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And now, the song everyone has been waiting for from the GaMetal album. No, not Type A from Tetris. Gourmet Race? More like In Last Place. No, everyone has been chewing up all their gum and eagerly anticipating the long awaited return… of Grabbag, the Duke Nukem 3D theme song.

Because if there is a song out there that’s the most important in the GaMetal universe, it’s not In the Final, or Masked Dedede, or Megalovania. No sir/ma’am, it’s Grabbag.

This is Grabbag’s FIFTH appearance in the GaMetal discography, with this arrangement being the 4th full version. It also had an appearance in the Blast from the Past medley from 2011 GaMetal, thus, fifth appearance overall.

I’m not gonna review my old Grabbag song pages, so I might end up repeating myself, but let me explain why I dig Grabbag so much. When I was just a kid, Duke Nukem 3D was the first 3D shooter I ever played. Looking back, I should definitely not have been playing this game. Not because it was bad, it’s an awesome game, but because of, ya know… well if you don’t, you probably aren’t too familiar with Duke Nukem, haha.

That said, Grabbag is probably the first game theme I heard in a rock/metal style, and I’ve always loved it. When I started doing GaMetal seriously (“seriously”), I knew it’d be one of the first game songs I would learn and record.

Since 2009, I’ve been using Grabbag as sort of a reference song to test out my different sounds throughout the years. First in 2011, then again in 2015. Since then, it’s become sort of the oldest running joke in the GaMetal universe that I will keep doing Grabbag remakes, so I had no choice but to do it once more for the GaMetal album. It would’ve been sacrilege not to.

Like my older Grabbag arrangements, this is a hybrid of the original 3D version and the Nintendo 64 version, which has a few altered rhythm riffs and an added lead line (the one right before the first solo, if I recall correctly).

This arrangement is my grabbiest bag to date. I’ve added a slow intense buildup intro section, and also a whole new section after the guitar/keyboard/drum(?) solo section, followed by a new guitar solo section. I’m more than pleased with how it all turned out.

So don’t bother reaching for that gum… we’re all out. You know what time it is.

 

(Note: obviously some of my opening lines were sarcasm… or were they?)