Out of all of the new nether biomes, I think the basalt delta is my favorite. The snowlike ash falling from the sky and the distant squish of magma cubes really gives the feel of a giant extinct volcano. The chilling piano and echoey voices in the song adds to this tremendously. 10/10 best biome ever.
Nether OST always in my opinion gives you this paradox feeling. When you hear it, you're like "This place is unique. I should go explore it" and at the same time you think "I shouldn't be here. This place isn't for me. I better get out of here"
The old ones from C418 are total bangers too, the nether is super eerie. Its pretty much a twisted version of hell. only reason its not called hell is probably because notch wanted to refrain from using religous names.
@@shinhook2k280 There are so many different versions of Hell though, and many of them describe a dark firey place so I don't think that is why. I think he just wanted it to be called its own thing since minecraft is its own thing.
@@slim7406 notch might have did it to avoid possible controversy, but he is atheist so its probably because "hell" might have been a little over used and cliche.
I like C418s take on the old nether, it fit so well. I like Lena but I haven’t heard much from her. There are a lot of expectations to meet but the nether is changing and I feel a different look, while still keeping the old style could be a cool experience. I hope they play both Lena and C418s music equally as much but I want C418s musics to be played where it fits, like the nether wastes and fortresses. Can’t wait to see what they’re going to do, C418 is working on a new album for Minecraft (like beta and alpha) so excited
Yeah It feels like it takes little bits from Celeste that make you say "yeah, this is Lena" Like, it doesn't feel like it fits in Celeste, but you can hear bits and pieces (1:20 and beyond is the perfect example of what I mean)
@@woffil3644 It portrays terrain, like vast open spaces, with very strange features. The song itself can be used easily for transitions if someone wanted to do cinema shots of terrain.
@@woffil3644 I imagine a gigantic desert of grey sand, with sky tainted like prismarine. Some greyish cloud sometime go throurgh, and the world only know an everlasting dusk. Structures of this world are made of stones that are between end stone and qwartz, and of dark grey wood. They have a lot of chains and prisons hanged on the buildings, and there's no glass at windows, only dark iron bars. They mostly look like ruins. The only light source that is used in this world are soul flame, and soul lanterns. Instead of water, you would have a sand acting like a liquid, that could actually flow through rifts in the ground. It would have gigantics underground caverns inhabited by horrible monsters, while the surface would be populated by ghostlike creatures and many variants of skeletons. It feels both primitive and mystical, as it was forever here, but remained unknown. It would be a lonely otherworldly place that, to me, would fit so well to this song.
That bass really gives you the feeling that you are in a very dark and mysterious place. It just blends in with the Nether so well. The new composer did a fantastic job on the new Nether tracks.
@@ryankelly960 It's still blowing my mind that, I guess, Minecraft is so huge that the composer of effing CELESTE is getting hate for composing for it. Lena Raine is iconic.
So below is my favorite. It fits the soulsand valley and basalt deltas extremely well. The snowlike ash and blue fog give the feel of a snowy mountain and a blizzard, which contrasts the entire nether's theme, but still manages to be an amazing biome not just for the fact that it's unique, but it is well done. The chilling piano and bittersweet tone is just amazing and the part at 2:23 really sells it.
Honestly, by far this is my favorite track and I feel like I could listen to this on my spare time. It's perfect for the biomes it's in and I'm excited to see more work from Lena.
This song makes me feel like that these places had a history, one where something very bad happened. I mean I think it makes sense, the basalt delta was probably something that was scorched and never recovered, the soul sand was probably like a plains biome but after a major event killed the creatures their souls created all the soul blocks and their fossils still remain. Maybe this is just me and way too extreme for Minecraft, but thats how it feels to me.
I know that everyone is hating the new music for sounding different but imo that's what makes it great. The nether is alien and strange and different. I guess if c418 doesn't come back later then Lena Raine is a great composer but it would feel awkward and out of place as opposed to adding to the game
@@chasetug2129 It's gotten so bad that whenever something new is added people assume by default that it's being hated on, this new music is amazing and I also haven't seen a single person actually not like it
a few things to point out: 1. lena raine only contracted for these 3 songs. and thats it. (she wont make any more) 2. c418 still has an entire ALBUM which is said to be bigger then the previous albums (volume 1, volume 2 respectively)
I was so happy to hear Lena did some songs for Minecraft, Celeste is one of my all time favorite games and the music is one of the main reasons I liked it.
I think an ancient ruin would fit in nice with the Basalt Delta, like a long lost civilization with their only remaining influence being the dungeons build deep beneath the ground.
@@godlikefish1193 Past volcanic activity and lots of blackstone patches that don't have any relation with basalt? Knowing that bastions are actually kind of a ruin, I would say there were lots of bastions in the basalt deltas, but volcanic activity totally destroyed them, and the remains can be found mixed with basalt.
This track really makes you feel that you're in other dimension. A dimension that you can't understand and you're alone there, with those weird monsters obsessed with gold, crying ghosts and skeletons
The Ghasts cry, grieving for a long forgotten past, of which even the memory of started fading away. Piglins will hurt you, afraid of losing their only precious possessions they have. Withers do what they did before perishing, guarding what they had protect down to the narrow of their bones, literally. Blazes, tarnished beings, souls which long ago have lost themselves in a never ending cycle of hatred, respawning over and over again, all of it fueled by anger. Restless souls that refuse to be set free, and will wait for you so they can thirst on vengeance. They do not speak, they do not have ears, and yet they remember your face. So below, out of the ashes of the forgotten Basalt Deltas, seemingly born out of a mix of lava and volcanic ash, the magma slimes blindly roam the uneven terrain. Clueless of a thing, they stay there, afraid to leave the comfortable lair of theirs. So Below, behind layers upon layers of Netherrack, stacked upon one another are the entrapped and damned souls that never had a choice of their own. They try to drag you down with them, envying your freedom. They try desperately begging for you to set them free, but all the you can hear are whispers. So Below, a forgotten, slowly deteriorating world, one of which will collapse on its own, The Nether is where nothing but the begining of the end. A slow, tormenting end. The resources which the piglins and even the Fungus depended on will eventually run out, whatever remains of what were once called Fortresses will rot, the weak Netherrack will eventually corrode, crashing down upon the entirety of The Nether and devastating everything in sight. It's not a place for you to thrive in, nor to die in. Sorry for writing this, just felt really inspirational today and saw your comment lmao
@@So__far__away__ very interesting story. Surprisingly wasn't cringe and fit the music and atmosphere. This reminds me of the little intro cutscenes with the poetic narrations to each level in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.
i was about to say that 1:29 onward it really sounds like this song rly fits in the rest of the Minecraft soundtrack, and the leitmotif is what rly does it
maybe they should add a special, very rare and ancient looking structure that only spawns in the Basalt Deltas, and the Soul Sand Valleys, much like how in the overworld, in the dark oak forests, you have the rare woodland mansion, and how there are structures in other biomes as well. maybe the structure can have a similar design to the nether fortress, but looks far older and more sinister, as if it holds a dark secret ( new boss?) and have treasures such as new gems like rubies. The sound track gives off a feeling as if the nether is more then just a world of fire and monsters, like there is a reason the nether is in such a state, and maybe the answers are in this volcanic biome.
Xanthius Drake perhaps there could be a blackstone nether fortress that is overrun by wither skeletons and new wither enemies. On top of that, perhaps potions of decay could be added into java, and they can be found in the chests there.
@@shaunbelcher9903 That would be interesting, maybe they can add a new enchantment that works similar to Frost Walker, only instead of turning water into ice, it cools down lava. As for the reason why I brought up rubies, its because there are very few actual gems in the game. The only ones seem to be diamonds and emeralds. So maybe they can add rubies and sapphires, yes I know there are mods such as Tekkit that do this, but it would be fun to have them in the main game, rather then having to download a mod for it. As for the idea of there being a new boss? maybe not a true boss, more like a mini boss, like the Elder Guardians in ocean monuments.
@@xanthiusdrake2775 I really like the lava enchantment idea! Also, I think the new structure should be a tomb of some kind. A vampire boss or something of the sort (mummy?) would tie in great with this new music and atmosphere of the nether. Tombs are known for being goldmines, so that's where they could add new gems. Or maybe they stick with the known and add a new variant of pigmen, maybe like a cyclops? Although cyclops would also probably fit together with the cave update. It's crazy how just the music alone can make me excited for Minecraft's next steps!
@@onnak a boss idea for me is that they did a dragon and the Wither, which involves with the undead, maybe they can make the boss some type of demon? the nether is supposed to be like the underworld. my ideas in adding new gems is because for a long time, there have only been two kinds, so adding more would bring more color and variety. A mineral I would like to see is marble, which comes in different colors and textures. As for new kinds of metal? steel, they can make it were you smelt iron in a blast furnace a second time, it would not be all that much stronger, but Should have longer durability. Silver would also be another metal they can add.
I feel like it's like it's the quiet dark place,with a unseemly unsettling calmness because of the bass is what I really like about it,its like its holds the ancient past of the nether and its secrets
Now that you mention it.... I'm getting some Fire Temple vibes. Or Spirit Temple. Maybe even Twilight Realm. It does have that simply.... otherworldly feel to it.
I think there should be like a medium sized update that’s called music and arts where they work on Minecraft sounds and music and art and maybe allow a vote on a new music disk that is fan created and add new paintings and a vote on a new painting that’s fan created
The more I hear this track, the more I think of the active lava zone in Subnautica. It's like you can hear the distant roaring of the sea dragon leviathans, the rumbling of that comes with being 1700 meters under the ocean surface, and the mysteriousness of the precursor technology scattered about--and finally stumbling across the Primary Containment Facility.
Lots of people are saying this sounds creepy but I think it’s very peaceful. I could probably fall asleep to this. It feels so gentle, and the lack of sharp percussion just emphasizes that for me. I also really appreciate the echoing effect of it, it really fits the Nether well, as it feels like it’s a giant cave or cavern.
Combining the unsettling serenity of this soundtrack with the disembodied pleas of the damned and the literal whispers in the wind in the Soul Sand Valleys... It's beyond eerie. Like you *definitely* shouldn't be here. No longer is the Nether just an endless hell. It's an unfamiliar world that is relentlessly attempting to remove the one thing that doesn't belong: you.
Isolated yet watched, relaxed but urgent. These are things I FEEL with this track. The base keeps you on edge while the piano soothes you, the reverb makes you feel like there is something behind you, while the crescendo builds up tension only to dissipate. I can't fathom how this came out of someone's head. This is music. This is what I love about it. The emotion and expression. This is not only music for a video game, it is a love letter to sound design. 10/10
@@archerfn8665 Since I read your comment, I've looked at a lot of Subnautica videos and, now, I think the entire Nether update feels a bit like Subnautica. The Nether now looks like a weird alien world with weird biomes and strange creatures whereas before it just look like hell. The Nether actually feels like another dimension now. Also, sorry for the long comment, I just really love Minecraft and Subnautica.^^
A long time ago, an ancient race came to our world with no known motivations other than colonization, the only thing here were striders, ghast, blazes, and skeletons. They acted urgently, bringing the fungi that would become our great forests, and the ancestors of us and hoglins. They experimented with souls and soul fire, attempting to achieve immortality, they made a ritual that would have three souls posses a single vessel. Upon the possession of this vessel it withered into bones quickly and unexpectedly. The lower body become dust and two more skulls had grown on the shoulders, it was chaotic and killed everyone. The last survivors were our ancestors and the red fungi. Our ancestors evolved and split into two separate creatures, us and hoglins. The fungi evolved fast, gaining resistance to fire and growing huge, but a tall dark race appeared out of no where and warped our great forests into something twisted and blue. The striders found the warped fungi appealing and often eats it for nourishment. The "enderfolk" as we call them seem to only wander around and pick stuff up in in those disgusting places, occasionally teleporting from place to place. What's even worse is that the ancient folk who died by the hands of the three headed beast has turned into "wither skeletons" and has created a civilization that we've been at war with since the beginning. They turn our kind and the hoglins into the living dead, but not as dead as they are. Thankfully, a race from the surface often come here and trade with us, giving us gold and potions for ingredients. Theyre called "witches" and have rather tall heads and slim, downfacing snouts, we'd love to visit their world of it wasn't for a curse placed on us by the enderfolk for reasons that doesn't appear to do with our hatred for them, but still as mysterious as they themselves are. So here we are in the nether living life as usual, hunting hoglins, reinforcing the bastion walls, battling wither skeletons... So, back to goldsmithing (end)
My theory is that long ago lived a community of builders, they were thrust into this strange new world and thrived, breeding animals, making shelters, trading and most of all building monuments and temples, now seen as mine shafts, desert temples, woodland mansions, ocean monuments and many more, these builders discovered magic, using pearls to teleport, and making portals to other dimensions, firstly, they went to the nether, to explore, discover, mine and barter with the piglins, they discovered three “tribes” in this strange new dimension, the piglins and hoglins in the crimson forests, the endermen and sometimes striders in the warped forest, and the ghosts, skeletons and magma cubes elsewhere, although these tribes were at war in the past, (as you said the endermen put curses on the piglins and hoglins) they managed to stay out of each other’s way, but then the builders came, many groups just mined some things, explored a bit and then returned, but one such group were stuck there, a large group of builders had their portal blew out by a ghast and were stuck, but instead of finding fire charges or flint and steel, these builders were after more, they wanted to use their new magic to not only get out but become immortal, so they (as you said) experimented with souls and soul fire, to turn some of their strongest people into godlike beings, they built huge fortresses in which to do such rituals, many failed attempts became living balls of fire, which became known by the builders as blazes, but the last attempt as the worst, (as you said) they tried to put 3 souls in 1 body, the skin melted away leaving a withered 3 headed body which was crazed and chaotic, the wither... it turned piglins and hoglins into zombies, and the builders became rotted chaotic skeletons, known as wither skeletons, and were never normal again, the creatures of the nether tried to fight the monstrosity and its minions and eventually teamed up to defeat it, but the wither skeletons and blazes as well as the zombified nether creatures still remained, leaving the nether in ruins. Many other builders used their magic to create end portals, they thought of it as a whole new adventure like the nether, but without the dreadful mistakes, but it was completely desolate, no forms of life, they mined some end stone, and ate some chorus fruit but they did not realise this was a one way trip there was no way to get back, they began to live off chorus fruit, they started to gain its magical powers, start to control them, the builders became tall and slender, they lost their speech, and most of their building capabilities, they hold blocks to try and access their distant memories of the past, if any lone travellers ever visit they will get upset, it will remind them of their past , they became so entwined with the end that they could never leave, even after using their teleportation magic to create a portal in the centre. they would become twisted and chaotic, and will forever be trapped in the end. The endermen... The builders eventually realised that the endermen already in exist in the overworld and nether must have been previous builders that suffered a similar fate, the now endermen of the end used what was left of their magic to summon a ferocious dragon to warn others of their strange and twisted fate. No one can save them now..... (this is heavily based on both the story you have told and game theory’s beautiful ideas, I just put them together and added a few ideas of my own, hope you like it.)
The Villagers Perspective: Sir Hmmph the 2nd Day 1. We have copied the design the humans gave us, 10 obsidian, than burning it. I am proud to say it worked and we are preparing an expedition with Mr. Huumm, Dr. Alex, and Sir Steve. Day 3. the past 2 days were ones of exploration, we found PIG people, giant fungi, which they they gave us, and a volcano, we theorize that it might be the Mushroom island volcano as the mushrooms must have exited through the volcano. TO DO: visit the distant Lava Fortress. Day 5. We got attacked by fire creatures, Withered Bones, giant white monsters, and possibly something stronger, we dont have long. Day 7. Oh my god, we were decimated by the from now on called Wither, we killed it, but now Steve and Alex are missing. i wont be here longer... day ??. i finally found the portal, i got sick with something... i need it... i need their flesh... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Humans Perspective, 1 week later. King Gareth the 6th of Allia the Zombies have already killed 70% of everyone, the villagers even, oh why the villagers? now i feel bad for not believing in the Ender Dragon, she is helping all the people she can, she is the last of her kind after all. 1 year later Hector Barnley, Villager of the republic of Farren Everyone other than me, and a few villagers is either dead, a zombie, or whatever those tall black monsters are. just if you are reading this, dont look at their eyes. Goodbye...
why do i get such bioshock vibes from this? like i'm not supposed to be down here vibes. and the crushing pressure from the bass just solidifies those vibes
It’s dark, slightly ominous, unsettling, and almost intimidating in a way. Just like the Nether fortresses that generate within. (This is mostly for the basalt deltas, the dark stone and ashy fog makes it look a lot more like hell)
I really love the reference to 'As Above, So Below'. The original Ancient greek quote is great and As Above, So Below(2014) is one of my favorite horror movies!
The soul sand valley is my favorite area ever featured in a video game because it has a sense of loneliness almost unmatched by anything else.Whilst playing a Minecraft snapshot I was roaming through the biome and it felt so very lonely. This played as I was trudging through the biome slowed by the blocks with faces of other adventurers embedded in them. As I continued I knew that my only friend was the blue fire burning away at the lost souls.The soul sand valley is a lonely spooky yet beautiful place and in my opinion it’s unmatched by almost any other location in a video game Bonus thought: 2:24 sounds like the ancient lost souls are singing a somber tune
Pyromaniacwolf201, I got an idea for the end theme. The Fallen Kingdom, or Ruined Kingdom. The ancient end cities and ships and the monarch of this realm make it feel, broken, waiting to mended and freed. The point of the game is to free the end, to save this realm. But it's... Barren, desolate. we see a giant creature on the horizon, it caused this. *End this beast*
For anyone curious about the name, it comes from the phrase As Above, So Below. as-above-so-below. Phrase. (occultism) What happens on one level of reality also happens on every other level; the microcosm and macrocosm behave alike. I just thought this was very fitting!
I can hear it! The only difference really is that LLL has a sort of Middle Eastern feel to it, or at least I always got that. LLL was always my favorite level in Super Mario 64 as a kid, and still probably is my favorite music in the game as well. This definitely has a similar vibe. Also, parts of this really feel like the Fire Temple in Ocarina of Time as well. So this definitely compliments fire themes!
Personal favorite of the new Nether tracks, fits the Basalt Deltas and Soul Sand Valley perfectly (although I feel like it does seem more at place in Soul Sand Valley),
Lena did such an amazing job on all of these, it fits the nether perfectly. When I hear this, I feel like i'm in a world of trapped souls and a place of a backstory of magic and monsters. It's so great
I really like a mix of Celeste and Minecraft. I have played both of them, but never truly finished any of them. But one thing I have loved about the two are their music tracks. So listening to a mix of both doubles the enjoyability and immersion. Really enjoy it!
My goodness, this song just completely changes the nether. It's like the same feeling that something like Stranger Things and the Upside Down gives. It's like, on the surface it's not that bad, but there's some sort of deeper, darker force or thing hidden away. Actually, I used to think that an adventurer's update for 1.17 would be bad and would make Minecraft feel too story based, but honestly, this thought of something more tied in with existence and something darker within the lore of the nether makes me really want something to give Minecraft more of a deep, even dark, lore behind it.
I was not sure about having another composer work on minecraft but Lena's tracks fit the game PERFECTLY. god bless. Hope both her and C418 continue to make wonderful music for this game.
The Warped Forest and Soul Sand Valley biomes are my favorites. The Soul Sand valley is so challenging with the mob spawnrate being tripled and that makes it fun and all the while has scary ambient sounds. It has these massive pillars of basalt that resembled rapidly cooled lava falls and it gives me the impression it was once a Nether Wastes. I love it. The soul soil is appealing to look at. The Warped Forest gives off a mystical majestic blacklight vibe and it’s a really peaceful biome with only Endermen spawning there. The dark faded purple and bright teal colors of the biome are my favorite colors and they go surprisingly well together.
Like many have pointed out, this truly makes the Nether feel alien. It's exactly why this is my new favorite Minecraft update. The Nether is no longer just "Minecraft's Hell". It's truly it's own mystical alien dimension. And truly, they make it very clear that you do not belong there. The fantastic soundtrack does so much of the job, it's really amuzing. Can't wait to see any more potentional additions to the Nether. Any very excited for some End updates as well. And who knows? The Aether might as well become a real Minecraft feature.
Sure, do C414’s music, as it fits the overworld so well, but this fits the nether so well, and to be played in the soul sand valley and basalt delta biomes, it fits them so well, the overworld music represents a relaxing familiar place, while the nether is inhospitable world thriving with life
they should add some dark and sinister anccient buildings to soul sand valleys. maybe like an ancient race thta holds dark secrets below a certain building and crazy evil lore.
This gives off a feeling of, "you shouldn't be here." And that there's a secret contained here...but just barely. And maybe, just maybe, that something is what made the nether what it is now... Was that the sound of something cracking...
I love this and Pigstep! I Think personally these that I listed are both great songs! Like how Pigstep helps me with pvp and this helps me with survival/creative
this song really does carry a tone of an ancient unresolved anger of billions of souls trapped in the nether as nothing but condensed blocks of soulsand. soulsand valleys are seemingly the collecting sites for the souls of the dead in the nether, with the dead rematerializing into skeletons and soulsand, forever trapped in a realm so far removed from the overworld that it can only be described as hell by an outside observer. minecraft's story will always be vague and open ended, but i feel like the soulsand valley implies something big happened long ago that caused such horrid places to form, be it a massive die off or simply ancient accumulations of death all gravitated to certain areas of the nether.
To be honest I don’t think this one fits soul sand valley, I hope that basalt deltas and soul sand valleys get different music. This is my favorite so far, I lovd so below.
Keep in mid this is by the same composer that made the music for Celeste, and I could easily see some tracks from either game swapping places it it’d still fit.
This theory is heavily based on a large number of videos and comments, such as comments on here and a video by game theory, here is a lore that I put together: My theory is that long ago lived a community of builders, they were thrust into this strange new world and thrived, breeding animals, making shelters, trading and most of all building monuments and temples, now seen as mine shafts, desert temples, woodland mansions, ocean monuments and many more, these builders discovered magic, using pearls to teleport, and making portals to other dimensions, firstly, they went to the nether, to explore, discover, mine and barter with the piglins, they discovered three “tribes” in this strange new dimension, the piglins and hoglins in the crimson forests, the endermen and sometimes striders in the warped forest, and the ghosts, skeletons and magma cubes elsewhere, although these tribes were at war in the past, the endermen put curses on the piglins and hoglins they managed to stay out of each other’s way, but then the builders came, many groups just mined some things, explored a bit and then returned, but one such group were stuck there, a large group of builders had their portal blew out by a ghast and were stuck, but instead of finding fire charges or flint and steel, these builders were after more, they wanted to use their new magic to not only get out but become immortal, so they experimented with souls and soul fire, to turn some of their strongest people into godlike beings, they built huge fortresses in which to do such rituals, many failed attempts became living balls of fire, which became known by the builders as blazes, but the last attempt as the worst, they tried to put 3 souls in 1 body, the skin melted away leaving a withered 3 headed body which was crazed and chaotic, the wither... it turned piglins and hoglins into zombies, and the builders became rotted chaotic skeletons, known as wither skeletons, and were never normal again, the creatures of the nether tried to fight the monstrosity and its minions and eventually teamed up to defeat it, but the wither skeletons and blazes as well as the zombified nether creatures still remained, leaving the nether in ruins. Many other builders used their magic to create end portals, they thought of it as a whole new adventure like the nether, but without the dreadful mistakes, but it was completely desolate, no forms of life, they mined some end stone, and ate some chorus fruit but they did not realise this was a one way trip there was no way to get back, they began to live off chorus fruit, they started to gain its magical powers, start to control them, the builders became tall and slender, they lost their speech, and most of their building capabilities, they hold blocks to try and access their distant memories of the past, if any lone travellers ever visit they will get upset, it will remind them of their past , they became so entwined with the end that they could never leave, even after using their teleportation magic to create a portal in the centre. they would become twisted and chaotic, and will forever be trapped in the end. The endermen... The builders eventually realised that the endermen already in exist in the overworld and nether must have been previous builders that suffered a similar fate, the now endermen of the end used what was left of their magic to summon a ferocious dragon to warn others of their strange and twisted fate. No one can save them now..... hope you like it.
My theory is the End was slowly mended after the Dragon was slain. The end came together and purified, becoming the Ether. This miraculous paradise was beset by evil creatures and became a world of two sides, darkness and light. The Overworld was created. But this world was slowly destroyed until fire burned it down to it's core and corrupted it, leaving the monuments of the past, fortresses paying tribute to light's last stand, embodiments of chaos and destruction withering away this world. But then a portal, spawn of lava and flame appeared in the Overworld, created by our protagonist. A link to the future. Ancient Strongholds buried deep have a sister portal, chained and locked until the eyes to see into the beginning are provided.A link to the past. The cost of these connections is loops, paradoxes, never ending cycles. The end is the beginning, The hellfire the end. The battle of two forces, the transition between these. The darkness becomes light becomes both becomes none.
you come out of the bunker of ur fallout shelter, and you see the wasted land that was once a place with green grass, and smiling people, and now its dark... dead... ashy, and this music is playing
Notably different sound than C418, more ambient and looser in approaching a melody? Nevertheless, very true to both the biome and game's OST. A pair of quality headphones really fleshes this piece out.
Just realized-- overworld biomes and caves need their own music
nope keep the silent cave and then play the cave sound
we just need a cave update and done the spoopyness will increase
1.17 - the music update XD
Just put Flake in the snowy biomes and I'll be satisfied.
I cant believe I just now realized how lacking minecraft is in music
@@Dissectionator you sure about that?
Out of all of the new nether biomes, I think the basalt delta is my favorite. The snowlike ash falling from the sky and the distant squish of magma cubes really gives the feel of a giant extinct volcano. The chilling piano and echoey voices in the song adds to this tremendously. 10/10 best biome ever.
I love the new nether. All the new stuff makes it really feel like an alternate dimension.
The distant rock crumbling and explosion sounds really sell the effect as well.
Warped Forest is my Favorite.
the atmosphere of the biome is amazing just everything combined and then when this music kicks in it just adds that little extra
I think that there should be a new big boss on the basalt delta, like godzilla or something like that
Nether OST always in my opinion gives you this paradox feeling. When you hear it, you're like "This place is unique. I should go explore it" and at the same time you think "I shouldn't be here. This place isn't for me. I better get out of here"
The more eerie the music is or the terrain is, the more it makes me want to explore it.
Well said
The old ones from C418 are total bangers too, the nether is super eerie. Its pretty much a twisted version of hell. only reason its not called hell is probably because notch wanted to refrain from using religous names.
@@shinhook2k280 There are so many different versions of Hell though, and many of them describe a dark firey place so I don't think that is why. I think he just wanted it to be called its own thing since minecraft is its own thing.
@@slim7406 notch might have did it to avoid possible controversy, but he is atheist so its probably because "hell" might have been a little over used and cliche.
Its kinda cool how c418 made all the overworld music while lena raine gets to make the nether ones. Makes the nether feel extra alien.
i believe c418 did make some nether music too, dont know if they are still used. Hopefully yes they are great!
C418 DID do the music for the nether before Lena Raine, but I think it still plays in areas with no new music like the warped forest
I like C418s take on the old nether, it fit so well. I like Lena but I haven’t heard much from her. There are a lot of expectations to meet but the nether is changing and I feel a different look, while still keeping the old style could be a cool experience. I hope they play both Lena and C418s music equally as much but I want C418s musics to be played where it fits, like the nether wastes and fortresses. Can’t wait to see what they’re going to do, C418 is working on a new album for Minecraft (like beta and alpha) so excited
@Xaiddenn different, as in its like an entirely separate dimension. Which it is.
Emperor Palpacheem they are
Thing I like about Lena’s Minecraft music is that it is unique, but still sounds like it belongs in Minecraft
Yeah
It feels like it takes little bits from Celeste that make you say "yeah, this is Lena"
Like, it doesn't feel like it fits in Celeste, but you can hear bits and pieces
(1:20 and beyond is the perfect example of what I mean)
minecraft volume alpha is still miles ahead, but this is good
100 percent
Agree, but her music could have more ambience
Çünkü ait
the bittersweet tone is fricking amazing. this would also be great if played in a desert at night.
^^^^^^
Or while caving
Eh, it really doesn’t portray a cave or desert vibe, it’s a otherworldly song, maybe the end?
@@woffil3644 It portrays terrain, like vast open spaces, with very strange features. The song itself can be used easily for transitions if someone wanted to do cinema shots of terrain.
@@woffil3644 I imagine a gigantic desert of grey sand, with sky tainted like prismarine.
Some greyish cloud sometime go throurgh, and the world only know an everlasting dusk.
Structures of this world are made of stones that are between end stone and qwartz, and of dark grey wood.
They have a lot of chains and prisons hanged on the buildings, and there's no glass at windows, only dark iron bars.
They mostly look like ruins.
The only light source that is used in this world are soul flame, and soul lanterns.
Instead of water, you would have a sand acting like a liquid, that could actually flow through rifts in the ground.
It would have gigantics underground caverns inhabited by horrible monsters, while the surface would be populated by ghostlike creatures and many variants of skeletons.
It feels both primitive and mystical, as it was forever here, but remained unknown. It would be a lonely otherworldly place that, to me, would fit so well to this song.
That bass really gives you the feeling that you are in a very dark and mysterious place. It just blends in with the Nether so well. The new composer did a fantastic job on the new Nether tracks.
Ikr!!!! The new composer gets so much hate but they’re amazing.
@@ryankelly960 It's still blowing my mind that, I guess, Minecraft is so huge that the composer of effing CELESTE is getting hate for composing for it. Lena Raine is iconic.
LightKnight2311 I totally agree it’s great.
This is not scary. It is somehow both relaxing and giving a creepy vibe
@Microwave Daddy , well yes but actually no.
It is a little creepy but it doesn't induce fear like somebody else said
I love all of Lena's new tracks, but this one is by far my favorite. What do you think of the new Nether music?
So below is my favorite. It fits the soulsand valley and basalt deltas extremely well. The snowlike ash and blue fog give the feel of a snowy mountain and a blizzard, which contrasts the entire nether's theme, but still manages to be an amazing biome not just for the fact that it's unique, but it is well done. The chilling piano and bittersweet tone is just amazing and the part at 2:23 really sells it.
Honestly, by far this is my favorite track and I feel like I could listen to this on my spare time. It's perfect for the biomes it's in and I'm excited to see more work from Lena.
I like this track and the crimson forest theme is also pretty nice.
It's Copyright?
New Nether music is beatiful. Change my mind
i can't believe I just realized that this is the same composer as celeste oh my GOD this is the best timeline
ikr i love celeste
what about corona
Idk about this being the BEST timeline, papyrus isnt the royal guard and this virus is holding all back like the barrier 🤷♂️🤣🤣
@@mateuszodrzywoek8658 the corona doesn't matter if we have the composer of celeste in minecraft
Whatever that is
No way! Lena Raine made official Minecraft music! That's AWESOME!
I loved her work on Celeste!
"I'm TRYING to be diplomatic here. Let's go home together."
*chase scene starts*
"Throws hand up in the air"
*YOLOOOOOOOOOOO!*
*resurrections starts playing*
This song makes me feel like that these places had a history, one where something very bad happened. I mean I think it makes sense, the basalt delta was probably something that was scorched and never recovered, the soul sand was probably like a plains biome but after a major event killed the creatures their souls created all the soul blocks and their fossils still remain. Maybe this is just me and way too extreme for Minecraft, but thats how it feels to me.
you never know, all good things have a terrible past....
I know that everyone is hating the new music for sounding different but imo that's what makes it great. The nether is alien and strange and different. I guess if c418 doesn't come back later then Lena Raine is a great composer but it would feel awkward and out of place as opposed to adding to the game
i haven't seen a single person say they didn't like the new music
@@chasetug2129 It's gotten so bad that whenever something new is added people assume by default that it's being hated on, this new music is amazing and I also haven't seen a single person actually not like it
a few things to point out:
1. lena raine only contracted for these 3 songs. and thats it. (she wont make any more)
2. c418 still has an entire ALBUM which is said to be bigger then the previous albums (volume 1, volume 2 respectively)
@@knopfir Still doesn't change the fact that they're amazing songs
Imma still want new minecraft tracks from C1418 tho.
I was so happy to hear Lena did some songs for Minecraft, Celeste is one of my all time favorite games and the music is one of the main reasons I liked it.
Yeah the music is cool and all, but the whole reason she climbed the mountain is well beyond relatable.
I'm getting a "quiet and falling" vibe here, probably because both are by Lena
@@h20dynamoisdawae37 Yeah, this just screams Mirror Temple meets Reflection to me
cameron schiralli Rubedo has more of a Mirror Temple/Resurrections feeling imo
We need to redo the end's music with a completely different composer, so each dimension has a completely different tone.
I would keep C418’s songs for sure, but I would love to see ender dragon boss music.
Stipxz There technically is a ender dragon boss music,but its way to quiet and peaceful.
@@gladiusbladeofthenorth9939 It's better that way, not all bosses need crazy music
better idea: the end is completely silent after defeating the ender dragon. adds to the uncanniness
@Kaat König How about this. There are still end specific discs, but the end is normally silent.
I think an ancient ruin would fit in nice with the Basalt Delta, like a long lost civilization with their only remaining influence being the dungeons build deep beneath the ground.
We got the pigling bastions now
@@hannorasmusholtiegel6044 the basalt delta is the only place it can't spawn 😔
@@godlikefish1193 Past volcanic activity and lots of blackstone patches that don't have any relation with basalt? Knowing that bastions are actually kind of a ruin, I would say there were lots of bastions in the basalt deltas, but volcanic activity totally destroyed them, and the remains can be found mixed with basalt.
@@limmer3520 and basalt irl is formed by water...its matpat time
This track really makes you feel that you're in other dimension.
A dimension that you can't understand and you're alone there, with those weird monsters obsessed with gold, crying ghosts and skeletons
The Ghasts cry, grieving for a long forgotten past, of which even the memory of started fading away.
Piglins will hurt you, afraid of losing their only precious possessions they have.
Withers do what they did before perishing, guarding what they had protect down to the narrow of their bones, literally.
Blazes, tarnished beings, souls which long ago have lost themselves in a never ending cycle of hatred, respawning over and over again, all of it fueled by anger.
Restless souls that refuse to be set free, and will wait for you so they can thirst on vengeance.
They do not speak, they do not have ears, and yet they remember your face.
So below, out of the ashes of the forgotten Basalt Deltas, seemingly born out of a mix of lava and volcanic ash, the magma slimes blindly roam the uneven terrain. Clueless of a thing, they stay there, afraid to leave the comfortable lair of theirs.
So Below, behind layers upon layers of Netherrack, stacked upon one another are the entrapped and damned souls that never had a choice of their own. They try to drag you down with them, envying your freedom. They try desperately begging for you to set them free, but all the you can hear are whispers.
So Below, a forgotten, slowly deteriorating world, one of which will collapse on its own, The Nether is where nothing but the begining of the end. A slow, tormenting end.
The resources which the piglins and even the Fungus depended on will eventually run out, whatever remains of what were once called Fortresses will rot, the weak Netherrack will eventually corrode, crashing down upon the entirety of The Nether and devastating everything in sight.
It's not a place for you to thrive in, nor to die in.
Sorry for writing this, just felt really inspirational today and saw your comment lmao
@@So__far__away__And magma cubes are just assholes?
@@So__far__away__ very interesting story. Surprisingly wasn't cringe and fit the music and atmosphere.
This reminds me of the little intro cutscenes with the poetic narrations to each level in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.
that "minecraft" leitmotif is what really makes this song for me - just like "sweden" leitmotif in "the end"
TheCakeIsNotLie I don’t hear it. What part?
@@ianigma2833 1:28 and onward.
i was about to say that 1:29 onward it really sounds like this song rly fits in the rest of the Minecraft soundtrack, and the leitmotif is what rly does it
maybe they should add a special, very rare and ancient looking structure that only spawns in the Basalt Deltas, and the Soul Sand Valleys, much like how in the overworld, in the dark oak forests, you have the rare woodland mansion, and how there are structures in other biomes as well. maybe the structure can have a similar design to the nether fortress, but looks far older and more sinister, as if it holds a dark secret ( new boss?) and have treasures such as new gems like rubies.
The sound track gives off a feeling as if the nether is more then just a world of fire and monsters, like there is a reason the nether is in such a state, and maybe the answers are in this volcanic biome.
Xanthius Drake perhaps there could be a blackstone nether fortress that is overrun by wither skeletons and new wither enemies. On top of that, perhaps potions of decay could be added into java, and they can be found in the chests there.
@@shaunbelcher9903 That would be interesting, maybe they can add a new enchantment that works similar to Frost Walker, only instead of turning water into ice, it cools down lava.
As for the reason why I brought up rubies, its because there are very few actual gems in the game. The only ones seem to be diamonds and emeralds. So maybe they can add rubies and sapphires, yes I know there are mods such as Tekkit that do this, but it would be fun to have them in the main game, rather then having to download a mod for it.
As for the idea of there being a new boss? maybe not a true boss, more like a mini boss, like the Elder Guardians in ocean monuments.
@@xanthiusdrake2775 I really like the lava enchantment idea! Also, I think the new structure should be a tomb of some kind. A vampire boss or something of the sort (mummy?) would tie in great with this new music and atmosphere of the nether. Tombs are known for being goldmines, so that's where they could add new gems. Or maybe they stick with the known and add a new variant of pigmen, maybe like a cyclops? Although cyclops would also probably fit together with the cave update. It's crazy how just the music alone can make me excited for Minecraft's next steps!
@@onnak a boss idea for me is that they did a dragon and the Wither, which involves with the undead, maybe they can make the boss some type of demon? the nether is supposed to be like the underworld.
my ideas in adding new gems is because for a long time, there have only been two kinds, so adding more would bring more color and variety. A mineral I would like to see is marble, which comes in different colors and textures. As for new kinds of metal? steel, they can make it were you smelt iron in a blast furnace a second time, it would not be all that much stronger, but Should have longer durability. Silver would also be another metal they can add.
Instead of rubies, how about blood diamonds?
I feel like it's like it's the quiet dark place,with a unseemly unsettling calmness because of the bass is what I really like about it,its like its holds the ancient past of the nether and its secrets
Celeste's Mirror Temple?
I particularly like the part at the end with the repeated bass. It sounds so...MENACING.
Not hating on c148 but I like this
Isnt it C418?
@@someone-qx5pp yeah but the original guy's name is c418 not c148
This sounds like a Legend of Zelda song and I can't put my finger on it
Now that you mention it.... I'm getting some Fire Temple vibes. Or Spirit Temple. Maybe even Twilight Realm. It does have that simply.... otherworldly feel to it.
Maybe "oath to order"?
I think there should be like a medium sized update that’s called music and arts where they work on Minecraft sounds and music and art and maybe allow a vote on a new music disk that is fan created and add new paintings and a vote on a new painting that’s fan created
Not change it just add it to places it’s missing like underground and the end dimension
if fans have a chance to put a painting in minecraft they will probably put shrek or something like that
Gos R. They could do a vote for paintings that Mojang created like the mob vote for the phantoms
Calm 4 for music disc:
*It is showtime*
It could be like an update similar to the 1.15 update, like it's a smaller one, and then we get the big one, like the nether update was released
The more I hear this track, the more I think of the active lava zone in Subnautica. It's like you can hear the distant roaring of the sea dragon leviathans, the rumbling of that comes with being 1700 meters under the ocean surface, and the mysteriousness of the precursor technology scattered about--and finally stumbling across the Primary Containment Facility.
Livvy Sama-san-chan My thoughts exactly
Lots of people are saying this sounds creepy but I think it’s very peaceful. I could probably fall asleep to this. It feels so gentle, and the lack of sharp percussion just emphasizes that for me. I also really appreciate the echoing effect of it, it really fits the Nether well, as it feels like it’s a giant cave or cavern.
Man the basalt delta is incredible... that music... the ashes coming from the sky.... the rocks and magma.... that biome is amazing...
C418: I am the only producer of high quality Minecraft music
Lena Raine: *allow me to introduce myself*
Combining the unsettling serenity of this soundtrack with the disembodied pleas of the damned and the literal whispers in the wind in the Soul Sand Valleys... It's beyond eerie. Like you *definitely* shouldn't be here. No longer is the Nether just an endless hell. It's an unfamiliar world that is relentlessly attempting to remove the one thing that doesn't belong: you.
Isolated yet watched, relaxed but urgent. These are things I FEEL with this track. The base keeps you on edge while the piano soothes you, the reverb makes you feel like there is something behind you, while the crescendo builds up tension only to dissipate. I can't fathom how this came out of someone's head. This is music. This is what I love about it. The emotion and expression. This is not only music for a video game, it is a love letter to sound design. 10/10
shh
This actually really reminds me of the Skyrim night ambience and music, just the way it feels.
Ah another dovakin
Yeah even tho i play skyrim on minecraft
P_A_N_Z_E_R the real thing is way better, man.
@@jowsh1826 i only have fallout 4 i would buy it its just i dont have the cash
P_A_N_Z_E_R Fallout is still a good game tho
Love this! She really did not disappoint! New fave bg soundtrack for Minecraft!
i agree
By far the best of the 3 in my opinion
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I agree
This sounds like the final song you hear before entering the final boss room, as the camera pans out as the choir starts singing
I did something like this :D
I don't know why but, to me, this song kinda sounds like a breath of the wild song.
Ember the fox Subtle subnautica vibes too
@@archerfn8665 Since I read your comment, I've looked at a lot of Subnautica videos and, now, I think the entire Nether update feels a bit like Subnautica. The Nether now looks like a weird alien world with weird biomes and strange creatures whereas before it just look like hell. The Nether actually feels like another dimension now. Also, sorry for the long comment, I just really love Minecraft and Subnautica.^^
It sounds like this would be the best theme for the Lost Forest in Breath of the Wild in my opinion
A long time ago, an ancient race came to our world with no known motivations other than colonization, the only thing here were striders, ghast, blazes, and skeletons. They acted urgently, bringing the fungi that would become our great forests, and the ancestors of us and hoglins. They experimented with souls and soul fire, attempting to achieve immortality, they made a ritual that would have three souls posses a single vessel. Upon the possession of this vessel it withered into bones quickly and unexpectedly. The lower body become dust and two more skulls had grown on the shoulders, it was chaotic and killed everyone. The last survivors were our ancestors and the red fungi. Our ancestors evolved and split into two separate creatures, us and hoglins. The fungi evolved fast, gaining resistance to fire and growing huge, but a tall dark race appeared out of no where and warped our great forests into something twisted and blue. The striders found the warped fungi appealing and often eats it for nourishment. The "enderfolk" as we call them seem to only wander around and pick stuff up in in those disgusting places, occasionally teleporting from place to place. What's even worse is that the ancient folk who died by the hands of the three headed beast has turned into "wither skeletons" and has created a civilization that we've been at war with since the beginning. They turn our kind and the hoglins into the living dead, but not as dead as they are. Thankfully, a race from the surface often come here and trade with us, giving us gold and potions for ingredients. Theyre called "witches" and have rather tall heads and slim, downfacing snouts, we'd love to visit their world of it wasn't for a curse placed on us by the enderfolk for reasons that doesn't appear to do with our hatred for them, but still as mysterious as they themselves are. So here we are in the nether living life as usual, hunting hoglins, reinforcing the bastion walls, battling wither skeletons... So, back to goldsmithing (end)
Holy **** I spent the entire time of the video writing this, hot diggity ****
Oh my god that’s a good one
My theory is that long ago lived a community of builders, they were thrust into this strange new world and thrived, breeding animals, making shelters, trading and most of all building monuments and temples, now seen as mine shafts, desert temples, woodland mansions, ocean monuments and many more, these builders discovered magic, using pearls to teleport, and making portals to other dimensions, firstly, they went to the nether, to explore, discover, mine and barter with the piglins, they discovered three “tribes” in this strange new dimension, the piglins and hoglins in the crimson forests, the endermen and sometimes striders in the warped forest, and the ghosts, skeletons and magma cubes elsewhere, although these tribes were at war in the past, (as you said the endermen put curses on the piglins and hoglins) they managed to stay out of each other’s way, but then the builders came, many groups just mined some things, explored a bit and then returned, but one such group were stuck there, a large group of builders had their portal blew out by a ghast and were stuck, but instead of finding fire charges or flint and steel, these builders were after more, they wanted to use their new magic to not only get out but become immortal, so they (as you said) experimented with souls and soul fire, to turn some of their strongest people into godlike beings, they built huge fortresses in which to do such rituals, many failed attempts became living balls of fire, which became known by the builders as blazes, but the last attempt as the worst, (as you said) they tried to put 3 souls in 1 body, the skin melted away leaving a withered 3 headed body which was crazed and chaotic, the wither... it turned piglins and hoglins into zombies, and the builders became rotted chaotic skeletons, known as wither skeletons, and were never normal again, the creatures of the nether tried to fight the monstrosity and its minions and eventually teamed up to defeat it, but the wither skeletons and blazes as well as the zombified nether creatures still remained, leaving the nether in ruins.
Many other builders used their magic to create end portals, they thought of it as a whole new adventure like the nether, but without the dreadful mistakes, but it was completely desolate, no forms of life, they mined some end stone, and ate some chorus fruit but they did not realise this was a one way trip there was no way to get back, they began to live off chorus fruit, they started to gain its magical powers, start to control them, the builders became tall and slender, they lost their speech, and most of their building capabilities, they hold blocks to try and access their distant memories of the past, if any lone travellers ever visit they will get upset, it will remind them of their past , they became so entwined with the end that they could never leave, even after using their teleportation magic to create a portal in the centre. they would become twisted and chaotic, and will forever be trapped in the end. The endermen... The builders eventually realised that the endermen already in exist in the overworld and nether must have been previous builders that suffered a similar fate, the now endermen of the end used what was left of their magic to summon a ferocious dragon to warn others of their strange and twisted fate. No one can save them now.....
(this is heavily based on both the story you have told and game theory’s beautiful ideas, I just put them together and added a few ideas of my own, hope you like it.)
I put a theory as a reply, it is based of yours as well as game theory, hope you enjoy
The Villagers Perspective:
Sir Hmmph the 2nd
Day 1. We have copied the design the humans gave us, 10 obsidian, than burning it. I am proud to say it worked and we are preparing an expedition with Mr. Huumm, Dr. Alex, and Sir Steve.
Day 3. the past 2 days were ones of exploration, we found PIG people, giant fungi, which they they gave us, and a volcano, we theorize that it might be the Mushroom island volcano as
the mushrooms must have exited through the volcano. TO DO: visit the distant Lava Fortress.
Day 5. We got attacked by fire creatures, Withered Bones, giant white monsters, and possibly something stronger, we dont have long.
Day 7. Oh my god, we were decimated by the from now on called Wither, we killed it, but now Steve and Alex are missing. i wont be here longer...
day ??. i finally found the portal, i got sick with something... i need it... i need their flesh...
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The Humans Perspective, 1 week later.
King Gareth the 6th of Allia
the Zombies have already killed 70% of everyone, the villagers even, oh why the villagers?
now i feel bad for not believing in the Ender Dragon, she is helping all the people she can, she is the last of her kind after all.
1 year later
Hector Barnley, Villager of the republic of Farren
Everyone other than me, and a few villagers is either dead, a zombie, or whatever those tall black monsters are. just if you are reading this, dont look at their eyes.
Goodbye...
This is the perfect music for the mariana trench.
why do i get such bioshock vibes from this? like i'm not supposed to be down here vibes. and the crushing pressure from the bass just solidifies those vibes
can't wait to build my house in the soul sand biomes with this playing
It’s dark, slightly ominous, unsettling, and almost intimidating in a way. Just like the Nether fortresses that generate within.
(This is mostly for the basalt deltas, the dark stone and ashy fog makes it look a lot more like hell)
I honestly love the gray smog and ash, it is just an amazing touch because of the slight difference to the other new biomes
What’s this? Your *Minecraft Soundtrack* is evolving!
I really love the reference to 'As Above, So Below'. The original Ancient greek quote is great and As Above, So Below(2014) is one of my favorite horror movies!
The soul sand valley is my favorite area ever featured in a video game because it has a sense of loneliness almost unmatched by anything else.Whilst playing a Minecraft snapshot I was roaming through the biome and it felt so very lonely. This played as I was trudging through the biome slowed by the blocks with faces of other adventurers embedded in them. As I continued I knew that my only friend was the blue fire burning away at the lost souls.The soul sand valley is a lonely spooky yet beautiful place and in my opinion it’s unmatched by almost any other location in a video game
Bonus thought: 2:24 sounds like the ancient lost souls are singing a somber tune
So is there an alternative called “As Above”? If not, then there’s an idea for ya lol
Maybe instead of As Above, Withered Heights (like the advancement for spawning the wither)
I like the way you think, maybe if we ever get an Aether dimension we'll be seeing "As Above" released with it :V
@@Pyro201 or, as above for an end track?
Pyromaniacwolf201, I got an idea for the end theme. The Fallen Kingdom, or Ruined Kingdom. The ancient end cities and ships and the monarch of this realm make it feel, broken, waiting to mended and freed. The point of the game is to free the end, to save this realm. But it's... Barren, desolate. we see a giant creature on the horizon, it caused this. *End this beast*
@@joesyeee2112 whoa
Oh god the Mirror Temple vibes are off the charts
why for some reason do I feel mad nostalgia from this.
My only problem is that this song is kinda hard to hear at times
For anyone curious about the name, it comes from the phrase As Above, So Below.
as-above-so-below. Phrase. (occultism) What happens on one level of reality also happens on every other level; the microcosm and macrocosm behave alike.
I just thought this was very fitting!
And here I am, just waiting to find piano sheet music for this. I'd *love* to play this song
This sounds like one step away from Lethal Lava Land from Super Mario 64, and I love it for that.
I can hear it! The only difference really is that LLL has a sort of Middle Eastern feel to it, or at least I always got that. LLL was always my favorite level in Super Mario 64 as a kid, and still probably is my favorite music in the game as well. This definitely has a similar vibe. Also, parts of this really feel like the Fire Temple in Ocarina of Time as well. So this definitely compliments fire themes!
Personal favorite of the new Nether tracks, fits the Basalt Deltas and Soul Sand Valley perfectly (although I feel like it does seem more at place in Soul Sand Valley),
Lena did such an amazing job on all of these, it fits the nether perfectly. When I hear this, I feel like i'm in a world of trapped souls and a place of a backstory of magic and monsters. It's so great
I really like a mix of Celeste and Minecraft. I have played both of them, but never truly finished any of them. But one thing I have loved about the two are their music tracks. So listening to a mix of both doubles the enjoyability and immersion. Really enjoy it!
It sounds like a perversion of the Minecraft overworld music and I absolutely love it.
My goodness, this song just completely changes the nether. It's like the same feeling that something like Stranger Things and the Upside Down gives. It's like, on the surface it's not that bad, but there's some sort of deeper, darker force or thing hidden away.
Actually, I used to think that an adventurer's update for 1.17 would be bad and would make Minecraft feel too story based, but honestly, this thought of something more tied in with existence and something darker within the lore of the nether makes me really want something to give Minecraft more of a deep, even dark, lore behind it.
1:21 Love that piano bit so much. So captivating and ominous.
I was not sure about having another composer work on minecraft but Lena's tracks fit the game PERFECTLY. god bless. Hope both her and C418 continue to make wonderful music for this game.
The Warped Forest and Soul Sand Valley biomes are my favorites. The Soul Sand valley is so challenging with the mob spawnrate being tripled and that makes it fun and all the while has scary ambient sounds. It has these massive pillars of basalt that resembled rapidly cooled lava falls and it gives me the impression it was once a Nether Wastes. I love it. The soul soil is appealing to look at. The Warped Forest gives off a mystical majestic blacklight vibe and it’s a really peaceful biome with only Endermen spawning there. The dark faded purple and bright teal colors of the biome are my favorite colors and they go surprisingly well together.
The vocals are so calming yet the song is eerie it both brings a intense and calm feeling upon me and it's just weird.
i’ve never been more proud to be named Lena
Perfectly captures the despair of a lost soul in a fallen world
Like many have pointed out, this truly makes the Nether feel alien.
It's exactly why this is my new favorite Minecraft update. The Nether is no longer just "Minecraft's Hell". It's truly it's own mystical alien dimension.
And truly, they make it very clear that you do not belong there. The fantastic soundtrack does so much of the job, it's really amuzing.
Can't wait to see any more potentional additions to the Nether. Any very excited for some End updates as well.
And who knows? The Aether might as well become a real Minecraft feature.
Whenever you’re in the nether, you the tone and feel of the game is so different from the overworld.
Oh my god, this is so soothing and beautiful. I cannot describe to you how much I am in love with this. 🥰
This sounds like exploring a structure long since abandoned and destroyed, with no idea what happened and the knowledge that you'll never truly know
What a haunting, beautiful darkness this is...
I’m so exited going through the nether and hearing this. Man this is gonna be so fun
Gracias Alejandro
It feels like being a living ghost, walking through an abandoned, corroding city, with only memories to entertain yourself
Lena Raine made this?! Minecraft's soundtrack is in good hands if they have Lena Raine making this. She made the killer soundtrack of Celeste.
Mojang really knows how to pick their musicians, C418 and Lena Raine are both so incredible!
True masterpiece
I am currently playing this at a start of a thunderstorm which fits well with this music!!
Sure, do C414’s music, as it fits the overworld so well, but this fits the nether so well, and to be played in the soul sand valley and basalt delta biomes, it fits them so well, the overworld music represents a relaxing familiar place, while the nether is inhospitable world thriving with life
Very atmospheric! Glad this is made by the same person who made celeste's soundtrack!
they should add some dark and sinister anccient buildings to soul sand valleys. maybe like an ancient race thta holds dark secrets below a certain building and crazy evil lore.
This is amazing. Eerie and threatening but undeniably enjoyable.
Out of all four this has to be the best one
four?
Yes there are four new ones
oooh you're counting pigstep! then i must say i disagree. pigstep is what i vibe to.
Is anyone else getting mad Metroid vibes from this new update or is it just me?
I hope more biomes/structures get their own specific musics later on, that would be amazing
Imagine how emotionally impacted you would be being in a place like the nether
This song basically sums up what being in a empty endless field for eternity would feel like
This gives off a feeling of, "you shouldn't be here." And that there's a secret contained here...but just barely. And maybe, just maybe, that something is what made the nether what it is now...
Was that the sound of something cracking...
I love this and Pigstep! I Think personally these that I listed are both great songs! Like how Pigstep helps me with pvp and this helps me with survival/creative
this song really does carry a tone of an ancient unresolved anger of billions of souls trapped in the nether as nothing but condensed blocks of soulsand. soulsand valleys are seemingly the collecting sites for the souls of the dead in the nether, with the dead rematerializing into skeletons and soulsand, forever trapped in a realm so far removed from the overworld that it can only be described as hell by an outside observer. minecraft's story will always be vague and open ended, but i feel like the soulsand valley implies something big happened long ago that caused such horrid places to form, be it a massive die off or simply ancient accumulations of death all gravitated to certain areas of the nether.
To be honest I don’t think this one fits soul sand valley, I hope that basalt deltas and soul sand valleys get different music. This is my favorite so far, I lovd so below.
It kinda fits with the basalt delta tho
Frozen Cascade True! I meant that it fits with basalt deltas but not the soul sand valley.
I Think it fits both really well! Especially basalt deltas
The end should have it's own music
"the end" by C418 exists
Doozy It already has,and its one of the best,its all the overworld themes distorted and with an echo like effect.
There should be end music by a different composer than c418
@@dashdadeztroya377 no
I love how it literary shook my ear drums and almost gave me ear damage
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Lena raine and C418 is the best musicians ever
im legit shaking bruh, this has so much eerie feelin
Keep in mid this is by the same composer that made the music for Celeste, and I could easily see some tracks from either game swapping places it it’d still fit.
Watch your steps in the ''Bass''alt delta.
This music is beauty, this remembers my times of 5 or 4 yr old :')
This theory is heavily based on a large number of videos and comments, such as comments on here and a video by game theory, here is a lore that I put together:
My theory is that long ago lived a community of builders, they were thrust into this strange new world and thrived, breeding animals, making shelters, trading and most of all building monuments and temples, now seen as mine shafts, desert temples, woodland mansions, ocean monuments and many more, these builders discovered magic, using pearls to teleport, and making portals to other dimensions, firstly, they went to the nether, to explore, discover, mine and barter with the piglins, they discovered three “tribes” in this strange new dimension, the piglins and hoglins in the crimson forests, the endermen and sometimes striders in the warped forest, and the ghosts, skeletons and magma cubes elsewhere, although these tribes were at war in the past, the endermen put curses on the piglins and hoglins they managed to stay out of each other’s way, but then the builders came, many groups just mined some things, explored a bit and then returned, but one such group were stuck there, a large group of builders had their portal blew out by a ghast and were stuck, but instead of finding fire charges or flint and steel, these builders were after more, they wanted to use their new magic to not only get out but become immortal, so they experimented with souls and soul fire, to turn some of their strongest people into godlike beings, they built huge fortresses in which to do such rituals, many failed attempts became living balls of fire, which became known by the builders as blazes, but the last attempt as the worst, they tried to put 3 souls in 1 body, the skin melted away leaving a withered 3 headed body which was crazed and chaotic, the wither... it turned piglins and hoglins into zombies, and the builders became rotted chaotic skeletons, known as wither skeletons, and were never normal again, the creatures of the nether tried to fight the monstrosity and its minions and eventually teamed up to defeat it, but the wither skeletons and blazes as well as the zombified nether creatures still remained, leaving the nether in ruins.
Many other builders used their magic to create end portals, they thought of it as a whole new adventure like the nether, but without the dreadful mistakes, but it was completely desolate, no forms of life, they mined some end stone, and ate some chorus fruit but they did not realise this was a one way trip there was no way to get back, they began to live off chorus fruit, they started to gain its magical powers, start to control them, the builders became tall and slender, they lost their speech, and most of their building capabilities, they hold blocks to try and access their distant memories of the past, if any lone travellers ever visit they will get upset, it will remind them of their past , they became so entwined with the end that they could never leave, even after using their teleportation magic to create a portal in the centre. they would become twisted and chaotic, and will forever be trapped in the end. The endermen... The builders eventually realised that the endermen already in exist in the overworld and nether must have been previous builders that suffered a similar fate, the now endermen of the end used what was left of their magic to summon a ferocious dragon to warn others of their strange and twisted fate. No one can save them now.....
hope you like it.
My theory is the End was slowly mended after the Dragon was slain. The end came together and purified, becoming the Ether. This miraculous paradise was beset by evil creatures and became a world of two sides, darkness and light. The Overworld was created. But this world was slowly destroyed until fire burned it down to it's core and corrupted it, leaving the monuments of the past, fortresses paying tribute to light's last stand, embodiments of chaos and destruction withering away this world. But then a portal, spawn of lava and flame appeared in the Overworld, created by our protagonist. A link to the future. Ancient Strongholds buried deep have a sister portal, chained and locked until the eyes to see into the beginning are provided.A link to the past. The cost of these connections is loops, paradoxes, never ending cycles. The end is the beginning, The hellfire the end. The battle of two forces, the transition between these. The darkness becomes light becomes both becomes none.
Finally, I have listened to this for 2 hours.
This kinda sounds creepy yet beautiful at the same time
you come out of the bunker of ur fallout shelter, and you see the wasted land that was once a place with green grass, and smiling people, and now its dark... dead... ashy, and this music is playing
i personally prefear the old tracks, but lenna raine's one are amazing too
Notably different sound than C418, more ambient and looser in approaching a melody? Nevertheless, very true to both the biome and game's OST.
A pair of quality headphones really fleshes this piece out.
Told ya lads... Music. Best thing in da world
This is how i describe this music imo: Despair, Hopeless, Alone.
sounds like my life :)
@@alibyte I feel ya bro