Song of the Week: Darkness and Starlight
By the Black Mages, from their newest album, The Black Mages 3, and is an adaptation of The Opera of Maria and Draco from Final Fantasy 6.
If you are a fan of 15-minute Japanese Rock Opera, click here for heaven. (35M) Also you can find some translated lyrics here.
The rest of the album, unfortunately, is not up the standard of The Skies Above to my ears. Maybe it’s just because I don’t personally like the songs chosen but I feel the ones that were are patchier and less suited to straight rock playthrough than those on TSA. Strange, because there’s a huge wealth of material to choose from - Uematsu can, of course, use whatever FF music he likes, and there’s a *lot* of that. 3 albums and no Chocobo theme? What’s going on!!
Tags: music, songoftheweek, sotw
August 19th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
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