{ "arrangers": [ { "link": "artist/4869", "names": { "en": "8-Bit Metal" } } ], "catalog": "N/A", "categories": [ "Game" ], "category": "Game", "classification": "Arrangement, Original Work", "composers": [], "covers": [ { "full": "https://media.vgm.io/albums/28/10182/10182-1225193733.png", "medium": "https://media.vgm.io/albums/28/10182/10182-1225193733.png", "name": "Booklet Front", "thumb": "https://media.vgm.io/albums/28/10182/10182-1225193733.png" }, { "full": "https://media.vgm.io/albums/28/10182/10182-1219338390.png", "medium": "https://media.vgm.io/albums/28/10182/10182-1219338390.png", "name": "Booklet Back", "thumb": "https://media.vgm.io/albums/28/10182/10182-1219338390.png" } ], "discs": [ { "disc_length": "62:24", "name": "", "tracks": [ { "names": { "English": "The Heroes of Yesterday" }, "track_length": "2:00" }, { "names": { "English": "In the Year 200X" }, "track_length": "4:09" }, { "names": { "English": "Thirteenth Zodiac" }, "track_length": "5:35" }, { "names": { "English": "Saving the World Barechested" }, "track_length": "5:04" }, { "names": { "English": "The Founding of Booty Bay" }, "track_length": "4:43" }, { "names": { "English": "The Duke Got Nuked" }, "track_length": "4:08" }, { "names": { "English": "Bloodlines" }, "track_length": "4:56" }, { "names": { "English": "'Twould Be Best" }, "track_length": "1:05" }, { "names": { "English": "Moon Sugar" }, "track_length": "3:20" }, { "names": { "English": "The Devil and the Incarnate" }, "track_length": "5:00" }, { "names": { "English": "Behind the Mask" }, "track_length": "6:47" }, { "names": { "English": "Beyond the Mask" }, "track_length": "6:58" }, { "names": { "English": "Hatred Eternal" }, "track_length": "4:16" }, { "names": { "English": "Where All Things End" }, "track_length": "4:23" } ] } ], "link": "album/10182", "lyricists": [ { "link": "artist/4869", "names": { "en": "8-Bit Metal" } } ], "media_format": "Digital", "meta": { "added_date": "2008-08-21T09:01", "edited_date": "2022-09-14T14:52", "fetched_date": "2026-05-30T04:44", "freedb": 1, "ttl": 86400, "visitors": 4204 }, "name": "RE: Discoveries", "names": { "en": "RE: Discoveries", "ja": "RE: Discoveries", "ja-latn": "RE: Discoveries" }, "notes": "08/08/08 marks the release of RE: Discoveries, the first full-length album from the 8-Bit Metal project. One part heavy/power metal and one part chiptune, the 8-Bit Metal sound fuses electric guitars and sounds from the Nintendo Entertainment System to render original music and lyrics centered on classic video games from all eras.\nRE: Discoveries features the following tracks, written, recorded and individually shared on the internet over the course of three years:\n1. The Heroes of Yesterday (intro)\n2. In the Year 200X (Mega Man 2)\n3. Thirteenth Zodiac (Final Fantasy Tactics)\n4. Saving the World Barechested (Contra)\n5. The Founding of Booty Bay (World of Warcraft)\n6. The Duke Got Nuked (Duke Nukem Forever)\n7. Bloodlines (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)\n8. 'Twould Be Best (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)\n9. Moon Sugar (The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind)\n10. The Devil and the Incarnate (The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind)\n11. Behind the Mask (Final Fantasy IV)\n12. Beyond the Mask (Final Fantasy IV)\n13. Hatred Eternal (Final Fantasy IV)\nBonus track (feat. Mitchell Emmen): Where All Things End (Doom Castle) (Final Fantasy Mystic Quest)\nThirteenth Zodiac\n(Based on Final Fantasy Tactics. Special thanks to Jonathan Dagenais for additional keyboard and strings, and help with the bridge section.)\nRamza:\nBlack and white\nTwo lions vie for the throne\nTorn in the fight\nBlood soaks the name I uphold\nLord above, where have we gone astray?\nEvery day, lives are taken away\nWho are we to decide?\nShunned by the church and my own family\nI must stay true to my beliefs\nAll the world's a stage but I just can't fit in\nLike a thirteenth zodiac\nDelita:\nOpen your mind and you will perceive\nthe voice of reason inside\nListen but once and you'll realize\nThat there is no divide\nThe Lucavi:\nDare not oppose us, remember your status\nBy now you of all should know\nManipulation can be a solution\nThe end justifies any means\nRamza:\nTell me friend, where have your ideals gone?\nPower will claim you before long\nYou cannot win this fight\nCast aside, forgotten by history\nNo one will know what I've seen\nDemonic stones turning men into slaves\nTo the thirteenth zodiac\nThe Lucavi:\nSpoken from the sword, handed down from the stone\nSpoken from the sword, handed down from the stone\nRamza:\nShunned by the church and my own family\nI must stay true to my beliefs\nAll the world's a stage but I just can't fit in\nLike a thirteenth zodiac\nCast aside, forgotten by history (Is this my fate?)\nNo one will know what I've seen (It's a nightmare)\nDemonic stones turning men into slaves (For lust and greed)\nTo the thirteenth zodiac\nBloodlines\n(Based on Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.)\nRichter:\nFour years after the battle took place\nUnder the glare of the moon\nWalking past the castle gate\nOne more time I'll fulfill my fate\nCalled by a voice which I can't ignore\nEnticing sounds and twists of the tongue\nShaft:\nA vampire hunter without a foe\nIs dead and gone, and no hero\nListen to me and soon you will see\nImmortality can be reached by glory\nRichter:\nDestroying evil with holy power\nFor centuries we have prevailed\nYou will be brought back but I guarantee\nMy bloodline will triumph again\nAlucard:\nThe world has changed during my timeless rest\nEvil has stirred, the balance's disturbed\nDarkness and light, like a song out of tune\nThe shadows at night play a symphony of doom\nPast the front gate and into the halls\nWhere chaos awaits, the unending sprawl\nSomeone has to be pulling the strings\nWhy would a Belmont do such a thing?\nBlood of the sacred,\nBlood of the damned,\nDestinies woven\nin one melody\nDestroying evil with holy power\nFor centuries they have prevailed\nImmortal father, I guarantee\nYour bloodline will end on this day\nShaft:\nCongratulations young master hunter,\nYou have achieved your one true goal...\nWhere will you go now? (You have no purpose)\nWhat will you do now? (Your existence's absurd)\nRichter:\nLord, what have I done?\nDestroying evil with holy power\nFor centuries we have prevailed\nYou will be brought back but I guarantee\nMy bloodline will triumph again\nAlucard:\nImmortal father, I guarantee\nYour bloodline will end on this day\nBehind the Mask\n(First part of a trilogy based on Final Fantasy IV.)\nHigh in the sky\nI'm facing alone\nMy darkness inside\nSo far from home\nCould this be the chance\nfor me to atone\nfor the sins of my past\nI hear the wind\nIt's whispering (in my ear)\nA servant of doom\nGuarding the tomb\nClimbing the steps\nI'm facing the test\nTo break from my past\nAnd be free at last\nAnd as darkness recedes\nAll becomes clear\nStill I will go on\nI see the Light\nIt shines so bright (feel the fear)\nPiercing the black\nTearing down my mask\nAs I'm staring at myself\nIn the mirror someone else\nstands alone facing me\nThis is who I've come to be\nThere's so much he wants to say\nBut he silently obeys\nThe orders he was given\nBy a dark sword shunned by heaven\nI'm searching for my soul\nCan I fill the hole (you can't)\nDoubt takes its toll (again)\nFacing the darkness\nI'll conquer myself\nAnd bring out my best\nAs I'm staring at myself\nIn the mirror someone else\nstands alone facing me\nThis is who I've come to be\nThere's so much he wants to say\nBut he silently obeys\nThe orders that he received\nFrom a father-King long buried\nThe Holy Light shines down on me\nIt revealed the face hidden behind the mask\nThe spineless man I was before\nIs no more\nThe Founding of Booty Bay\n(Based on World of Warcraft.)\nBaron Revilgaz & his crew:\nEv'ry one on lookout for the land of men!\n(Ev'ry one on lookout for the land of men)\nWe've come to colonize,\nto bring the Goblin dream alive.\n(Land! Land!)\nNow ye scurvy dogs...\n(Land! Land!)\nShiver me timbers!\nLooks like we've arrived\nThe Steamwheedle Cartel will thrive!\nHeave-ho! (heave-ho!)\nThe ship she's a-turnin'\nHeave-ho! (heave-ho!)\nThe fog's come rollin'!\nHeave-ho! (heave-ho!)\nCan't see where we're goin'!\nFleet Master Seahorn:\nStarboard...Port!\nBaron Revilgaz & his crew:\nCrashed me ship in Booty Bay\nThought I might as well stay\nGlitterin' prizes all around\nHeave-ho...\n(We crashed the ship in Booty Bay\nLooks like it's there to stay\nGet the rum, another round\nFor such a merry crowd!)\nMogh the Undying:\nThey come to defile our sacred temples,\nbut they will soon learn to stay away from the voodoo...\nZul'Dan ges mon\nFil'Zul Deloth mar\nFil'Los des Guth\nZul'Garrath es\nFel'Un Zen'Sma\nIga! Iga!\nFelos Es\nGrende Voo!\nGrende Voo!\nGrende voo!\nZan...\nRandom Murloc:\nRawgrlrlrlrrlglrl!!!\nDuke Falrevere:\nThe Altar of Tides will soon sport their heads\nDamned be that Baron I said!\nThe Bloodsail Buccaneers will win this fight\nThis vale and its riches will be mine\nBaron Revilgaz & his crew:\nI crashed me ship in Booty Bay\nThought I might as well stay\nGlitt'ring prizes all around\nHeave-ho\n(We crashed the ship in Booty Bay\nLooks like it's there to stay\nGet the rum, another round\nFor such a merry crowd!)\nSaving the World Barechested\n(Based on Contra.)\nA meteor falling\nAliens invading\nThe future is darkened and dreary\nA threat is emerging\nRed Falcon looming\nSend out the Contra force\nWaist-deep in water we're wading along\nTo the heart of the island, to strike at the core\n(Soon you'll know fear)\nThe enemy's here, this is our war\nThe world's fate rests on\ntheir four shoulders\nContra Force is rising\nThroughout the jungle machine guns are sounding the fight\nTheir bullets are speaking, defending our homes\nThey're fighting for a better future for all\nFor blue skies to shine again\n(Jump! Jump!)\n(Jump! Jump!)\n(Jump! Jump!)\nAvoid the falling rocks\n(Jump! Jump!)\n(Jump! Jump!)\n(Jump! Jump!)\nTo the top of the waterfall\nThe Red Falcon bleeds and falls to the ground\nAs we defeat all their soldiers around\nInto their base, gate after gate\nShooting machines, blown down to smithereens\nContra Force is blazing\nThroughout the snowy peaks and high-tech factories beyond\nThey're reaching the end of their struggle at last\nThe alien heart is the last thing to blast\nSoon we'll be free again\nFreedom has been won back\nThe Earth is at peace at last\nTheir battle was yours friends you must understand\nThese wars for your god, or for riches, for land,\nHurt us all in the end\nContra Force returning\nThroughout the nations, celebrations resound\nThe lesson's been learned and united we'll stand\nThe future is bright and the skies blue again\nThe world's fate is ours to make\nFive years later\nThe alien invaders\nHave come back, repeating our history\nTheir spaceship is firing\nCivilians are dying\nThe Alien Wars begin\nBeyond the Mask\n(Second part of a trilogy based on Final Fantasy IV.)\nOne to be born from a dragon\nHoisting the light and the dark\nArises high up in the sky to\nThe still-land above\nGolbez:\nAm I the chosen, the savior of my race?\nThe crystals are shedding their light silently\nThey're calling, they're holding the key\nto my people's fate\nZemus:\nRise up my friend and do as I tell\nYour deeds will be sung for centuries to come\nGolbez:\nSometimes at night\nI hear someone fight\nLike a voice trapped inside\nThat is trying to bring back the light\nI'm garbed all in black\nbut there's light left in me\nHow I wish you could see\nBeyond the mask\nZemus:\nThe crystals will open the way to the moon\nThe crystals will open the way to the moon\nCecil:\nHe's just a dark knight\nShadows clouding his sight\nHe gave up the fight\nAnd has forever forsaken the light\nHis soul is consumed\nIn darkness entombed\nNow he's helpless to see\nBeyond the mask\nGolbez:\nWho has been causing these evils before\nHave I lost my mind or was I bound to obey?\nWas I not speaking through my own voice\nWas someone behind or even leading the way?\nI wish I could say\nSomeone else made me do all these things\nAgainst my own will\nBut I think that I may have\nResisted if not for a dark side in me\nI'm guilty\nGolbez & Cecil:\nBrothers we are, born from the moon\nHoisting the light and the dark\nWe'll be rising, beyond the skies\nAnd beyond our masks\nGolbez:\nThe madman will pay for all he took away\nMy conscience, my free will, my existence itself\nWere stolen from me to further his goals\nBut revenge will be mine\nGolbez & Cecil:\nOne for myself\nTwo for my king\nThree for our planet\nAnd four for the sake of your kin\nHate, fear, regrets and the darkness they bring\nForm a mask on ourselves we must break\nSometimes in life we aren't given a choice\nBut we can always strive to see the world\nBeyond the mask\nIn the Year 200X\n(Based on Mega Man 2.)\nOut in the night\nAtop a skyscraper high\nThe city lights are shining on\nAnd I know they're worth fighting for\nI try my best to justify\nThe meaning of my quest\nI long for peace and that is why\nIronically I have to fight\nIn 200X\nWhen the world's in decay\nAnd the heroes of yesterday passed away\nA new man will rise\nAnd for mankind he'll fight\nIn the year 200X\nRunning through the halls\nof a maze of crystal and ice\nThe master waits beyond the gates\nWith the power to freeze time\nWhen you face your demise\nYour weapon will be mine\nI can take on anything\nAs long as I keep trying\nIn 200X\nWhen the world's in decay\nAnd the heroes of yesterday passed away\nA new man will rise\nAnd for mankind he'll fight\nIn the year 200X\nOh, when will I see it?\n(A mirror of the world)\nPeace everlasting\n(The battle's for)\nMan and machine and nothing in between\nIn 200X\nFire spreads out\nThe oceans are swelling\nAnd storms shake the ground\nWhen science has failed\nMy heart and soul still prevail\nI will save the world\nIn 200X\nIn the Year 200X\nHatred Eternal\n(Final part of a trilogy based on Final Fantasy IV.)\n(Zeromus)\nHatred\nHatred Eternal\n(Zemus)\nTrapped inside the moon's core\nFor centuries I've grown so bitter\nI tried to command\nOther minds to claim a new land\nMy kin's home is gone\nAnd the Blue Planet shined so bright\nI said we should take\nThe humans' Earth and seal their fate\n(Cecil)\nLight guide my hand\nFor darkness consumes all\n(Golbez)\nPiercing the black\nI'll make the madman pay\n(Zeromus)\nBlackened in chaos I mastered the void\nA cosmos to doom and destroy\nGalaxies die for all things must end\nThe stars are my will and they burn with pure\nHatred\nHatred Eternal\n(Golbez)\nSo it ends for me\nin the darkness of space\n(Golbez & Cecil)\nRedemption can be far\nBut never out of reach\nMoon Sugar\n(Based on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. A Vision in a Dream: A Prelude.)\nYesterday quickly slips away\nas the ship breaks the waves of my past\nDreaming quietly, today’s gone in a hurry\nImages blurry of stars I can’t see\nA little more sweet Moon Sugar and the Lady speaks once more to me\nApparently they’re taking me to the East and to my destiny\nTomorrow\nTomorrow\nTo Morrowind\nOooh…\nValleys of ashes, a scar and a wound\nOr is it the Skooma that I have consumed?\nI dreamt of mountains ripped apart\nA golden mask hiding the blackest of hearts\nOooh…\nArmies are marching to conquer these ancient lands\nBut the Devil sleeps beneath\nSoon he’ll wake from his sleep\nOooh…\nAshes to ashes, a life left behind\nSomehow this island can turn back the time\nI dream of mountains no more when I see\nDarkened skies plagued with the Blight clouds\nthat’ll spread beyond the seas\nThe Moon Sugar shows me the signs of my destiny\nThe Devil and the Incarnate\n(Based on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.)\nFrontier, Conquest, the Legion marches\nPraise the Nine Divines and the Empire\nFreed from my cell, I was thrown in this land\nEveryone's asking that I take a stand\nI don't know what I should think\nColonization attempts have been made\nThe Empire's plan was to assimilate\nThe proud people of Morrowind\nScenes from a life left behind forming up in my mind\nI know that I've been betrayed by my closest friends\nThe Tribunal Temple is weakened by the corrupt Heart\nAnd the Devil speaks in dreams\nHis power grows unseen\nFrontier, Conquest, the Legion marches\nPraise the Nine Divines and the Empire\nBorn to uncertain parents,\non a certain day, to a certain sign\nSeven visions I have seen\nWoman, tell me: what do they mean?\nThe curses came and paved the way\nfor the stories of old forgotten ages ago\nThe people are besieged\nas darkness spreads disease\nand misery sweep this land high and low\nfrom Ebonheart to the Sea of Ghosts\nThe ancient Immortal Evil is here\nAm I the hero of prophecy who'll set them free?\nWill I be marked as a traitor to my emperor?\nThe Ashlanders' trials proved I am St. Nerevar reborn\nBut the Devil has a scheme\nAnd his reasons seem sincere\n(Dagoth Ur:)\nBy the winds of the blight all shall feel the divine\nAnd my house will arise from the ashes to life\nI will provide them with their freedom of yore\nto drive out the Empire and cast down the false gods\nNever again will the skies turn to ashen gray\nNow the Dreamers have been freed\nSoon they'll wake from their sleep\nThere's still so much to do, I think I'll stay\nin Morrowind\nWhere All Things End (Doom Castle)\n(Cover version of \"Doom Castle\" from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. Special thanks to Mitchell Emmen for the guitar solo!)\nDark King:\nCome hither where all things end\nAt last\nI'll rule\nThe one behind the 4 is\ndarker than the night, and rises midst the land!\nBenjamin:\nDark King, we meet at last...\nDark King:\nIndeed, and now you will serve me...\nBenjamin:\nNo!\nDark King:\nWelcome to the power of Darkness!\nThe crystals shine again\nIn the Focus Tower\nLight flows in\nThe Duke Got Nuked\n(Based on Duke Nukem Forever.)\nLet's rock!\nWake at noon, three beers soon\nand a pack of smokes to boot\nAnother day waiting by\nthe phone for a call\n9 years' time, I'm feeling fine,\nI ain't past my prime\nJust give me a piece\nand I'll walk the streets\nI'll blow their brains out\nand dump my feces...bwahaha!\nI'm gonna rip your head off and shit down your neck\nHail to the king baby!\nWho wants some?\nI miss the good old days\nReckless violence in the Red Light's haze\nOh yeah, hahahah\n*Sigh*\n\"Glorified, steroidized\nhoodlum on the run\"\nBut now I'm just sitting around\nGetting my check on the first of every month\nYou're an inspiration for birth control\nYou suck\nI don't know why this is happening to me\nI'm still waiting to play the next part\nBut nothing moves on\nFeels like forever\nWhen will I get to star again\nI'm still waiting, I'm still waiting\nI'm still waiting, I'm s...ick of waiting\nIt's time to kick ass and chew bubble-gum...and I'm all out of gum.\nGroovy!\nDamn...I'm looking good!\nI don't know why this is happening to me\nI'm still waiting to play the next part\nBut nothing moves on\nFeels like forever\nWhen will I get to star again\nI'm still waiting, I'm still waiting\nI'm still waiting, I'm s...ick of waiting\nI'm trapped in my gym\nSmoking and drinking and weightlifing\nThey promised me a new gig\nBut they let me down, time and time and time and time and time again\nI guess the Duke got nuked...hah!", "organizations": [ { "names": { "en": "Le Ludophile" }, "role": "publisher" } ], "performers": [ { "link": "artist/4869", "names": { "en": "8-Bit Metal" } }, { "names": { "en": "Jonathan Dagenais" } }, { "names": { "en": "Mitchell Emmen" } } ], "picture_full": "https://media.vgm.io/albums/28/10182/10182-1225193733.png", "picture_small": "https://medium-media.vgm.io/albums/28/10182/10182-1225193733.png", "picture_thumb": "https://thumb-media.vgm.io/albums/28/10182/10182-1225193733.png", "platforms": [ "NES (Famicom)", "PC", "SNES (Super Famicom)", "Sony PlayStation" ], "products": [ { "link": "product/2071", "names": { "en": "Mega Man 2", "ja": "ロックマン2 Dr.ワイリーの謎", "ja-latn": "Rockman 2: Dr. Wily no Nazo" } }, { "link": "product/1334", "names": { "en": "FINAL FANTASY MYSTIC QUEST", "ja": "ファイナルファンタジーUSA ミスティッククエスト", "ja-latn": "Final Fantasy USA: Mystic Quest" } }, { "link": "product/203", "names": { "en": "FINAL FANTASY TACTICS", "ja": "ファイナルファンタジータクティクス", "ja-latn": "FINAL FANTASY TACTICS" } }, { "link": "product/175", "names": { "en": "FINAL FANTASY IV", "ja": "ファイナルファンタジーIV", "ja-latn": "FINAL FANTASY IV" } }, { "link": "product/182", "names": { "en": "FINAL FANTASY VI", "ja": "ファイナルファンタジーVI", "ja-latn": "FINAL FANTASY VI" } }, { "link": "product/818", "names": { "en": "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night", "ja": "悪魔城ドラキュラX 月下の夜想曲", "ja-latn": "Akumajou Dracula X: Gekka no Yasoukyoku" } }, { "link": "product/19633", "names": { "en": "Duke Nukem Forever", "ja": "Duke Nukem Forever", "ja-latn": "Duke Nukem Forever" } }, { "link": "product/1189", "names": { "en": "World of Warcraft", "ja": "World of Warcraft", "ja-latn": "World of Warcraft" } }, { "link": "product/2421", "names": { "en": "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind", "ja": "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind", "ja-latn": "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind" } }, { "link": "product/2093", "names": { "en": "Contra", "ja": "魂斗羅", "ja-latn": "Contra" } } ], "publish_format": "Doujin/Indie", "publisher": { "names": { "en": "Le Ludophile" }, "role": "publisher" }, "related": [], "release_date": "2008-08-08", "release_events": [], "release_price": { "price": "Free" }, "reprints": [], "vgmdb_link": "https://vgmdb.net/album/10182?perpage=99999", "votes": 0, "websites": { "Official": [ { "link": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090504073650/www.le-ludophile.com/melomania.htm", "name": "8-Bit Metal and Other Musical Stuff (archived)" }, { "link": "http://www.myspace.com/8bitmetal", "name": "MySpace - 8-Bit Metal - Montreal, CA - Metal / Experimental / Electronica" } ] } }