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Norrin_Radd

About Me

I'm not a band, I'm just a dude. A dude who really enjoys the music made on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).I listen to a lot of old NES music. I often wonder if the composers of the 8-bit Nintendo heard music in real life and wondered, "What that would sound like on the NES?" Surely when they were creating the music for Contra they had head banging in mind. Or the Music for Castlevania games, neo classical shred. That's when I started thinking, what if I were to re-create Death Metal on the NES?Using a program called Modplug, I set forth to recreate the NES sound in the name of Death Metal. One of the challenges was to recreate vocals that had an authenticly NES sound to them. I recalled hearing many voice overs in old NES games such as the classic "Blades of Steel" line. It was possible for very short audio samples to be ported into the NES music. Often used as drum samples, sometimes they were used to create voice recordings. Even though it may not have been possible with the NES's hardware in the 80's, I have converted my vocal tracks into the same format as the NES used in order to obtain that same authentic and nostalgic sound. That is why they have so much static.This is what it would have sounded like had the NES composers decided to recreate Death Metal.
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Member Since: 10/6/2006
Band Members: Norrin_Radd
Influences: NES Composers: Iku Mizutani (Shatterhand), Hidenori Maezawa (Contra), Kyohei Sada (Contra), Keiji Yamagishi (Tecmo Superbowl), Ken-ichi Matsubara (Crisis Force).Bands: Necrophagist, Krisiun, Spiral Architect, Gorguts, Goblin, Immolation, Annihilator, Snakehandshakes, Sadus, Darkane, Exodus.Guitarists: Vinnie Moore, Greg Howe, Alan Holdsworth, Fredrik Thordendal, Reb Beach, David T Chastain, Joe Satriani.Film Composers: Alan Sylvestri, Vince DiCola, Hans Zimmer.
Sounds Like: Necrophagist, Krisiun, Atheist, NES,
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New songs are on the way I swear!

I've been totally swamped with school these days. Even more swamped than I ever was with work. It's hard to find an opening to actually get some work done on these tunes!Basically, I have one nearly f...
Posted by Norrin_Radd on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:07:00 PST

ADDED LYRICS AND VOCALS TO PROTON DECAY!

I finally got off my butt and recorded some vocals for this little diddy. It took me a while to get the vocals to sound somewhat understandable. When I convert them to NES DPCM sounding files, they g...
Posted by Norrin_Radd on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:43:00 PST

More songs on the way..... Sooon.

I have one smoking rad song completely finished. I can't release it here just yet because it's part of a chiptune compilation coming out. Once that is released I can upload my track here. It's easily ...
Posted by Norrin_Radd on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:12:00 PST

NEW SONG!!!!! "The Protons Will Decay"

Yo, just went ahead and uploaded that "New" song I'd been working on. I was hoping to get some vocals done for it as I did with Bloody Malth and Naga, but I just can't seem to find the time to get the...
Posted by Norrin_Radd on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:43:00 PST

New Version of Bloody Malth, Re-named "Naga Sotuva".

New version of Bloody Malth is complete. I had to give up on the NES style vocals because it was just turning to static with how much over dubs I decided to do. I added a bunch of lyrics to the middle...
Posted by Norrin_Radd on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:46:00 PST

I plan on re recording the vocals for Bloody Malth

Overall I am not to pleased with the way the whole track sounds. At the time I was mixing it to play in MODplug (the program I use to make these tunes in). But I think I am going to mix it so that it ...
Posted by Norrin_Radd on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:59:00 PST

New songs on the way.

Stinkin' school and work... and Dead Rising. It's hard to get new stuff finished quickly but I assure you another deathmetal track is on the way. I have a finished funky tune in the NES style, but I d...
Posted by Norrin_Radd on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:59:00 PST

Blogs = poo and pee

OUCH!!! What do you do!?
Posted by Norrin_Radd on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 04:27:00 PST