Age of Conan: Secrets of the Dragon’s Spine

Age of Conan: Secrets of the Dragon’s Spine
KNUT AVENSTROUP HAUGEN
2 files | 128 kbps (Extracted from Soundcloud | 5’49

1. Knut Avenstroup Haugen – Theme of the Dragon’s Spine (3:13)
2. Knut Avenstroup Haugen – Combat (2:36)

https://mega.co.nz/#!7BwBxTTD!JDt001ZqeL4wN6qdKlS4sRGy3lg6yyhYJg9M4VD xNxE

As you have seen above, this was extracted from Mr. Haugen’s SoundCloud. I had attempted to extract the music files from the adventure pack, but alas Funcom has decided to do a new sort of encryption method on their .ogg files now. It is completely unplayable in standard media players, and Infernus Animositas was unable to figure out how to convert them to a playable format. I will post a link to a .rar containing all of extracted .ogg below, in case any of you want to take a crack at it.

But enough of technical woes…let us talk about the music. And by the ghost of Basil Poledouris, what music this is! This is the music that bloody, savage dreams are made of. The theme opens up with a small array of horns, summoning heroes to explore the lands of Stygia. Strings begins to compliment and the music becomes bolder, more assured and heroic until we get a trio of heroic trumpet fanfares. Chimes and drums introduce us to the savagery of this new world, the horrors that hide beneath the sands of Stygia. A unified duo of horns and percussion give us a sense of something else…a hero rising on the horizon.

Then the chorus. Oh, sweet mother of God, the chorus! Something that has a harmony of chorus and action is absoltuley superb. Poledouris’ influence is all over this, but this is also Haugen. Unlike some lesser composers who would essentially try to write like Poledouris, Haugen pays "homage" to the man. This is an evolution of the musical language that inspired composer evoked in "Conan the Barbarian" and our ears are better for it.

The music is brief, but more is said here than lesser soundtracks will say in 60 minutes.

I’ve just downloaded the file, but cannot find it on the computer. Any idea where Mega downloads go?

If you use Win7, then my bet is c:\users\your user name\downloads

Hope this gets a CD release, his other Age of Conan soundtracks are amazing.

Thanks, Ruffneck.

Hey, no problem.

Other option and maybe even faster way would have been to re-download it.

🙂

Thanks 😀

can’t wait for the official ost release.

thx

Thanks!

So, anybody managed to rip the music? Or better, is there a confirmation about an original soundtrack release? The two tracks are fantastic, and it would be a shame if the music wasn’t available at all.

Infernus and I tried to rip it, but we were unable to make the extracted .ogg work.

awesome. thank you for the share

Thank you, shame only 2 tracks, great composer.

If you look at Knut Avenstroup Haugen’s SoundCloud, you’ll find a "Secrets of Dragon’s Spine Medley" that’ll give you all the new music from the expansion (it runs about 10 min).

Thanks! Although his soundcloud only has 1 extra song, did the expansion get 3 songs in total?

I believe so, yes. Although there are different versions of each song (the combat song, for example, has 4 smaller versions: 1st part instrumental, 1st part vocal only, 2nd part instrumental, 2nd part vocals). And don’t forget that Secrets of Dragon’s Spine is not completely done yet: this expansion is added to the game piece by piece. So there might still be more music related to it in the coming months (the developers say that it’ll be completely on-line by the end of the year).

Thanks for the post…

re-up pleases !