OUTER WILDS: Elegy for the Rings (Metal/Post-Rock Cover)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- One of my favourite moments from the Outer Wilds DLC, 'Echoes of the Eye', given a spooky post-rock/metal treatment. (I strongly recommend playing both Outer Wilds and Echoes of the Eye, if you haven't already, before listening to this!)
My music:
pale-star.band...
joshua-lee.ban...
lsjoshua.githu...
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Hi folks, since I've had a few requests to make this cover downloadable, you can find it as a free download on my Bandcamp page now:
joshua-lee.bandcamp.com/track/outer-wilds-elegy-for-the-rings-cover
Thanks for listening!
The link is not working for me. I have a buddy who hasn't played the game yet, so I'm scared to give him a link to this vid on account of spoilers.
But he is a huge metal fan and I'd really like to use this as bait to get him to play the game, ha.
Is the link still working on your end?
@@Ghost_Hybrid Hi, the link should work now!
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hey, it seems like the link broke again, along with your whole bandcamp
In the game, you just see them on a casual Tuesday night.
This is them on a Saturday night.
oh boy
Hearthian: Hey guys, what's going on in here-
* headbanging stops *
This is why the owlks don't mind spending (almost) eternity in their virtual world, they're playing FIRE in there🔥🔥🔥
I was honestly kinda skeptical when I saw "Doom Metal Cover", but hot damn dude, this honestly goes really hard. Great work!
Thanks! I'm glad I managed to convince you ;)
Same
Same. i saw that i thought "either this is the best idea ever or either it will be horrible". glad it's the first one
So I know 5k views isn't a lot in RUclips numbers, but this video has almost 5,000 views which feels like quite a lot! Thanks folks for enjoying this and be sure to go support Andrew Prahlow, the original composer of the Outer Wilds soundtrack.
I do sometimes make original music, most of which is on my Bandcamp pages linked below:
josh-lee.bandcamp.com/ (electronic music, soundtracks, etc.)
pale-star.bandcamp.com/ (ambient, drone, doom stuff)
I don't always make music like this but keep an eye out - I'm always working on new stuff 👁
5000 views is potentially 5000 real people with ideas and preferences and lives, it IS a lot of people! Fantastic cover by the way!
It's a lot
At least 100 of those are me, I listen to this on repeat sometimes and it's in my preferred playlist!
This is legitimately my favorite Outer Wilds, and favorite Doom fan song. You deserve more than 45k, and WAY more than 5k views.
A year later, and not a lot further to 100k!
this gave me an insane idea... A game that's like a fusion of Outer Wilds, Everhood, and a little bit of Doom, where you have to kill each of the Strangers to free them from their twisted digital immortality that they're too afraid to lose.
"Greetings, Stranger. You are being liberated. Do not resist."
That’s such a neat concept! Like you spend most of the game in the “overworld” until you find where the strangers live, and then you go through a unique stage based around whatever their “thing” is
Everhood is such a wild fucking ride
I’m struggling to see how that’s much different from, just, normal Everhood
@@NumdegasedUHC It isn't really tbh. Jist potentially with some different art and music styles
YEAHHHHHHHHHH
the shift to acoustic around 4:00 is really well done. Felt like a neat reference to the overworld songs like The River.
also, stranger howl at 5:00 was funny. Definitely conveyed that 'running for your life because you've been spotted' vibe lmao
My biggest regret for this cover was not putting 'The River' melody in the acoustic bit!
@@joshualee5473 well, it's still possible to make a second version
even better, a EOTE metal medley !!
I've been hoping for a metal remix of some of the Outer Wilds\EotE tracks. This is great.
I really like how you incorporated the "ejection scream" at 4:40.
I'm surprised there aren't more Outer Wilds metal covers going around, to be honest! Glad you enjoyed it.
I’m picturing the Doom 2016 cover art, with the Hatchling in place of the Doomslayer, fighting Elks, while the titan’s skull in the background is replaced by an anglerfish fossil. Amazing work, truly.
Probe and Translate, until it is Done!
@@ashkuigp lol
But why would you fight them
@@0Sirenn Because they're openly hostile?
@@zackjones8802 Only cause you're an unfamiliar alien trespassing in their simulation
Красота. Если оригинальная Elegy была воспоминанием, то этот кавер - то, о чём это воспоминание.
This was crazy awesome. That howl at 5:00 is just 🤌🤌
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
A year has passed and I keep coming back to this absolute masterpiece
As soon as i heard this song in game i was like "damn this is so doomy" This is amazing and i cant wait for the end of the universe.
Amazing!!🤩
Would 😍 to see "Outer Wilds - The River" metalized
Saaaaame!
there is one, not by this guy but hey its out there atleast
Check this one out fellas - ruclips.net/video/6fPDC_b9f08/видео.html
@@DarukaEon It's more hard rock than heavy metal, but I think you'd like it! My favorite cover of The River
Love it! Hope to hear more Outer Wilds covers. Let me know if this ever makes its way to Spotify!
Glad you liked it! Not sure what the rules are with covers on Spotify so it might just live on RUclips and Soundcloud for the time being
@@joshualee5473 J Solo here on RUclips has uploaded his OW covers to Spotify with no issue so far I believe.
The owlelks were around for around 250,000 years before the end of the game, and probably much longer after the sun went supernova, so I believe they came up with this version in universe
Well, considering the disco easter egg, you might not be wrong.
This cover works so damn well with this track. The original has the chords on what I think is a bass, so this version definitely fits the tone and mood of the game.
Still for me one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played, specifically EotE. I recently played through Re: Village and the baby section for the first time, pretty horrific. For me though, honestly, I found this DLC more scary. The lack of any voice acting, no stuff to read like in the main game, just pure visual storytelling, and the dark sections take me back to when I was little and was petrified of the dark. I think that's why I found this DLC so freaky, but the way it encouraged me to find the answers in the dark made it an experience I hold in such high regard, and one that I sadly can never experience again for the first time.
Sorry for the little tangent, I just absolutely love this game. Once again, solid cover.
I love that you kept the distorted whine of the original that gave it an extra creepy edge, and I'm a big fan of the way the acoustic moments add a touch of melancholy to the otherwise dark and heavy flair of this cover. You just got a sub on the first video of your channel.
Love this version, so raw and yet captures the original spirit of the song so perfectly! How does this only have 12,000 views? Needs a lot more imho, fantastic work!
Thanks a lot, 12,000 views still feels like quite a lot to me!
You'd think Doomguy would be able to just shotgun his way to victory.
Then you remember you're sent into the dream world without any equipment but a lantern.
Eh, he'll weaponize it anyway.
The Slayer isn't merely a monster or mindless. Given the fact he even made it here, we would probably just blow out the fires once he knew that the Owlks sealed the Eye's Signal, but also either break the vault open or figure it out and make it inside to understand the full story
@@zachrabaznaz7687 he would extinguish the campfires for the stealth part and rip the bells of the ceiling for the riddle part and kick down the prisoners door guns blazing
demonstrating a detailed understanding of the entire plotline, and also demonstrating hyperviolence :D
This GOES!!! And love the use of the in-game sfx, great work dude!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I thought it'd add to the metal vibe if I had some actual screaming in it, haha
A year later, and I still love coming back to this masterpiece.
Thank you, I’m glad to hear you’re still enjoying it! Likewise I still go back to the Outer Wilds soundtrack all the time
Metal is not normally my genre but damn. As a player who enjoyed the game, I can say you pretty well captured the anger and sorrow of their story perfectly with this piece. Awesome tribute.
After having reset my settings for Infinite because of reinstall and finding out I actually really like the music at least by itself, man.... This is awesome
I fucking love this in my opinion I oh so wish you added a blowing air noise at the end like the strangers blowing out the lights but still badass song
Edit: idk why but at 0:46 it reminds me of the Metro series OST
the Owlk dying at the very end was a great detail! Amazing cover!
Someone send this to Andrew Prahlow I think he would love this, absolute 10/10. Please make more stuff like this.
Just perfect. I have no words.
This cover popped up on my recommended, and I'm so glad it did! I remember just sitting by the water side house and listening to the Owlk jamming out this tune, so it's awesome hearing it expanded out like this. Great work!
Those occasional howls were terrifying. I had to look around because I couldn’t tell if it was the music or my dog
i can't even consider myself a metalhead, but i vibe so hard to this!
Never would have thought a metal Elegy would sound so good! Sounds just as eerie and beautiful as the original but at the same time much more epic. Amazing cover
This is so awesome! Great cover. I run a D&D campaign set in the Fallout universe (New Vegas specifically, for anyone who cares!) and this track is PERFECT for an upcoming confrontation my players are running into. I'll be sure to share with them this track in particular. :)
Nice! I hope it fits the vibe, thanks for the kind words 👍
2:30 when the owlelks had enough of your trespassing
5:03 owlelks pull shotguns out with malicious intent
lmao
lol
I keep coming back to this it's just so incredibly well done. Really breathed new life into this piece of music and turned it into something really fucking awesome. Well done!
Thanks for the kind words!
Well this is going in my "Good songs," playlist.
Incredible cover. Also, glad you changed the description (although it does have doom metal influence, I think too many people were expecting to hear something influenced by Mick Gordon).
we gettin out of the dream world with this one !!!!
This cover is so much better than I thought initially. I loved it. It's become one of my favorite songs, period. However, it mirrors the species' journey quite well. It begins with an ominous, somewhat mysterious tone. It gives you something to entice you. It enters the primary section, which you could read as anger or action. The 'metal'. The next section I read as a mix of regret and hope. It's beautiful. It's an attempt at finding peace. Finally, we enter the rejection. A relapse in anger. The species let themselves lose their humanity (owl-manity?). They let themselves die. Finally, they are lost. The song ends in anger. Obviously I'm reading into it more than is likely there. I just love this song a lot.
Oh my god I’m getting chills from the first 5 seconds
Excellent work. The buildup is so well executed and the result is just so powerful.
I was also sitting here watching the video like "man it would be so sick if the owlks vanished due to the flood when the song ends" and THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID what a fine detail.
I'm surprised by how well metal fits with this track, but it makes sense now that I think about it.
Given what the people went through, they'd definitely make metal music to express their anguish.
Ian Jacobson, one of the concept artists has a shirt design under the merchandise section of his Artstation that is a drawing of the Owls in that kind of spiky metal style. Sadly it seems sold out, but it fits them amazingly well.
I'm kinda inspired to make an animation with this track now. Imagine how terrifying it would be to have this playing as they chase you (I have no skills in animation whatsoever.)
this goes so hard, great work dude! love that sludgy guitar tone. great use of the Owlks' screams during the acoustic section as well!
cheers, glad you enjoyed it!
this is awesomeeee wow, loved it
keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot!
I couldn't imagine straying half as far from the original and still retaining the magic, but you've certainly managed it! Truly some skillful work!
Awesome work. Just finished playing Outer Wilds and the DLC the other day, and now I stumble upon this. Being a huge metalhead (100 points if you recognize my pfp), I can be pretty particular about how a metal cover of a video game song should be done, but this is just perfectly executed!
This song is new to me, But I am honored to be apart of it.
I really want to see a metal cover for the main theme, haven't seen it done well yet and i feel it'd sound great as a metal song
Love the detail of the strangers flames going out right at the end, well done.
This is so awesome! The coolest cover of the Elegy for the rings I have found yet.
Thank you!
The effect re-using that melody in this composition is unlike anything i've heard before. I literally can't put it into words the feeling it evokes. Sorrow, gratitude, rage, pride for your entire species with an intensity unqiue to this version. You made one of the best videos on this platform imo
I discovered 65daysofstatic through No mans sky and love the game and its music. This seem like the perfect combination of the two soundtracks. Love it.
Holy hell, this is incredible
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is fantastic, I can't believe this is your only upload!!
Thanks, glad you liked it! I don't use this channel a whole lot to be honest
This is soooooooooooooooooooooo good! Can't stop replaying it!
Maaan, honestly one of the best covers ever, if not the best. Its fire!!
This goes so much harder than I expected, good shit
Wow just revisited this, probably been a good 7-8 months since I last heard this cover, It's really good. It does sound less like a doom cover though and more like a rock/metal cover though. Still I like it!
EDIT: Ok maybe I don't know my genres :\ I thought this was supposed to be in the style of doom (the game).
When two of my worlds collide beautifully
"The Nomai" track from the OST would also make for an incredible funeral doom cover. Imagine those slow, atmospheric, plodding riffs as a piano plays that somber melody. I can already picture it in my head. You know what? I'm gonna try it.
OMG !! This is incredible
Yes, my favorite game and my other favorite game. Though I seem to remember doom metal is also on its own a metal genre and not necessarily about the game... Anyhow this is great, love it
This is fucking incredible!
Incredible!!
Love the arrangement, and absolutely fantastic production :) congrats!
Thanks for the kind words!
man this goes SO HARD
I can just imagine the strangers rockin out in their cabin. Beautiful.
Great stuff, ~3 minutes in gave me chills.
This tells me that all the birds needed to do was invite the Hearthians in for a jam session and they would've been in a way better mood. Which I guess is part of the lesson of Outer Wilds to begin with!
Incredible cover!! You captured the right tone and everything here. Well well done!!
I was saving the phrase "This goes hard" for the right moment. This, it turns out, is that moment.
I can’t stop listening. Amazing
Just got into metal and seeing the one song that greeted me when I first played this gem of a game turned into a metal track makes my head spin; this is fire as all hell
Just discovered this recently and i haven't been able to stop listening, this bangs so hard man
_The only thing they fear... is eye_
Please release this to Spotify if you haven't already! A lot of people would appreciate it!! Keep up the good work
The people in the comments not knowing what Doom Metal is and making forced references to the game DOOM are beyond embarrassing
PLEASE post this to the Steam community hub for Outer Wilds. I know a lot of people there would enjoy this as much as I do, and it should bring much deserved attention to your other works as well.
Oh I wasn't sure what to expect, but this is amazing.
That Melody at the start was to great to be left unexploited
Good job, sounds great
this absolutely fucking rocks
You definetly have to show this Andrew Prahlow and put it on Spotify. This is gold
Haha the flute playing in the distance keeps spooking me like it did in-game. Awesome cover man!
My friend, thats not a flute
They just wanted to go home.
Something I didn't know I wanted.
Masterpiece well done.
i'd love to see a doom metal cover of travelers
i truly dream with it
this is really sick, nice job
The vibes are IMMACULATE
Honestly, this is so great that I half expect Andrew Prahlow will be commenting in this comment section soon. He lurks around sometimes
This feels like a mix of spec ops: the line and outer wilds. Never thought this combo could exist, but it slaps real hard
This is incredible music! I love the slow start and buildup to the bigger sounds
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I just realised that this song was a lament for the home planet the aliens destroyed to create the vessel they used to search for the eye in the Hearthian solar system.
I absolutely love this cover, man! I love that while it is heavy metal it still captures the feel of the original.
Dude, 4:40 totally blew my mind. Like 3 tone downsteps from e back to F#, back to E, and it perfectly fits. That's your addition, right?
Thank you! The little guitar solo is something I added, yes
@@joshualee5473 Awesome! The whole song just hits so hard, I keep coming back to it, it's a perfect adaptation to a genre that's a perfect fit for it. You kept all the essentials, added from the library and then put your own spin to it. Did you notice Andrew tuned down during River's End, and that's why you move from E to F when the song opens up?
Awesome work! Gives the feeling of a majestic lonely dangerous journey... I am waiting for the following covers!
Wow that's good!
Hot damn, that's epic.
very nice, i love it