RWBY: All Things Must Die - Orchestral Metal Cover

A symphonic metal cover of the Raven and Cinder fight theme.


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Where I expect Smile to be simple to do and turning out fairly difficult, this was the inverse. Though not needing to transcribe it from the ground up plays a big factor in that.

Anyway, starting out, I left the intro mostly unchanged, with the additions to it being fairly subtle; the most obvious being a choir to balance out the violins. I always imagined a choir being there in that segment, so I took the opportunity to make that a reality. After the intro, I left the guitars unchanged during the verse and pre-chorus, but changed things around for the chorus. Not in a major way, just a change in rhythm. Knowing I wanted to add a harpsichord to the piece going in, I did so first during the chorus. Later in production, feeling it needed a little something extra, I also doubled the melody with horns in the chorus' second half.

For the post-chorus, I doubled the guitar with harpsichord, with the scales here leading me to decide to introduce the instrument. To allude to the high-tension situation, I also added some frantic horns and strings here. Extending that musical intent to the second verse, I added some tension stabs on violins through-out it.

The first half of the second chorus, I returned to later in production with the idea to add some further movement in-between the low and mid strings. I tried a variety of instrumentation for this before ultimately settling on contrabass clarinet and higher woodwinds.

Time spent working on the track: 24 hours.
Credits:
Composed by Jeff Williams.

MIDI reference sequenced by 2pts, of Musescore:
https://musescore.com/user/8857781/sc...

Artwork used in thumbnail:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BeK1-1Zjr...

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

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