Ryan Leach Contest — Gothic Action

Okay, so I never do contests or post "Works In Progress", but he wants people to compose a soundtrack to this picture of Mont Saint Michel, one of my favorite buildings and I used it as my last photo for my last track lol.

So I took it as an opportunity to compose a new Gothic Action Piece because that kind of stuff is my jam.

I don't imagine the tune will place at all, just because of the sheer volume of submissions these things get, which is why I tried to make it grab your attention straight away, and it's not perfect or even done yet obviously, but this is what I'm starting with. The final piece will probably be done in a month or two, and with IRL Violins!

In the meantime, let me know what you think so far.

That's pretty lit not gonna lie😆 I like how the organ create that dark yet grand opening.

For the second part, it is energetic, but I was expecting some variations at the second entry, perhaps rhythmically in the drum set (solo). It is okay at the moment, but I might lose interest if there were another repeat.

One (naive) question here: Sorry I don't have much knowledge on games/ anime, but did you base your music on a galactic battle? (somewhat like this)

Nice progress - HoYin

7 hours ago, HoYin Cheung said:

That's pretty lit not gonna lie

Thanks, bro

7 hours ago, HoYin Cheung said:

For the second part, it is energetic, but I was expecting some variations at the second entry, perhaps rhythmically in the drum set (solo).

It may be entirely different in the finished version. Especially for the fade out outro, I literally just copy pasted because if I were to take the time to make it fully-representative of the finished version, there's no way I'd meet the deadline for the contest lol

7 hours ago, HoYin Cheung said:

but did you base your music on a galactic battle? (somewhat like this)

No, I was basically trying to rip off Castlevania. Which is my whole thing when it comes to video game music.

This sounds great, and you're using real instruments. I was gonna comment it sounds like 'Symphony of the Night', but I see you already have another Castlevania game in mind. It fits the theme nicely; considering it looks similar to a castle. 

On 4/30/2022 at 7:31 PM, Atlantis_ said:

I was gonna comment it sounds like 'Symphony of the Night', but I see you already have another Castlevania game in mind. It fits the theme nicely; considering it looks similar to a castle. 

Thanks a lot

Yeah, the things is though: Almost all of the Castlevania games have pretty much the same style lol