RWBY: Lusus Naturae - Orchestral Metal Remix

A symphonic metal cover of Dr Merlot's theme from Grimm Eclipse.

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After a couple of tracks where I had a MIDI I could reference, it's back to doing things by ear. Though this wasn't too bad. To my surprise, there are no tempo changes here - where I could've sworn there was a slowdown near the end of the intro. What there is a lot of, is time signature changes, with the B verses switching back and forth between 3/4 and 5/4, and even going into 11/4 before switching back to 4/4 at the pre-chorus. Williams must've had fun writing this - you don't come up with stuff like that if you're just going through the motions.

Anyway, for arranging, I left the intro mostly unchanged, just adding a couple of minor things. Also mostly unchanged this time around, are the guitars and drums. I liked the original riffs and patterns enough that I didn't feel like changing it would add anything. The only difference are parts of the B verse, which sounded much too upbeat for my liking. Also towards the goal of making the vibe more sinister-sounding, I messed around with voicings for the strings to get the mood I wanted without requiring messing with transposition for the rest, something which took a bunch of revisions to do. Though the most amount of work went into programming the vocals, having done a lot of manual tuning.

Time spent working on the track: 42 hours.

Credits:
Composed by Jeff Williams.

Artwork used in thumbnail:
https://www.deviantart.com/echo-shock...

Video made with FL Studio ZGameEditor Visualizer plugin
Effect author credits:
Electric - nimitz Twitter: @stormoid Adapted from https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ldlXRS
WormHoleEclipse, Blooming, TextDraw - Jph Wacheski http://jph_wacheski.itch.io/
Polar - Kjell, Dubswitcher
Dubswitcher Starburst, Dubswitcher Soft Glitch - Dubswitcher

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