Cyberpunk had some of the best music of any game I've ever played, thanks for making this cover of a song that they didn't even seem to finish in the game itself!
I know right?? It's such a good riff, I couldn't believe there wasn't a 'full version' somewhere and I just had to do something with it! Thanks for checking it out :D
Thank you for checking it out!! :D :D It's actually a term from the original Cyberpunk 2020 TTRPG, it was the name of the genre of futuristic metal that rockerboys like Johnny Silverhand play. Also abbreviated to 'chromer rock/metal' - there's nothing especially chromatic about this in a musicology sense though XD
Huh, interesting! It could very well have been, I played a bit of Shadowrun as well as CP2020 back in the day, although my main game was always D&D... there are entries for Chromer/Chromatic Metal/Rock on both the Shadowrun Wiki and the Cyberpunk wiki, so you might be right, I honestly can't remember 100%
i may be wrong but the term definitely is around for at least 20 years, might go back even further to the original books on cyberpunkbut i know that it was metjnioned in shadowrun a whiiile ago XD also i just love shadowrun as setting. its a bit like d&d in a cyberpunk setting, you got all the fantasy elements an all the technology elements combined
Hmm, I sang in a metal band for like 8 years...I've been focusing on instrumental stuff lately, it's kinda easier to record everything late at night without waking everyone up compared to recording singing XD Still maybe I could try a version with lyrics...?
Well I wrote some lines few days back. It's still kinda incomplete. It has start the riot. Tried to keep corporate greed plot just as Johnny Silverhand was against in the franchise.
Thank you! Honestly the Refused riff is so kickass as a starting point that writing most of the rest of this flowed pretty easily from that, but I'm really happy with how it turned out :D
Really?? Archangel is officially released? If so that means I can release this on Spotify etc as a proper cover! That's great news!! And thank you so much for that huge compliment 🤘🤘
Thanks! It's not actually a musical term & I didn't come up with it or anything, it's the name for the type of music played by rock bands in the Cyberpunk game/TTRPG, also called 'Chromer Rock' 🤘😝🤘
If nothing else, this total bummer of a game has brought the world some fantastic original music, and some even more fantastic covers. This is fucking tasty, insta-subbed, cannot wait to see your other work!
Thank you so much, really glad you like it!! Guilty secret is that I'm yet to even play the game - hopefully by the time I can afford a PC that can run it properly, they will have fixed all the bugs XD I actually have a version of this with lyrics and vocals almost ready to go, just need to find time to get it finished, make a video and get it out :D
@htdrednaxela96 I bought PL and started a new playthrough, but decided to wait until I can afford to upgrade my GPU to see this beautiful game in its full glory. My poor old GTX1650 is struggling a bit 😅 Unfortunately I was just laid off from my job so I've no idea when I'll get to actually do that, but for an experience of this calibre I'm willing to wait.
Dude!! Thank you! Gotta have a little bit of that 80s glam metal vibe, but played through a futuristic mindset. Really happy if you feel like I captured it, thanks for the comment :D
@@Drewcif3r Doesn't sound glam to me, this is much harder, sharper, heavier etc. than glam. Best/worst case scenario (depends on who you ask), it flirts a bit with glam but that's it.
@@AssassinT10 I agree! To me the 'cyberpunk' vibe is more flirting with it as you said, it's almost reminiscent of it. To me Cyberpunk is hugely about meeting decay and disillusion with rebellion and burning as bright as you can on the way down, so musically I wanted the track to almost reference the loss of that 'hair metal' idealism but retain an echo of it. But the typical grimness of a cyberpunk future they'd end up with a heavier and more 'modern' overall sound, I think, so I'm glad you heard this in it! :D
Thank you!! I don't actually play drums, I have to program them using MIDI and an old Roland RS5 keyboard, so I'm always really happy when someone says the drums sound good 🤘😁🤘
I had no doubt this'd be awesome by how it started but honestly was worried the feel of the tune might change when the existing part stopped and the improv started. This was one of those very happy "you're wrong" moments \m/
Thank you very much!! I'm self-conscious about my soloing because there are so many amazing guitarists on RUclips but comments like this one motivate me to keep practising :D
Heh our old band honestly tried to do just that about 20 years ago, all my lyrics came from cyberpunk themes and it was partly because of Chromer Rock in CP2020. Eventually a senior record exec told us we were "too different" 🤷♂️
@@discipleofsound4565 ah dude, thank you very much. Yup it's all on Spotify and RUclips and whatnot, the band was called New Project. We literally had a song called 'Cyberpunk' lol ruclips.net/video/WeDVaBXfgjQ/видео.html
Dude!! 3 years!! \m/ \m/ Thank you so much. Really stoked you like it so much. I'm gonna try to write more, the last couple of years have been pretty full-on but I hope I'll have a bit more time to get back to music and other stuff soon :)
Hahaa, thank you mate!! Guitar solos are easily the part of any song I struggle with the most so it's awesome this one did the trick! Thanks for the comment :D
Unfortunately I haven't actually played the game yet! I need to upgrade my PC before I get into it as I want to play it at a decent spec and my rig is a few years old now 😭 so I've just gone off other videos on YT (and my general love of all things cyberpunk) to make this 😄
Thanks very much! I'm not 100% sure whether I can actually put it up on Spotify because Refused wrote the original riff...even though I've made more of a whole song out of it?? Not sure how that would work :s
Thank you very much for asking! Unfortunately, it's not available for purchase at the moment - it was originally in a weird place WRT copyright because it was a 'rework' of a track that was owned by CDPR but never released - I could upload it to RUclips but I couldn't register it as a single or officially release it. They've changed that situation by actually releasing the track, and I've released the vocal version (ruclips.net/video/xvzMnlMEYEk/видео.html) on Spotify/iTunes etc, if that helps?
@@Drewcif3r I saw that after writing this comment. However, when I searched for the vocal version in my iTunes music store, I couldn't find it. I searched first for your artist name, "Drewcif3r" but no matches returned. I then searched for Archangel, and got a ton of irrelevant hits. Only one of which was the official CDPR release of the track. Because I couldn't find it, I assume the track is not for sale in the Canadian iTunes music market?
@@anonymousskunk Hmm, weird, it should be there? It might be under 'Drewcifer' with an 'e' instead of with a '3'. I found an Apple Music link in my Distrokid dashboard, if that's any good? music.apple.com/us/album/archangel-razorwire-mix-razorwire-mix-single/1611741174 :)
@@Drewcif3r There is a Drewcifer in my iTunes store, but he's an amateur african-american rapper. Alas, I don't subscribe to Apple Music. I'm searching the iTunes store.
@@anonymousskunk Hey, sorry I didn't get back to you, I've been super ill the last couple weeks. On that Apple Music page, there's a red link a little way down the page that says 'Also available in the iTunes store' - does that do anything if you click it?
THANK YOU that is worth a huge amount to me! Apologies in advance because I don't upload very often but I'm hoping to change that in the future. I really want to make a series of D&D videos to go with the Battle Song tracks :)
@@gemwest that game (like so many SNES games TBH) had such an excellent soundtrack. I feel like a lot of the time, the melody work in those 16-bit titles was so strong because of the technical constraints of the era, I grew up playing games like Shadowrun, Contra III, Super Castlevania, F-Zero, Zelda III etc etc etc and I feel like it's really influenced my composition hugely. Also plenty of good stuff in the 8-bit era too!
@@Drewcif3r And this is EXACTLY why I have no problem waiting for content from you :3 You and I share a lot in this regard. (Side note, I've come back to this video EVERY DAY since I wrote the original comment)
Ehhh, I wasn't a huge fan of the original bridge and chorus...which is why I changed them XDD each to their own though, glad you liked the lead part and thanks a ton for checking it out!! :D
![Cyberpunk 2077 - Never Fade Away [LITTLE V COVER] (SAMURAI/Refused)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pf0K6Baq2fk/mqdefault.jpg)
yo this is literally the full version until further notice
Dude! Thank you that's a huge compliment :D
Totally agree
Seconded.
Cyberpunk had some of the best music of any game I've ever played, thanks for making this cover of a song that they didn't even seem to finish in the game itself!
I know right?? It's such a good riff, I couldn't believe there wasn't a 'full version' somewhere and I just had to do something with it! Thanks for checking it out :D
Its different- thank devs there is no rap/hip hop/ plastic pop overdose .
You're very welcome, thanks for listening! :)
@RN1441 Ma men. Try another videos with vocals on this artist channel. Added something for the storylovers cause the clip is really well done too !-)
"Chromatic" Metal? That's new to me... color me intrigued.
Also HOLY SHIT, THIS IS *AWESOME*
Thank you for checking it out!! :D :D It's actually a term from the original Cyberpunk 2020 TTRPG, it was the name of the genre of futuristic metal that rockerboys like Johnny Silverhand play. Also abbreviated to 'chromer rock/metal' - there's nothing especially chromatic about this in a musicology sense though XD
@@Drewcif3r The more you know... thanks for the info!
@@Drewcif3r i am actually positive that Shadowrun coined the term 20 years ago.
Huh, interesting! It could very well have been, I played a bit of Shadowrun as well as CP2020 back in the day, although my main game was always D&D... there are entries for Chromer/Chromatic Metal/Rock on both the Shadowrun Wiki and the Cyberpunk wiki, so you might be right, I honestly can't remember 100%
i may be wrong but the term definitely is around for at least 20 years, might go back even further to the original books on cyberpunkbut i know that it was metjnioned in shadowrun a whiiile ago XD also i just love shadowrun as setting. its a bit like d&d in a cyberpunk setting, you got all the fantasy elements an all the technology elements combined
This masterpiece should honestly have millions of views
Wow, thank you so much!! What a huge compliment 😮😄! I'm really happy you liked it, thanks for listening! \m/ \m/
BAD ASS shame none of these ever do lyrics "Start The Riot" is iconic
Hmm, I sang in a metal band for like 8 years...I've been focusing on instrumental stuff lately, it's kinda easier to record everything late at night without waking everyone up compared to recording singing XD Still maybe I could try a version with lyrics...?
@@Drewcif3r that'd be SOO fucking SICK if you did, but even if you dont this is SUPER Badass as is thanks :)
Definetly you need to try!
Well I wrote some lines few days back. It's still kinda incomplete. It has start the riot. Tried to keep corporate greed plot just as Johnny Silverhand was against in the franchise.
I like "The desire to destroy" part though.
Shame CDPR have this situation right now, maybe we could of had this hidden gem of music track released.
First time ever hearing something like this, truly amazing
Thank you very much :D
I Guarantee Johnny or V. Is causing havoc on the other side of the veil
I love all the original touches to the song. Really gives it life.
Thank you! Honestly the Refused riff is so kickass as a starting point that writing most of the rest of this flowed pretty easily from that, but I'm really happy with how it turned out :D
Gotta say it... the song officially released today, and I prefer yours.
Really?? Archangel is officially released? If so that means I can release this on Spotify etc as a proper cover! That's great news!! And thank you so much for that huge compliment 🤘🤘
2:00 solo got me s**tting bricks thats how hard it hit *sweating*
Hahah sick, glad you liked it!! I've been practising so it's awesome to read this :D
Excuse me but CHROMATIC Metal? First time I hear it. And about it. Sounds AWESOME!
Thanks! It's not actually a musical term & I didn't come up with it or anything, it's the name for the type of music played by rock bands in the Cyberpunk game/TTRPG, also called 'Chromer Rock' 🤘😝🤘
@@Drewcif3r Hey keep at it, if enough people start doing it, it might actually become a musical term!
Haha that'd be cool wouldn't it?? Art imitating life imitating art 😂
Holy mother of Johnny silverhand this was amazing!
Well i subscribed to you.
Woop woop!! Thank you very much! :D
If nothing else, this total bummer of a game has brought the world some fantastic original music, and some even more fantastic covers. This is fucking tasty, insta-subbed, cannot wait to see your other work!
Thank you so much, really glad you like it!! Guilty secret is that I'm yet to even play the game - hopefully by the time I can afford a PC that can run it properly, they will have fixed all the bugs XD I actually have a version of this with lyrics and vocals almost ready to go, just need to find time to get it finished, make a video and get it out :D
I hope you tried replaying it now when phantom liberty dropped. Absolute masterpiece.
@htdrednaxela96 I bought PL and started a new playthrough, but decided to wait until I can afford to upgrade my GPU to see this beautiful game in its full glory. My poor old GTX1650 is struggling a bit 😅 Unfortunately I was just laid off from my job so I've no idea when I'll get to actually do that, but for an experience of this calibre I'm willing to wait.
just, insane !
🤘 Thanks for listening! :D 🤘
I totally hear all the Hair Metal influence, and it super works here. Might as well be official.
Dude!! Thank you! Gotta have a little bit of that 80s glam metal vibe, but played through a futuristic mindset. Really happy if you feel like I captured it, thanks for the comment :D
@@Drewcif3r Doesn't sound glam to me, this is much harder, sharper, heavier etc. than glam. Best/worst case scenario (depends on who you ask), it flirts a bit with glam but that's it.
@@AssassinT10 I agree! To me the 'cyberpunk' vibe is more flirting with it as you said, it's almost reminiscent of it. To me Cyberpunk is hugely about meeting decay and disillusion with rebellion and burning as bright as you can on the way down, so musically I wanted the track to almost reference the loss of that 'hair metal' idealism but retain an echo of it. But the typical grimness of a cyberpunk future they'd end up with a heavier and more 'modern' overall sound, I think, so I'm glad you heard this in it! :D
i'll admit, the drums really add to the urgency of the song. Good shit!
Thank you!! I don't actually play drums, I have to program them using MIDI and an old Roland RS5 keyboard, so I'm always really happy when someone says the drums sound good 🤘😁🤘
this was pretty pretty good indeed, archangel should stay as an interlude full of the riff only and only that little part of johnny singing
Thanks dude, glad you liked it! :D
best cover of the best bug in the game
Thanks for checking it out, glad you liked it! \m/
Holy SH*T! This gives me goosebumps!!
I'm glad!! Thank you for your comment :D
Now, this is some epic shit. I'm in.
Rock on! Thank you very much for checking it out, glad you liked it \m/ \m/
SMASHING!
YES! SMASH!!
deserves so many more views!
Thanks!! Can't believe it's at 5k, already more than I expected :D
Finally Archangel got Justice!!! Amazing job!!!!
Haha thanks a lot for listening!! Glad you liked it :D 🤘🤘
I had no doubt this'd be awesome by how it started but honestly was worried the feel of the tune might change when the existing part stopped and the improv started. This was one of those very happy "you're wrong" moments \m/
Haha I absolutely love a good intro. Really can't help myself lol
This isn't just Archangel
This is all 7
And the fallen ones as well
Haha hell yeah what a sick comment, thank you!!
Nice job, that solo fits perfect..this is now my go to version when i wanna listen to samurai's archangel version
Thank you very much!! I'm self-conscious about my soloing because there are so many amazing guitarists on RUclips but comments like this one motivate me to keep practising :D
Congratulations ! This cover is awesome!!!! So powerful!
Thanks dude!! Glad you liked it :D
It's like a opening for Cb2077 series , just awesome and this solo... : 😍 Nice job 😎👍
Dude thank you!! Like I said in a different comment, the solo is easily the part I struggle with most so I'm really happy you liked it :D
Well done
Cheers!! :D
great cover here! big LIKE
Thanks a lot, glad you liked it :D :D
Keanu would be proud.
Haha it would absolutely blow my mind if he listened to this 😂
Preem. Now to get the chromer movement properly started; make bands like Samurai and Justifiable Homicide a reality.
Heh our old band honestly tried to do just that about 20 years ago, all my lyrics came from cyberpunk themes and it was partly because of Chromer Rock in CP2020. Eventually a senior record exec told us we were "too different" 🤷♂️
@@Drewcif3r stuff em, choom. I think you've got something special. Did your old band record anything? If so, would you mind linking me?
@@discipleofsound4565 ah dude, thank you very much. Yup it's all on Spotify and RUclips and whatnot, the band was called New Project. We literally had a song called 'Cyberpunk' lol ruclips.net/video/WeDVaBXfgjQ/видео.html
Just gotta say...I'm still coming back.
Dude!! 3 years!! \m/ \m/ Thank you so much. Really stoked you like it so much. I'm gonna try to write more, the last couple of years have been pretty full-on but I hope I'll have a bit more time to get back to music and other stuff soon :)
This is fucking sick
Thank you!! :D
This is holy
Bless you kind traveller! May your riffs be heavy, your solos be epic and your cyber be punky. Amen :D
Now I feel like a badass walking down to the Afterlife
\m/ \m/ Nova bro thanks for checking it out! :D
That is absolutely epic mate, then at 00:01:56 my socks blew off
Hahaa, thank you mate!! Guitar solos are easily the part of any song I struggle with the most so it's awesome this one did the trick! Thanks for the comment :D
amazing
Thankyou very much for listening :D
I think there's a riff you missed, the first one Johnny plays when you play it to Kerry. Intro one, I believe.
Unfortunately I haven't actually played the game yet! I need to upgrade my PC before I get into it as I want to play it at a decent spec and my rig is a few years old now 😭 so I've just gone off other videos on YT (and my general love of all things cyberpunk) to make this 😄
Holy fucking shit this is dank
Cheers!! :DD
This is awesome. Spotify please my man
Thanks very much! I'm not 100% sure whether I can actually put it up on Spotify because Refused wrote the original riff...even though I've made more of a whole song out of it?? Not sure how that would work :s
@@Drewcif3r plenty covers on there so I think you'll be fine :)
Deus ex 2077 amazimg
Ahh cheers! DX:HR had one of my favourite game soundtracks ever so this is a big compliment :D
Sik
Vocals when?
Vocals now! ruclips.net/video/xvzMnlMEYEk/видео.html XD
Nice!!! :D
Thanks for checking it out! :D
I want this. Is there any way I could buy this track?
Thank you very much for asking! Unfortunately, it's not available for purchase at the moment - it was originally in a weird place WRT copyright because it was a 'rework' of a track that was owned by CDPR but never released - I could upload it to RUclips but I couldn't register it as a single or officially release it. They've changed that situation by actually releasing the track, and I've released the vocal version (ruclips.net/video/xvzMnlMEYEk/видео.html) on Spotify/iTunes etc, if that helps?
@@Drewcif3r I saw that after writing this comment. However, when I searched for the vocal version in my iTunes music store, I couldn't find it. I searched first for your artist name, "Drewcif3r" but no matches returned. I then searched for Archangel, and got a ton of irrelevant hits. Only one of which was the official CDPR release of the track.
Because I couldn't find it, I assume the track is not for sale in the Canadian iTunes music market?
@@anonymousskunk Hmm, weird, it should be there? It might be under 'Drewcifer' with an 'e' instead of with a '3'. I found an Apple Music link in my Distrokid dashboard, if that's any good? music.apple.com/us/album/archangel-razorwire-mix-razorwire-mix-single/1611741174 :)
@@Drewcif3r There is a Drewcifer in my iTunes store, but he's an amateur african-american rapper.
Alas, I don't subscribe to Apple Music. I'm searching the iTunes store.
@@anonymousskunk Hey, sorry I didn't get back to you, I've been super ill the last couple weeks. On that Apple Music page, there's a red link a little way down the page that says 'Also available in the iTunes store' - does that do anything if you click it?
Lol im 666th like.
Hahaha yeeeahh 🤘😝🤘
Earned you a sub, if that's worth much to you. :)
THANK YOU that is worth a huge amount to me! Apologies in advance because I don't upload very often but I'm hoping to change that in the future. I really want to make a series of D&D videos to go with the Battle Song tracks :)
@@Drewcif3r you covered the old SR theme too. Upload at your leisure, you have my attention.
@@gemwest that game (like so many SNES games TBH) had such an excellent soundtrack. I feel like a lot of the time, the melody work in those 16-bit titles was so strong because of the technical constraints of the era, I grew up playing games like Shadowrun, Contra III, Super Castlevania, F-Zero, Zelda III etc etc etc and I feel like it's really influenced my composition hugely. Also plenty of good stuff in the 8-bit era too!
@@Drewcif3r And this is EXACTLY why I have no problem waiting for content from you :3 You and I share a lot in this regard. (Side note, I've come back to this video EVERY DAY since I wrote the original comment)
Cool video but completely butchered the perfect and amazing bridge and chorus. Nice lead though.
Ehhh, I wasn't a huge fan of the original bridge and chorus...which is why I changed them XDD each to their own though, glad you liked the lead part and thanks a ton for checking it out!! :D