Megalo Strike Back
By Toby Fox
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Released 1/1/2012.
Duration: 2:39.
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Tracks that Megalo Strike Back references: Tracks that this one references:
- Prologue by Mother and Hirokazu Tanaka
Tracks that reference Megalo Strike Back: Tracks that reference this one:
- From Fandom: Tracks from Fandom that reference this one:
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- Sungetter V2 (Another Megalo Strike Back Remix) by Cecily Renns
- Descend (Revised Edition) by ft-rj
- Mayor Retaliate by Bin
- anonamousVengance by Wheals
- Ke$halo Strike Back by yazshu
- Megalo Strike Bach by Interrobang
- Megalo in Death // ʞɔɐq ǝʞᴉɹʇS ɥʇɐǝp by Cristata
- ...a single singularity of being... by Interrobang
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Artist commentary:
Toby Fox: (portfolio commentary)
Created as an homage to the final battle of the Super Nintendo game EarthBound utilizing instruments from the game itself. A rockin' midi boss battle theme for an alien overlord.
From the collaborative EarthBound fan-album I was a part of a while back.
Clearly callback to the final boss theme in the original game, in both instrumentation and structure. I’m not as good at writing dissonant, alien metal, so I took a more melodic approach, integrating the low-intensity NES section into the rest of the song instead of dropping it once the guitars kick in. The melodic section is a little bit inspired by Malcolm Brown’s Rex Duodecim Angelus.
I snuck in some warping, pitch-bended bass notes like the original did. See if you can hear them at 1:09-1:15. Another little musical detail that I’m proud of is that I managed to re-use the sample from the guitar solo that plays on the opening Gas Station screen of the game.
The name is clearly a shout-out to Mother 2’s original subtitle: “Gyiyg Strikes Back!” It’s also a reference to Megalovania, the other boss song I made using EarthBound instrumentation for a ROM Hack I created during my junior year of High School.