So earlier I listed to a trailer made for an album called Harmony of Heroes, and honestly I was instantly impressed. What most people don’t know is I’m actually really picky about my music so for me to be impressed is a pretty big deal. I managed to get in touch with Darren Kerwin the Director of the Harmony of Heroes team and managed to ask him a few questions about the album.
- What made your team decide to take on such a huge and impressive project?
We had previously worked on two Metroid themed albums called Harmony of a Hunter and Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Metroid franchise. We felt that we had covered the vast majority of music from the games and felt there wasn’t enough to make a third. After considering many options, we decided that an album paying tribute to the Smash Bros franchise was a good idea, as it allows us to still focus on Metroid, but branch out and open up to many other franchises too.
- Nintendo has many great characters. Were there any characters in particular you were excited to make remixes for?
There are so many incredible pieces of music throughout the many franchises in Super Smash Bros, but for me, it has been incredible working on The Legend of Zelda and Pokémon franchises, they’re two very awesome game franchises that I adore.
- I heard about you’re work from another article and it said that you’re offering over 90 songs for free. Is that really true?
The album will indeed feature over ninety different tracks from a range of musicians and groups covering many different genres across the Smash Bros franchise.
- Is it possible to see remixes of songs from games like Custom Robo, and Golden Sun? Game references that did show up in Super Smash Brothers just not as playable characters.
All the music you will hear, will have featured in one of the Smash Bros titles.
- From what I’ve heard so far I can tell the songs have been changed some but still have many of the same elements to where I can tell exactly what song it was. How difficult was it to change the songs to where it’s different but still easily recognized.
When a musician approaches me for a track, we discuss what sort of genre we are going to be working with. We sometimes look at the theme from Smash Bros and the original source tune from the games they appear in, and try to find a balance. We have deviated substantially away from some, while others remain true. There are a lot of surprises!
- Is it possible to see more from your team after Harmony of Heroes releases?
For the moment, we are entirely focused on Harmony of Heroes, but who knows what the future might hold!
So there you have it. All the songs will come from Super Smash Brothers games so you can only imagine how vast the album is. Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Mario, and so many more. Yes the songs are remade but you can still tell what song it is and after listening to some of the songs on the trailer I highly recommend downloading this album which is supposed to come out later this year.
For more information on Harmony of Heroes you can click on the links below.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HarmonyofHeroes
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HarmonyOfHeroes
Or their main webpage at http://www.harmonyofheroes.net/