Touhou - Bad Apple [Metal Remix By NyxTheShield]

Touhou - Wind God Girl [String Quintet Remix By NyxTheShield]

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Remix by NyxTheShield

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Touhou - Hartmann's Youkai Girl [Remix by NyxTheShield] [Koishi's Theme]

After many months of hard work, blood, sweat and tears it's finally here! Many of you wanted my Touhou covers to be available in an album format, so it truly means a lot to me to finally release this huge dream project for you all!

"Youkai - Touhou Metal" consists of all my Touhou Project covers I've done so far - I have refreshed every song on the album to match my current abilities and also fully remastered Pandemonic Planet, Septette for the Dead Princess and Youmu's Theme. I hope you guys enjoy my covers of your favorite Touhou tracks. Love y'all!

I'd also like to thank good guy RichaadEB (www.youtube.com/richaadeb) for nailing an absolute killer solo on Necrofantasia and helping me out with further work on the track. Also a big thank you to Wool (twitter.com/moiwool) for drawing the beautiful album artwork. I've also been a huge fan of his work long before I started making covers, so this truly warms my heart! Go check out both of these guys' work. This album wouldn't have been the same without them!

But most importantly thanks to all of you viewers for encouraging me to make this album a reality! The Touhou journey is not over yet! I will continue to make more Touhou covers (Album part 2?) and also many other franchises to reach all of your musical taste buds! I hope you enjoy listening to "Youkai - Touhou Metal". Thank you! ^^

Original Compositions by: ZUN - Jun'ya Ota
Guest Guitar Solo by: RichaadEB (www.youtube.com/richaadeb)
Album Artwork by: Wool (twitter.com/moiwool)
Guitar Covers by YaboiMatoi

🎸 Gear used 🎸
- Lead Guitar: Schecter Hellraiser C-1 FR
- Rhythm Guitar: Schecter Blackjack SLS C-7 Passive
- Bass Guitar: Ibanez Soundgear SR805
- Classical Guitar: Cordoba C5
- Drums: Superior Drummer 3
- Camera: Canon EOS 700D / Rebel T5i

Tonight Stars an Easygoing Egoist ~ Egoistic Flowers

Pandemonic Planet

Pierrot of the Star-Spangled Banner

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Original by NyxTheShield

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Touhou - Lunatic Princess ~ Flight of the Bamboo Cutter [Remix by NyxTheShield] [Kaguya's Theme]

you can buy the game on steam :store.steampowered.com/app/19... and the support pack for ost and art :store.steampowered.com/app/23... Disclaimer: I do not own any music in this video. and credit goes to the respective owners of the music, I just wanted to share it

07. to you, my love rings true (live)

This song is about accepting things that are fundamental constraints

B01 - Sempiternal Mind (257)

Bad Apple, or "BAD Apple!!" as ZUN likes to spell it
From Touhou 4 Lotus Land Story
Composed by ZUN
Remastered/Arranged by me

Yesterday, i felt like arranging Bad Apple, so i did.
It was quite random, i was just listening to an old arrange i made of Bad Apple in 2017 for something secret (you will find out eventually when said something is actually released...it's not up to me sadly).
But yes, while i was listening to my 2017 arrange of Bad Apple, i listened to Illusionary Sputnik Night from ZUN's music CD; Griomoire of Marisa, and i thought "hmmm...wouldn't it be cool if other old ZUN songs had those cool extended parts too?".
So, well, i figured it wouldn't be very hard to do, so i started working on it, it took around 11 hours.
For this arrange, i wanted to prioritize "remaster" for the first half, and "arrange" for the second half.
I really like the original song, but i have to admit that i am not very fond of the melody at 1:08, and thus, i also found it a little difficult to improve on.
Honestly, that part of the song is quite basic and even boring in my honest opinion, certainly not amongst my favourite melodies ZUN composed.
A lot of people would probably say "but Sylvy, it's the PC-98 era, he was still bad then", and to that i say...really? Some of my favourite ZUN songs are PC-98 songs, a lot of them have great composition.
Of course, i really love the rest of the original aside from that part, just a great Touhou song all around.
I tried making the song a bit longer by adding some new parts, messing with key changes, and adding a piano solo.
There's also some easter eggs hidden in the background melodies, pay close attention, and you might recognize them.
Also, i tried making this song more Marisa-ish than Reimu-ish.
There's 2 paths in Touhou 4: Lotus Land Story, it depends on which character you pick, the stage 1 theme will be different depending on which character you pick.
I always thought it would be kind of interesting to imagine what the music of Touhou 4 would sound like if each stage had like a "Reimu variation" and a "Marisa variation" of the music, this would definetely be the "Marisa variation" of Bad Apple.
I think if i ever made a "Reimu variation", it would sound a bit more eastern (the irony of that statement does not fly over my head), maybe with those cool saw instruments from her theme in Touhou 8...
This song was very easy and chill to work on, so i had fun, especially since i am working very hard on more difficult songs behind the scenes (i'm composing for 2 albums and 2 game OST's, consider joining/donating to my Patreon if you want to hear some of the songs early)

Also i drew Elly for the thumbnail, she's the stage 3 boss of Touhou 4 (this is not obvious for a surprising amount of people because of the popularity of the Astromo-something-i-forgot Records arrange of Bad Apple)

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If you've come this far, thank you, i'm glad you took the time to read this description, i wish an extra nice day to you!
(and if your day is bad, please do something about it, you know you can!)

Remaster/Arrange: Bad Apple

Septette for the Dead Princess
Original by ZUN
Arranged by me

This is a Halloween special!
A few years ago, i tried to arrange this song, but in my honest opinion, i did not do very well, so i wanted to try again this time, but with a different approach.
You see, let's be honest, there are currently way too many Septette arranges already in the world, and just making the song "normal" wouldn't be fun i think, so i went a little crazy, i added some new parts, multiple piano spams and solos, and some melody and rhythm changes.

About the instrumentation:
This time around, i challenged myself to not use the Edirol SD-90, because i use it in every song, i wanted to see how it would sound like if i didn't.
This song primarily uses Kontakt 5 factory library and Halion 6, both which i have bought thanks to your commissions and financial support on my Patreon.
I wanted some parts to feel a bit "misty", because i wanted to show a side of Remilia's theme that is not often felt in many arranges, i used a combination of more "punchy" and more "floaty" instruments to try to balance feelings a little.
I payed extra attention to how some of the instrument combinations feel, especially in the chorus, i tried something a bit different there, because it has a lot more emptiness than usual, i think that emptiness is sometimes nice to have as a balance to the more wild and melodical parts.

Overall, i am quite happy with how this turned out, i think it is a lot better than my previous Septette arrange, i'm very curious what you think!
I'm very busy with composing for indie games and for multiple albums, so there might be less uploads on this channel between now and the end of December, so please keep that in mind when you see less uploads.

I wish you all a happy Halloween by the way!
Halloween is a very "English-American tradition", it is not really a big thing in my country (the Netherlands), but i have a lot of foreign friends, and most of my subscribers are American, and it is a fun opportunity to do something special with music, so why not?

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If you have come this far in the description, then, once again, congratulations!
Thank you for actually reading the description and what i have to write about my music, it means a lot to me when people take the time to do that.
I hope you have a nice day, and if you are not having a nice day, then good luck making it a nice day, remember, be the change you want to see in the world!