@@freddybongwater I go in peaceful most of the time because i only go to get xp from quartz, when im not on peaceful, im getting ghast tears and wither skulls
It gives me the feeling of The End, like there's no turning back, and you know it, you accept it. It's like fate speaking to you in the sweet angelic voice, telling you that you're doomed in the best way possible and just to let go.
Lena has a way with music and emotions. They did it with Celeste, they did it with other lesser known things, and they did it with Minecraft. Lena's music is something special. Both by itself and in conjunction with the game they were designed for. If you've played Celeste, take one look at the OST and see if you can see what I see. Because this definitely applies to these 3-4 Nether tracks Lena made. It's... beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. And the beat part of all: Lena isn't slowing down anytime soon. There's many more works in progress (and some recent releases) that have me excited.
I feel like people never talk about how the nether update made the the nether an actual place that things could live in. It went from just a boring hell dimension, to a much more interesting other world.
People are often blinded by nostalgia and say they want the old Neh their back because they grew up with it, but it glad they updated it because it’s SO much more interesting with new places for animals and things
I can safely say I am the exact opposite - I used to despise going into the Nether due to the boring and frustrating layout of the same old biome across an entire dimension. No nostalgia whatsoever for the old Nether. With actual ecosystems in play across the varied biomes, I feel like I have a chance to actually understand the world. I don't just tunnel away from the annoying ghasts until I run smack into a fortress anymore. Now, I try to figure out how to adapt to the environment and take advantage of the pros and cons of every biome. A fantastic update, to be sure.
Yep. With the old nether, it's just lacking that needed story. It's just an empty and barrel wasteland with the same thing stretching over until infinity, or well, the border. It was also very risky and dangerous and offered just 2 items that are only useful for redstone and potions. And the nether wart, you can get it once and you never need to go back and get another. Quartz isn't really that used because redstoners were very few back then. It was also abundant so you just need to mine a few and you're good for days. Now, it has a story, purpose, and it looks so amazing. It's not a barrel wasteland anymore, but a breathing ecosystem of hellish creatures. Crimson forests with their piglin and hoglin inhabitants and large mushrooms, warped forests with endermen and also amazing wood color, basalt deltas with its amazing basalt block for building, and magma cubes that make it alive, and soul sand valleys with its unique soul fire and skeletons to make it feel amazing (even though I despise that biome). Even the lavas have striders that make it look not boring. You can see them cute baby striders riding their parents lol. There's even a new ore that gives new stronger armor. The nether update is truly the best update. Edit: I can't believe I mistyped "barren" as "barrel" twice
Kind of like a “reversed alternate dimension engulfed in the flames of hell” sort of world. Perhaps it’s what used to be beyond the border, now separated from reality and destroyed by years of war, darkness, and decay.
It's especially good for single biome players like me. I don't know how I would withstand in an only ocean world with out having a changing in scenery, block, ambience and blocks.
The thing I like about the Nether soundtrack as a whole is that it doesn't try too hard to be "Ooohhhh, spooky!" Instead, it has a kind of melancholic, ethereal, nostalgic feel to it. Like you're exploring the remains of a once magnificent civilization that has since been all but erased from existence, and all that's left of them are quiet memories and a gentle resignment to oblivion, with maybe a sprinkle of hope that someone will remember them. Overall, I find that more compelling than just "Uhhh, it's hell."
@@skeleton819 My theory was that the Nether, like the Overworld, was once a prosperous place. However, the players, an invasive species, came in and ruined everything because the ecosystem couldn't adapt, and the plant life slowly died out, causing abrupt climate change to scorch the Nether. The only animals that could survive were either mutants like the Piglins, presumably pigs brought from the Overworld that evolved, whether over time or rapidly (Nether Warts?), to fit the environment, or the mushrooms that now dot the Nether, since they are not only resilient to new climates but also are almost impossible to overcook. The mushrooms thrived and grew in their new environment due to no competition from other plants, leading to an abundance of resources to use. Wither Skeletons and Nether Fortresses could be the remnants of civilization that were, too, brought to a fiery end. The water that once was here but evaporated could lead to heavy fog, explaining why the Nether effectively adds a limit to your render distance. Maybe the Bastion Remnants were once a fortress made of stone for exploration by the players as well, and even that scorched over. The Piglins might have called it home after the players died out, and are hostile towards Wither Skeletons because those are the burnt skeletons of players that brought this hellish end to the Nether. Their love for gold might be explained by the gold blocks being hidden in the Bastion's walls. The Piglins might be looking for whatever riches were left behind by the players, and if you help them in their hunt for it they reward you, explaining why they attack you if you are not wearing gold armor. They hunt Hoglins for food, effectively becoming cannibals, because of the lack of food. They might not be able to eat the mushrooms found in the Nether due to some crazy quirk of evolution in either the Piglins or the mushrooms themselves. The Blazes might have once been guardians of the fortresses, corrupted by the Nether and turned evil. The music, I like to believe, is an echo of the past, bouncing around the caverns of the Nether for centuries, fusing with the sounds of this now desolate, hostile place as it travels. This is just my take on the lore of the Nether, but there are other theories out there. Who knows, maybe we're headed for the Nether ourselves?
The C418 songs represent the vast expanse of the Nether, while Lena’s songs show the eerieness of strange forests and wastelands. And pigstep is indicative of all the fire in the nether.
for me, concrete halls is my favourite in terms of nostalgia. i heard it every time i dared to venture into the nether as a child. it reeks of mystery and uncertainty that i just dont hear in any other game (besides portal, but we all know that the music in that game is amazing too) and it was amazingly terrifying. i used to always be on the lookout for ghasts amd when id see one, i would just bolt out of there. and that music was playing along with it. it was great. the most terrifying part for me was getting stuck in the nether, whether it be getting lost or having my portal blow up. god, imagine that. being stuck in this unknown dimension forever, that _would_ be scary. luckily that wouldn't happen in real life... ... right?
There are actually fairly easy ways to escape the nether when your portal is blown even b4 the nether update, like uaing the same ghast to reignite the portal.
Rubedo seems to go most well with when you’re at a nether fortress or bastion, as the song slowly escalates and gets more powerful (especially 31:40-32:00) it gives so much tension reminding that you could die at any moment whether knocked into the lava or brutalized by a piglin brute or wither skeleton. When I raided a fortress and this song played, it gave me so much tension as it escalated that it literally made my sweat down my arms and the chord at 31:48 really helps with that effect.
Dead Voxel is 100% my favorite one. That ending from 16:31 onward is super underrated, and it never fails to make me cry. C418 and Lena Raine did a fantastic job with the nether music
It’s amazing how Minecraft went from some peaceful game with nostalgic music to an adventurous game, I love that there’s so much to do in Minecraft. I don’t know how this masterpiece got to how it was today, but soon, Minecraft will have its last patch, and it will be in the video game hall of fame
Concrete Halls, Ballad Of The Cats and Rubedo give that sense of danger and they make me feel like I'm going to die at any moment. Dead Voxel and Warmth make me sad. Chrysopoeia and So Below are simply strange and unique. Pigstep is a fun dance song.
Rubedo gives me the sense that you are traveling into lands that should not be traveled, that you are pushing the boundaries of reality and fate just by being there
C418’s tracks are how you feel when you first discover the nether. It’s hostile, alien, and full of monsters. I love Lena’s tracks because they make you stop and think of the nether as an ecosystem. The addition of the intelligent piglins makes the nether feel more like a place of sadness than actual torment. Just beautiful.
The first one is creepy but calming in a way. Intimidating, but in a "You'll see for yourself what dangers lie here, but I wont stop you" vibe. It's really damn cool to me and has to be one of my favorite tracks from this game.
I think concrete halls is my fave. It kinda teminds me of a movie called The Labyrinth. Idk how else to describe it, but it is cool! Idk makes me think of some supa long dangorouse obsical of some sort
The way Warmth makes me feel... kinda makes me want to stop doing all that I'm doing in life... to take a pause and just let everything that's repressed and bottled up out of my system. By far one of the most powerful pieces of music I've ever heard
Warmth feels like you're in nether (like hell) but you don't panic, you don't worry. You take a moment to think about all the souls, the zombie piglin, the ghasts, what has happened here and with these beings? The nether doesn't overwhelm you, you just embrace it and think about it.
Ballad of the Cats perfectly describes the Nether the way it is. Endless wastes. Deadly volcanic deltas. Cursed, withered deserts. Strange forests, clearly not from this world. Nether wasnt always like this. Once, it was all just netherrack, fire, Fortresses. Netherite processing arrays, massive smelteries. After The Fall, tall shield generator pillars have slowly degraded and rusted. Falling down in the lava oceans. If someone knew what horrors did the pillars hold from entering... Nether is located in a separate sub-space bubble. Crossing point of worlds. Every world tries to breach in there, since it is the path to all other worlds. The old shield generators stopped just that. Noone could pass the flourescent fields without direct permission. Not even portal or warp in. After all but fiery spirits have withered, noone could open the fields. So Nether stayed preserves for centuries. It was better like that. So much better. Once the generators have fallen, world barrier ceased to exist. Passage was free. Inter-dimensional parasites, in form of large fungus instantly warped. They stay to this day, expanding, in hope to enter other worlds as well. Which they most definetly will. A little later a terminal acceleration weapon hit there. Forming strange basalt deltas. This weapon was probably a warning shot from an unknown civilization. Glad its still unknown. Nether wart mutated. Created massive trees, engulfing half of the Nether. Hog modifications settled there. The Fall was not an event modern day scientists and adventurers like to remember. They choose to believe that all the fortresses were magically there. That none of this ever happened. That the arrays never even existed. That warped fungus are just a genetic error. That the strange pillars in the depths are not the shield generators. That noone is aiming a terminal acceleration weapon at the Overworld, now defenseless. Its easier to live that way. But the path between worlds is now open. All kinds of horrors will enter. Sooner or later, someone stronger than humans will arrive. And that will be The Second Fall. Just not yet.
long ago I played without music, as it distracted me (it was also because of my undiagnosed TDHA) it was that when I changed my account and did not change the configuration the soundtrack sounded, my God, I regret having played so many years without music, and when I entered the Nether, my my, the soundtrack helped me to concentrate more and immerse myself, I feel like Alex or Steve in that world so incredible and immense world, good job C418 and Lena
I had no idea Lena made ALL of the music for the latest update! I have to say, her style fits the game like a glove and I hope she stays around and adds more music.
So below, with its demonic choir, literally screams "Beware, this place is hell" While Rubedo, with its creepy synth vibes says out loud: "This isnt hell, this is an alien dimension far away from your world, and this its worst"
So Below and Rubedo are absolute masterpieces. I am terrified of the Nether but one day I was walking through it and just had to close myself into a hole and listen to the absolutely beautiful music. I’m actually glad I got the names of the tracks😭😭
Concrete Halls. Repetitive. Solemn. Static. Like the seemingly-endless halls of a Nether fortress. Makes me think of walking through one, your footsteps echoing off the, well, _concrete halls,_ following the alert pace of your ancestors. Even if you're in peaceful mode, not being chased by blazes or wither skeletons, you still hear Ghasts at the end of this song. Warmth. It starts off scary and foreboding, with echoes of what sounds like long-faded machinery. Like the sounds from whatever mines the ancient debris are all that's left of. These are distant, muffled echoes of something that existed a long, long time ago. And then the music kicks in. It feels like you've found a pocket of safety in the vastness of fire and danger that is the Nether. A little crevice or cave where you can breathe and relax yourself, even if for just a moment. This world may be hostile, but it's also.... beautiful. In a haunting way. That's probably why the song ends similar to how it begins, with those strange echoes. Ballad of the Cats. This starts off similar to Warmth, with greatly reverberated echoes of things that you can't quite make out. It gives off an almost.... creepy vibe. The musical parts don't help this much, until the main part kicks in. It's heavy, maybe sad. Very heavy. Then it dies down. Like perhaps you were fighting something, and you just won. But then it creeps back up again. It's....... almost as if it's trying to convey the Nether as one huge tragedy, while still reminding you of it's hostility. The ending is creepy again. After another listen of this, I'm also picking up a feeling of... hopelessness. As if there are just some things down here that are beyond help. Dead Voxel. Probably my favorite name out of all these. But this starts of creepy in a different way. That one descending note...thing makes me think of.... hearing something behind yourself and looking to see nothing is there. Then the music picks up, and it's almost....... peaceful? It's conflicting to what I just said, but it.... almost feels that way. Like maybe you realize you're alone. And that's more often than not a good thing in the Nether. You're alone, nothing's tryna kill you right now. But rule number 1 about the Nether: Never get comfortable in the Nether. Still..... There's still an undertone of sadness and perhaps even loneliness in this piece. And then at the end there's sounds that sound like they're supposed to be lava noises. So it's like sitting against the banks of a lava lake. Then the song reminds you that the Nether is creepy all over again. So Below. It starts right off the bat a bit foreboding with that first note. Perhaps intimidating, but also still low and quiet, as if it's advising you to stay cautious. One place I know you should always keep your guard up in is a bastion. Of course, fortresses are that kinda place too, but in a fortress you _at least_ know what to expect. Bastions.... weren't made by your ancestors. You gotta be cautious around piglins anyway, you don't wanna anger them. Overall, this one gives me big bastion vibes. The way this ends by dying down after a false buildup makes me think you just _narrowly_ dodged what could've been a tight situation, or perhaps just barely escaped something with your life. But the song keeps going, even if not for much longer, which could mean you're not in the clear just yet. This is still the Nether, after all. Chrysopoeia. It starts..... off with a mysterious vibe. Like perhaps you just stepped through a Nether portal for the first time and exploring a new world you know almost nothing about. The first things you most likely see are netherrack and fire. Maybe lava. Maybe a warped forest. But this one almost seems to convey mysteriousness, caution, and uncertainty to me. There are even noises that sound like your shifting through Nether grasses, swiping warped and crimson nylium growths away from your feet as you take cautious steps through the Nether's waterless environments. And then like most others, it ends with a creepy vibe, as if you're realizing the place is dangerous. I also looked up the meaning of the word "chrysopoeia". Hmm. Apparently it's an alchemical term for the artificial creation of gold. Gold. Funny. I wonder what implications this may bring to the mind. A first encounter with piglins, perhaps, and/or learning to barter with them? And even though the song still ends creepily, there's still... echoes, of it's melody, up to the very end. It's almost as if this conveys... curiosity? Rubedo. This starts off....... uncertain. Perhaps tense? Yea, I'm getting lots of tense/tension vibes from this one. Would you not be tense in such a place as the Nether? I highly doubt it. It also carries some mystery with it, as if you don't know what's gonna happen to you next. You're alert. Shield raised. And then the music starts to rise, and rise, and rise, the rising part fading from the background into the front. Every higher note you think is the last ends up not being, and the song swells greatly before going even higher...... before it finally goes down. Perhaps the Ghast you were running from lost sight or interest of you. You can only hope. This piece doesn't even become intense enough in my mind to convey any action or bossfighting. It just... gets so close to that threshold, brushes it, even... only to drop, and fade, as if the only fighting your doing is for your life. In self defense. Until you get back to the Overworld. Of course, there might not even _be_ fighting, just running. Just tension. But at least the way it ends indicates that you can probably breathe. Then again....... I decided to look up the meaning of "rubedo", too, and apparently it's also an alchemical term? Well, really, it's Latin for "redness", which is in itself a neat detail, but it also seems alchemists associated red with both gold and the philosopher's stone? Which means red is... pretty important? And red is also.... *_literally everywhere in the Nether?_* Hmm... makes me wonder what would be considered a Minecraft equivalent of the philosopher's stone... Anyway....... Pigstep. You're listening to Rubedo. Waiting for it to end, then all of a sudden........ *_OH SH!T OH F!CK I JUST GOT SMACKED IN THE FACE WITH A MUSIC DISC WHAT THE HELL WHY IS IT AN ABSOLUTE BANGER_* After all the tension and depression and creepiness and hostility of the previous tracks, this beat drop comes out of nowhere and decks you right in the shins, forcing you to completely flip your emotions upside-down and start dancing. The piglins have good taste.
Dead Voxel and Rubedo is something else that just takes a different place in your mind, like going in the nether with your family members for the first time.
Imagine not playing with music on and missing all these bangers... they add so much to the atmosphere, it gives me that feeling of really being in this beautiful dimension hidden from most creatures. In the end i'm just sitting on my chair playing a game... but it doesn't feel like that, thanks to these absolute masterpieces🥺
I timestamped all the music here and listed the sound queues (when they’re played.) [Edit: I made this comment before the time stamps were in the description, no need to point it out to me lol.] 0:00 - Concrete Halls, plays anywhere in The Nether Dimension 4:12 - Warmth, plays anywhere in The Nether Dimension 8:12 - Ballad of the Cats, plays anywhere in The Nether Dimension 12:48 - Dead Voxel, plays anywhere in The Nether Dimension 17:44 - So Below, plays exclusively in the Soul Sand Valley and Basalt Delta Biomes. 23:03 - Chrysopeia, plays exclusively in the Crimson Forest Biome 28:06 - Rubedo, plays exclusively in The Nether Wastes Biome (Might play in crimson or warped forests? People are saying that in the replies but my sources say otherwise.) 33:19 - Pigstep, a music disc found in The Bastion Remnants generated structure.
@@mineland8220 Actually it doesn’t, maybe you were in a nether wastes biome and it started playing right when you went into the warped forest, the music doesn’t stop when you go into a different biome
@@4evanp well, my nether portal is right in between a basalt delta and a warped Forest, and when i go to my base the song plays. There is a wasteland by the left of the portal but rubedo is the only song that plays. If it was a wasteland song that triggers then i would have heard any other common nether songs, but rubedo is the only one that plays. Probably a coincidence but still weird
I’m going to take time to write this down, so here i go. !! EDITORS NOTE: Read the story slowly with the song, don’t rush through each story or else it won’t match up. I wrote these listening to the song, whatever came up first I wrote. So please, take your time :)) CONCRETE HALLS: Your first trip to the nether. You’re seeing everything, taking it all in. As you look over the edge of a strange red rock, you see a big lava lake, and other islands, with life, but you can’t tell, and it’s getting hot. You also see some pig looking people in the distance of your island, but too afraid to go any further. You decide to head back to the portal quickly before you regret it, and you think to yourself that you should’ve prepared more. WARMTH: You’re going back in, but more prepared this time. You don’t know why, but you feel like this place is hiding some secrets. you go over to where the pig people were, but strangely enough, nothing. It’s just silence. But suddenly, as you’re walking around, you see a whole... group? pack? You aren’t sure, but the farther you move, the better it gets. You are seeing other islands, this time with trees and a different kind of pig person. You go further into the nether realm. You’re seeing these interesting glowing blocks above, as you approach the pig-men. They don’t want anything to do with you, and they walk away. You realize this realm isn’t the most accepting, and you decide to go deeper into the hellish landscape, moving towards the red tree island. BALLAD OF THE CATS: You made it past the pig-men. Time to find a path to this forest type island. You’re looking around, but you aren’t seeing much but fire and threatening ghost type things in the air, lurking above. You feel scared, and feel that something is off. You decide to look quicker, avoiding the ghosts. You find a path, but there are those pig people again, except a different type. These look less burned up, hopefully they will interact with me this time. You slowly and carefully approach the path to the island, trying to keep your silence. But suddenly, one of them notices you. You don’t think much of it, as the last ones were passive, but these weren’t. They brought out their cross bows and swords, and you bolt for it. You barely make it to a hiding spot. You’re sitting there, trying to catch up on where you even were. All of this is insane. You hear the ghosts again. You have to get what you came here for. DEAD VOXEL: This time, you’re taking a new path, and you decide to build a bridge over to the island, instead of walking the main bridge. Scary, but it’s what you must do. There is an eerie feeling you’re getting, as you’re afraid of those ghosts. Suddenly, while you’re bridging, the feelings come hard. Sadness, yet determination. Depression, yet hope. You need to get to that island, whether it’s the last thing you do. It’s the only hope to finding out what the urge is. Suddenly, you feel powerful, knowing you’re going to make the bridge, over to the island. While gathering blocks, you pick up gold, and make it into ingots, ready to build your bridge. Right as you’re building it, it all comes flooding back. You’re still in hell. Not exactly hell, but lifeless hell. You’re going to make this bridge, and nothing will stop you. Nothing. You make it, sighing in relief, heading back, to gather some more bread from the farm back at base. As you leave, you’re glad you’re out again. Glad to be home. SO BELOW: You make it to the island. Scared but ready for anything. You brought your most powerful sword. There is nothing there, seems too empty... You decide to explore a little, and get adventurous. You see the same pig people, but this time, they aren’t attacking. Maybe because of the gold? Who knows, but I’m glad they aren’t. It seems like a whole tribe at this point. They are traders, as you see when they are sorting out their items. You decide to approach, and you offer them some of your gold. They look at it with interest, and in return, give a magical blue orb type thing. It seems like they are communicating, but you cannot tell what they are saying. You decide to quickly hurry, since they are seeming to get rather inpatient. Suddenly, you encounter a big pig, this time, immediately charging you with its tusks. You yell from the shock, while stabbing it with your powerful sword. It seems to be very strong, but the pigs are coming, with their swords and bows. Luckily, they save you, and you get away. CHRYSOPOEIA: You decide to wander further into the strange forest. After walking, you come to a blue variant. There are some tall, black humanoid figures with purple eyes and odd proportions. They seem to ignore you for the most part, but suddenly, it vanishes. This is really strange. All of the sudden, you find a large dark bricked structure. All of the humanoids are gone now, with just the towering structure in front of you. As you investigate, it seems really dangerous, but it’s the least of your worries right now. You walk around the blue forest, taking caution while also being adventurous, taking things you’ve never seen before. You hear the ghosts, but this time you hide quicker, trying to avoid conflict. You’re safe again. Something seems off though. RUBEDO: You decide to run. You don’t feel safe here anymore. You need to destroy the portal you had created. You drop the strange pearl like things on the floor in the fit. While running, you don’t even look at your surroundings. As you’re running by, you don’t even stop by the pig group, and this time they are mad, since you didn’t offer them any gold. You notice a strange island in the distance, with big brown land masses, and blue fire, but that’s the least of your concern. Things aren’t right. The pig clan is chasing you down, shooting you with arrows. Suddenly, as you’re crossing the bridge, the big ghost is right there, at the end of it, in front of your portal. The thin, rickety bridge. The pigs are right behind you. You stop. They stop. The ghost shoots a fireball, hitting the floor beneath you and the pigs, plunging all into the large pit of lava far below. You see the pigs, hopeless, falling, swords in the air, grasping for whatever it can reach. This is the end for everything. This is the end. PIGSTEP: The end. Note: this took me way too long please help
Concrete halls gives me memories when me and my brother where on. Xbox 360 and the nether was added recently and I remember this music. Good times :) I wish I could go back
Not seeing enough love for rubedo. It’s such a great song, and it fits the nether a ton. Near the end you can hear human like screaming, which I think represents the lost souls in the soul sand/soul soil/soul sand valleys.
I don't know how well it would translate into the lofi nature of many Minecraft tracks, but now you got me thinking that a Nether track with some subdued metal screaming vocals would be really sick. Maybe something more slow and sludgy, like some funeral doom or something.
The nether has a different vibe thanks to its music, but also a different nostalgia. Different nostalgia because surviving in it used to be such a pain (especially since I was new to video games) and now I have no trouble, songs like "warmth" and "dead voxel" fit that feeling very well. The feeling of a proud accomplishment
Concrete halls: calm Warmth: terrifying and calm Balled of the cats: disturbing and intense Dead Voxel: relaxing So below: terrifying Chrysopoeia: calm and intense Rubedo: Mysterious and creepy and relaxing Pigstep: I have no idea-
3:59 That faint Ghast noise _really_ just sets the tone. You've entered the Nether and you're taking it all in. The danger, the heat, the potential death. And then you hear a squeal in the distance. There are *_things_* here, and it only gets harder from this -track- point on.
In C418's website, he once said that Warmth was meant to be a song to show you that hell isn't that bad, as if it's trying to trap you into hell by making you think that or something like that. I'm not sure, but I like the idea. I gotta be honest, C418's nether soundtracks are way more atmospheric that Lena Raine's since her songs only make the Nether sound mysterious and stuff like that meanwhile C418's soundtracks gives you mixed feelings and stuff like that which makes it atmospheric af. But that's just my opinion!
Damn.. Rubedo gives me that vibes.. kinda when you have been stuck in some mess for a long time (nether), exhausted and tired, with no hope of salvation, and finally, when this soundtrack kicks in, you start to investigate and finally find the solution, path, exit
C418's stuff still captures the feel of the nether the best, the feeling of being lost, unwelcome, and the eternal fire. Not the fire that covers the wasteland, but the fire in your mind. The feelings of belonging you wish you had, but don't. Not in the nether, not even in the overworld. The feels of alone, alone but strangely complete.
I love Concrete Halls so much, it captures the feel of the Nether perfectly. It feels desolate, hostile, and mysterious, yet strangely inviting and challenging. Like it's openly defying you to venture into the charred wasteland, extract its resources, overcome it, and ultimately learn to thrive in its environment.
Warmth just makes me feel this overwhelming sadness of growing up, and how I haven’t spent much time with family and such, only thinking about the things I want. It’s also a mix of nostalgia when me, my dad, and siblings would play minecraft for hours on end and just me and my dad even beat the end dragon, yet now that world just sits there quietly because nobody plays it anymore.
So far Rubedo has made for some very epic/climactic battles in the Nether, including this moment where I said "target acquired" and dived down towards the middle of the piglin castle where the goodies are
To be fair, I'm pretty sure they said they didn't mean for the Nether to be interpreted as Hell, but rather, another world. Although I do agree the older soundtracks gave a more "hellish" vibe.
@@electroducky9664 Yeah. Someone at Mojang indeed did say, that they didn't mean for the Nether to be interpreted as Hell. But then someone still ended up writing "Hell" on the "biome" section on F3 debug screen instead, of Nether... Yes, it literally used to say "Hell", when the player ventured to the Nether. That's why the players tend to interpret it as a Hell.
im sorry if this is an unpopular opinion but the old nether used to be so ugly....... it used to look like a slab of meat dimension... everything was so red and flavourless i think the 1.16 update really added a lot to the worldbuilding
Rubedo feels like you are the only person in this strange hell-like dimension. Discovering its vastness which is filled with strange landscpaes, hostile creatures and ancient ruins. This place is so vast that it's overwhelming
4:13 (warmth) "the world is huge and dark, people are dangerous and you can't trust anybody, it feels like going through a dark tunnel, time slows down and every second looks like torture, you don't know about the future, past and future now are nothing but a blurr." "but there can be hope, the world is big and scary, but we are still young and our life is just starting, we can still be happy"
Unpopular opinion: the Lena Rane's osts are masterpieces and they fit perfectly for the nether biomes to which they have been assigned. Edit: Alright, I think it's time to explain why I wrote an opinion that I thought was unpopular but apparently it isn't. Whenever we talk about how cool the Minecraft soundtrack is (in videos, video comments or Instagram post comments etc ...) I always see people mention C-418 and never EVEN Lena Raine. So my reasoning was that people don't like the new Nether songs or that people don't even know that these new songs were created by the woman.
I know a lot of the veteran players would disagree but as someone who has played for a decade I do believe that Lena Raine’s pieces are really good and fit perfectly. I am glad mojang incorporated both C418 and Lena Raine in the music as opposed to cutting C418’s music. After all my two favorite nether songs are concrete halls and pigstep.
Minecraft music is about the best type of 'eerie' music you can get. Whether be the End music, nether music, or overworld music, it all seems off in the most fitting way possible. It's supposed to be weird and new, and that concept is perfectly melted into C418's songs.
My thoughts on each song: Concrete Halls: One of my favorites, if just for the nostalgia. I imagine walking through an empty nether fortress for this one, like the name would suggest, or just travelling through the barren landscape for the first time, looking up to see the ghasts or staring down and the endless oceans of magma. You get a sense of terror, but also of awe and wonder. Of the heat and adrenaline, of the different parts coming together to create the whole. I love this song. Warmth: I just imagine that the entire nether is a single organism, a single being, like Tartarus in Percy Jackson. We're looking at, hearing and feeling the pulse of the veins through the warm stone, through the glowing lava, through every creature living there. It's all connected, all alive. That's the feeling this song gives me. Ballad of the Cats: I get some of the same imagery as in Warmth, but overall, this one doesn't bring a situation to mind, I just love the rising of tension, and the sudden drop gives me chills. It's pretty similar to Rudebo, actually. This one shows the intensity and hostility of the nether if you ask me. Dead Voxel: Unpopular opinion, this is probably my least favorite of this playlist. I don't mind it, and I kind of like how it acts as a dark echo of the overworld music, but that's also what I dislike about it; it's repetitive and doesn't sound like its own type of music like the rest do. It sounds like overworld music to me. Nostalgic and thoughtful, sure, but it doesn't give me the same vibe that the others do tbh. So Below: I love this one too. Fits the soul sand valleys really well. I like that it sounds... idk, traditional? It sounds like an ancient society would have dance rituals to it or something, and that drives home the feeling that you're walking on once-sacred soil, that everything there has died and wasted away. It feels like you shouldn't be there, but in a melancholy, not hostile, way. It's very unique sounding and is a great introduction to Lena Rane's style. Chrysopoeia: I actually really adored this song the first time I heard it in-game, and it's still really good, but I don't have as strong an opinion of it anymore, especially compared with Lena Rane's other works. It's really pretty, pulls in a mystery, and is perfect for its environment, but overall the weakest of the four. Rudebo: My favorite of the playlist. How can 31:45 NOT give you chills? The slow build leading to a climax that fades the moment you reach it... I really don't know how to describe this one, but I love it. With each step up, you wait until you're sure you've reached the end, and then it keeps going. It feels like you've climbed to the top of a netherack pillar and are watching the landscape from above... it's like Concrete Halls, but more so. I love it, I love all of it. PIgstep: Still can't quite beat Stal, but it's my second favorite music disc (and if I'm being real, it's very much number 1, I just have a bias for stal). I don't have much to say here, it's just a bop.
Whenever I need some nostalgia, I just turn on Concrete Halls. Not only is the name fitting for the Nether, but I also spent days in the Nether in Creative Mode as a kid either adding onto or remaking the Nether Fortresses back in Bedrock Edition's version of 1.14, before the new Nether music, so I am very familiar with it, as well as Dead Voxel, Warmth, and Ballad of the Cats. I've just had this on loop for the past 3 hours, it's so good!
Ballad of The Cats is definitely my favourite. The build up of the violins and then the deep synth kicking in, it really feels like a message of "you are in unknown lands, you can die any second".
I didn't even know the Nether had unique ambient music until I picked up Minecraft again and entered the nether for the first time in years. It definitely gave me a feeling of unease and spookiness as I dug through layers trying to find the surface
When it went to Dead Voxel, I got goosebumps, I got hit with the memory feels of coming home from school and playing on the Christmas map on my xbox 360 all night as a child. Personally I've been playing for 8 years, If you played for that long as a child you will have the best memories and strong nostalgia. Minecraft is my MOST favourite game of all time in the world, the satisfaction it gives me to make worlds, build big structures, play on realms and servers with friends, When it increased into Dead Voxel, I can just imagine in my head every time It goes a beat in the background is a new clip of me when I played multiplayer, or raid the villagers houses in the Christmas map. Especially with brothers, they have moved on from minecraft now but I continue from Xbox 360- Xbox One-PC Java. Thank you minecraft for making these memories come to me and the times I have played your game.
Although I really like all soundtracks (old and new) my most-like list is: 1. Ballad of the Cats (YES it is still my No1!) 2. Rubedo 3. So Below (this music combined with the nethers ambient makes is feel amazing) 4. Concrete Halls 5. Chrysopoeia 6. Dead Voxel 7. Warmth
@@aayanchiron9770 Actually it is a really nice track but I put it as last because it's the less relevant with the new nether atmosphere. But it's just my personal opinion.
Concrete Halls is like the embodiment of the reaction the player has when they first enter the Nether. It is so distressing and claustrophobic, yet it sounds like you are also determined to explore this hellish world.
I do. Once I was in a Crimson Forest when this song was playing and I heard a Ghast's idle sound out of nowhere. I started immediately looking around thinking the game spawned a Ghast due to an error. Turns out it was just the song...
Imagine you were chilling and that part of the song was playing and you had max volume and you were in middle of a 1000 block wide warped forest, it would be creepy.
@@powerperson8516 one of my worlds has Nether portal spawning on the edge of Warped Forest with an open view at a nearby Nether Wastes valley. And one time it spawned the Ghast there just 30 blocks away that shot at me as soon as I could see stuff. Now I can totally imagine what you described
I love the way that the nether’s music is really slow and sad, but it has a sense of hope in them. The climaxes of the song really hit hard and trigger the memories of your first trip there. The older songs emphasise on mystery and the vast emptiness of the nether (as it was at that time) and the new ones reflect the confident exploration on this new place while still showing how much more there is to know, you’re experienced but still scared and unsure. The nether really wouldn’t be the same without the hard hitting songs that C418 and Lena had created. The nether is my favourite dimension and the music is a huge portion why. We should really be grateful for all the time and effort that was put into the sound track. I love it! (Edit). Pigstep is a great peice too, it doesn’t fit much with the surrounding music but it still fits the nether. It’s really funky and gives an great insight into the piglin’s sense of fashion. And it’s something great to play once you have mastered the nether, showing how fun it can be in the nether while completely shoving the fear you once had.
If you guys wanna know, Lena Raine is the composer of Rubedo and Pigstep. She is a true master of music composition, i cannot beg enough for other people to see her other songs. Go check out celeste, too. Her most legendary song compositions of all time are encapsulated within that one game.
Ballad of the Cats is an interesting name, considering the sounds that were used to make the Ghast were distorted cat noises. If you really listen closely, you can hear those cries reverberating and echoing around the soundtrack. A very fitting name.
You can also hear a sort of purring as well which (I could be wrong) was also found under the game files as ghast purring? Very similar to a cat as well, considering it’s in the same track
![Minecraft 1.18 Complete OST [Original Soundtrack] by Lena Raine & Kumi Tanioka](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/T8FZLbFQAuY/mqdefault.jpg)
also alex forgot to wear a piece of gold armor
Maybe thats why the mobs are looking at her
Or a gold ingot
@@freddybongwater I go in peaceful most of the time because i only go to get xp from quartz, when im not on peaceful, im getting ghast tears and wither skulls
Alex n000
Alex need elytra to escape that one p.s anyone else noticed the blue lava at the top left corner of the screen.
Overworld music: calm and peaceful
Nether music: dark and intimating
The End's music: Reality is falling apart around you.
its literal hell what did u expect?
Cave music:your literal demon
Hmmm it's almost like THAT'S THE POINT.
I love the nether music :3
Rubedo makes me feel like as if the nether portal just broke and there's no way back, especially at 31:40 with that tension hit.
Yeah, feels like the world is shattering. Awesome.
Somehow i knew the exact NOTE your comment was referring to. Thats how well this music portrays that feeling
for me, it sounds like I'm ascending
For me it’s Warmth
It gives me the feeling of The End, like there's no turning back, and you know it, you accept it. It's like fate speaking to you in the sweet angelic voice, telling you that you're doomed in the best way possible and just to let go.
Fun fact: the Warped Forest is the only biome in the game completely devoid of music.
Dude that's sad the enderman have nothing to listen to
wait what??
Wait
Then who was playing the music in there!?!!
was it the endermans happy place...
That's creepy as hell. Or should I say, creepy as the Nether?
Both C418 and Lena Rane did a fantastic job giving listeners a picture of audio, showing what the nether looks and feels like.
it's nice to see you here
oh hey there
your right dude we actually imagining that in real life damn.
YEAAAAAH
And some people just turn off music in Minecraft...
nether songs: *Terrifying*
Pigstep: c h a c h a r e a l s m o o t h
not all the nether music is terrifying
When you hear dead voxel 😳
I thoug Pigstep Music belongs RUclipsr Alan Becker
the pigs do be vibin' 🎵
@@franomaric No Alan Becker got the song from Minecraft and just remixed it
Rubedo makes me feel like I want to go home but there is no home to return to
Rubedo makes me feel I’m lost in the nether
@Irene that’s deep
Yes
Lena has a way with music and emotions. They did it with Celeste, they did it with other lesser known things, and they did it with Minecraft.
Lena's music is something special. Both by itself and in conjunction with the game they were designed for. If you've played Celeste, take one look at the OST and see if you can see what I see.
Because this definitely applies to these 3-4 Nether tracks Lena made. It's... beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
And the beat part of all: Lena isn't slowing down anytime soon. There's many more works in progress (and some recent releases) that have me excited.
Whenever i reach to the soul part in the nether
I feel like people never talk about how the nether update made the the nether an actual place that things could live in. It went from just a boring hell dimension, to a much more interesting other world.
People are often blinded by nostalgia and say they want the old Neh their back because they grew up with it, but it glad they updated it because it’s SO much more interesting with new places for animals and things
I can safely say I am the exact opposite - I used to despise going into the Nether due to the boring and frustrating layout of the same old biome across an entire dimension. No nostalgia whatsoever for the old Nether. With actual ecosystems in play across the varied biomes, I feel like I have a chance to actually understand the world. I don't just tunnel away from the annoying ghasts until I run smack into a fortress anymore. Now, I try to figure out how to adapt to the environment and take advantage of the pros and cons of every biome. A fantastic update, to be sure.
Yep. With the old nether, it's just lacking that needed story. It's just an empty and barrel wasteland with the same thing stretching over until infinity, or well, the border. It was also very risky and dangerous and offered just 2 items that are only useful for redstone and potions. And the nether wart, you can get it once and you never need to go back and get another. Quartz isn't really that used because redstoners were very few back then. It was also abundant so you just need to mine a few and you're good for days.
Now, it has a story, purpose, and it looks so amazing. It's not a barrel wasteland anymore, but a breathing ecosystem of hellish creatures. Crimson forests with their piglin and hoglin inhabitants and large mushrooms, warped forests with endermen and also amazing wood color, basalt deltas with its amazing basalt block for building, and magma cubes that make it alive, and soul sand valleys with its unique soul fire and skeletons to make it feel amazing (even though I despise that biome). Even the lavas have striders that make it look not boring. You can see them cute baby striders riding their parents lol. There's even a new ore that gives new stronger armor.
The nether update is truly the best update.
Edit: I can't believe I mistyped "barren" as "barrel" twice
Kind of like a “reversed alternate dimension engulfed in the flames of hell” sort of world. Perhaps it’s what used to be beyond the border, now separated from reality and destroyed by years of war, darkness, and decay.
It's especially good for single biome players like me.
I don't know how I would withstand in an only ocean world with out having a changing in scenery, block, ambience and blocks.
The thing I like about the Nether soundtrack as a whole is that it doesn't try too hard to be "Ooohhhh, spooky!"
Instead, it has a kind of melancholic, ethereal, nostalgic feel to it. Like you're exploring the remains of a once magnificent civilization that has since been all but erased from existence, and all that's left of them are quiet memories and a gentle resignment to oblivion, with maybe a sprinkle of hope that someone will remember them.
Overall, I find that more compelling than just "Uhhh, it's hell."
yeah, it seems some big volcanic event happened
I love this comment! 😊
@@skeleton819 My theory was that the Nether, like the Overworld, was once a prosperous place. However, the players, an invasive species, came in and ruined everything because the ecosystem couldn't adapt, and the plant life slowly died out, causing abrupt climate change to scorch the Nether. The only animals that could survive were either mutants like the Piglins, presumably pigs brought from the Overworld that evolved, whether over time or rapidly (Nether Warts?), to fit the environment, or the mushrooms that now dot the Nether, since they are not only resilient to new climates but also are almost impossible to overcook. The mushrooms thrived and grew in their new environment due to no competition from other plants, leading to an abundance of resources to use. Wither Skeletons and Nether Fortresses could be the remnants of civilization that were, too, brought to a fiery end. The water that once was here but evaporated could lead to heavy fog, explaining why the Nether effectively adds a limit to your render distance. Maybe the Bastion Remnants were once a fortress made of stone for exploration by the players as well, and even that scorched over. The Piglins might have called it home after the players died out, and are hostile towards Wither Skeletons because those are the burnt skeletons of players that brought this hellish end to the Nether. Their love for gold might be explained by the gold blocks being hidden in the Bastion's walls. The Piglins might be looking for whatever riches were left behind by the players, and if you help them in their hunt for it they reward you, explaining why they attack you if you are not wearing gold armor. They hunt Hoglins for food, effectively becoming cannibals, because of the lack of food. They might not be able to eat the mushrooms found in the Nether due to some crazy quirk of evolution in either the Piglins or the mushrooms themselves. The Blazes might have once been guardians of the fortresses, corrupted by the Nether and turned evil. The music, I like to believe, is an echo of the past, bouncing around the caverns of the Nether for centuries, fusing with the sounds of this now desolate, hostile place as it travels. This is just my take on the lore of the Nether, but there are other theories out there. Who knows, maybe we're headed for the Nether ourselves?
IKR!!!!
@@RogatkaWR this is a very detailed theory. i agree
The C418 songs represent the vast expanse of the Nether, while Lena’s songs show the eerieness of strange forests and wastelands.
And pigstep is indicative of all the fire in the nether.
@@Chuked you are ot alone young one
"And pigstep is indicative of all the fire in the nether.
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Corection
And pigstep is fire.
@@Chuked what
@@avicennaferdian438 bro wtf... uh... so... name?
@@Chuked what like lena paul or something lmao
I'll say it again.
The Nether has the best music in the whole game.
No cap has been located
I agree so much ! Personnaly, I love spending time trading in nether and just explore this land now.
The nether doesn't have living mice so I have to disagree
@@IrateWizrd Fair point
@@IrateWizrd it has an evil ballad of cats though.
Lenas music really makes me feel like I'm not supposed to be in the nether, and I love it
Fr
This is so true, it's incredible and at the same time makes you just wanna hop back in the same portal you came from.
Me colonazing the nether: leeesss gooo
Ballad of the cats make that very clear lol same with concrete halls
As terrifying and hellish the Nether is, this sound track reminds me in a way, in its own way, how undeniably beautiful it is.
I agree
Rubedo is literally of the best songs in gaming
I agree, but you would love Layers of Fear music if you like this one
It is good, Rubedo is a good edition.
it sounds like something from subnautica
Agreed
Its not even top 5 on this list(despite how bad all songs here are)
Overworld music: Lonely, but peaceful.
Nether music: Scary, but mysterious.
End Music: Oh, it's just an Overworld musi- *Nevermind*
Also, yes. The End indeed has its own soundtrack, it's very long.
pigstep
End: okey...
@@BlackBoneBlackSkull end is scarier than nether, change my mind lol
especially outer end islands
for me, concrete halls is my favourite in terms of nostalgia. i heard it every time i dared to venture into the nether as a child. it reeks of mystery and uncertainty that i just dont hear in any other game (besides portal, but we all know that the music in that game is amazing too) and it was amazingly terrifying. i used to always be on the lookout for ghasts amd when id see one, i would just bolt out of there. and that music was playing along with it. it was great.
the most terrifying part for me was getting stuck in the nether, whether it be getting lost or having my portal blow up. god, imagine that. being stuck in this unknown dimension forever, that _would_ be scary. luckily that wouldn't happen in real life...
... right?
same
Hey You should listen to half life soundtrack too, it is amazing.
Yes, Minecraft and the half-life and portal series. My favorite games
what if... we were... already trapped in the unknown dimension?...
There are actually fairly easy ways to escape the nether when your portal is blown even b4 the nether update, like uaing the same ghast to reignite the portal.
I still think “Dead Voxel” is the best one. I still like the others though
Couldn’t agree more dude. It hits home very hard.
It's so mesmerizing. I spent time in the nether staring at lava from a bridge with this song
'Dead Voxel' is nostalgic and mesmerizing, while 'Balland of Cats' is surprisingly sad and somewhat depressing. I like both btw.
Same thing
31:32 this is the best part
Dead Voxel just hits different.
Its actually my personal favorite!
Zombrine500 same here. it’s just so calming yet melancholy.
@Mannybot06 lol i still playing on my xbox 360 tho 😳
@People Who Play Sometimes Same
Rubedo seems to go most well with when you’re at a nether fortress or bastion, as the song slowly escalates and gets more powerful (especially 31:40-32:00) it gives so much tension reminding that you could die at any moment whether knocked into the lava or brutalized by a piglin brute or wither skeleton. When I raided a fortress and this song played, it gave me so much tension as it escalated that it literally made my sweat down my arms and the chord at 31:48 really helps with that effect.
Your right 0-0
I think 31:47 is the best part of this video. I absolutely love it.
@@pawpatrolonaroll sameee
The crescendo always gives me chills. It's my favourite part.
Pigstep is the last good memory from nether civilization
Dead Voxel is 100% my favorite one. That ending from 16:31 onward is super underrated, and it never fails to make me cry. C418 and Lena Raine did a fantastic job with the nether music
Same
Yea I kinda like this one it's calm
im not sure but Dead Voxel was made by c418 and it was witing for the update as same as concrete halls
When i listen to it i wanna be alone and gtfo of all civilizations and be alone in a forest.
It shouldnt make you cry it should terrify you/make you uncomfortable like ballad of the cats
Rubedo creates a sense of familiarity yet somethings different.
You and I would absolutely LOVE the interstellar theme
@@invalidpersn4496 OH MY GOD YES INTERSTELLAR I LOVE THAT MOVIE
It’s amazing how Minecraft went from some peaceful game with nostalgic music to an adventurous game, I love that there’s so much to do in Minecraft. I don’t know how this masterpiece got to how it was today, but soon, Minecraft will have its last patch, and it will be in the video game hall of fame
why does it have to happen soon... :(
@@allcbrosx5930 Minecraft won’t stop updating anytime soon, don’t worry lol
Not soon mojang said they are trying to keep it alive for 100 years
@@cheeselad2401 #wewerehere
@@Disciple_of_God. yes 🙌
Concrete Halls, Ballad Of The Cats and Rubedo give that sense of danger and they make me feel like I'm going to die at any moment. Dead Voxel and Warmth make me sad. Chrysopoeia and So Below are simply strange and unique. Pigstep is a fun dance song.
Rubedo gives me the sense that you are traveling into lands that should not be traveled, that you are pushing the boundaries of reality and fate just by being there
Warmth just makes me feel... warmth, despite being in literal hell; there's still some comfortable spaces in it.
I facking love you for saying words i agree with whilw not beinh able to think of
Lol fun dance song
@@user-tzzglsstle585e38 "there's still some comfortable spaces in it."
Especially if you build them 🤣
Or at least wear one piece of golden gear.
Nether Soundtrack: You'll never see the light of day . . . ever . . . again.
Pigstep: **dances in funky pig moves**
C418’s tracks are how you feel when you first discover the nether. It’s hostile, alien, and full of monsters. I love Lena’s tracks because they make you stop and think of the nether as an ecosystem. The addition of the intelligent piglins makes the nether feel more like a place of sadness than actual torment. Just beautiful.
The first one is creepy but calming in a way. Intimidating, but in a "You'll see for yourself what dangers lie here, but I wont stop you" vibe. It's really damn cool to me and has to be one of my favorite tracks from this game.
I think concrete halls is my fave. It kinda teminds me of a movie called The Labyrinth.
Idk how else to describe it, but it is cool! Idk makes me think of some supa long dangorouse obsical of some sort
The first song I heard when I entered the nether, damn my sound system blasting this definitely sent shivers down my spine.
3:43 PTSD engaged
facts
Haha your comment has a double meaning
The Furriner794 ambiguous
@@bikramparmar1642 His timestamp number is 343
Is it supposed to be ghasts
The way Warmth makes me feel...
kinda makes me want to stop doing all that I'm doing in life... to take a pause and just let everything that's repressed and bottled up out of my system. By far one of the most powerful pieces of music I've ever heard
That's what I feel sometimes when I hear some music of Minecraft, of another that is trankfull and good for me
Does it make you feel... warm?
I know some of these words
Warmth feels like you're in nether (like hell) but you don't panic, you don't worry. You take a moment to think about all the souls, the zombie piglin, the ghasts, what has happened here and with these beings? The nether doesn't overwhelm you, you just embrace it and think about it.
I have no memory of typing that
Ballad of the Cats perfectly describes the Nether the way it is. Endless wastes. Deadly volcanic deltas. Cursed, withered deserts. Strange forests, clearly not from this world.
Nether wasnt always like this. Once, it was all just netherrack, fire, Fortresses. Netherite processing arrays, massive smelteries.
After The Fall, tall shield generator pillars have slowly degraded and rusted. Falling down in the lava oceans. If someone knew what horrors did the pillars hold from entering...
Nether is located in a separate sub-space bubble. Crossing point of worlds. Every world tries to breach in there, since it is the path to all other worlds. The old shield generators stopped just that. Noone could pass the flourescent fields without direct permission. Not even portal or warp in. After all but fiery spirits have withered, noone could open the fields. So Nether stayed preserves for centuries. It was better like that. So much better.
Once the generators have fallen, world barrier ceased to exist. Passage was free. Inter-dimensional parasites, in form of large fungus instantly warped. They stay to this day, expanding, in hope to enter other worlds as well. Which they most definetly will.
A little later a terminal acceleration weapon hit there. Forming strange basalt deltas. This weapon was probably a warning shot from an unknown civilization. Glad its still unknown.
Nether wart mutated. Created massive trees, engulfing half of the Nether. Hog modifications settled there.
The Fall was not an event modern day scientists and adventurers like to remember. They choose to believe that all the fortresses were magically there. That none of this ever happened. That the arrays never even existed. That warped fungus are just a genetic error. That the strange pillars in the depths are not the shield generators. That noone is aiming a terminal acceleration weapon at the Overworld, now defenseless. Its easier to live that way.
But the path between worlds is now open. All kinds of horrors will enter. Sooner or later, someone stronger than humans will arrive. And that will be The Second Fall. Just not yet.
Holy shit this is such a cool idea of what the Nether really is, that’s insane. Great work man!
Holy fuck that’s awesome dude
@@PepC322 Thank you
@@beanzwtf968 Thank you
Thanks, that's actually really awesome, and I feel the same.
but settle down! You didn't need to go all MatPat on us
long ago I played without music, as it distracted me (it was also because of my undiagnosed TDHA) it was that when I changed my account and did not change the configuration the soundtrack sounded, my God, I regret having played so many years without music, and when I entered the Nether, my my, the soundtrack helped me to concentrate more and immerse myself, I feel like Alex or Steve in that world so incredible and immense world, good job C418 and Lena
Bozo
@@phillipe4742 nuh uh
girl did you mean adhd
I had no idea Lena made ALL of the music for the latest update! I have to say, her style fits the game like a glove and I hope she stays around and adds more music.
She’s probably gonna make cave music for 1.17
@@cheeselad2401 well she has made music for masterpieces like Celeste so she and c418 seems like the best people to do it
@@nickyboy2004 yeah
@@nickyboy2004i was wondering why it sounded so similar to celeste
So below, with its demonic choir, literally screams "Beware, this place is hell"
While Rubedo, with its creepy synth vibes says out loud: "This isnt hell, this is an alien dimension far away from your world, and this its worst"
so below basically says "theres nothing here"
rubedo says: "your not suposed to be here"
So Below and Rubedo are absolute masterpieces. I am terrified of the Nether but one day I was walking through it and just had to close myself into a hole and listen to the absolutely beautiful music. I’m actually glad I got the names of the tracks😭😭
Concrete Halls.
Repetitive. Solemn. Static. Like the seemingly-endless halls of a Nether fortress. Makes me think of walking through one, your footsteps echoing off the, well, _concrete halls,_ following the alert pace of your ancestors. Even if you're in peaceful mode, not being chased by blazes or wither skeletons, you still hear Ghasts at the end of this song.
Warmth.
It starts off scary and foreboding, with echoes of what sounds like long-faded machinery. Like the sounds from whatever mines the ancient debris are all that's left of. These are distant, muffled echoes of something that existed a long, long time ago.
And then the music kicks in. It feels like you've found a pocket of safety in the vastness of fire and danger that is the Nether. A little crevice or cave where you can breathe and relax yourself, even if for just a moment. This world may be hostile, but it's also.... beautiful. In a haunting way. That's probably why the song ends similar to how it begins, with those strange echoes.
Ballad of the Cats.
This starts off similar to Warmth, with greatly reverberated echoes of things that you can't quite make out. It gives off an almost.... creepy vibe. The musical parts don't help this much, until the main part kicks in. It's heavy, maybe sad. Very heavy. Then it dies down. Like perhaps you were fighting something, and you just won. But then it creeps back up again. It's....... almost as if it's trying to convey the Nether as one huge tragedy, while still reminding you of it's hostility.
The ending is creepy again.
After another listen of this, I'm also picking up a feeling of... hopelessness. As if there are just some things down here that are beyond help.
Dead Voxel.
Probably my favorite name out of all these. But this starts of creepy in a different way. That one descending note...thing makes me think of.... hearing something behind yourself and looking to see nothing is there.
Then the music picks up, and it's almost....... peaceful? It's conflicting to what I just said, but it.... almost feels that way. Like maybe you realize you're alone. And that's more often than not a good thing in the Nether. You're alone, nothing's tryna kill you right now. But rule number 1 about the Nether: Never get comfortable in the Nether. Still.....
There's still an undertone of sadness and perhaps even loneliness in this piece. And then at the end there's sounds that sound like they're supposed to be lava noises. So it's like sitting against the banks of a lava lake. Then the song reminds you that the Nether is creepy all over again.
So Below.
It starts right off the bat a bit foreboding with that first note. Perhaps intimidating, but also still low and quiet, as if it's advising you to stay cautious. One place I know you should always keep your guard up in is a bastion. Of course, fortresses are that kinda place too, but in a fortress you _at least_ know what to expect. Bastions.... weren't made by your ancestors. You gotta be cautious around piglins anyway, you don't wanna anger them. Overall, this one gives me big bastion vibes.
The way this ends by dying down after a false buildup makes me think you just _narrowly_ dodged what could've been a tight situation, or perhaps just barely escaped something with your life. But the song keeps going, even if not for much longer, which could mean you're not in the clear just yet. This is still the Nether, after all.
Chrysopoeia.
It starts..... off with a mysterious vibe. Like perhaps you just stepped through a Nether portal for the first time and exploring a new world you know almost nothing about. The first things you most likely see are netherrack and fire. Maybe lava. Maybe a warped forest. But this one almost seems to convey mysteriousness, caution, and uncertainty to me. There are even noises that sound like your shifting through Nether grasses, swiping warped and crimson nylium growths away from your feet as you take cautious steps through the Nether's waterless environments. And then like most others, it ends with a creepy vibe, as if you're realizing the place is dangerous.
I also looked up the meaning of the word "chrysopoeia". Hmm. Apparently it's an alchemical term for the artificial creation of gold. Gold. Funny. I wonder what implications this may bring to the mind. A first encounter with piglins, perhaps, and/or learning to barter with them?
And even though the song still ends creepily, there's still... echoes, of it's melody, up to the very end. It's almost as if this conveys... curiosity?
Rubedo.
This starts off....... uncertain. Perhaps tense?
Yea, I'm getting lots of tense/tension vibes from this one. Would you not be tense in such a place as the Nether? I highly doubt it. It also carries some mystery with it, as if you don't know what's gonna happen to you next. You're alert. Shield raised.
And then the music starts to rise, and rise, and rise, the rising part fading from the background into the front. Every higher note you think is the last ends up not being, and the song swells greatly before going even higher...... before it finally goes down. Perhaps the Ghast you were running from lost sight or interest of you. You can only hope.
This piece doesn't even become intense enough in my mind to convey any action or bossfighting. It just... gets so close to that threshold, brushes it, even... only to drop, and fade, as if the only fighting your doing is for your life. In self defense. Until you get back to the Overworld. Of course, there might not even _be_ fighting, just running. Just tension. But at least the way it ends indicates that you can probably breathe.
Then again.......
I decided to look up the meaning of "rubedo", too, and apparently it's also an alchemical term? Well, really, it's Latin for "redness", which is in itself a neat detail, but it also seems alchemists associated red with both gold and the philosopher's stone? Which means red is... pretty important? And red is also.... *_literally everywhere in the Nether?_* Hmm... makes me wonder what would be considered a Minecraft equivalent of the philosopher's stone...
Anyway.......
Pigstep.
You're listening to Rubedo. Waiting for it to end, then all of a sudden........
*_OH SH!T OH F!CK I JUST GOT SMACKED IN THE FACE WITH A MUSIC DISC WHAT THE HELL WHY IS IT AN ABSOLUTE BANGER_*
After all the tension and depression and creepiness and hostility of the previous tracks, this beat drop comes out of nowhere and decks you right in the shins, forcing you to completely flip your emotions upside-down and start dancing.
The piglins have good taste.
niceeee
Woww mannn you typed all that and damn he’s all these songs are great I loveee them and that guy says is nice man go to hell
@@ghosttiee9212 *visible confusion*
@@ghosttiee9212 excuse me
Nice.
I'll be extremely disappointed if I get to hell and this soundtrack isn't playing in the background 24/7
Hell doesn't sound too bad then
Don't be. You'll have two options: Doom music and Minecraft music
@@saketbakshi4235
if you are surviving in hell: Minecraft music
If hell is surviving from you: DOOM music
@@Satrumt Perfection
But sadly I'm only hearing Rubedo and Concrete Halls, I want to hear Dead Voxel and Warmth too (Ballad Of The Cats isn't quite my taste but still)
so bellow sounds like how the acceptance of death feels.
Yeah, was thinking the same thing; depression and acceptance. My favorite of these soundtracks
Basically me with Coronavirus, I feel weird at the moment
@@aayanchiron9770 you eh, still there? Or was it just an edgy post
@@gewoontygo944 oh sorry that’s just how I felt before 😅
@@aayanchiron9770 alrighty XD, i know how you felt buster, i had it twice
idk but Rubedo just hits different. that shit is amazing.
Dead Voxel and Rubedo is something else that just takes a different place in your mind, like going in the nether with your family members for the first time.
Imagine not playing with music on and missing all these bangers... they add so much to the atmosphere, it gives me that feeling of really being in this beautiful dimension hidden from most creatures. In the end i'm just sitting on my chair playing a game... but it doesn't feel like that, thanks to these absolute masterpieces🥺
Mojang: The nether music should be intimidating and ominous.
Lena: haha PigStep go brrrrrrt
what does go brrrrrr mean ???/
xd
@@y_e_s_L intimidating car sounds
well if you were to just be chillin in the nether and pigstep just starts playing that would be kinda lame.
Smoking crab Just a shitty meme that plopped up mid 2020.
Ive never been able to loot it lmao
I timestamped all the music here and listed the sound queues (when they’re played.)
[Edit: I made this comment before the time stamps were in the description, no need to point it out to me lol.]
0:00 - Concrete Halls, plays anywhere in The Nether Dimension
4:12 - Warmth, plays anywhere in The Nether Dimension
8:12 - Ballad of the Cats, plays anywhere in The Nether Dimension
12:48 - Dead Voxel, plays anywhere in The Nether Dimension
17:44 - So Below, plays exclusively in the Soul Sand Valley and Basalt Delta Biomes.
23:03 - Chrysopeia, plays exclusively in the Crimson Forest Biome
28:06 - Rubedo, plays exclusively in The Nether Wastes Biome (Might play in crimson or warped forests? People are saying that in the replies but my sources say otherwise.)
33:19 - Pigstep, a music disc found in The Bastion Remnants generated structure.
You’re a legend my guy
Rubedo also plays in warped forests btw
@@mineland8220 Actually it doesn’t, maybe you were in a nether wastes biome and it started playing right when you went into the warped forest, the music doesn’t stop when you go into a different biome
@@4evanp well, my nether portal is right in between a basalt delta and a warped Forest, and when i go to my base the song plays. There is a wasteland by the left of the portal but rubedo is the only song that plays. If it was a wasteland song that triggers then i would have heard any other common nether songs, but rubedo is the only one that plays.
Probably a coincidence but still weird
@@mineland8220 There’s a wasteland by the left of your portal, that’s why it plays. The coordinates of your portal are probably in the biome itself
I’m going to take time to write this down, so here i go.
!! EDITORS NOTE: Read the story slowly with the song, don’t rush through each story or else it won’t match up. I wrote these listening to the song, whatever came up first I wrote. So please, take your time :))
CONCRETE HALLS:
Your first trip to the nether. You’re seeing everything, taking it all in. As you look over the edge of a strange red rock, you see a big lava lake, and other islands, with life, but you can’t tell, and it’s getting hot. You also see some pig looking people in the distance of your island, but too afraid to go any further. You decide to head back to the portal quickly before you regret it, and you think to yourself that you should’ve prepared more.
WARMTH:
You’re going back in, but more prepared this time. You don’t know why, but you feel like this place is hiding some secrets. you go over to where the pig people were, but strangely enough, nothing. It’s just silence. But suddenly, as you’re walking around, you see a whole... group? pack? You aren’t sure, but the farther you move, the better it gets. You are seeing other islands, this time with trees and a different kind of pig person. You go further into the nether realm. You’re seeing these interesting glowing blocks above, as you approach the pig-men. They don’t want anything to do with you, and they walk away. You realize this realm isn’t the most accepting, and you decide to go deeper into the hellish landscape, moving towards the red tree island.
BALLAD OF THE CATS:
You made it past the pig-men. Time to find a path to this forest type island. You’re looking around, but you aren’t seeing much but fire and threatening ghost type things in the air, lurking above. You feel scared, and feel that something is off. You decide to look quicker, avoiding the ghosts. You find a path, but there are those pig people again, except a different type. These look less burned up, hopefully they will interact with me this time. You slowly and carefully approach the path to the island, trying to keep your silence. But suddenly, one of them notices you. You don’t think much of it, as the last ones were passive, but these weren’t. They brought out their cross bows and swords, and you bolt for it. You barely make it to a hiding spot. You’re sitting there, trying to catch up on where you even were. All of this is insane. You hear the ghosts again. You have to get what you came here for.
DEAD VOXEL:
This time, you’re taking a new path, and you decide to build a bridge over to the island, instead of walking the main bridge. Scary, but it’s what you must do. There is an eerie feeling you’re getting, as you’re afraid of those ghosts. Suddenly, while you’re bridging, the feelings come hard. Sadness, yet determination. Depression, yet hope. You need to get to that island, whether it’s the last thing you do. It’s the only hope to finding out what the urge is. Suddenly, you feel powerful, knowing you’re going to make the bridge, over to the island. While gathering blocks, you pick up gold, and make it into ingots, ready to build your bridge. Right as you’re building it, it all comes flooding back. You’re still in hell. Not exactly hell, but lifeless hell. You’re going to make this bridge, and nothing will stop you. Nothing. You make it, sighing in relief, heading back, to gather some more bread from the farm back at base. As you leave, you’re glad you’re out again. Glad to be home.
SO BELOW:
You make it to the island. Scared but ready for anything. You brought your most powerful sword. There is nothing there, seems too empty... You decide to explore a little, and get adventurous. You see the same pig people, but this time, they aren’t attacking. Maybe because of the gold? Who knows, but I’m glad they aren’t. It seems like a whole tribe at this point. They are traders, as you see when they are sorting out their items. You decide to approach, and you offer them some of your gold. They look at it with interest, and in return, give a magical blue orb type thing. It seems like they are communicating, but you cannot tell what they are saying. You decide to quickly hurry, since they are seeming to get rather inpatient. Suddenly, you encounter a big pig, this time, immediately charging you with its tusks. You yell from the shock, while stabbing it with your powerful sword. It seems to be very strong, but the pigs are coming, with their swords and bows. Luckily, they save you, and you get away.
CHRYSOPOEIA:
You decide to wander further into the strange forest. After walking, you come to a blue variant. There are some tall, black humanoid figures with purple eyes and odd proportions. They seem to ignore you for the most part, but suddenly, it vanishes. This is really strange. All of the sudden, you find a large dark bricked structure. All of the humanoids are gone now, with just the towering structure in front of you. As you investigate, it seems really dangerous, but it’s the least of your worries right now. You walk around the blue forest, taking caution while also being adventurous, taking things you’ve never seen before. You hear the ghosts, but this time you hide quicker, trying to avoid conflict. You’re safe again. Something seems off though.
RUBEDO:
You decide to run. You don’t feel safe here anymore. You need to destroy the portal you had created. You drop the strange pearl like things on the floor in the fit. While running, you don’t even look at your surroundings. As you’re running by, you don’t even stop by the pig group, and this time they are mad, since you didn’t offer them any gold. You notice a strange island in the distance, with big brown land masses, and blue fire, but that’s the least of your concern. Things aren’t right. The pig clan is chasing you down, shooting you with arrows. Suddenly, as you’re crossing the bridge, the big ghost is right there, at the end of it, in front of your portal. The thin, rickety bridge. The pigs are right behind you. You stop. They stop. The ghost shoots a fireball, hitting the floor beneath you and the pigs, plunging all into the large pit of lava far below. You see the pigs, hopeless, falling, swords in the air, grasping for whatever it can reach. This is the end for everything. This is the end.
PIGSTEP:
The end.
Note: this took me way too long please help
Get this man a medal
This deserves more likes.
Beautifully written well done
GIVE THIS MAN MORE LIKES
SOMEBODY PIN THIS this was a whole story and I loved it
Concrete halls gives me memories when me and my brother where on. Xbox 360 and the nether was added recently and I remember this music. Good times :) I wish I could go back
9:30 it makes me feel like the mission is an all or nothing task I feel so determined
rubedo is my favorite, sounds so epic and emotional to me.
They did an amazing job with this new nether ost.
Not seeing enough love for rubedo. It’s such a great song, and it fits the nether a ton. Near the end you can hear human like screaming, which I think represents the lost souls in the soul sand/soul soil/soul sand valleys.
It doesn't play in the Soul Sand Valley though
@@blakecacini8016 yes it does and also the basalt deltas oh wait im dumb i though you were talking about so below my bad
I don't know how well it would translate into the lofi nature of many Minecraft tracks, but now you got me thinking that a Nether track with some subdued metal screaming vocals would be really sick. Maybe something more slow and sludgy, like some funeral doom or something.
literally everyone in the comments is glazing rubedo
not enough@@shmeatloaf
Chrysopoeia is my favorite. Heard it in the crimson forest and I had to find out what song it was. Gives me chills everytime I hear it!
The nether has a different vibe thanks to its music, but also a different nostalgia. Different nostalgia because surviving in it used to be such a pain (especially since I was new to video games) and now I have no trouble, songs like "warmth" and "dead voxel" fit that feeling very well. The feeling of a proud accomplishment
Rubedo sounds so tragic. I love it
in my head, I can still hear the sounds of the nether portal, swirling as I listen to these tracks. Especially Concrete Halls
Concrete halls: calm
Warmth: terrifying and calm
Balled of the cats: disturbing and intense
Dead Voxel: relaxing
So below: terrifying
Chrysopoeia: calm and intense
Rubedo: Mysterious and creepy and relaxing
Pigstep: I have no idea-
Only true pigs know what pigstep is
rubedo is my favorite
Pigstep just
Hits you here
Catches you off guard.
@@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789 ikr
It's basically dubstep for piglins lol
Ngl Pigstep has to be my favorite disc track
He edited his comment so I'll also edit mines and you will never know the originals
HEY THIS COMMENT IS NEW
Here before this comment gets popular
yes i agree by far
Lena Raine is one of my favorite composers
3:59
That faint Ghast noise _really_ just sets the tone.
You've entered the Nether and you're taking it all in. The danger, the heat, the potential death. And then you hear a squeal in the distance. There are *_things_* here, and it only gets harder from this -track- point on.
I absolutely love hearing all the little ambient details in the soundtrack, the ghasts at the end of Concrete halls are incredible.
If the Nether is supposed to be hell, then why is the music so good it gives me chills?
Checkmate.
In C418's website, he once said that Warmth was meant to be a song to show you that hell isn't that bad, as if it's trying to trap you into hell by making you think that or something like that. I'm not sure, but I like the idea. I gotta be honest, C418's nether soundtracks are way more atmospheric that Lena Raine's since her songs only make the Nether sound mysterious and stuff like that meanwhile C418's soundtracks gives you mixed feelings and stuff like that which makes it atmospheric af. But that's just my opinion!
Bruh them cave sounds is actual hell
Damn.. Rubedo gives me that vibes.. kinda when you have been stuck in some mess for a long time (nether), exhausted and tired, with no hope of salvation, and finally, when this soundtrack kicks in, you start to investigate and finally find the solution, path, exit
the WHIPLASH of putting Pigstep after Rubedo is really something
Subtitles
Zombie pigman grunts
Piglin snorts
Ghast cries
Block breaking
Block picked up(idk)
Strider chirps
In the fortress
Blaze breathes
Wither skeleton rattles
Villager goes huuh
*zombified piglin grunts
*Zombified piglin grunts angrily*
*Ghast shoots*
*Explosion*
*Player hurts*
fire crackles
footsteps
C418's stuff still captures the feel of the nether the best, the feeling of being lost, unwelcome, and the eternal fire. Not the fire that covers the wasteland, but the fire in your mind. The feelings of belonging you wish you had, but don't. Not in the nether, not even in the overworld. The feels of alone, alone but strangely complete.
old me: *types long paragraphs on comments*
me rn: *too lazy*
@@ryzot4871 lmao i was just writing something short but decided not to stop after a while
@JADZIA PEDERSEN why
i don’t understand, did he leave mojang?
@@JashXD he sold mojang
I love Concrete Halls so much, it captures the feel of the Nether perfectly. It feels desolate, hostile, and mysterious, yet strangely inviting and challenging. Like it's openly defying you to venture into the charred wasteland, extract its resources, overcome it, and ultimately learn to thrive in its environment.
Yeah definitely
Ballad of the Cats is by far the most epic out of all of them... so eary and intimitating its insane
Warmth just makes me feel this overwhelming sadness of growing up, and how I haven’t spent much time with family and such, only thinking about the things I want. It’s also a mix of nostalgia when me, my dad, and siblings would play minecraft for hours on end and just me and my dad even beat the end dragon, yet now that world just sits there quietly because nobody plays it anymore.
So far Rubedo has made for some very epic/climactic battles in the Nether, including this moment where I said "target acquired" and dived down towards the middle of the piglin castle where the goodies are
The new nether is cool but the older nether fits the "hell" theme better just because of how empty and lifeless it was
To be fair, I'm pretty sure they said they didn't mean for the Nether to be interpreted as Hell, but rather, another world. Although I do agree the older soundtracks gave a more "hellish" vibe.
@@electroducky9664 Yeah. Someone at Mojang indeed did say, that they didn't mean for the Nether to be interpreted as Hell. But then someone still ended up writing "Hell" on the "biome" section on F3 debug screen instead, of Nether... Yes, it literally used to say "Hell", when the player ventured to the Nether. That's why the players tend to interpret it as a Hell.
im sorry if this is an unpopular opinion but the old nether used to be so ugly....... it used to look like a slab of meat dimension... everything was so red and flavourless i think the 1.16 update really added a lot to the worldbuilding
@@e-mail2673 the 1.8 nether looked very nice with the old netherrack texture, but i can agree the new nether texture 1.15 nether was ugly
@@e-mail2673 I always thought that was the point, the nether being an uninhabitable ugly hell
Rubedo is the best one
I agree
i respect your opinion, but i believe that Chrysopoeia is the best
Ikr?
Concrete halls is the most nostalgic. It feels like console edition all over again
There all Good
But so Below is The best ngl
Rubedo feels like you are the only person in this strange hell-like dimension. Discovering its vastness which is filled with strange landscpaes, hostile creatures and ancient ruins. This place is so vast that it's overwhelming
4:13 (warmth)
"the world is huge and dark, people are dangerous and you can't trust anybody, it feels like going through a dark tunnel, time slows down and every second looks like torture, you don't know about the future, past and future now are nothing but a blurr."
"but there can be hope, the world is big and scary, but we are still young and our life is just starting, we can still be happy"
Damn… that’s tuff
Unpopular opinion: the Lena Rane's osts are masterpieces and they fit perfectly for the nether biomes to which they have been assigned.
Edit: Alright, I think it's time to explain why I wrote an opinion that I thought was unpopular but apparently it isn't. Whenever we talk about how cool the Minecraft soundtrack is (in videos, video comments or Instagram post comments etc ...) I always see people mention C-418 and never EVEN Lena Raine. So my reasoning was that people don't like the new Nether songs or that people don't even know that these new songs were created by the woman.
I know a lot of the veteran players would disagree but as someone who has played for a decade I do believe that Lena Raine’s pieces are really good and fit perfectly. I am glad mojang incorporated both C418 and Lena Raine in the music as opposed to cutting C418’s music. After all my two favorite nether songs are concrete halls and pigstep.
This isnt an unpopular opinion.
@@squidge01 Those 2 are my favorite as well, I guess they are just likable.
I like Dead Voxel and So Below.
Unpopular Opinion\/
Popular Opinion
Ballad of cats makes me hi tingling all over body.
ikr. I came here bc of this soundtrack
@@davidc756 Same mate
@Teodor Ulmius what is music bro
I can’t wait for in the future to listen to these and remember all the great times I had playing this game with my friends.
Plot twist: It’s 2050 and Minecraft never lost relevance
@@willybehan770 see you in 39 years
@@willybehan770 see you
Minecraft music is about the best type of 'eerie' music you can get. Whether be the End music, nether music, or overworld music, it all seems off in the most fitting way possible.
It's supposed to be weird and new, and that concept is perfectly melted into C418's songs.
My thoughts on each song:
Concrete Halls: One of my favorites, if just for the nostalgia. I imagine walking through an empty nether fortress for this one, like the name would suggest, or just travelling through the barren landscape for the first time, looking up to see the ghasts or staring down and the endless oceans of magma. You get a sense of terror, but also of awe and wonder. Of the heat and adrenaline, of the different parts coming together to create the whole. I love this song.
Warmth: I just imagine that the entire nether is a single organism, a single being, like Tartarus in Percy Jackson. We're looking at, hearing and feeling the pulse of the veins through the warm stone, through the glowing lava, through every creature living there. It's all connected, all alive. That's the feeling this song gives me.
Ballad of the Cats: I get some of the same imagery as in Warmth, but overall, this one doesn't bring a situation to mind, I just love the rising of tension, and the sudden drop gives me chills. It's pretty similar to Rudebo, actually. This one shows the intensity and hostility of the nether if you ask me.
Dead Voxel: Unpopular opinion, this is probably my least favorite of this playlist. I don't mind it, and I kind of like how it acts as a dark echo of the overworld music, but that's also what I dislike about it; it's repetitive and doesn't sound like its own type of music like the rest do. It sounds like overworld music to me. Nostalgic and thoughtful, sure, but it doesn't give me the same vibe that the others do tbh.
So Below: I love this one too. Fits the soul sand valleys really well. I like that it sounds... idk, traditional? It sounds like an ancient society would have dance rituals to it or something, and that drives home the feeling that you're walking on once-sacred soil, that everything there has died and wasted away. It feels like you shouldn't be there, but in a melancholy, not hostile, way. It's very unique sounding and is a great introduction to Lena Rane's style.
Chrysopoeia: I actually really adored this song the first time I heard it in-game, and it's still really good, but I don't have as strong an opinion of it anymore, especially compared with Lena Rane's other works. It's really pretty, pulls in a mystery, and is perfect for its environment, but overall the weakest of the four.
Rudebo: My favorite of the playlist. How can 31:45 NOT give you chills? The slow build leading to a climax that fades the moment you reach it... I really don't know how to describe this one, but I love it. With each step up, you wait until you're sure you've reached the end, and then it keeps going. It feels like you've climbed to the top of a netherack pillar and are watching the landscape from above... it's like Concrete Halls, but more so. I love it, I love all of it.
PIgstep: Still can't quite beat Stal, but it's my second favorite music disc (and if I'm being real, it's very much number 1, I just have a bias for stal). I don't have much to say here, it's just a bop.
31:45 doesnt give me anything, while every single second of Chrysopoeia, Dead Voxel and Warmth are awesome
Ballad of the Cats for me, is like when you dig up tunnel and see a big terrain of crimson forest and ballas deltas, but your foot is lava pools.
Whenever I need some nostalgia, I just turn on Concrete Halls. Not only is the name fitting for the Nether, but I also spent days in the Nether in Creative Mode as a kid either adding onto or remaking the Nether Fortresses back in Bedrock Edition's version of 1.14, before the new Nether music, so I am very familiar with it, as well as Dead Voxel, Warmth, and Ballad of the Cats. I've just had this on loop for the past 3 hours, it's so good!
Chrysopoeia is my number two, it's pure intensity and is amazing for the crimson forest. The heart beat when you don't have gold armor is crazy
Rubedo is the best track of Minecraft!
One time I was in the nether running through the soul sand valley being chased by two ghast and Concrete halls hit it's climax at that time.
oh god THAT SOUNDS HORRIFYING SOGSHILGNSLKGN
Its*
@@tails183 no, it's right
I set pigstep on my ringtone... And now when I listen to it I'm like... "Who's calling?"
Setting a song for your Ringtone or morning alarm is dangerous. XD
@@Swaggless I know right?
But actually, nah. Barely anyone calls me, but when they do, I'm like: "Hell yea!"
Hmm some new ideas😍
I would never answer my phone! 😂
@@Irrelevantspace Well... You will get used to it... 😁
I love how different Lena Raine's and C418's songs are, yet they still portray similar ideas!
Ballad of The Cats is definitely my favourite. The build up of the violins and then the deep synth kicking in, it really feels like a message of "you are in unknown lands, you can die any second".
Yeah :D But WHY THE FUCK WOULD THEY CALL IT BALLAD OF THE CATS? WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH CATS >:c
I didn't even know the Nether had unique ambient music until I picked up Minecraft again and entered the nether for the first time in years. It definitely gave me a feeling of unease and spookiness as I dug through layers trying to find the surface
When it went to Dead Voxel, I got goosebumps, I got hit with the memory feels of coming home from school and playing on the Christmas map on my xbox 360 all night as a child. Personally I've been playing for 8 years, If you played for that long as a child you will have the best memories and strong nostalgia. Minecraft is my MOST favourite game of all time in the world, the satisfaction it gives me to make worlds, build big structures, play on realms and servers with friends, When it increased into Dead Voxel, I can just imagine in my head every time It goes a beat in the background is a new clip of me when I played multiplayer, or raid the villagers houses in the Christmas map. Especially with brothers, they have moved on from minecraft now but I continue from Xbox 360-
Xbox One-PC Java. Thank you minecraft for making these memories come to me and the times I have played your game.
Concrete halls is my favorite, always has been, new ones are still a bop tho
Took that right outta my mouth.
Yeah
So no one is going to talk about how like powerful and kinda sad the music is when you get farther into each song? Gives me nostalgia
dead voxel has to be the best one it’s so peaceful yet it gives a sense of something i can’t explain
So Below really nails the mood of how huge and unsettling the nether can be
Although I really like all soundtracks (old and new) my most-like list is:
1. Ballad of the Cats (YES it is still my No1!)
2. Rubedo
3. So Below (this music combined with the nethers ambient makes is feel amazing)
4. Concrete Halls
5. Chrysopoeia
6. Dead Voxel
7. Warmth
swap dead voxel and concrete halls and you have my list.
Ballad of the Cats is GOATED
Warmth was up there at 2nd place for me.
Lol warmth in last I’m surprised but ok
@@aayanchiron9770 Actually it is a really nice track but I put it as last because it's the less relevant with the new nether atmosphere. But it's just my personal opinion.
The Dead Voxel track has a really somber feel to it, but also has a sense of peace as well
Rubedo part gives me such a strange feelings ..when you play alone and you heart it it makes ya feel like empty or idk how to describe it-
Concrete Halls is like the embodiment of the reaction the player has when they first enter the Nether. It is so distressing and claustrophobic, yet it sounds like you are also determined to explore this hellish world.
Chrysopoeia is so underrated. Just listen till the end and you’ll love it
4:04 Anyone else hear the ghast sound?
I do. Once I was in a Crimson Forest when this song was playing and I heard a Ghast's idle sound out of nowhere. I started immediately looking around thinking the game spawned a Ghast due to an error. Turns out it was just the song...
Imagine you were chilling and that part of the song was playing and you had max volume and you were in middle of a 1000 block wide warped forest, it would be creepy.
@@powerperson8516 one of my worlds has Nether portal spawning on the edge of Warped Forest with an open view at a nearby Nether Wastes valley. And one time it spawned the Ghast there just 30 blocks away that shot at me as soon as I could see stuff. Now I can totally imagine what you described
I'm just imagining a new player, who's unaware of the music, hearing the sound and searching frantically for the floating octo-marshmallow
I love the way that the nether’s music is really slow and sad, but it has a sense of hope in them. The climaxes of the song really hit hard and trigger the memories of your first trip there. The older songs emphasise on mystery and the vast emptiness of the nether (as it was at that time) and the new ones reflect the confident exploration on this new place while still showing how much more there is to know, you’re experienced but still scared and unsure.
The nether really wouldn’t be the same without the hard hitting songs that C418 and Lena had created. The nether is my favourite dimension and the music is a huge portion why. We should really be grateful for all the time and effort that was put into the sound track. I love it!
(Edit). Pigstep is a great peice too, it doesn’t fit much with the surrounding music but it still fits the nether. It’s really funky and gives an great insight into the piglin’s sense of fashion. And it’s something great to play once you have mastered the nether, showing how fun it can be in the nether while completely shoving the fear you once had.
Well said.
@@notbent8286 it was babe
@@rowanfat lmao yeah😂
''i mean... come on! i had to include it'' lol i understand you bro.
If you guys wanna know, Lena Raine is the composer of Rubedo and Pigstep. She is a true master of music composition, i cannot beg enough for other people to see her other songs. Go check out celeste, too. Her most legendary song compositions of all time are encapsulated within that one game.
Mate get a job she has ruined the game
i'd like to see you give a genuine reason that isnt just transphobia because you really have nothing backing you up there
I love all the old nether music, and I will never forget it, but wow, Rubedo gave me chills
Rubedo is the perfect song to describe the nether, such a master piece
Rubedo has to be one of the best Minecraft soundtracks I have ever listened to.
I like ballad of the cats much more
🌋Nether TimeStamps🔥
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Concrete walls- 0:00
Warmth- 4:13
Ballad of the cats- 8:12
Dead voxel- 12:48
So below- 17:44
Chrysopoeia- 23:03
Rubedo- 28:06
Pigstep- 33:19
"Concrete walls*☠️
I like all the songs except chrysopoeia
I love how all of these tracks give off a vibe of "something terrible happened here..."
Ballad of the Cats is an interesting name, considering the sounds that were used to make the Ghast were distorted cat noises. If you really listen closely, you can hear those cries reverberating and echoing around the soundtrack. A very fitting name.
You can also hear a sort of purring as well which (I could be wrong) was also found under the game files as ghast purring? Very similar to a cat as well, considering it’s in the same track
6:50 that "beat drop" for lack of a better term literally gives me chills, i love it
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