Check Out This Awesome Cover of the Omega Metroid Podcast Theme!

If you’ve been listening to our podcast recently, you are probably familiar with our podcast’s theme by our very own Doominal Crossing (which – cheap plug! – you can download for free right here!). It’s a Metroid Prime-style song with inspirations from Chozo Ruins and played by Synamax, featuring Lacey Johnson on guitars. It’s become a staple of the channel, and we’re glad our fans have enjoyed it – to the point that someone has even made their own cover of it!

Uffe von Lauterbach is a German musician on YouTube who has created various covers and original songs, primarily focusing on Metroid covers. For a while, they have been a fan of the podcast, but they recently decided to create their own take on our podcast’s theme. They decided to focus on putting a new spin on the harmony of the main theme, while providing a new piano accompaniment inspired by NEStroid’s Brinstar theme. When discussing the theme with Doominal, here is what they had to say about it:

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long while now. In retrospect, I think I know what you [Doominal] mean about the Chozo Ruins, since your melody had that sort of Metroid Prime whistle as the instrument. I guess since I was transcribing this on a piano VST, I ended up hearing something else. I had transcribed the entire Omega Metroid Podcast Theme, but I settled for your melody alone, because I felt it was enough for the intro theme. And because your track is in G Mixolydian and Brinstar is in G major, it just felt right to go that route. They’re two different scales, but they both can still work with one another. I’m not sure I know what synth patches and samples are referenced, but I did notice the leitmotifs, and the ending of your track. But again, I opted with your melody. It starts on G and ends on G, making that a cadence. I also felt like your melody alone had the potential to sound like Metroid without relying on Metroid related things. But that’s just my personal thoughts. I kind of want to look for other melodies and do what I did here with them.

Give it a listen below! What did you think of the theme? Let us know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Uffe’s channel!

Source: Uffe von Lauterbach

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