After the faker tried to steal the spotlight, it is time for true darkness to emerge – and with it the seventh song of NEO Lord of the Elements, True Disciple of Darkness!
Dark Man has been sacrificed to the true darkness – the real face of the disciple is revealed. Dark Matter, Zero Two, Infinite – and your own shadow emerge in his stead.
I kinda feel like the title already gave it away, but oh well! The sixth entry of NEO Lord of the Elements is NOT True Disciple of Darkness – it’s a faker!
Now you may be wondering: why? Let me explain:
I was about to save the actual True Disciple of Darkness, when Windows notified me that such a file already exists. I was so confused. So I checked, and indeed:
Turns out I already tried to make a true version of Darkness years ago. The reason I never finished it, was that it didn’t sound right – it didn’t sound dark, it sounded…false.
But there was also a lot of effort put in it, some really cool parts – and I’m not one to just let that go to waste. So I saw this as the perfect opportunity to finalize it and add the song to NEO Lord of the Elements. This also gives me another week to finish the actual song. 😉
So without further ado, here’s False Disciple of Darkness:
The video premiered before this post, and it literally let everyone in the dark about this being not the real deal. Before the premiere started, it showed up as True Disciple of Darkness:
The real deal, True Disciple of Darkness, comes out next week. Stay tuned! 😉
So, I just couldn’t move on from Earth just yet. I originally hadn’t planned for it to become as long as it did, and I felt like the flow of the song suffered a bit from the decision to keep everything that was originally in Disciple of the Earth.
So I came up with a more “compact”, shorter version of True Disciple of the Earth, which leaves out some parts and shortens some to improve the overall flow of the song. I call the result Compact Disciple of the Earth, which is now the fifth song of NEO Lord of the Elements.
Additionally, this version also features some other changes that I consider improvements which will carry over to the album version of True Disciple of the Earth.
It may be shorter, but it’s also pretty compact, so there’s still a lot of themes packed into it:
Fighting of the Spirit
Tunnel Rhino Stage
The Totem God
Concrete Jungle
Stone Tower Temple
Twisted Humiliskate (Rockslide Rumble)
Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage)
Cocoa Cave
Rock Star
This version removed Native Faith and Cave Story’s Last Boss, otherwise the song list is unchanged. Native Faith seemed to take away too much from the rest of the song despite the cool transition back to Stone Tower Temple, so I decided to remove it for this version. Last Boss was sacrificed for the greater good as well.
And surprise, there’s a video for this version as well – who’d have thought? 😉
Alright, I’m satisfied now. Next up is definitely Darkness. Yeah!
