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If you read my PAX recap (I’ll understand if you didn’t) you’ll already know that I’ve taken a shine to Metroid Metal. Their performance at PAX was thoroughly enjoyable and I resolved to pick up their music immediately.

This album is good old-fashioned [metal] fun. The Metroid themes are easily recognizable, and the music is very tightly played. Listening to Varia Suite takes me right back to those red-eyed explorations of lonely, alien worlds scattered with abandoned structures and crawling with hostile life forms.

So much of the mood and atmosphere of the Metroid games is conveyed through its scores, and if anything, Metroid Metal’s translations not only preserve their message but amplify it. And where, perhaps, they deviate or embellish, I assure you it is always a successful attempt at more completely rocking.

Metroid Metal also gets kudos from me for using Bandcamp to allow a full preview of the entire album, and at least as important, offer the music digitally in all manner of formats, including Ogg and FLAC (yes!!) So I feel it would be redundant and perhaps a little rude to do my normal practice of putting up MP3 links when I can just allow you to check out their music directly.

So here you go, check it out for yourself! I particularly like these tracks:

4. Item Room (NES)
7. Ridley (NES)
8. Phendrana Drifts (MP)
14. Theme (NES)

Official Metroid Metal Site, MM on Bandcamp,