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Note: If this episode doesn’t make each and every listener want to go out and a) download and play the free demo of Barael’s Legacy and b) listen to and buy all of The Sword’s albums and merch, then no episode of any podcast ever could. - Albert
‘Labouring In The Liquid Rites Of Leviathan…Spectres Slunk Around The Sunken Cities Of The Saurians…Rising From The Void From The Blackness Of Eternal Night…Colossus Of The Deep Comes Crashing Down With Cosmic Might.’
‘How Heavy This Axe…Burden Carried From Birth…Wrought In Stygian Visions…By The Gods Of The Earth.’
‘Yonder Rides The Archer, Lost in Lawless Lands. Some Strange Power Beckons, Far Beneath The Ancient Sands.’
‘All Around You, Points Align. Everything, Is All The Time.’
'Beauty And Splendor, Destruction And Ruin, All In Your Memory. Let Go Of All That Binds You...Your Kind Will Always Find You.'
‘On our third episode, I am joined by Justin Dressler, a completely-impromptu-to-be-meeting-him-this-late-in-my-life-because-it-totally-feels-like-we’ve-grown-up-all-this-time-and-known-eachother-since-childhood-tastic kindred spirit whom I met through r/TheSword (classic mythology and high/mythopoeic fantasy-based metal band), creator of a game named Barael’s Legacy, based on said band’s music. Though the feel of this episode by it’s nature differs somewhat in tone to our usual programming, it’s reason/s for existing are manyfold, not least of which is what Justin and Barael’s Legacy represent and indicate the heretofore untapped potential of:
Games Based On Albums.
Who *wouldnt* want to play a game based on Metallica, King Diamond, or even Sia, St. Vincent,
or Mastodon, whose oeuvre is replete with narratively rich and world-building infused concept albums?
Justin and I discuss this and more, permeated by and on-the-whole shamelessly and essentially constituting a love letter to a band we both hold in enormously high regard, not solely for the powerful and sweeping, evocative music, but for J.D. Cronise — main lyricist, vocalist and guitarist — and his creative and writing sensibilities, which are, have always been and continue to be refreshingly erudite and non-ironic, in a genre that can sometimes dip into self-satire, over exaggeration or simple hamminess/corniness — a scholar-artist (scholartist?), mythmaker and multifaceted storyteller amidst a sea of overtly derivative, repetitive or by-the-numbers so-called-music.
Join us as we scry into a potential future, where one day where Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is playable as a Journey-esque art game, where Motorhead’s Overkill is a multiplayer racer like Mario Kart (MotorKart??), and where Radiohead’s King Of Limbs is a Limbo-like moody existential platformer that goes on to win Best Indie at The Game Awards 2020. Courtesy caveat: contains unapologetic nerdiness, metalness and dagginess.’
Play Barael’s Legacy here:
Barael's Legacy for Windows (free)
Barael's Legacy for Mac (free)
Listen To All The Sword’s records (iTunes)
Listen To All The Sword's records (Spotify)
Listen To All The Sword's records (YouTube)
Buy The Sword's beautifully designed and made Merch Here
and follow JD Cronise on Twitter for news on their upcoming album Used Future & more.
Also Pink Floyd,
Wayne's World 1 & 2,
Tim & Eric,
Apollo Gauntlet,
and Harmonquest
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