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The Chronicles of Spellborn - The Howling with Within Temptation
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Within Temptation formed in Holland around the nucleus of singer Sharon den Adel and guitarist / song writer Robert Westerholt. Their breakthrough album 'Mother Earth' - a wired amalgam of orchestral theatre and anthemic, metallic riffs - conquered the hearts and souls of the rock community of the whole of Europe. The album went gold and platinum in Germany, Holland, and Belgium.
When two creative and artistic minds create something new together, it is bound to be something special and unique. Last February, Spellborn NV announced a special partnership with Within Temptation, a symphonic rock band known for its haunting Celtic melodies and powerful vocals and the fruits of this partnership are now starting to emerge with a special 6 minute long game-trailer for The Chronicles of Spellborn called 'The Howling'.
What do you think of TCoS's partnership with Within Temptation? What do you think of Within Temptations music? And do you think their music would match the game style? Here is the link to their game trailer of The Howling , the trailer isn't bad with the music in my opinion but the video quality is absolutely rubbish.
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AS explained in the news post that is not the 'offical' video, google makes it look utter shite if you goto it's offical site http://the-howling.com you will find that it's MUCH better quality.. Also to point out the 'parnership' is only during the promotional aspect of the game so far the devs have hinted that WT may be linked to other apects but it's also been made clear that WT's music doesn't appear nor reflect TCoS' music although that said the music is still very good..
Sorry for sounding harsh but many many people have only just took notice of TCoS purly because of that video and are prejugding and/or assuming things just from that video and not reading into the actal information that predates it (found at http://www.tcos.com ) I'm not saying you havn't yourself however I just wanted to clear imformation up and set things stright here before TCoS gets prejudged via 'chinese whispers' as it is a damn good and unique title thats been ignored by many until now
Bring on the WARRRRGGHH!
I've always loved WT and I'm a big supporter of TCoS so this is a great event for me.
Personally, I think it's a great match for the two. WT has always been original, stiring and striking music and TCoS is exactly that. It's a wonderful promo material and I think it shows the lengths by which this dev group is taking to finally make a different game and a world that will draw you in, in some very special ways.
I certainly hope this garners some good attention for the game, I'm hoping we're all in for a very special suprise when it releases.
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Oh c'mon now
. I'm sure Lacuna Coil is just fine with Within Temptations success, without or without this video.
Besides, I really wouldn't compare the two. Lacuna Coil is more along the lines of Collide and Sneer, where WT is more closely relatable to NightWish. Either way, all are most excelent bands.
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Maybe less visibility during development can be a good thing...
At least you don't have to put up with all those people that bring the game down without even playing it.
EDIT: I was replying to Kremliks post...
Hehe, that can certainly be true. **coughs** Vanguard **coughs**
On the other hand though, I think it's really a good time for TCoS to get a larger public following as it's been in the shadows of some of the big boys that are being release far to long.
It's one of the few none-IP MMO's comming out that has a genuine uniqueness to it and while nothing is written in stone of course, has the possibility to really do well because of that.
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Yes, maybe less hype the better eh?
Either way it's a big 'FU' to the 'Game X is gonna be the best thing ever' fanbois who have been ramming certain games in our faces for the past few months while this puppy has been slilently working away the background, I certainly hope they have better luck on the funding then Ryzom did like that it's the only thing that can crush it..
Bring on the WARRRRGGHH!
The trouble with WT is that their music works much better live; I was lucky to see them performing live last summer. Somehow the individual songs just don't "stick", with a few possible exceptions. That said, I'm sure there's plenty of potential there, considering how this kind of music excels at creating powerful atmospheres and emotions. This song seems like hit material btw, one of their best songs to date - if this is the way they are going, more power to them.
I must admit though that I liked Lacuna Coil at least as much when I saw them live a few months ago.
But yeah I would much rather compare Lacuna Coil to something like Evanescence than WT / Nightwish. I love them all anyway.
You can find the full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcwO0VS9FVo
The 1:36 video is just a short version that they send out to some sites.
The full video has way better scenes. The giant warships and the part where the camera flies over Quarterstone
Wow! Jade06 and I actually agree on something... I think I just saw a piggy flying past the window
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About 3 years ago my sister and I heard that Darling Violetta (one of my all time favorites) was going to have a small show on a Saturday night in some small club in Buffalo (she lives in Toronto and I live in Ottawa). So anyways I packed up the little Jetta, picked her up in Toronto and we head State side. This was like in January too so we were just happy there was no snow storm going on.
The show was on a Saturday night, so we drove all through Friday night, found a hotel to crash in and proceeded to figure out wherever the hell this little club was. Well we found it, flirted our asses off to actually get into the show and got in.
Darling Violetta played an hour set and it was amazing, then as if that wasn't enough, Collide came on (my all time favorite band) and I absolutely died with happiness, we had absolutely no idea they were even there to begin with. After an hour and half of them completely amazing everyone in the place they announced they had a special guest band and to our amazement it was Lacuna Coil, who I'd never ever seen before but loved all the same.
So basically here I was with my sister, in this absolutely nothing little club, in a crowd of about 80 or so people, all the band people from Darling Violetta and Collide (I actually got to talk to Karrin and Statik, almost having a heart attack in the process) in the crowd with us all the while listening to Lacuna Coil.
For most people, these bands aren't all that special or big and popular, but for this was one of those night you just absolutely dream about and remember forever.
Since then I've seen Lacuna Coil twice and Collide about a dozen times and every single times it's just absolutely spectacular. Alot of these bands need to be seen live to really appreciate the raw talent that's there. Unlike alot of todays "singers" and "bands" these people have talent, voice are not digitally remastered, they write their own music and they can actually play the instruments you see them playing.
They are a breath of fresh air in a time of pre-packaged, pre-assembled, pretty but clueless bands and pop stars that seems to infest what we call music now days.
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Oh c'mon now
. I'm sure Lacuna Coil is just fine with Within Temptations success, without or without this video.
Besides, I really wouldn't compare the two. Lacuna Coil is more along the lines of Collide and Sneer, where WT is more closely relatable to NightWish. Either way, all are most excelent bands.
One word:
Karmacode.
That album was pure pain. Edit to expand: I liked the other three albums, Comalies, In a Reverie and Unleashed Memories, with Karmacode it just seemed they were trying to turn into KoRn.
I'm getting offtopic though. The thing I'm most excited about in tCoS is manual targeting.
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In some bands only their live music is worth listening to though, like Muse is my favourite band but they are so much better live.
Thats not metal.
This is metal.
Thats eveanesisnce like POP.
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Thats not metal.
This is metal.
Thats eveanesisnce like POP.
Evanescence isn't pop! it's rock
Uhhhh... right! And Justin Timberlake is hardcore gangster rapper
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