What a tune, sweet Jesus. Maybe their single best, although with their ridiculously high bar, there's a good half-dozen from that soundtrack alone to rival it. The Sky Line (slappin), Sea of Flame (fiery), Great Sea Power (that wailing lead sustain, jebus), Downright Attack (ugly duckling galloping progger), Stand Up Against Myself (lighters in the air for VASTEEL) and Stranger (badass jaw-jacker) all make my Tecno Soft MD tracklist too. Even if Stranger's more of a motif than a full composition, similar to Metal Squad's harbinger Neo Weapon.Stevens wrote:https://youtu.be/psSamm93uCE?t=2150
On the subject of Tecno Soft music, crossposting from the Shmup VGM thread:
Put Cyber Brawl (32X)'s OST on while doing other things, and although it's VS fighting rather than STG - there's a lot of stuff fans of Tecno Soft's MD soundtracks will love. Naruto (Fully Armoured) is absolute Thunder Force IV material - chugging power chords, soaring elegiac leads and a battering drum sound.
Just a killer OST in general, in composition and tone alike. I remember hearing from CIT that it actually doesn't use the 32X hardware at all, being entirely YM2612-based. That would put it right up there with the machine's absolute best if so.
And uh, to keep this on-topic, here's the similarly bangin' Devil Crash MD rendition of Bloodstained Lake from Elemental Master. (DCMD is another for a "shooting music in non-STGs" thread)