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Here’s the last remake for this year’s May Madness (today’s May 46th), hailing from 2013 GaMetal, weighing in at 500 lbs… In the Final!

We previously called this one Dark Star Core, because I wasn’t aware of the In the Final name. It’s also appeared in Smash titled The Grand Finale, but these days I’ve mostly seen it called In the Final (which I’m assuming is a direct translation), so we’re going with the more popular name of the two.

I wasn’t aware this was a song people were wanting to see remade until I left a comment gathering remake suggestions for this year, and also in a May Madness discussion post on Patreon. While it wasn’t #1, it was a lot more than I was expecting.

The 2013 arrangement I made has always been one of my favorite pre-2015 GaMetal songs, and it’s also (as of this writing) the #3 most viewed GaMetal song of all time. Because so many people liked the first remix, I didn’t change too much. Most of what I did differently this time around was adding things to the background rhythm. For starters, I threw the choir section back in (which I’m not sure I had in the 2013 remix). There’s also this sort of chromatic plucking harmony line in the original that I wasn’t aware of till listening to it recently that I’ve added, it’s in the staccato sections (25-30 seconds in and the other times it does this). It’s extremely subtle, but it makes a difference.

I also changed up the rhythm pretty drastically on sections that are the last part of the original song (before it loops), IE the section between 1:16 – 1:27. For some stupid reason I left these sections sounding pretty empty in the 2013 remix, so I filled it up this time.

The guitar solo from the 2013 GaMetal remix has always been one of my favorites that I’ve written, so I kept it almost exactly the same here.

I had a lot of emphasis on keeping this close to the 2013 version, another thing I did was used the exact same piano sound when the piano and strings take over at 2:46. Specifically, it’s the acoustic piano from the Korg Triton LE. I tried it with the Piano’s I use these days, but it just didn’t have that same effect.

We’ve sure had a lot of Mario & Luigi stuff lately! Maybe Antasma will show up one of these days.