The Call of Ktulu Orchestra


Date Submitted

01/13/2008 | 10:43AM EST

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Classical Rock Song | 7.4 MB | 8 min 4 sec

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4.12 / 5.00

Score Rank: #41,826
Popularity Rank: #9,307

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Author Comments

EDIT **3/12**: Reached #15 on greatest tracks of all time. That is so awesome! Thanks guys! :)

Ok. This took me a shitload of time to do. With the transcribing, recording correctly, mixing, and writing the orchestra and all that. I even skipped homework altogether a few nights to create this masterpiece and deliver it to you guys. My grades might suffer and this is possibly my best work so far so I expect reviews! Come on! I'm a musician! All I want is for someone to review my work!

Basically, this is a rearrangement of Metallica's "The Call of Ktulu," one of the most symphonic metal songs ever created. I was listening to the song one day and started to imagine a full orchestra, a choir, and a band (guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums) playing altogether to create a tight ensemble, like in Metallica's "S&M" concert (the concept inspired me to create this).

What I had in mind was the orchestra emphasizing the music already written and the choir singing the chords and singing something in German, mainly because I'm inspired mostly by German composers like J.S. Bach and Beethoven, that has to do with the beast in the story, "The Call of Chutulu," before the main solo comes in. But I have no idea how to write a choir on the computer so this is the best I can do for now. If you know how to do that, please let me know and I WILL write the choir for this song and resubmit it!

I replaced the the guitar with keyboard because keyboard is the only instrument type I know how to play, so the keyboard plays lead so all the guitar does is play the chords and emphasize some riffs.

I've also made some noticeable rearrangements in the song. The guitar solo is not keyboard-friendly so I rearranged it so that it is playable on a keyboard with no pitch-bending ability with the melody still in tact.

So please, if you like this song, review it, download it, and show it to people you like.

If you don't, review it, download it anyway, and show it to people you don't like :)

That's all I have to say for now. I won't take up anymore of your time. Enjoy! And PLEASE review!

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Average Score: 9.4 / 10

Score: 10
Death-Magnetic

"O.O"

date: August 9, 2009

Wow.
I am a HUGE FAN OF METALLICA (hence, my Username)
This just TOTALLY ROCKS!

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Score: 10
rapstergodude

"awsome"

date: August 1, 2009

this is freakin great im a huge fan of tallica and this just makes the song just that little bit darker

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Score: 10
McScrewdriver

"Simply awesome."

date: July 15, 2009

I can't say I approve of you letting your grades slip, but I'm not your mentor, so whatever. Good work on the song though.

July 15, 2009

Author's Response:

lol that's behind me now. Glad you liked it!

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Score: 10
DJOrsa

"Brilliant."

by: DJOrsa
date: July 6, 2009

Enough said.

Btw, this is what I was talking about on my other review. The tom-work makes this song SO much more epic.

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Score: 10
DeltaOps

"Nice."

date: April 7, 2009

This does alot of justice to Metallica. I personaly am a Huge fan of Metallica and am very critical of peopel wo play there music and i have to say this is amazing. The keyboard totaly works. Perfect of the drumbs and i can just hear the symphonic parts to this

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