What do you get when you combine the Kraid theme from Metroid will the chilled-out jazz orchestration of Gentle Love — the musical duo behind the Prescription for Sleep: Game Music Lullabies albums? Well, you end up with something a little like the track that you can hear above, exclusively revealed to us today by Scarlet Moon Records.
'Kraid' is one of the 12 tracks that make up Prescription for Sleep: Game Music Lullabies Volume III, a brand new album from Norihiko Hibino (composer on the Metal Gear Solid series) and AYAKI (performer for both the Etrian Odyssey and Persona Q soundtracks).
Each track is an improvised jazz rendition of a different piece of video game music, with musical moments taken from the likes of Ocarina of Time, Mega Man X, Diablo and Metroid amongst others. Many of these themes and motifs might not immediately strike you as relaxing tunes, but the Gentle Love renditions take even the most intense melodies and give them a new, chilled flavour.
For an idea of what else that album has in store, here's the full tracklist from Scarlet Moon Records:
01. “Windmill Hut” – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
02. “Theme of Prontera” – Ragnarok Online
03. “Boomer Kuwanger” – Mega Man X
04. “Tristram” – Diablo
05. “This Dream” – NieR
06. “Eruyt Village” – Final Fantasy XII
07. “Yeul’s Theme” – Final Fantasy XIII-2
08. “Traveling in the Town of Hagure” – The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
09. “Kraid” – Metroid
10. “Rosenkranz” – SaGa Frontier II
11. “Trading Town of Redmont” – Ys III: Wanderers from Ys
12. “Daybreak” – Original Composition
The third album in the duo's Game Music Lullabies series releases on 19th May and can be pre-ordered on a variety of music platforms from the official Scarlet Moon site.
What do you make of the mellow Metroid melodies? Let us know in the comments.
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@TheBigBlue
Take popular video game melody, produce a slow piano recital, add saxophone, profit.
Actually, it's a nice formula, there's two official Kirby Café albums that take music tracks from all across the series to good effect.
This really puts me in the mood to make love to Kraid. Forget Daddy Ganondorf; he doesn't have those sexy bellybutton spikes Kraid has.
@Not_Soos oh dear.
That's some ecletic tracklist if I ever saw one! Ragnarok Online right next to Mystical Ninja and Ys III?
Even in main stream console games I wouldn't have picked Eruyt Village to represent FFXII, not that it's bad or anything, it just gets frequently outshined by more famous songs
@Not_Soos I'm still flabbergasted by this.
ROZEN recently released an album of Metroid arrangements, mostly from Prime 1 called Phazon: Metroid Saga. It’s absolutely fantastic, I highly recommend anyone who likes Metroid music (like me) to check it out
@Not_Soos Down bad today aren’t we?
Likely a welcome change from the "Modern Heavy Metal" style that shoehorns down-tuning and bro-core breakdowns into Green Hill Zone.
But at the same time, a sound guy at a concert I played a few weeks back had 8-Bit Big Band blasting through the PA.
The skill on display can't be denied, but good lord, they play it so safe it becomes dull and lifeless. Needless to say, it's not the best way to get pumped up to deliver an intense drum performance.
I had to respectfully request to hijack the tune-age and put on Racer X Street Lethal instead. Can confirm: it got me more pumped.
Definitely a tune that puts me to sleep.. Sweet dreams!
I love Gentle Love! They did albums for Celeste, Undertale, and Shovel Knight, and I'm a big fan of their Prescription for Sleep albums as well!
Very nice! But are they going to get sued by Nintendo? Asking for a friend… 🙄
Only NintendoLife would use a thumbnail of Samus's iconic pose from Samus Returns super-imposed on the background of Kraid's Dread fight when talking about Kraid's Super Metroid theme remixed into jazz.
But digressing to the actual music, I like it.
@Ear_wiG No. If a company releases the soundtrack for a game, it is then considered fair use to commercially remix and even if it isn't released, one can still safely remix tracks as long as money isn't involved in creating it. As I understand it, at least.
Sam Dillard wants to make the best possible Dread album he can, but has to wait until Nintendo releases Dread's OST, basically.
@ChaoticMagolor @Snatcher @MarioLinkSamus Don't y'all be judging; what I and a 100-foot-tall mutant space lizard have in common is beautiful and fully consensual. I asked if it was okay, and she said "GRUUUUUUAWRRRGGHK!" 😳 and blushed. That's right, Kraid is a girl--I should know. Who do you think birthed that mini-Kraid you fight before you get to the big one in Super Metroid? That's right. She's a delicate flower, just grossly misunderstood because of her appearance. But I'm not shallow enough to follow conventional beauty standards. I love every last scale on her green body. She also makes a mean casserole.
I hear nothing Kraid-like in this tune at all.
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