![]() In New York, the crossover between the city's hardcore scene and its metal scene led to moshing incorporating itself into metal beginning around 1985. Through the 1980s it spread to the hardcore scenes of Washington, D.C., Boston and New York where it developed local variants. The dance style originated in the southern California hardcore punk scene, particularly Huntington Beach and Long Beach around 1978. Taking place in an area called the mosh pit (or simply the pit), it is typically performed to aggressive styles of live music such as punk rock and heavy metal. Moshing (also known as slam dancing or simply slamming) is an extreme style of dancing in which participants push or slam into each other. Late 1970s, Huntington Beach and Long Beach, California, United States This album brought me some serious joy.Audience members moshing to American thrash metal band Toxic Holocaust ![]() ![]() It’s kind of hard to review a covers album, so maybe don’t call this so much of a review as a recommendation? But I heavily recommend this nonetheless. ![]() She, combined with other vocalist and guitarist Mike Pelillo, do well providing their vocals to the latin sections in “Libera Fatality” and “One Winged Angel” as well. There are vocals, mostly courtesy of Beatrice Bini, who has a fittingly gorgeous and powerful operatic voice for the couple of ballads they cover on this record, those being Final Fantasy X’s “Suteki da Ne” and Final Fantasy VIII’s “Eyes On Me”. This isn’t an entirely instrumental album though. This makes sense since Nobuo Uematsu himself did The Black Mages for awhile, a band where he and his compatriots created progressive rock to metal covers of all sorts of classic Final Fantasysongs in likely the way he envisioned a lot of them when MIDI technology was all he had to work with at the time. When I put that thought into context for myself, a group of metalheads doing a smattering of Final Fantasy sound-track classics metallic justice only seems correct.Ĭhocobo Band channel this through a pointedly accurate decision to cover this music with a distinct old-school prog-metal flare to it. The games have never repeated themselves there’s an element of progressivism that is inherent to the franchise that embodies a lot of what makes extreme metal so appealing. Final Fantasy games have been crazy genre- and convention-pushing games with labyrinthine narratives and intricate layered systems of all kinds. But spiritually? Everyone knows it’s actually Final Fantasy, assuming you’ve been a devout long-term fan of the franchise like I have. Here’s the thing… most people will identify DOOM as the “metal” video game franchise because, on the most shallow vapid surface level aesthetic, it is. There is always a disconnect between Westerners’ understanding of metal and translating Japanese works into it that feels like the one covering the music just doesn’t quite “get” it. Sure there’s one-man cover guys on YouTube, but it’s just never the same. This is a group of metalheads wanting to express their love for one of the most important landmark gaming franchises of all time, and to pay fitting tribute to Nobuo Uematsu, one of music’s greatest compositional virtuosos of ALL TIME.Ī proper attempt by people who understand metal covering Final Fantasy music has rarely been attempted, especially this convincingly. Todays subject of review, Tales From Other Worlds by Chocobo Band, is the inverse. ![]() I wrote an article this year about the relationship and instances where video games and metal intersect, but I was covering it from the perspective of the video games including the metal and not vice versa. I’m currently replaying through Blasphemous (great game btw) while I check out all the albums I personally give a shit about. I’ve been working on a big project for the website (hence the lack of activity, but trust that I’ve been keeping up with the music), and I’ve been gaming a lot, so I had a real excuse to just sit down and listen to music. ( TheMadIsraeli returns to NCS with the following recommendation of a new album released by Chocobo Band from Italy.) ![]()
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