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There is a new music file from Diablo 2 - LoD for download at Fileplanet (you know, the wait, unless you pay): Ancients.mp3 can be downloaded following our link...
Update by Garrett: In the unlikely event, you do not enjoy fileplanet and it's registering policies, the track is also available from Blizzard's Diablo 2 LOD Music Site at battle.net; and composer Matt Uelmen has posted his liner notes there as well:
This track, heard in the final showdown with Baal, is in many ways the omega to the alpha that was the original Diablo® theme. Most of this track is structured around the core motives heard throughout the Diablo series, fleshed out in as bombastic as way as possible. The transformation from the gentle but menacing guitar and flute of the original Tristram is now complete, though the melodic structure still remains. During a pleasant lunch at the cafe in the Slovak Radio building, Maestro Kirk Trevor related how he had spent his early teenage years immersed in the world of Wagner's Ring. Perhaps because of the familiarity of these Wagnerian textures to the Maestro and the players, this track was easily the most pleasant and quickest to record of all of the tunes that week. Though Tolkein is the more obvious and common reference for the fantasy genre, I find Der Ring der Nibelungen to be the final word in the genre which Diablo and other sword-and-sorcery titles inhabit. Siegfrieds Tod is either used directly or strongly referenced in films like Excalibur and Gladiator for good reason - nothing captures the struggles of mortals amongst gods quite like the original recipe. |
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Diablo 2 Music
