Video games and music has always formed a great union, classic melodies and incredible compositions has been one of my favorite things on gaming. On Musical Attack Monday I will present people who do covers and remixes from video game music and I hope you enjoy it. If you have any suggestion or any idea to improve this series, let me know.

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Welcome, to the first episode of Musical Attack Monday, a take similar to Art Attack Friday, only about video game music (duh). For this episode I will talk about Goat, one of my favorites remixer out there.

Goat is known at VG Music and at OC Remix for his metal renditions of Castlevania songs, particularly the NES ones. His style ranges from Progressive Rock to Heavy Metal, since his influences are from Metallica, Megadeath, Pantera and Sepultura. Not much is known from him more than he's from Texas and that he's "A guitar playing Goat".

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Although he can make great Rock remixes, he can also make beautiful sounds like in this remix of the Prelude theme from Final Fantasy IV, where most of the song is accompanied by a harp and then the orchestra kicks in, with of course, a little bit of guitar which it's his favorite instrument. He has also collaborated with Stemage and Dan Taylor to the metal rendition of The Tunnel from Metroid 2, you can here it here.

One of his first projects was "Unchosen Paths", were it was the Rock and Metal renditions to the NES Castlevanias games, specially Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse. One of my favorite songs of this project was "Creeping Dusk", which was a medley from all the songs of Castlevania 2, most of the song of Castlevania 3 and some songs from Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness with a little easter egg from Dracula X: Rondo of Blood. To view his full project, you can go here.

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If you want to listen to more of his songs, like songs from Metroid, Kid Icarus, Contra, or even Ninja Gaiden, you can go to his Home Page or just go to OC Remix and listen to the tracks at his page.

I hope you've enjoyed my first entry of Musical Attack Monday, and there will be even more for the next week, so check it out.

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