Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
Original Game Soundtrack by Knut Avenstroup Haugen, Turbonegro - 2008
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Reviewed by Patrick Gann ~ Rpgfan
The Age of Conan soundtrack is awesome. I love it. However, when you start shoving multiple prints out the door, it gets a little confusing. This particular version came with a second disc: bonus tracks, if you will. Arranged tracks, remixes, and stuff not released the first time around.
Let's start with these tracks from the band "Turbonegro." It's a pseudo-Brit (Norwegian, technically) dark glam-rock band. Let me quote the chorus of their first song: "Destroy all monsters, exterminate the light! Destroy all monsters, inseminate the night!" -- Wait, did he just rhyme "exterminate" with "inseminate"? Wait... did he even use the word "inseminate" in a song? Now I just feel uncomfortable. Please, whatever you do, please do not inseminate the night. That calls up all sorts of weird mental imagery, and when it's mixed with this cheesy rock, well... I just can't handle it. Here's another one: "Brass knuckles and a 2 by 4... do you dig destruction?" I just don't get how this has anything to do with Age of Conan. Not the lyrical content, I guess I get the rockstar nihilism thing. Just... the rock music itself.
I guess since the game was developed in Norway, Norwegian rock bands get a moment in the spotlight. And Turbonegro was fairly popular for some time.
But let's get to the good stuff from Knut Avenstroup Haugen.
Basically, it's more epic orchestral music. I love the first disc, and this second disc, while having fewer tracks, still packs a punch (once you get past Turbonegro). "Shadows of Acheron" is especially powerful. The whiny, chromatic-scale-ascending string parts mixing with the choir of folks singing diminished chords is always effective. Always, always. But that's just the intro portion of this four minute track. It'll knock you off your chair if you turn it up loud enough.
I've covered the original OST disc in a separate review, and I think the world of it. If you can get the two disc version, well: bonus!
Review by Mark Morton ~ Allmusic
AGE OF CONAN: HYBORIAN ADVENTURES is a widely successful multiplayer, role-play videogame made by Funcom. The plot of the game revolves around the world of Conan the Cimmerian, a novel series by Robert E. Howard, and is set in a fantasy-based world that is part medieval and part ancient civilization. Norwegian composer Knut Avenstroup Haugen wrote the score to accentuate the setting and atmosphere of these dual time periods. Sounding more like Hans Zimmer�s work on GLADIATOR and less like a Basil Poledouris score, Haugen skillfully adds a new dimension to the world of Conan. The deluxe two-disc edition features additional music by Turbonegro.
GENRE: Score
DATE: 2008
COUNTRY: USA
LABEL: Grappa
AUDIO CODEC: M4A
QUALITY: 256 kbs
PLAYTIME: 1:44:50
Complete Artwork
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CD1
01. The Dreaming: "Ere the World Crumbles..." (02:04)
02. The Sands of Forgetfulness - Tortage Beach (02:46)
03. The Damp Barachan Nights (03:23)
04. The Awakening - Hyborian Adventures (01:57)
05. The Arrival - Cimmerian Welcome (03:13)
06. Nighttime Journey Through the Eiglophian Monuntains (03:22)
07. The Vista from Mount Crom (02:17)
08. The Lure of Atali (03:29)
09. Phalanx of Conquest (03:13)
10. Field of the Dead (03:41)
11. Echoes of Atlantis (02:29)
12. Hamlets of Aquilonia (01:52)
13. Behold! Tarantia: Royal City (03:24)
14. Hymn for King Conan (03:04)
15. Awash in the Golden Fields of Poitain (02:24)
16. Foundations of the Temple - Mitra (01:53)
17. Akhet: Portal to Stygia (03:17)
18. Beyond the Pyramid - Sunrise in Khopshef Province (02:58)
19. The Purple Lotus Swamp (02:57)
20. Kheshatta: City of Mages (02:23)
21. The Black Ring Citadel: Final Memory (03:19)
22. At Last the Meaning Revealed: Combat Reborn I: Stygia (03:12)
23. At Last the Meaning Revealed: Combat Reborn II: Cimmeria (03:11)
24. At Last the Meaning Revealed: Combat Reborn III: Aquilonia (02:33)
25. The Dreaming Anew: Memories of Cimmeria (03:30)
CD2
01. Destroy All Monsters (04:00)
(Turbonegro)
02. We're Gonna Drop The Atom Bomb (03:42)
(Turbonegro)
03. Do You Do You Dig Destruction (03:51)
(Turbonegro)
04. Day of Wrath (02:44)
05. The Wild Lands of Zelata (02:24)
06. Night of the Serpent (03:20)
07. Lacheish Plains (04:47)
08. Combat Revisited I: Shadows of Acheron (03:56)
09. Combat Revisited II: Rise of a Champion (01:23)
10. Combat Revisited III: Herald of Crom (01:33)
11. Combat Revisited IV: Death's Embrace (01:02)
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