July 28, 2009
Sumthing Else Music Works
Announces Release of Bionic Commando Original Soundtrack
Featuring Music Composed by Jamie
Christopherson, Simun Viklund, Trond-Viggo Melsen and Erik Thunberg
Sumthing Else Music Works, Inc.,
through its licensing relationship with Capcom®, proudly presents Bionic
Commando Original Soundtrack featuring the musical score from the next
generation sequel to the classic 1988 Nintendo Entertainment System video game.
The soundtrack album is released today to retail through Sumthing Else Music
Works and is available for digital download on Sumthing Digital and iTunes®.
Bionic Commando® sees the return of
the bionically-enhanced Nathan "Rad" Spencer, voiced by Mike Patton, the former
lead singer of Faith No More. Time has not been kind to Spencer: 10 years after
his heroic defeat of the Imperials in the original game, he has been betrayed by
the government he swore to serve, imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and
sentenced to death. On the very day of Spencer’s execution, terrorists detonate
a massive experimental weapon in Ascension City, unleashing an intense
earthquake that has turned the city into rubble and wiped out its population.
With the terrain in ruins and the city’s air defense grid now in the control of
a massive terrorist force whose goal remains unclear, the FSA have only one
option left – a behind-the-lines assault. The perfect job for a Bionic Commando.
Composer Jamie Christopherson: "I
remember playing Bionic Commando back on the NES and like everyone else I was
blown away by the quality of the music. Not only were there extremely ‘hummable’
epic melodies, but the use of the MIDI chip to create a very dense and
complicated orchestral arrangement was astonishing. If someone would have told
me that 20 years later I would be working on a next generation Bionic Commando
game, I would never have believed them. I was fortunate enough to take the music
(including the famous main theme) and give it a modern treatment, complete with
an anthemic 15-piece brass ensemble."
Bionic Commando transposes the
swing-and-shoot gameplay of the 8-bit original to a stunning 3D environment of
towering buildings, suspended roadways and monorails, deep canyons and sheer
rock faces, where every environment is scalable using swinging, scaling,
climbing and wall-walking techniques. For more information on the game please
visit
www.bioniccommando.com.
