C&C 1 nod end song: I AM - Destructible Times (orginal lyric, full length)

[@rodinvegas2836]

A tidbit for those of you that care...the vocal effect was a total accident. The second night of vocal recording, the engineer fired up the tape with an echo/reverb effect fully cranked. He actually apologized for it at the time! We thought it was killer. At the start of the song, if you listen closely, you can hear Frank playing drums half time (during the outro). What you hear is Frank's drums, thru Greg's headphones, bleeding onto the main vocal track. Total accident.

[@NodDisciple1]

You was there?

[@rodinvegas2836]

@@NodDisciple1 Yes. I'm the bassist.

[@Sunnysideanyway]

That awesome gutteral effect to Greg's voice was an ACCIDENT? That's awesome.

[@ROTTERDXM]

I was just about to post a comment on how great the vocal effect sounds and how it might be replicated. Thank you!

[@Denebrae]

Holy shit man, long live Kane! But do you do music theese times???

[@Tomaz1232]

Yup, we are living in destructable times.

[@hugoleptitblogueur7391]

Kane is behind Poutine

[@scp_2521]

Exactly

[@A2goddess]

World leaders like Biden

[@Dominik1989Q]

After almost 25 years... Fits more than ever.

[@MartiniGaming]

we are in these times. before and now.

[@Nod_Soldier]

War... Again. War of USA and Russia

[@Clebardman]

Sadly, the message of the early C&C games never stopped being relevant. But yes.

[@michalnowak6517]

totally o/

[@smokeyy9932]

i want that as my profile picture! send it to me!

[@NeinBreaker]

Given the sheer amount of comments over the years saying how this song applied _then,_ I think it’s fair to say that no matter what era you live through, times will always be destructible.

[@GreatEmerald]

You mean that fire and riots are written on pages of life? Though some times are more destructible than others. The song was always relevant, but the amount of lyrics that can be applicable literally rather than figuratively seems to be increasing over time. What remains is for the church part to become applicable...

[@BinBintheRiceCake]

@@GreatEmerald Maybe the church part isn't so much as the church itself, but what what is preached as 'correct'.

[@DEO8976]

r/atheism is over there to the right

[@HarleyHerbert]

When I was a kid playing this game there were times when I'd play through the final NOD mission just to hear this song again in the ending credits

[@Sunnysideanyway]

GDI deserved a theme song just as awesome as this one. We got shitty "Airstrike" Instead.

[@sqrt4788]

That's why I saved the game literally just before killing the last enemy just to can listen to this awesome track, good memories!

[@Empowerless]

@@Sunnysideanyway Airstrike is great but this is more epic though

[@NodDisciple1]

Why didn't you just save near the end of it?

[@HarleyHerbert]

@@NodDisciple1 I was playing the ps1 version which doesn't have the option to save the game, instead requiring people to input a password if you want to play a particular level

[@CarlosRamos-lp4hv]

Considering humanity, this song will always be actual.

[@shikoist]

Not humanity, capitalism

[@CrabHead501]

@@shikoist it's humanity

[@Aardcore]

If anyone's old enough to remember, this era of music was pure octane and always cranked to 11. Was a match made in heaven that Frank would bring that sort of flavor into Westwood Studios for the development of C&C. For reference, even Smashing Pumpkins at the time was rolling this hard back when they recorded GISH, which in my opinion is still one of their most important albums ever. This song taps into that same sort of energy and makes me miss the 90's that much more. Songs like this broke the mould that video game music didn't have to be in a certain formula as background noise, but that it could be fleshed out as fully realized masterpieces. This song of course being one of them.

[@darkl3ad3r]

There really is an energy to 90s everything, not just music. It invigorates you like nothing since.

[@Revens1]

One of the best things about the Nod campaign is finishing it and hearing this glorious track.

[@SoldierOfFate]

Old school C&C was the true king of RTS gaming back in its days. "I GOT A PRESENT FOR YA!"-most memorable line ever!

[@acidvac]

C4 knocking at your door!

[@AttackerNumberTwo]

Jesus the lyrics hit like a brick in 2024.

[@honkworld9405]

Even more 8 months in.

[@killercat594]

To be honest, we probably know what to expect from 2025...

[@youllbefine3350]

The world...Where to strike? Where will the world most keenly feel the blade of GDI treachery? You have done much to aid the Brotherhood towards this final victory. The choice my friend...Is yours.

[@cyberjordan1]

Given the times we live in I'd happily join something like NOD right now...

[@kanesnod6994]

one day brother we can dream cant we

[@jamesvarratijr9925]

I would join GDI

[@kanesnod6994]

@@jamesvarratijr9925 and be purged hopefully

[@jamesvarratijr9925]

@Thelya knowing the arbiter he would be in nod first and then defect to gdi

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

​@@jamesvarratijr9925 And you probably have a Spyro qotlhmeH mIllogh as your fuckin phone wallpaper, globalist.

[@desmondlynch6847]

Remember brothers and sisters He who controls the past commands the future, and he who commands the future conquers the past. one vision one purpose in the name of kane!!!!!!

[@9Asabov3SoBelow6]

PEACE THROUGH POWER, ONE VISION ONE PURPOSE!

[@philphlanigen]

desmond lynch he who controls the media controls the mind

[@Korhanne]

KANE LIVES IN DEATH!

[@smegmalasagna]

desmond lynch Whahaha for a second my mind was like “Wtf I don’t remember commenting here”

[@smegmalasagna]

Phil Phlanigen He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past

[@icat0753]

"I live in destructible times" Oh how right they are/were

[@SystemUnderSiege]

haha..

[@Jitank17]

you have no idea...

[@sterling7]

"We are going to have to act... If we want to live in a different world."

[@christiandauz3742]

@@sterling7 Don't need Kane or the Scrin or Tiberium to screw up the planet

[@Nicholas_Burmeister]

here's my 2021 shades lookin' back atcha in 2018 and going 'uh huh'.

[@eqwanox]

"rivers will flow with the blood of those who oppose us"

[@OCMOOO]

I thank Frank Klepacki for introducing me to Metal Music as a kid.

[@Crashy.]

havent listened to this for like 7 years, nostalgia hits hard

[@greenhippo2912]

Prophetic.....

[@DarknessLord1997]

i can feel the hatred feels so good!

[@phreak761]

WE LIVE IN DESTRUCTIBLE TIMES

[@D4CR33P3R]

This song correlates to 2020 more than i'd like to admit, Thanks to Greg, Dan, Rod, and Frank for making this killer track!

[@Lu4_CWO]

In th name of Kane

[@keeganpenney169]

sadly I cant agree more. Times are changing.

[@typeso]

Antifa pussies wish they were as bad ass as the brotherhood.

[@KapitanWasTaken]

No wonder it correlates to current year, the First Tiberium War ended in 2020 (started in 2018). Source: C&C3: Tiberium Wars and C&C Renegade Manual.

[@keeganpenney169]

I wish it got remastered :(

[@Katalmach]

"Fire and riots are written on pages of life" Always thought it was: "I am denying the reason for being alive"

[@Resident_Kriegsman]

For me I heard it as "Violence and Riots are written on the pages of Life. Armies of People that no longer have Civil Rights"

[@unclepaulie4233]

More and more relevant as time goes on

[@asimpleman2779]

As a kid, after finishing the nod campaign and hearing this I went nuts 😂

[@DarkPrinceNH5570]

IN THE NAME OF KANE... **mass of people** "KANE LIVES IN DEATH"

[@ZeroBitsCboehme]

KANE LIVES!

[@jenskooijman1016]

RULE NUMBER ONE, HASSAN. YOU CAN'T KILL THE MESSIAH

[@olenhol2przez4]

+Pharaoh Prince PEACE THROUGH POWER

[@kanekujan1777]

KANE LIVES! RULE OF THUMB ASIDE YOU CAN’T KILL THE MESSIAH

[@Rise_shredder]

Regose children of nod

[@DeLvoy1988]

This lyrics are true in present times like never before... ;) Soundtrack to our "modern " times...

[@enclavesoldier2398]

Exactly. This fucking world is going to hell. Only now, Kane will not save us.

[@randompasserby1076]

Kane has ascended. It is up to us to purge this corrupted world. PEACE THROUGH POWER

[@ahuzel]

@@randompasserby1076 KANE LIVES IN DEATH

[@Vancouver12]

2020: hi

[@ShadowPriestBear]

our destructible times

[@Justforvisit]

NOD Anthem *Headbangs to it while waving Flamethrower through the air*

[@robertcross9863]

Peace through power brothers and sisters of nod!!!

[@amadeus.perschau]

This song still gives me goosebumps. I remember this song playing again and again on my ps1 back in the days.

[@BoB-th8wm]

That Bass, though.

[@404BYTE]

This glistening gem should be breaking 1m views but it didn't. Truly a destructible times we live in.

[@WandrianWvlf]

Oh wow! I had this on my hard drive from the Nod disc of the Saturn port...I had no idea there was a longer, better version! And thank you for posting the lyrics! Awesome!

[@saintpatron8177]

I forgot this song existed. Heard a tid bit in a youtube video and was transported 20 years back in time.

[@krist697]

Song with this Nod background is just so epic!

[@saiyanjohn9212]

I had to put this full version in my OpenRA game and in my C&C games. This is fitting for both Nod and this modern age (2019 and beyond). The 1990's never left, it will always be here. After 0:22 seconds in, I already think of Nod Soldiers with their urban BDU's and PASGT's armed with M16A2s... This is badass.

[@dontblameme9468]

For the technology of peace!

[@davidvondoom2853]

The choice my friend, is yours.

[@Tigerman1138]

David von Doom “...in what some are calling an ‘unwarranted attack’...”

[@ragerancher]

I used to mishear the lyrics at 1:33 as "Run through the churches, exorcise all for the brotherhood. Unholy heartbeat, just burned to the murder".

[@Darkfire7881]

Does anyone else feel that everything said in this song can be connected with events happening right now?

[@adrianreut1342]

2020 wants your opinion?

[@Darkfire7881]

@@adrianreut1342 At this point, this song is just about all of human history. We always seem to be in "destructible times" Not sure if that's reassuring, as we always move past those hardships. Or depressing, as there's always more hardships ahead.

[@adrianreut1342]

True, sorry for the lack of interpretation. In life you rIse it doesnt matter how many you fall. We just fight, learn from mistakes and go on. Ty for the heads up👍.

[@gabesmith8331]

Kane lives

[@40_ton55]

Too much man... too much

[@fluid8524]

who's here in 2024? Guess I should live a little bit fuller.

[@waltsoph3]

This song is worth it at the end of beating the Nod's side of C&C 1 . Still unforgeable to this day. :) thanks for sharing it.

[@XellDincht]

looking at all that shit that happens to my country (Germany) right now this song fits perfectly...

[@Marshall1816]

+XellDincht In der Tat XD Genosse

[@Exodon2020]

Stimmt, passt sehr gut zu Pegida

[@Marshall1816]

MrRammsteinKicksAss Pegida

[@XellDincht]

+MrRammsteinKicksAss Pegida ist nur ein Symptom der Unzufriedenheit der einfachen Leute. Kriminalität von Migranten wird viel zu oft runtergespielt und sogar verheimlicht (bestes Beispiel die Massenbegrapschungen von Köln. Erst nach 3 Tagen haben ARD und ZDF berichtet) Wenn die CDU konservative wäre wie vor Merkel gäbe es keine Asylkrise und keine Pegida (Leute wie Adenauer würden im Grab rotieren wenn sie wüssten was ihre Partei jetzt anrichtet...)

[@Exodon2020]

XellDincht Nein, Pegida ist ein plumper Versuch der neuen Rechten, ihre Ideen in die bürgerliche Mitte zu transportieren. Ich stimme dir insofern zu, als dass die meisten Leute, die dort mit demonstrieren keine Faschisten, Rechte, Nazis oder ähnliches sind, aber sie lassen sich von Leuten, die zumindest in der Nähe dieser Lager stehen für ihre Zwecke instrumentalisieren. Abgesehen davon huldige ich ganz bestimmt keinem osteuropäischen Autokraten, der Demokratie, Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit in seinem Land mal eben so abgeschafft hat, wenn ich eben diese Werte ernsthaft verteidigen wollte.

[@odyseehasdislikesyoutubesu1892]

After so many years , Command and Conquer is still relevant , it was truly ahead of its time , the next simpsons , predicted the future , lets hope this is the time for Command and Conquer Franchise to rise again with new content , be it games or animations or memes.

[@sir0herrbatka]

1990s: oh, look a video game about cult taking over the world and a global conflict on a massive scale, very funny. 2020s oh shit, oh fuck, oh god please no!

[@TheNapster153]

​@@sir0herrbatka Wait until the crystal starts sprouting and dem aliens start appearing

[@1293ST]

Funfact: This song is brilliant

[@vitogamaliel4490]

Amen brother

[@Spicyknigh7]

Scrin Foreman 371: “Hmm, human music... I like it.”

[@justjoking5841]

This song pretty much describes 2016 - 2017 and beyond... All of this unrest...

[@Sunnysideanyway]

This song sums up Syria.

[@Sunnysideanyway]

As well as politics as America as no one is getting along.

[@adryannthedefender701]

Also Western Europe they are boiling in Hatred and Despair . And that's only the beginning .

[@gorantev]

And Global Warming... Dead (Red) Zones already begin to appear in the oceans...

[@SystemUnderSiege]

AHAHA JUNE 2020 SAYS HELLO

[@gamesmoke1139]

Greetings random scroller, we just want to say you are awesome :) Have a great day

[@aaronfarmer6317]

Роман Котов I once had a friend who said that exact thing, funnily enough, he drowned to death. My point is you’re edgy

[@aaronfarmer6317]

Роман Котов And you’re what, seven? Not that I’m much older, but still

[@aaronfarmer6317]

Роман Котов old enough to like your own comments too

[@aaronfarmer6317]

Роман Котов Cool, I’ve stopped caring.

[@Resident_Kriegsman]

All of us who see the Fuck shit in the world today, let's make the brotherhood of nod a good thing in our reality. For once can the good guys have the badass color schemes and designs? Feel me on this boys.

[@dr.strangelove9815]

I would say intelligent populists of either side are already Nod, vs the NWO.

[@robertkalinic335]

Bro i feel you

[@truewalter4193]

For the Brotherhood!

[@vitogamaliel4490]

The oppressors must die !

[@MartiniGaming]

this is still so good.

[@Fajoekit]

Why does this song feel so current in 2022.

[@tacomancer2772]

Because it's incredibly vague and can literally never not be relevant.

[@hellogoodbye4402]

​@@tacomancer2772"the more things change, the more they stay the same"

[@Verbalaesthet]

Wow, I never realized that it had such cool lyrics.

[@StealthLazarusOfNod]

This is what the song exactly says to what's happening around us now...we can see it, feel it... A song that expresses our endless rampages of the world...

[@AnthroTsuneon]

Frank Klepacki, I take my hat off for you, brilliant man

[@michaelpettersson4919]

My hearing disability make it hard to make out the lyrics of music such as this. The text really helps to make sense of it.

[@theodorsmirnov6767]

Theme of 2022. :)

[@muhhneeganmahneggan3739]

Fuck Yeah... These are destructible times indeed

[@lattanokka]

This so incredibly awesome! I am a big fan of Frank Klepackis other material also

[@thomastatham5509]

Prophetic

[@Cyber_kumo]

TIBERIAN TWILIGHT NEVER HAPPENED!!!

[@ugiustuskeiserus8066]

zrlap In all honesty, I didn't think the campaign was that bad, the gameplay was atrocious I'll agree with everyone there but I actually did enjoy the campaign

[@ShadowPriestBear]

That game is heresy

[@dreamcatcherben8214]

Ahmen

[@Leon_Portier]

Hell yeah, the edge

[@aidenstokes7403]

just imagine if the brotherhood of nod declared war on north korea

[@pavloskoropadsky1448]

@Ghost The simple gesture of signing the paper of declaration of war already killed 75% of the North Korean Army. The 25% left alive, joined NOD.

[@CrabHead501]

@@pavloskoropadsky1448 what lol

[@kanesnod6994]

@@CrabHead501 you would falter at just a hint of our might

[@sangralknight3031]

@@kanesnod6994 KANE LIVES!

[@olenhol2przez4]

One Vision...

[@shoulderpyro]

+olenhol2przez4 One Vision, One Purpose. Down with GDI!

[@sinine1100]

+olenhol2przez4 One purpose!

[@kuyakyel324]

IN THE NAME OF KANE!

[@Sorthija]

Kane lives in death!

[@Sunnysideanyway]

...Of a great world where this franchise is still popular.

[@StarmanGhost]

The official theme song of 2016. What a year.

[@ugiustuskeiserus8066]

StarmanGhost what's wrong with 2016?

[@kabob0077]

Ügiustus Keiserus EVERYTHING!

[@nikkity5491]

Says a person in 2018^^^

[@Tigerman1138]

Ügiustus Keiserus I think he *may* have been referencing the US presidential election season.

[@chotob8458]

2020: hold my beer

[@su1c1da]

this song brings back some memories of many nights playing this on PC and PS1.

[@filipwolski532]

in the Name of KANE and Brotherhood of NOD we capturing this Video

[@Sunnysideanyway]

@Paweł Guzik No you, insane Nod fanatic! You are crazy if you think tiberium is good for this planet.

[@gorantev]

In my timeline (which lacks Tiberium), Global Warming already begin to change this world. Almost 1 degree of Celcius up now, from pre-industrial times, and consequences already begin to manifest. Dead (Red) zones already begin to appear in the oceans (Dead (Red) Zone = near 0% oxygen in Ocean region / Lifeless region on land (some deserts in South America, where no life presented what so ever)), which is warning signal before catastrophe would begin... This world can be doomed even WITHOUT Tiberium... And if we wouldn't act fast, Permian Catastrophe (Permian Extinction Event aka Great Dying) would repeat in even more devastating way...

[@ShadowPriestBear]

@@Sunnysideanyway silence GDI Facist!

[@Sunnysideanyway]

@@ShadowPriestBear Keep up the strawman arguments. We aren't fascists, we are trying to keep humanity alive. Which you cultists seem to have no care for. Keep on worshipping that bald alien like he is a God and our alien overlords might actually take us over. Such is the fate of your "divination".

[@ShadowPriestBear]

@@Sunnysideanyway WE LIVE FOR KANE AND WE WILL DIE FOR KANE!

[@kikker_g2747]

I love this song.

[@gniolliv]

The more time advances, the more the limit between fiction and reality erases...... Just remove tiberium and we have nowadays. Our time is soon brothers. I pray you are all well and prepared for the upcoming times. Peace thru power.

[@md.saikat1669]

Great tune....👍👍

[@ShadowGKCP]

I love the Scorpions - Winds of change reference :D

[@thehonkler34]

god damn!! i needed this

[@SonsOfHateSphere]

This song brought a tear to my eye.

[@golmorgoth]

@Yellow13Firestorm Finally, someone who doens't hate on the newer games just because they aren't exactly the same as the old games

[@firedathan]

Would love to get this song on my I pod. This song would be awsome to lissen to when im welding at work.

[@desmondlynch6847]

Honestly I think any of the first C&C songs were good, the ones from special operations especially (expansion pack of Tiberium dawn) , Full stop and In trouble

[@px1_]

Oh god i still have the full stop riff stuck in my head

[@psevdoplote]

In the name of the great prophet Kane, brotherhood will last forever!

[@iaminhere6022]

POV: a CEO just got merked

[@discountovid8325]

Liked and listed

[@vegetabudokai549]

yeaah thanks this song rocks

[@worstgameever9888]

+vegetabudokai549 qq ce ta fazendo aqui vai poopa

[@JustAGuyWithSomethingToSay]

KANE LIVES!

[@fras989]

we all live to destruction time))

[@aveng006]

Indeed we live in destructible times with ea making C & C !

[@fingerdance7]

@Motive11331 Honestly, I think Command and Conquer 3 was a work of art. The expansion, not so much... but the expansion had some crazy plot twists that made you go "Wait, what?!" when looking back at the grand story. Command and Conquer 4.... that one... I... I don't even know if that deserves to be called a Command and Conquer game...... I'm ready to ignore its existence and continue to wait for them to finish the series some day.

[@MJC94x]

IN THE NAME OF KANE !!!

[@kuyakyel324]

MJC94x KANE LIVES!!!

[@YahyaSalloum2005]

KANE LIVES IN DEATH

[@Justforvisit]

"Act on Instinct" with "We are going to have to act if we want to live in a different world" paraphrased by "We live in destructible times"...... ...it's like two sides, Protagonist and Antagonist of the same medal. And pretty much both are the perfect Trademark Songs for their respective Fractions, GDI & NOD

[@aragornii507]

2020 be like

[@frankg2790]

Sad but true.

[@MasterVertex]

US protests and riots right now: "Armies of hatred who no longer have civil rights!"

[@gronndar]

@@MasterVertex "I'll live my life just a little bit fuller before I die"

[@truewalter4193]

More like human history in a nutshell...

[@501stsoldier4]

Sees likes at 66 me good soilders follow orders

[@ShadowPriestBear]

BROTHERHOOD OF NOD ANTHEME PEACE THRU POWER!

[@ShadowPriestBear]

@Artyoma THE TECHNOLOGY OF PEACE! BROTHER!!!! KANE LIVES!

[@ShadowPriestBear]

@DSW22 One vision one porpuse!

[@legionofyuri]

Frank Klepacki (the guy who composed the score for most of the games) sells the I Am album on his site.

[@SW3Ishida]

Peace through Power!!!

[@cultusmechanicus8001]

He should do more Songs like this

[@Nodrog666]

I'm gonna laugh my ass off when 2012 comes around and everyone's still alive.

[@GrashokLP]

Still Godlike

[@memba111]

tiberian dawn has the best soundtrack of all c&c series

[@SirFlaccidTheLarge]

I’m here in 2025!

[@Average_Catnap4]

Same

[@Rise_shredder]

This is bad ass

[@Yorsefener]

@BlessedDesciple there is still hope for C&C generals... it was pretty damn awsome...

[@N0stalgia01]

honestly sounds partilly soundgardeny if ygm.. wow glad i found this hidden gem

[@InYurEye91]

Oh cant you hold a candle in the wind and see that times are changing Changing I looked around but it never came easy, I think I wasted my time I thing Ill live my life a bit fuller before I die

[@Nagrachlp]

PEACE THROUGH PLOTARMOR!

[@nal101]

Had this game on the Saturn and I would pop it into my cd player to listen to the music, especially this.

[@nextinvalhalla08]

one vision one purpose PEACE THROUGH POWER

[@kevinmyung7734]

For the Brotherhood of Nod!!!!!

[@mralexs]

PEACE THROUGH POWER!!!