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Blown by the Solar Wind. Very heavy stuff, huge guitars and gigantic drums... even a bass solo !

Solar Wing - Part II

March Of The Stroggs

The Underworld

By Sonic Mayhem
Quake II - The Reckoning
1998

Gravity Well

Kill Ratio

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My interpretation of what would be Strogg and Peeker's (Quake Champions) theme song! I was kind of envisioning how fighting game characters have their tracks that play while I made this. Right off the bat I wanted to sample a drone taking off and I incorporated that into the textured sound effect at the beginning, with the beginning notes of the ETQW Main Theme/Strogg Victory Theme playing on top. The Strogg were introduced in Q2, so I figured it would only be appropriate to reference a track from that game as well as sort of a callsign for them. The ETQW Theme has a big dramatic climax that I knew I wanted to use as the ending, with it being arranged as Orchestral+Choir in the original. I recreated that on my end, and then translated it to the sort of Industrial/Metal style consistent with the rest of the champion themes.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Main Theme by Bill Brown
Descent into Cerberon by Sonic Mayhem (Sascha Dikiciyan)

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For The Makron

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My interpretation of what would be Ranger's (Quake Champions) theme song! I was kind of envisioning how fighting game characters have their tracks that play while I made this. With Ranger originating from Quake 1, I knew it's soundtrack needed a heavy presence in this one. I threw in references to the tracks Quake Theme, Aftermath, Hall of Souls, and Life. Going with the sort of Gothic theme that Q1 had, throwing in a little pipe organ would hurt either as the Volkerh mapset utilizes it as well. 

A good chunk of the Q1 OST is in the key of D, and deviating from that ended up sound wrong, so in order to get my guitars as low as I wanted them to... I didn't use them. The heavy parts are actually a bass guitar using electric guitar processing. In my mind, this track is my impression of Sonic Mayhem and Mick Gordon interpreting Trent Reznor's classic Quake OST.

Ranger has a tragic story, as he was ripped from his family and tossed into the nightmarish world of Quake from which he can't seem to awaken. I wanted to reflect this in the somber tone of the chorus in this track (and inadvertently ended up giving a subtle nod to the Max Payne theme). Part of me wanted this song to end on a looping fade out to sort of reflect him being trapped in hell.

Nightmare

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My interpretation of what would be Slash's (Quake Champions) theme song! I was kind of envisioning how fighting game characters have their tracks that play while I made this. I knew I wanted to make at least one Drum and Bass song for the champions as that genre of music was incredibly popular among classic frag videos of the late 90's and early 2000's, and I don't think there was a better choice than Slash.

I wanted to do a little counterplay between high energy DnB and slightly more somber sections as Slash hasn't always had it easy. Between dealing with drug addiction and a likely traumatic childhood, Slash maintains a sort of sinister childlike innocence with her personality and even keeps her teddy bear close by.

Special thanks to the Bethesda Community Managers Tokyopunchout and Mortalemperor for hosting a poll on the official Quake twitter about what champion theme you guys wanted to hear next, Visor! I wanted to put this out first because it was basically complete when the poll was first posted and I didn't want to leave everyone hanging with release timing. :)

Artwork by John Mueller

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Ballet

A tribute to the works of Gregory Alper and Jeehun Hwang.

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat" (1995) from Activision and FASA Corporation.

Timber Wolf (MechWarrior 2 Soundtrack 2013 Orchestral Tribute )

Original soundtrack from the video game Quake 2 CDs released 1997-1998.

Kill Ratio

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