Hey Patrons!
Finally about to get started with songs this month, here's a preview of the next one up: Lichdragon Fortissax from Elden Ring.
Hoping to have this one finished tomorrow evening with the video up the next day. Till then. enjoy! 🙂
2024-11-18 02:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons! I have a bunch of new acoustic shorts for you today. They are:
Bright Days Ahead (13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim)
Every Day is Night (VA-11 HALL-A)
Life is Beautiful (Deadly Premonition)
One Jump Ahead (Aladdin)
Stage 1/3/4/6/7 (Bad Dudes)
Stardust Memory (Blazblue)
The Round Table (Ace Combat Zero)
Ceremony (Secret of Mana)*
Rico Jr. (Dokapan Kingdom)*
White Wings (Breath of Fire II)*
*Loopable
There's also a few newer acoustic shorts that were in end cards that are now available on my site (Panic Puppet Act 1, Mad Monster Mansion Interior). I believe there's still a few I need to finish up on that front, though.
Been hard at work on this months songs, preview for the next one (Fortissax) coming soon, till then, enjoy! 🙂
2024-11-14 19:49:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons! Here's a quick recap of today's stream for those who missed it.
The song chosen during today's stream was:
The Oracle from Secret of Mana, from the list of Drew Ensz! I've always been a fan of this one. It would've been perfect last month, but better late than never. 👻
Next up: my handpicked choice for the month.
I challenged myself to find something I think could work well in our end-of-year lineup, as well as something a bit more modern to counteract today's old-school pick, but also something I'm not super familiar with so I'm not too biased. So the song I've landed on is...
The Fog from Persona 4! This one's currently on the list of Mikael Eriksson as well as two of the Discord ballot accounts. I've seen it on and off a few different lists in the past, and I quite enjoy it, so let's throw it in the pile!
(Forgive my very basic placeholder thumbnail, I know very little about Persona and have no idea where this song plays lol.)
Timeline for these songs will be determined in time, ideally I'd like to have these both done within the next couple of months, but I'll keep you updated in future update posts as always. Till then, thank you all as always for being the best community around, I'll see you in the next post! 😃
2024-11-05 22:34:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons, our monthly stream is about to start! You can join us in chat here.
A recap along with my monthly handpicked PRL choice will be posted shortly after the stream ends. See you there!
2024-11-05 20:59:56 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons! After taking off a few days to recharge my batteries, here's your first update for November '24!
I managed to barely eek out 5 songs last month: 2 PRL songs in Ripe Seeds and Deku Palace, the two Halloween Poll songs, as well as the bonus Halloween song Mad Monster Mansion.
I'm hoping to do similar this month and knock out another 5. Here's a look at the to-do list:
Lichdragon Fortissax will be next up, likely followed by the recent GaMetal Discord Request Battle winner Necrofantasia. I've been working on just about every song on the to-do list at the moment, the rest of the order will be decided along the way.
We also have two more songs to add to the list tomorrow: our monthly stream PRL pick, and my monthly handpicked PRL choice. Our monthly Patreon stream will take place at our usual date and time of November 5th, starting around 4:00 PM US Eastern time. We'll have the request list fully up to date tomorrow morning.
As was announced by Patreon a couple of months ago, as part of a year-long process to axe the per-creation model and meet new legal requirements set by Apple, Patreon pledges on per-creation pages that are paid for using the Apple iOS Patreon app now incur a 30% fee. Creators have been given the choice to pay the fee ourselves or to pass the fee on to the pledger. I have chosen to pay the fee myself as I don't want anyone to suddenly see a 30% markup in their pledge.
This fee can be averted by setting up payment on desktop or any other way that isn't the iOS app. So, for anyone that has set up their payment using iOS, it'd be very helpful for myself and any other Patreon creators choosing to pay the fee ourselves if you set up your payment on desktop rather than the iOS app. This likely applies to a very small amount of you (most people have said that they set up payment on desktop when we talked about it), either way, for the GaMetal Patreon, you should be seeing no change in charge. If it's more convenient for you to pay using the iOS app, by all means do so! 🙂
When we enter 2025, I'll be starting preparations for the big switch in November of next year. I'll fill you in more with the plans and info when the time comes.
That's all for now, let's get this to-do list cleared out and prepare to end the year with a bang like we always do, I'll see you again tomorrow for our stream!
TL;DR: Lichdragon Fortissax next up, aiming for another 5+ songs this month, rest of song order to be determined, stream tomorrow at usual date/time Nov 5th, 4:00 PM US Eastern. Patreon's new Apple iOS payment fee went into effect this month, it'd be a big help for myself and any other creators if you could set up payment on desktop or any other non-Apple iOS method (but if you can't no worries!). Thank you for being amazing!
2024-11-04 22:51:04 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the song you all chose to be this year's honorary Halloween Special: My Innermost Apocalypse from The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb!
Binding of Isaac is now the first game/series to have two Halloween Specials! Who'd of thought? 💭
Alright, two big months ahead. Let's clear this to-do list out and cue up some heavy hitters for the end of the year. Till then, thank you all as always for your ongoing contribution and support, you all are the best!!
And Happy Halloween! 🎃
PS: Update post this weekend!
2024-10-31 22:39:56 +0000 UTC View PostHey early downloaders!
Song artwork by Kelsey Peterson (@nintendonut1)
Here's your early download for tonight's Halloween Special: My Innermost Apocalypse from The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb.
Working on the video as you read this, it'll be ready and up later this evening. Till then, enjoy! 😭
2024-10-31 17:57:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
Dropping off another preview for you for the Halloween Special: My Innermost Apocalypse.
This one will be ready tomorrow with the video dropping the same evening. Till then, enjoy! 🥹
2024-10-30 23:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the winner of the Halloween B Poll: Transylvania from DuckTales / DuckTales Remastered! I mostly based this arrangement off of the Remastered version, it's a favorite of mine.
The Halloween Special is still planned to go live tomorrow evening. Till then, thank you all as always for your ongoing contribution and support, you all are the greatest! 😃
PS: Will have a preview of the next song up for you as soon as I can!
2024-10-30 21:29:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey early downloaders!
Song artwork by Kelsey Peterson (@nintendonut1)
Here's your early download for the next song up, our pre-Halloween Special, Transylvania from DuckTales!
The video should be ready and up in a few hours. Till then, enjoy! 🦆
2024-10-30 17:50:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
I'm hard at work finishing up these last 2 songs for the month, here's a preview of the next one up: Transylvania from DuckTales.
I'll likely be releasing the early DLs and videos on the same day for both songs (Wednesday for this one and Thursday for My Innermost Apocalypse). Till then, enjoy! 🧛🏼
2024-10-29 15:08:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The GaMetalloween 2024 lineup continues with the long awaited Mad Monster Mansion from Banjo-Kazooie!
After failing to win multiple Halloween Polls since the very first one, this year I've decided to just put an end to the madness and do it outright, no poll wins required.
Next song coming soon, till then, thank you all as always for your ongoing contribution and support, you all are the greatest!! 🎃
2024-10-26 17:25:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey early downloaders!
Song artwork by Kelsey Peterson (@nintendonut1)
Here's your early download for the next song up: Mad Monster Mansion from Banjo-Kazooie.
The video will be ready and up early tomorrow. Till then... enjoy! 🎃
2024-10-25 23:08:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons! Here's a preview of the next song up: Mad Monster Mansion from Banjo-Kazooie.
I'm looking to have this one finished within the next couple of days, video up by the weekend. Till then, enjoy! 🐻
2024-10-23 20:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe 2024 Halloween Special has been decided!
It was an extremely close race, but in the end, barely eeking out the victory with 51% of the vote is....
My Innermost Apocalypse from The Binding of Isaac! Isaac will be the first to officially headline GaMetalloween twice. He deserves it, poor lil guy.
Off to work I go, thank you to all who participated in the vote, this next week of songs is gonna be a lot of fun to work on! Also, I should have a Mad Monster Mansion preview for you up either tonight or early tomorrow. Till then! 🙂
2024-10-23 12:53:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Second song for GaMetalloween is up: Deku Palace from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask!
We pulled this one during the last Patreon stream to go on to-do list and I felt Majora's Mask in October was too good to pass up, so managed to get this one done pretty quick.
Next song should be ready by this weekend, till then, thank you all as always for your ongoing contribution and support, you all are the best!! 👻
PS: Today is the last day to vote in the 2024 Halloween Special Poll, it's been a close race, so be sure to get your vote in before the poll closes tomorrow morning!
2024-10-22 19:45:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey early downloaders!
Song artwork by Kelsey Peterson (@nintendonut1)
Here's your early download for the next song up: Deku Palace from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
The video for this one should be ready and up tomorrow evening. Till then, enjoy!
2024-10-20 20:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons! Here's the second Halloween Poll that will determine this year's official Halloween Day Special.
To briefly recap my last couple of posts, there were 2 songs in the Halloween Song Flash Poll that I posted on Discord that rose far above the rest and were also very close to each other in vote count, swapping the lead various times, so this poll will be between those two songs.
And those two songs are...
My Innermost Apocalypse (The Binding of Isaac) vs Battle - Bonetail (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door 2024)!
This poll will end on Wednesday morning, I'll post a voting reminder here the day prior. Till then! 👻
2024-10-20 15:47:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe first of our two Halloween Polls has ended, and the winner is....
Transylvania from DuckTales!
It was a very close poll, with 3 different songs taking the lead at points (sorry Pokkén), but in the end, the most veteran game on the list took a solid victory.
Tomorrow will be the A Poll which will determine this year's official Halloween Special, and will only feature 2 songs! These two were neck in neck in the Discord Flash Poll, each with nearly double the vote count that the 4 songs from Poll B had.
Poll A will go live tomorrow morning, see you then! 🧛🏼
2024-10-19 22:20:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
The first Halloween Poll is extremely close at the moment, so I'm posting this reminder for anyone who hasn't placed a vote yet.
My plan was to close the poll this evening, so get those votes in! 🙂
https://www.patreon.com/posts/114205948
2024-10-19 14:42:29 +0000 UTC View Post....is once again being broken up into two polls!
After we listened to several Patreon suggestions in our last listening stream, I checked out a bunch of GaMetal Discord Halloween suggestions off stream. I then chose a good deal of favorites (13 to be exact) and held a flash poll on Discord to narrow it down to only a few songs.
What we ended up with is a very strong top 2 (practically tied), then another tier below those two with another four songs that were very close to each other (either tied or only 1 vote apart). The top 2 were so far above that second tier, I feel like whatever extra two I chose would've been in vein and gotten knocked out easily.
I've been working fervently on the next few songs: Deku Palace, Mad Monster Mansion, and Lichdragon Fortissax. I'm just about finished with those first two, but, as I expected and mentioned could happen during stream, Lichdragon is a bit of a tough one given its complexity (tends to be a thing with heavily orchestrated songs), so I've decided to put that one on hold for a little bit to open November.
Listening to the group of 4 in the second tier, I believe I can much more comfortably get one of these done along with the Halloween Special.
So, we're going to start off with the B Poll! This song won't be dropping on Halloween, it'll come before it.
The four songs in this poll are:
The Final Battle (Everhood)
Haunted Chase (Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest)
Mystery Carnival (Pokkén Tournament)
Transylvania (DuckTales / DuckTales Remastered)
This poll will run until Saturday evening (the 19th). Like always, you can choose multiple options.
The A Poll will be revealed and begin on Sunday morning and will run for a few days. Till then...
👻 Happy voting! 👻
Hey Patrons!
Here's a preview of the next song up: Deku Palace from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. I'm looking to have this one finished and up by this weekend!
On another quick note, I had intended to get the Halloween Poll up yesterday, but my hard drive had a freakout and I had to spend a lot of time getting that resolved (it's ok now, no losses 😮💨). So the poll will be up later tonight.
That's all for now, see you again soon!
2024-10-17 18:33:13 +0000 UTC View Post
GaMetalloween season has officially begun with, of course, Castlevania! One of the more overlooked Castlevania's this time, we have Ripe Seeds (Plant Castle) from Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge.
My aim with this one was to make it sound like a Harmony of Despair arrangement.
Lots more coming over the next couple of weeks, till then, thank you all as always for your ongoing contribution and support, you all are the greatest!! 😃
PS: Halloween poll coming tomorrow! I've been going in on the other songs for the month that it sort of slipped my mind. 😅
2024-10-15 21:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey early downloaders!
Song artwork by Kelsey Peterson (@nintendonut1)
Here's your early download for the next song up: Ripe Seeds from Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge.
Hoping to have the video ready and up tomorrow evening, if not, it'll be up on Tuesday.
Till then, enjoy! 🧛🏼
2024-10-13 22:43:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons! Here's a preview of the next song up: Ripe Seeds from Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge.
My goal with this one is to make it sound like a Harmony of Despair arrangement.
Was initially looking to get this done mid this week, but I started working on other songs coming this month lol. Anyway, I should be finished with this one this weekend with the video up the next day or 2 after.
Till then, enjoy! 🙂
Hey Patrons, I'm about to begin our Halloween VGM song listening stream. You can join us in chat here.
I'm just taking a listen to some of your Halloween suggestions, no recap after. See you there! 🙂
2024-10-07 20:18:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons! Just a couple of quick things to fill you in on.
We're still on for that Halloween Song Listening Stream today. I'll be starting around 4:00 PM US Eastern time (maybe a few minutes earlier). I have a Halloween Song Submission Form ready for you all to submit a song for us to listen to. Please note we more than likely won't be able to listen to all submissions during this stream, but I promise I'll try to get to as many as I can.
On another quick note: a new GaMetal Discord Request Battle has begun!
And the theme this time is everyones favorite curtain fire shooting game, Touhou! For this battle, I have taken 9 of the 10 songs that were tied for most requested Touhou song from the 2023 and 2024 ballots and am having them face off tournament style till we have a winner.
(I left out UN Owen because... let's be honest, it' would most likely win quite easily and that's no fun lol).
For more info visit the #request_battles channel in the GaMetal Discord.
That's all for now, I'll see you later for the Halloween song listening stream!
2024-10-07 17:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons! Here's a recap for today's stream for those who missed it.
The song chosen to go on the to-do list today was...
Lichdragon Fortissax from Elden Ring, from the list of SilentIb! I'd really like to do this one this month given how well it fits with the season. It was even in the last Halloween Poll, but after failing to secure a victory last year, it's managed to brute-force itself it's way on to the to-do list. If I am able to squeeze it in it'd likely be the song before the Halloween Special. It's a bit of a toughie given it's complexity and length, but I'll give it my best effort to get it done if possible.
BUT WAIT!
It turns out SilentIb had to pause his pledge just a few days ago, so technically this one shouldn't have gone through. Considering how this is both my mistake, and that SilentIb has been with us for several years, I quickly made the executive decision that it will be staying in the line-up.
So, to make up for that, I made the spur of the moment decision to just go ahead and throw another one on the to-do list:
Deku Palace from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, from the list of Emerald! We managed to get very lucky and end up with two songs that fit the theme this month, and since this is a bit of a short and sweet one, I'm going to try to get it done in October as well.
So, since we got these two songs that should fit in well this month, I've decided to use my handpick for a song I'd like to do sometime after October:
Not Alone from Final Fantasy IX, from the list of Artomis! I've actually seen this one on quite a few different Patron lists over time. Last time we had a listening stream, where we kept randomly getting chiller/softer songs, I started feeling a bit inspired to do another chill song (I don't believe we've had one on this level in quite some time), so I figured we could hit this one up.
BUT WAIT...
I have one last surprise for you!
Since I was only able to get three songs out last month, I started working on another song on the side specifically for this month while I've been working on Ripe Seeds.
It's dedicated to you all here on Patreon:
I am finally going to put an end to what has become the annual Halloween meme around these parts, and giving you Mad Monster Mansion from Banjo-Kazooie later this month as a bonus song! Guh-huh!
(If you're unfamiliar with the meme: Mad Monster Mansion was on one of the first, maybe the first iirc, Patreon Halloween polls, and has shown up in other Halloween polls but failed to get the victory every time, so it's become a bit of a running joke each year that Mad Monster Mansion could, but doesn't, end up happening in October)
That's all for now, thank you all as always for your ongoing contribution and support, I'll see you in the next post! 😃
PS: Just a quick reminder, Halloween song themed listening stream this Monday @ 4PM US Eastern!
2024-10-05 21:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons, our monthly stream is about to start! You can join us in chat here.
A recap, along with my handpicked PRL choice for the month, will be posted shortly after the stream ends.
See you there! 🙂
2024-10-05 19:59:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons, here's your first update for the month of October 2024!
First off, the to-do list recap:
Next: Ripe Seeds (Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge)
November: Memories of You (Persona 3)
November: His World (Sonic '06)
November: Arrow of Time (Cassette Beasts)
Nov/Dec: Baking the Wondertart (Cuphead DLC)
TBA: Project Peppermint, GBA Medley 2, Wii Medley
Ripe Seeds will be next up, which I'm looking to have finished and up early to mid next week. You'll notice I've listed all of the potential collab songs as November, my plan is to dedicate the entire month of November to mostly collaborations! Maybe not every song will feature a collab, but the 3 listed for sure. Peppermint and the medleys will remain TBA for now, if time permits, I might try to squeeze GBA Medley in November.
I've been having a lot of fun with October over the last few years, hitting up many "dark-themed" songs for spooky season, and I plan to continue that this year. I'm not sure what exactly will follow Ripe Seeds, as we have another a few more to add this month: our monthly Patreon Stream and PRL handpick choices, as well as the yearly Halloween Poll song.
Our next Patreon Stream will take place at our usual date and time: tomorrow, October 5th, starting around 4:00 PM US Eastern time. A recap with the stream pick and my personal handpick choice for the month will be posted shortly after the stream ends.
As for the Halloween Poll, I should have that ready mid to late next week. Before that, I like to do a special Halloween song themed listening stream to gather some ideas. I'd like to get this done asap, so I'll go ahead and slate that for this Monday, starting at: 4:00 PM US Eastern.
Last year I did an initial vote in the GaMetal Discord to see what songs people would be most interested in, then came up with two different Patreon polls (an "A" poll and "B" poll) based on the results from the Discord vote. If enough songs are close enough this year like they were before, I'll likely do the same thing.
Final thing for now: another really cool feature. Thanks to our good friend Tee Lopes, I was bestowed the honor of recording vocals and guitar for an arrangement of the classic GI Joe Theme Song for the recently released GI Joe: Wrath of Cobra!
It doesn't look like there's an official soundtrack release quite yet, but you can hear it in the tweet that I posted here.
That's all for now, I've got a lot coming at you this month, so let's get to it! I'll see you again tomorrow for tomorrow's stream. 😃
TL;DR: Ripe Seeds up next, should be finished early-mid next week. Upcoming song order TBA, November will be a collab-heavy month, monthly Patreon Stream tomorrow @ 4:00 PM US Eastern, Halloween song themed listening stream Monday Oct. 7th @ 4:00 PM US Eastern, Halloween poll(s?) soon after. Got to do vox/guitar on official GI Joe classic theme arrangement for GI Joe: Wrath of Cobra. Thank you for being amazing!
2024-10-04 15:11:18 +0000 UTC View Post