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The biggest hit (and the possible successor to the “Guile’s Theme Goes With Anything” meme) “Rules of Nature” is an embodiment of enormous smashing rhythms, blasting metal riffs, and one of the hardest hitting entries of a chorus in any metal song in recent memory.
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Dancing between explosive electronic cluster-bombs and a battle-crying metal aesthetic, the soundtrack to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is almost delusionally badass, but it’s also some of the most intense game music to ever reach the public’s ears. It’s a massive mix of industrial, metal and drum n’ bass that shamelessly admits its over-the-top nature at every possible moment. While most of his past works run the gambit from medieval fantasy warfare like The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth or the kid-friendliness of Surf’s Up, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a big shift in gears for Christopherson. Jamie Christopherson, best known as the main contributor to the music for the cult film The Crow: Wicked Prayer, is no stranger to composing the music for video games, though not anything of this variety. It was big, it was ridiculous, it was in-your-face at every possible opportunity. Platinum Games’ were notorious for adding a sense of enormous, energized, over-the-top spectacle to their action games (with their critical darlings Bayonetta and Vanquish) and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was no different. Metal Gear Rising might have been the controversial fist-to-face action counterpart to the Metal Gear Solid series, but it earned itself quite a bit of critical acclaim. 1.Review Summary: Metal Gear Rising's soundtrack is absurdly intense, a fever dream of metal/electronic bliss that perfectly complements the game it's in.Also, "Locked & Loaded" has the drums come in stronger during the ending of the song than in "Rules of Nature (Platinum Mix)" because the track is not remixed and conserves the original instrumentation without sound effects. Unlike " A Stranger I Remain", where the only change was the order of the lyrics, in "Locked & Loaded" the lyrics and duration time change completely, remade from scratch for the final version of the song as it appears in-game. Like all the songs of the album Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Vocal Tracks, the prototype version of "Rules of Nature" included in the demo version of the game had different lyrics: the beta originally says « Locked & Loaded» in the chorus. In this interpretation, the song could also foreshadow Raiden's defeat at the hands of Samuel Rodrigues at the end of the prologue - like RAY, Raiden's own cybernetics are outdated by the standards of the game's timeline. This mirrors the change in warfare depicted in the game - with the advent of cyborg technology, unmanned weapons like RAY and GRAD are becoming obsolete, despite being the core of warfare strategies a few years ago. The confrontation with the GRAD is similar: GRAD is an armored Unmanned Gear, equipped with machine guns and shields, but Raiden can break through its defenses with his High Frequency blade.Īnother interpretation of the lyrics paints the song as a lament for/by the Unmanned Gears, describing them as "a starving beast" and "a predator on the verge of death". Raiden is portrayed as the weak prey (smaller physical size), and Metal Gear RAY as the strong predator or hunter (through sheer size, military equipment and power), showing that force alone does not guarantee victory and that victory can be won through ingenuity. The lyrics describe a metaphor for survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom, but applied to today's society. " Rules of Nature" is the main theme for Metal Gear RAY and Grad in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.