Trinsic - Ultima Online(metal cover)
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Trinsic from Ultima Online
Composer: Joe Basquez, Kirk Winterrowd
Siolfor the Jackal: Arrangement/Guitars/Bass
Serrin's Toes: Drums
Harpsibored: Harp
/ harpsibored
This is what happens when you let a guitarist arrange things, they just put a bunch of guitars everywhere!
For this month's Pixel Mixers contest the theme was MMOs. Serrin and I are not the biggest fan of the genre, so this one was tough to get into and find something we were excited to cover. We stumbled on to a handful of interesting songs from some older games, but it ended up being the Ultima Online soundtrack that we thought was the coolest.
I never had a chance to play Ultima Online when it was new, and from what I've heard from people who did, it was quite the experience. The Trinsic city theme is very cool, has this great stereo interplay. I thought it would be fun to use those pieces to build an intro and introduce each of the pieces one by one. Originally it was going to be all guitars, but it sounded wrong. The original had some harp which I really liked, so I put that back in and gave it some extra parts and I was really liking how it was coming along. At first I didn't even consider asking for a real harpist to play it, but I am so glad I did.
I put out the call and got Harpsibored on board and holy fucking hell that was the best decision. Not only did she deliver some amazing harp recordings, but she took the garbage I wrote and spun it into gold, adding her own ideas which made this track so much radder than what I expected. It's really fun to have harp playing over some good old chuggy guitar riffs. Needs more metal harp.
/ siolfor64
/ siolforthejackal
Absolutely blown away by your rendition of the Trinsic theme! First time I have heard this. I wrote this for Origin Systems using a Roland SC-55. One of several themes I composed for Ultima Online. Thank you for keeping the UO music alive and breathing.
This is amazing! :D
I had never played the game before and stumbled on to the soundtrack on UA-cam. These songs are so wonderful, I listened to Trinsic on repeat for like a week before I decided to cover it.
Thank you for writing such lovely music!
You wrote some great music that I spent countless hours listening to over the years playing UO. (still play today on and off) Thank you! This is an awesome cover and it was really cool hearing it in a new way. Great job the both of you.
The OG tunes are the best tunes.
This has got to be one of the coolest god damn things I've ever seen. This game - namely Trinsic - was such a huge part of my formative years!
I'm so glad to see people who played the game enjoy this track so much!
Killer tune. Trinsic was my hometown back in the old vanilla UO days
Thanks! I never played but the original song really hit me in the feels anyway.
I've heard of harpsichords and guitars, but never of harps and guitar. This is rad.
Harps can be metal too! I won't stop until I've used every instrument in metal. But especially harp! Cheers, dude!
The arrangement is freakin' cool !
Thanks, man! It's pretty simple but we added a lot of our own style to it.
Fantastic work, all! I love the interplay between the guitars and the harp!
Cheers, mate. I'm glad you enjoyed it, it was a bastard to get right!
LOVE this, thank you so much for thinking to include harp!!! It came out awesome!!!
This track would suck without your harp! Thanks again for being a part of this! :D
I absolutely love how well the harp work with everything else, it was a great idea!
Everything is very nicely played!
Thanks, man! It turned out pretty well in the end!
would be amazing to hear the rest of the ost in metal/rock band version
It does have a pretty good soundtrack, I'd love to hear that too.
Compliments to Lord Chuggington and Lady Chordelia!
This works so well, this is right up my alley.
What a great job, everyone!
Thanks a lot, dude! I will pass along those compliments haha
This is an epic arrangement, you guys really pulled it off in blending the heavy metal with harp! The performance is so clean and I enjoyed the pacing and dynamics of the song, well done!
Cheers, dude! I was a bit intimidated by the original track at first because there was a lot going on, but once I broke it down, I got a really clear idea of how I wanted to arrange it.
@@SiolfortheJackal it all worked out amazingly well, the song is rockin'!
That swell at 2:00 - what a cool arrangement! Great work, all!
Thanks so much!
Just... Thank you. Listening to this not only brings back tons of memories playing UO through my teens but it's great to hear a new take on my favorite city's theme.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's really nice to hear how many people have such fond memories of a song like this.
Top!!! Do it also with the principal theme!
Grandi ragazzi!
Thank you! There's definitely a lot of good music from the series!
AMAZING rendition. Even without the hearts of the past, this song brings tears to the eye.
Thank you :D I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome. The metal with harp was very cool!!!!
Yeah, it was a fun combination! Thanks!
God that's cool as fuck
Cheers, dude!
I love the adventures of LORD CHUGGINTON and RIGHTCHIBALD and the quest for adding in the least obvious instruments into metal arrangements and having it kick ass.
super rad you three!!!!!
Hopefully one day Lord Chuggington and his crew will return for another adventure. Thanks! :D
Great idea on using the harp. It really meshes well with the guitars. Love how you left space for the harp to shine too. A lot of tasty playing throughout, inject those guitar counter melodies in my veins. Another excellent arrangement!
Cheers, dude. When I first started arranging it, it was all guitars, but that felt messy. The original had some harp so I put that back in and gave them some guitar parts. Harpsibored made them much cooler!
Awesome! Really captures the mystique and nostalgia of UO, Trinsic!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I was a wizard who lived near Trinsic. infinitely nostalgic.
Haha that's awesome, glad you enjoyed it :D
Getting to Trinsic from Britain always made me have a sigh of relief. PKs always at xroads.
@@stupedcraig I think on the first day that I played I ran from Britain to Trinsic and somehow died right within the Trinsic gates. From what I remember there was some kind of fight and I believe I looted a corpse, probably turning me criminal and got killed. That was back in 1998
This brings all my old memories back, thank you so much!
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it! It's such a nice song.
I loved the sandstone aesthetic of Trinsic, was my fav city in UO. Great music! Love the screen background!
I was always interested in the idea of UO but never had an opportunity to play it as a kid. The music is so great though. And thanks! I found that image while researching the soundtrack, it's quite nice.
Harpsibored is a cool dude trapped in the body of a beautiful woman!
I suppose you could say my harp is my metaphorical penis.
@@Harpsibored It is beeeeeeeeeg!
Great instrumentation for this cover! Love how the harp blends with the guitars! Great job!
Thanks a lot! It was a lot of work getting my garbage guitar ensemble to play nice with the beautiful harp, but it worked out pretty well in the end!
You were working Harpsibored overtime near the end. lol I think this turned out really well, very nicely done!
Thanks, man! But that's all on her, I wrote some simple garbage and she came back with "Hey I have these cool ideas!" which was rad.
Actually my initial idea was some very difficult fast arpeggios and just went "nah fuck it, gliss" so it wasn't that bad really haha
Never heard the original but this is fantastic
Thanks, mate! To be honest, I wasn't familiar with the tune either. But stumbled on to it and really liked it.
Thank you for this.
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it.
All those who know
Sadly I never played the game, but I love the soundtrack all the same.
Very Cool 🙂 ...
Thanks!
Very nice! Surprised you didn't play back in the day. Great track to cover. Others i'd like to see: Create1, Vesper, Nujelm
Thanks! I just never had the opportunity to play.
Oh a couple of those tracks were others I quite enjoyed too!
Could you please also do the MP3 version of Trinsic? It is so rare to find people that actually care enough about the MP3 soundtrack to make a cover.
But this one is wonderful already! Good job!
Oh neat, I didn't know there was another version of the soundtrack. The other Trinsic sounds pretty cool!
@@SiolfortheJackal Yeah, one of my favourites from the MP3 soundtrack! :)
not familiar with this one but when it sounds this good who cares? props to your mixing the harp isn't being drowned out at all by the harsher sounding instruments which makes this sound so cool and unique
I wasn't familiar with it when I stumbled onto it, but I really liked how it sounded. I was worried about the harp being drowned out by the metal since I've never mixed harp before, but it was a fun learning experience. Harpsibored is a wonderful harpist, I only wish I did some better guitar to match her harp!
@@SiolfortheJackal still sounds good! gonna have to look into harpsibored since I do love anything on the harp, hope you guys do more stuff in the future!
Not familiar with the track but that was good as
Cheers, dude! I wasn't familiar myself, but it was something I stumbled on to at the start of the month.
Stones by David R Watson is another great UO song.
Stones was the other one I was strongly considering before settling on Trinsic. Such a cool song!