Battle -Qadištu- (Shoji Meguro PS2 Rock Remix) | Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance

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This is a cover of Battle Qadištu by Ryota Kozuka from Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance. I have remade the track in the style of Shoji Meguro's rock battle tracks around the PS2 era of SMT games, as if Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance released on the PS2 in the mid to late 2000s.

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If any one word can be used to describe this track, it’s “evil”. A very unnerving melody topped off with very vicious sound design gives this track its unique charm, which fits the Qadištu perfectly. While this isn’t really a feeling I get from any of Shoji Meguro’s PS2 tracks, I wanted to maintain it for this cover, while mixing it with those iconic heavy guitars. I tried to avoid using too many acoustic instruments and used plenty of synths, DDS2 style. I figured that the vocal chops in the original track wouldn’t match this style, so I opted for some samples from old sample CDs to fill the gap.

Thanks again to the Persona Sound Resource, I have managed to get ahold of the piano plugin that Meguro has used since the PS2 era, New York Concert Grand Piano by Native Instruments. While somewhat of a pain to get working, finally putting it in these mixes makes things sound much more authentic I feel.

Of course, Meguro's signature guitar tone is always the most important element of these remixes, for a more detailed breakdown of how I recreated it, I'd advise checking out the description for the cover of An Honour Befitting That Name I made here:    • An Honor Befitting That Name (Shoji Meguro...  

The Qadištu and their themes have become pretty popular with the fanbase (not hard to see why), so I hope I can contribute to the love. I especially liked using Agrat and Lilith in the late game for some good magic damage and support.

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