This version of Cosmic is meant to keep the original songs essence while transforming it into something that you'd hear playing an old game on some big fuzzy television.

Every section has a different era of video games it sounds like, but there is a primary inspiration behind a lot of the sound.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
You may find while listening that you hear certain elements that sound very much similar to that game.

An enormous amount of the original songs stems have been completely replaced in midi by hand, not including parts added or altered. Redoing everything in MIDI and using specific synths or a soundfont is what allowed me to make any of this happen.

Enjoy!

Cosmic (Video Game Remix)

This song is remixed for an Avenged Sevenfold contest held in August 2024. Remix includes many parts of the beautiful original and complex Cosmic song shared by Avenged Sevenfold for the contest plus original voice, voice doubling, guitar/bass play and drum/sounds mixed by myself, Pee-Hell from Halfway To Death (HTD).The remix presents a whole new version of the lyrics with all parts taken from the original lyrics to keep M. Shadows voice singing it most of the time. 

Non-professionally mixed at home with Audacity and Bandlab. A7X gave me the motivation to start playing music again while I'm "halfway to death" in my 40s and motivated me to do home self-recording after watching their ''Breakdown'' series of videos on youtube. This remix is a big thanks you to the group to gave me back the taste of playing music.

Lyrics of Cosmic (Halfway to Death Remix):

Left Alone
Not a last goodbye
I can't wait too long
Forever
Until we meet again

Dancing in the wind, weightless in the night
Before the dawn of man, in castles made of sand
Writing in the caves, don in pharaoh's clothes
Mask of royal glow, roses born again
Rings of dust and ice, as fire lights the way
There, you'll find me, Yeah 

Fade from all that was before
We meet again 
Into that good night
None too far as we chase
I'll follow you

Fate, sometimes we got it right
Love, we loved so many times 
Pain, it found its way back in
Live, has taken once again 
Fade through the stars beyond forever
I'll follow you

Fate
Love
Pain 
Live 
Fade
A fight we'll never win

Fate 
Love
Pain
Live 
Fade through the stars beyond forever
I'll follow you

Feeling my empty soul
Feeling I’m losing goals
Feeling my twisted mind
Feeling my eyes go blind
Feeling everything falling toward the end

I’m gone
I’m gone
Forever

I’m gone
I’m gone
Forever

Avenged Sevenfold - Cosmic (Halfway To Death Remix)

I wanted to capture more of the feeling of Cosmic's second half, because this was one of my favorite experiences from any live show ever. I also really love the song and the lyrics, so I kept the overall theme alive.
It took many hours of work to turn this prog rock masterpiece into something electronic and dancy. I tried to honor the original by reusing parts of the stems as best as I could, heavily manipulating and reordering some of them. 
I also built plenty of new stuff: synths, vocoders, bass sounds and more to create that melancholic / synthwave vibe. I hope you enjoy the result!

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Hi! I am an Austrian music producer. Else\where strives to incorporate the full spectrum of possibilities in contemporary music production, from songwriting to sound design.