I've got a pretty strong recommendation for all of those familiar with The Black Mages' and Hellion Sounds' music, as well as those who are simply Nobuo Uematsu fans. The �Final Fantasy Heavy Metal Arrange�, downloadable below, is a medley of heavy metal / hard rock covers of music from the Final Fantasy video games.



Publisher: best of shape
Release Date 2007.04.01
Composition: Nobuo Uematsu (植松伸夫)
Arrangement: SHΛDE

01. FF8 The Legendary Beast
02. FF8 The Extreme
03. FF5 ビッグブリッジの死闘
04. FF3 オープニング.テーマ
05. FF2 戦闘シーンA
06. FF6 決戦
07. FF7 神の誕生
08. FF6 妖星乱舞 -第一楽章-
09. FF6 妖星乱舞 -第二楽章-
10. FF6 妖星乱舞 -第三楽章-
11. FF6 妖星乱舞 -第四楽章-
12. FF4 赤い翼
13. FF6 ティナのテーマ


translated tracklist:

1. FF 8 - The Legendary Beast
2. FF 8 - The Extreme
3. FF 5 - Clash on the Big Bridge
4. FF 3 - Opening Theme
5. FF 2 - Battle Scene A
6. FF 6 - Decisive Battle
7. FF 7 - The Birth of God
8. FF 6 - Dancing Mad - 1st movement
9. FF 6 - Dancing Mad - 2nd movement
10. FF 6 - Dancing Mad - 3rd movement
11. FF 6 - Dancing Mad - 4th movement
12. FF 4 - Red Wings
13. FF 6 - Tina's Theme

http://rapidshare.com/files/30921089/Final_Fantasy_Heavy_Metal_Arrange_Album___GUARVAIL .rar

or

http://rpg.mopoo.com/rpgmm/Final%20Fantasy%20Heavy%20Metal%20Arrange%20Album% 20~%20GUARVAIL%7BRYTH-0007%7D.rar

pass: rpgmm

more info at: http://www.last.fm/user/Mr_Elvis/journal/2007/04/26/406557/

thanks :)

I'm making my first post here just to say AWESOME.

I'm a big metal fan, as well as a Nobuo fan, so this is a really really great addition.

GREAT Very Thanks for share !

Thanks sooo much, loved the Black Mages and im sure this would be great too! :D

oooh nice one!
I think I'll enjoy this just as much as Wild Arms Rocking Hearts album...

heh, instead of just being another silent leecher of ffshire i wanted to provide to those people some fresh stuff in exchange :)

Shade are not as awesome as The Black Mages, but in my opinion some of their covers are heavier and simply better than Nobuo Uematsu and his band's renditions. Therefore, it's highly recommended to check before the new Black Mages cd comes out this year.

wow nice one Mr Elvis. thx for sharing. :)

Many thanks! Appreciate it.

Sounds pretty cool. thanks.

I will definitely enjoy this one! Thanks so much
!!!!!!!

Definitely enjoyed this!
Not quite as good as the black mages, though! Thanks

Where'd you get this music? Some of it sounds good, while some of it sounds bad.

This sounds pretty cool. I'm downloading it now and Can't wait to hear it.

Whoa o_O this is a great Album, specially the FF7 Track, it's my fav :3 thanks^^

Where'd you get this music?

from here: http://rpgmm.mopoo.com/user1/rpgmm/archives/2007/555.html

im curious what these japanese comments mean -_-` do these people rate this album rather high or not o_O?

wow, the tracks look very promising!! thanks so much fur the AWESOME upload =D

Thanks for uploading. I think the music is bad though, especially the sound they chose.

great upload man this is good stuff here

Oh thanks a lot !

THANKS!!! Downloading... :D

Not too shabby.

.

Nice.

I downloaded it. Not as nice as the Black Mages, but pretty good. Thanks for sharing.

Do you guys have the Black Mages tracks? I've been looking for them, but I have no idea where to look.

Winzip won't let me open the files T_T

After I put in the password, I try to click on a file and it says Error: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Error: unable to create output file "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\wz3ff3\09 FF6 ???? -????-.mp3"

Only the first 2 tracks work :(

Cool! Heavy metal FF! Thanks,man

Thanks!

Presently downloading :)

Downloading just now but what is the difference between this and BM 1+2?

Thanks!

This album is WAY better than the Black Mages!!! The Dancing Mad songs rule!! Decisive Battle has some wicked stuff too. Thanks so much for uploading this!


@Sonic Fan Num 1:

The Black Mages Albums can be found here~
1st Album - http://bluelaguna.net/music/bm/mp3s.php
2nd Album - http://bluelaguna.net/music/bm2/mp3s.php

Enjoy!

Hey thank you! You're the best! :D

No problem! I am just a big fan of the Black Mages, love their music!

The best ones from those albums (IMO) are:
Clash on the Big Bridge
Maybe I'm A Lion
The Skies Above
Those Who Fight Further

All in all, they are all great in their own way!

It wasn't bad :) and I'm quite the picky metalhead. It has a Salamander/Gradius/UN Squadron vibe hiding in there I just can't shake.

I wouldn't have arranged it like this, but thanks. If anything, it's another FF soundtrack for us fans to collect.

Joined the site for this, and I have to say it was worth it. Definitely a different feel from BM, but good in its own way.

Thanks so much for sharing.

You haven't played FF6? Take it from me. It's a classic. Brilliant characters. Brilliant story. Brilliant villain and the best music from the series. Dancing Mad is a classic. The reason why it's so long is that it's the final boss music. The final boss is actually split into four parts hence why there are 4 movements to it (if you've played Final Fantasy 8 you'll know what I mean) except that the music is interspersed better with the battles in FF6.

This album alone is worth it for "Dancing Mad". Sadly the other tracks don't really hold my attention as much so as such I think Black Mages probably is slightly better though the second Black Mages CD isn't half as good as the first. I'm so glad it's the first CD they performed live.

I dig The Black Mages' work on the games' music. But I'll give this a try!!

Not a bad album, worth the download just for Dancing Mad (which is one of my favorite vg songs), but I hate it how a lot of the doujin artists seem to like the bad mixture of rock and synths.

Better doujin artists who did FF stuff are preludio, Grandiosi, Serenade and Crow's Claw, check 'm out. :P

This is totally badass! Way better than Black Mages, but I guess it's a matter of opinion to your musical taste. Since I'm into heavy metal, I like this more, but I guess if you're into lighter rock, you'd like Black Mages.

It reminds me of Power Metal...without the horrid vocals.

So I see "Final Fantasy Heavy Metal Arrange Album" and I get excited, thinking "FINALLY, something to wash out the awful taste of the Black Mages albums."

What a disappointment. The arrangements of the songs aren't bad at all but what's the point in even making metal arrangements of them when you're not even using live instruments? There's no actual guitars or drums or anything; it sounds like I'm listening to the songs on a Neo Geo. Completely ruins what could've been a very awesome album.

Better than both Black Mages albums, at least, but not by much.

from here: http://rpgmm.mopoo.com/user1/rpgmm/archives/2007/555.html

im curious what these japanese comments mean -_-` do these people rate this album rather high or not o_O?

That's actually Chinese, not Japanese.

Winzip won't let me open the files T_T

After I put in the password, I try to click on a file and it says Error: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Error: unable to create output file "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\wz3ff3\09 FF6 ???? -????-.mp3"

Only the first 2 tracks work :(

It's probably because the track titles are in Japanese kanji, and your system might not support it. You can try enabling Japanese language support on your system, and that might help. (If you go to your control panel, regional settings, and enable the Japanese languages, then reboot your computer, it might help).

this is so awesome, the Gilgamesh and Dancing Mad 4 tracks are my favs :) I've really never heard a better version of Dancing Mad anywhere!

Great album. Although the "Heavy Metal" part threw me off. Sure it's heavy just no actual live guitars. Thanks for sharing though. I enjoyed it.

What the fuck? You say this is metal? This is just heavy synth. You guys are all fucking fools. You think just because it has a synth guitar it is metal? Please.

That is the same as saying the Iraba OST is metal cause it has a synth guitar in it and a couple of bongo drums. Wooptie-fucking-day.

Search metal on wiki and listen to the bands mentioned and then tell me if this is metal.

this better be good! :) i've heard some pretty dire fan-made stuff out there >_<

thanks, i'm gonna check it out :D

To whoever's having that problem opening/extracting and enabling Japanese regional support doesn't work. You might want to consider extracting those files to a folder rather than trying to play them from the compression. The reason you might be getting that error is because in order to play the file your decompression client unzips them to a temporary folder which doesn't do a very good job at holding on to larger files. Better explanation: The computer is trying to put a brick into a teacup and drink it. (I prefer to explain why things might not work in order to help people in the future).

And as for the album, it wasn't too bad. I only have a problem with the fact I could get almost the same sound from Guitar Pro (if you haven't heard of it, you might want to search for it).

You are amazing. 'o' lmao

Thanks. :D

Some of these are not to great, but most of 'em rock.
Thanks for uploading this! I shall love you for a long time......okay, maybe that was a bit creepy, but yeah, thanks.

By the way, I've never heard The Black Mages. Guessing from some of the replies on this post though, they must be the shiz. Anyone tell me where I can get some TBM tracks?

GUARVAIL!! Thank you!!! :)

WTF???

This is VERY GREAT!

I love all stuff of Crow's Claw Godspeed/Vivix and the black mages, so that's a BIG ADDITION to my collection!

Thx alot

I don't know about you guys, but I find this album absolutely awesome. I like how they've taken some liberties with the original compositions.

gonna give this one a try, thx

Come on guys.... Do you really think The Black Mages are THAT great ?? ^_^
Have you ever heard the Helliond Sounds hard rock remixes of the FF battle themes ? I personnally love them, far more than Black Mages' ones.

Anyway, thanks for the sharing, I'll try it out.

Another Belgian here! =O

Hellion sounds remixes aren't -bad-, but I prefer my music heavy. These and helion are more focused on synths...
Same with the Black Mages really, but their Dancing Mad arrangement is sweet. <3

Crow's Claw is brilliant, but also look for the two albums by Serenade (Shifting Horizon and Nostalgic Memories) and Preludio (For All Your FF Lovers), all three albums are high quality stuff.

let's check it out!!! thanks for sharing

Another Belgian here!
Where are you from ?
Do you speak french ?
Uwauuu ! Awauuu !! Let's be friends ! (Gau-style ^^)
(Tried to PM you but you don't accept them.)

Oh, my, god. This is my first post here, I was searching for this album, and, tadaaaam I find it here and it's...just beautiful =) thx for all !!!


*a great fan*

Where are you from ?
Do you speak french ?
Uwauuu ! Awauuu !! Let's be friends ! (Gau-style ^^)
(Tried to PM you but you don't accept them.)

^^
Didn't know I had PM's off.
I'm from Antwerp, I speak a bit French but not that good. =/

Regardless of whether this is a synth or metal album, I like it very much. My only gripe is the one track that sounds like it is some sort of christmas jingle arrangement. I'll just take Battle on the Bridge as a "we're sorry."

wow, that's insane! I'm trying to download it, i'm getting really slow speeds for no good reason.

thanks for upping it

ty.. i hear once ff7 - boss theme and was great...
ty

Downloading this now, thanks a lot for the share

Thanks for sharing, this is good stuff. :)

As big Metal & Final Fantasy Fan an realy big thanks of mine!!
Hope there will be more stuff like this, eventualy a Rap-Album of the vocal tracks?

Thank you for sharing it ! This album seems good...

nice one. Where can I Find Hellion Sounds?

You can find Hellion sounds' remixes on this forums, but it seems the links are dead. You can instead check the emuparadise forums : there are all the hellion albums

I didn't like this album too much unfortunately, lots of samples/tracks were too loud and oddly mixed/mastered. I think some spending some more time on fixing the volume problems would make the songs a lot better.

The FF4 song was really nice though.

Another Belgian here! =O

Hellion sounds remixes aren't -bad-, but I prefer my music heavy. These and helion are more focused on synths...
Same with the Black Mages really, but their Dancing Mad arrangement is sweet. <3

Crow's Claw is brilliant, but also look for the two albums by Serenade (Shifting Horizon and Nostalgic Memories) and Preludio (For All Your FF Lovers), all three albums are high quality stuff.

Agh Belgians, as a Hollander I must hate you
grrr 'n stuff...
...
Nah just kidding around.

PS This is awesome

This looks great, although some FF4 tracks would have been just as welcome. Thanks!

thanks!

my first time here! been looking for this heavy metal album, since i'm a big ff and uematsu fan! thanks for the links!

As big Metal & Final Fantasy Fan an realy big thanks of mine!!
Hope there will be more stuff like this, eventualy a Rap-Album of the vocal tracks?

For God's sakes, NO!

Woo, nice tracklist

ROCK ON!!!!

High quality album, thanks for sharing.

Are there any other albums like this? Aside from the standard Black Mages material I mean?

Thank You!!

Thanks. :)

Wow!

The FF2 Boss Song and the 4th part of Dancing Mad are amazing!
I hear it everyday...

wow .. there is a heavy metal arrangement to the FF though ...
thanks ...

Thanks for the upload!! Being a huge Black Mage fan, this album is a great addition to my collection!

I've got a pretty strong recommendation for all of those familiar with The Black Mages' and Hellion Sounds' music, as well as those who are simply Nobuo Uematsu fans. The �Final Fantasy Heavy Metal Arrange�, downloadable below, is a medley of heavy metal / hard rock covers of music from the Final Fantasy video games.



Publisher: best of shape
Release Date 2007.04.01
Composition: Nobuo Uematsu (植松伸夫)
Arrangement: SHΛDE

01. FF8 The Legendary Beast
02. FF8 The Extreme
03. FF5 ビッグブリッジの死闘
04. FF3 オープニング.テーマ
05. FF2 戦闘シーンA
06. FF6 決戦
07. FF7 神の誕生
08. FF6 妖星乱舞 -第一楽章-
09. FF6 妖星乱舞 -第二楽章-
10. FF6 妖星乱舞 -第三楽章-
11. FF6 妖星乱舞 -第四楽章-
12. FF4 赤い翼
13. FF6 ティナのテーマ


translated tracklist:

1. FF 8 - The Legendary Beast
2. FF 8 - The Extreme
3. FF 5 - Clash on the Big Bridge
4. FF 3 - Opening Theme
5. FF 2 - Battle Scene A
6. FF 6 - Decisive Battle
7. FF 7 - The Birth of God
8. FF 6 - Dancing Mad - 1st movement
9. FF 6 - Dancing Mad - 2nd movement
10. FF 6 - Dancing Mad - 3rd movement
11. FF 6 - Dancing Mad - 4th movement
12. FF 4 - Red Wings
13. FF 6 - Tina's Theme

http://rapidshare.com/files/30921089/Final_Fantasy_Heavy_Metal_Arrange_Album___GUARVAIL .rar

or

http://rpg.mopoo.com/rpgmm/Final%20Fantasy%20Heavy%20Metal%20Arrange%20Album% 20~%20GUARVAIL%7BRYTH-0007%7D.rar

pass: rpgmm

more info at: http://www.last.fm/user/Mr_Elvis/journal/2007/04/26/406557/

Links are dead. Any other link you can share?

Links are dead. Any other link you can share?