arrangers:
- link: artist/7320
  names:
    en: Norrin Radd
barcode: '88450131455'
catalog: II39
categories:
- Game-adjacent
category: Game-adjacent
classification: Arrangement, Original Work
composers:
- link: artist/7320
  names:
    en: Norrin Radd
- names:
    en: Øyvind Hægeland
covers: []
discs:
- disc_length: '48:02'
  name: Disc 1
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Anomaly
    track_length: '4:05'
  - names:
      English: Desert of Blackened Sands
    track_length: '3:48'
  - names:
      English: Four Lights
    track_length: '6:40'
  - names:
      English: Process of Microcosmic Emaciation
    track_length: '3:22'
  - names:
      English: Naga Soturad
    track_length: '1:59'
  - names:
      English: Reciprocal Dimensions
    track_length: '3:49'
  - names:
      English: Paradoxes are Unveiled
    track_length: '1:49'
  - names:
      English: Proton Decay
    track_length: '3:13'
  - names:
      English: Quantum Uncertainly
    track_length: 0:29
  - names:
      English: A Barrage of Hostile Abstractions
    track_length: '5:21'
  - names:
      English: Becoming Superluminal
    track_length: '3:46'
  - names:
      English: Nucleation of a Child Universe
    track_length: '2:47'
  - names:
      English: Never to Return
    track_length: '1:42'
  - names:
      English: A Castle Under Siege
    track_length: '1:59'
  - names:
      English: Spinning (NES Spiral Architect Cover) [Bonus Track]
    track_length: '3:13'
link: album/18687
lyricists: []
media_format: CD
meta:
  added_date: 2010-04-12T13:25
  edited_date: 2023-10-29T18:58
  fetched_date: 2026-01-10T02:34
  freedb: 1
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 2942
name: ANOMALY
names:
  en: ANOMALY
  ja: ANOMALY
  ja-latn: ANOMALY
notes: 'NES Death Metal Album

  All Vocals by Norrin Radd

  15 Spinning is composed by Spiral Architect

  Art by Francis Coulombe and "Anomaly" logo by Josiah.

  Anomaly is the newest album from chiptune artist Norrin_Radd. Four years in the
  making, Anomaly is a  concept album that follows a journey of a mortal consciousness
  baring witness to the death and renewal  of the universe, and is lyrically illustrated
  through the esoteric interpretations one must overcome  when faced with infinite
  time and space.

  Musically, Anomaly adheres to the same limitations imposed on the original 8bit
  NES. Using these  limitations as a guideline, Anomaly is loaded with extremely complex
  pieces of music that weave  together elements of technical death metal, progressive
  rock, thrash metal, and jazz. Where Anomaly  deviates from the original NES sound
  is in the use of 2 additional channels used for vocal tracks.

  In order to maintain the sound and feel of the original 8bit NES, all of the vocals
  were first converted  into 1bit DPCM files to give them that nostalgic "Blades of
  Steel" sound.

  When the term chiptune is used in describing a style of music, it is usually considered
  a genre in and of itself, which implies a certain type of music. Instead, Anomaly
  attempts to use the term  "chiptune" as a protocol with which musical ideas can
  be interpreted.

  In this case, the vision was to  transform the ideas behind Technical Death Metal,
  Progressive Rock, Thrash, and Jazz as they would be  heard if it existed on the
  original Nintendo Entertainment System.'
organizations:
- &id001
  link: org/119
  names:
    en: II (Pause)
    ja: II (Pause)
    ja-latn: II (Pause)
  role: publisher
performers:
- link: artist/7320
  names:
    en: Norrin Radd
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picture_small: https://medium-media.vgm.io/albums/78/18687/18687-1271108287.gif
picture_thumb: https://thumb-media.vgm.io/albums/78/18687/18687-1271108287.gif
publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id001
related: []
release_date: '2010-04-14'
release_events: []
release_price:
  currency: USD
  price: 10.0
reprints: []
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/album/18687?perpage=99999
votes: 0
