you.
As for other genres, depends on the game.
Annoying Maze mentioned earlier is asking for techno dance/house.
(edit: mentioned below I can imagine a Polybius song in the style of Monster Magnet)
The style of Alestorm would be fun, but if you made it for a game like Deadstorm Pirates then I guess you'd just have an Alestorm song.
Stan Bush wrote a ton of the upbeat positive training montage music from the 80's and 90's. It's corny and great. An arcade game related song in that style would be hilarious. The more serious it is taken, the funnier it will be. Not sure what game is deserving.
I will scroll through my gamelists today and see if anything worthy of a song jumps out at me.
On a related note, RadioBob! is an awesome internet radio network for rock music out of Germany. No ads. Occasional station ID. I have some of the stations added to my streaming apps of choice, but you can also listen on their website https://www.radiobob.de/ (any links I try to post to other pages end up on that main page)
Don't bother with the national livestream. Click streams in the middle, then scroll down to other streams. I mainly listen to the Stoner Rock channel, but I don't think that genre is all that great for arcade lyrics. ....'cept maybe a trippy weird Polybius song. Mittelalter Rock is middle ages rock.
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