The Minibosses - Castlevania

[@macs_power]

Nostalgic listened to these guys in my car back in 2004-2008 alot thanks for the years!

[@bobkirchhan2564]

That fucking bass player.

[@adamfrazer5150]

It's work like this constantly begs for more volume, regardless what I'm listening on 🤘👍

[@PavilionParty]

Both Minibosses and Powerglove have their awesome takes on essential 8-bit; both bands simply have their own particular strengths and style to my ears, both in technique and rendition. Honestly, I don't see the point in comparing for the sake of "who's better?" I prefer to soak up both and indulge in the fact that there is more than one sweet band out there making kickass versions of NES audio.

[@chuckobscure]

Bit Brigade

[@L34D3Ralexey]

The Advantage was awesome too !

[@CHmLgN]

@@L34D3Ralexey The Advantage is what, all these many years later, led me to the minibosses now. Them and Powerglove are both all new and happy discoveries.

[@lethrneck4]

@@CHmLgN we had a local Connecticut NES band called The Parasprinters i saw a few times live and had a CD..some great covers..this is like 20 years ago lol

[@CHmLgN]

@@lethrneck4 I looked and looked, but no luck. Not surprising but man, having only 2 retro Nintendo cover bands is just not enough.

[@mythicphilosoph]

I love these guys!!! I only went to a Jimmy Eat World concert because they were opening.

[@spanky1762]

+mythicphilosoph Geez, when was that, had to of been years ago, lol.

[@paulpapa9035]

That’s the only reason to go to a Jimmy Eat World concert.

[@warrencampbell6862]

@@paulpapa9035 lol you know it just takes some time

[@LuKaTo100]

1:07 Wicked Child... My favorite theme from Castlevania!

[@kirkhillier671]

This needs several million more views and likes.

[@tomraspanti2755]

Wicked Child might be the best piece of Castlevania music ever

[@KittenyKat]

Vampire Killer, no two ways about it. x3

[@Spook327]

I think it winds up underrated among Castlevania tracks because of Vampire Killer and Bloody Tears. But man, I love Wicked Child so hard.

[@eljoagames]

Old nes/snes ost on rock band is like heaven

[@drpibisback7680]

For those who (like me) are curious which songs from the Castlevania soundtrack are represented here, they are in order of appearance: Out of Time (first part of level 6) Wicked Child (level 3) Stalker (level 2 and part of 4) Vampire Killer (level 1)

[@benito1620]

Thanks to Murdoch Murdoch for introducing me to this song all those years ago.

[@therealmerciless365]

I set the NES Castlevania Fastest Completion World Record while listening to this on a loop. 2 and 1/2 loops =)

[@lethrneck4]

saw these guys open for Eagles of Death Metal in brooklyn..jesus 15-20 years ago...absolutely epic show!

[@jordanyoung745]

Out of time sounds amazing

[@poonoo87]

These guys are really good, they don't use a drum machine to abuse double bass kick pedalling to make it sound heavier

[@jesseoreilly1792]

I do find that some of the other cover artists out there try so hard to "metal it up" with the drums, that it distracts from the melodies. Most of these songs sound super Metal the second you play them on a distorted electric anyways, so it's really not necessary.

[@wario1226]

my fav part: 1:27 - 3:03

[@RhythmandPixels]

great cover of Wicked Child

[@D1CTATE]

gets really dope after a minute.. like yes yes.. kick in the nostalgia!

[@DJFAMDaniel]

The nintendo sound chip used to do the same thing. It creates a cool effect which gives NES tunes their signature sound.

[@RedWizard0]

@P1zzaSH4RK Which is why we tend to find most modern videogame soundtracks lackluster compared to the sounds of the 8 and 16-bit eras (barring, of course, remixes, as you said).

[@helorumtheknightsofmambrin2155]

So bitchin'!

[@JC-gm1ui]

F....ing awesome!

[@gawdawful2742]

4:22 Hell YE

[@747O]

love this band keep it up

[@rangernomad4564]

00:01

[@ReviewerKid90]

Save the best Castlevania song for last. Awesome.

[@Black91crx]

I was wondering the same thing. I can't find there CD's anywhere!!!

[@Jackboy019]

Yo, this is wicked. I love me some badass retro game music, especially platformers!

[@fernylicious8bit]

Dracula use this song in his partys xD

[@spanky1762]

Dat bassline at 3:02 though...

[@P1zzaSH4RK]

@OozeSlimeJelly Fewer number of instruments and fewer notes that could be played at once meant a lot more creativity had to be used to make it sound good. Converting 8-bit themes into higher-rate themes works a lot better than converting higher-rate themes down to 8-bit for that reason.

[@MrOddman300]

So WatchMojo tell me about you guys thumbs up and keep up the good work.

[@AlvaroHermoso]

@R. Bharath Castlevania Stage 3 (wicked child)

[@Ultrasyther1]

@OozeSlimeJelly its because back then they couldnt just take out some cliche template and use it. they had few notes to work with but were more creative in the small space they had.

[@davidsoto3498]

Nice

[@LightningCount.AC176]

I agree completely.

[@Surfacingg21]

OMFG

[@sasuxnarufan778]

FUCKING LOVE THESE GUYS! SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

[@420gz]

EPIC-NESS!!!!

[@johnlegros9294]

Why am I the only one that say this is just damn good music, lol😂😂😂😂😂nerds

[@johnlegros9294]

My bad, my KZbin appertly only shows me the bad at first.....long live minibosses.❤

[@OozeSlimeJelly]

it's funny that 8-bit melodies are superior to their fancier modern-day cousins.

[@shred5]

More composition thought went into them where when the quality got better, they turned into more pop music

[@drpibisback7680]

@@shred5 Plus more evolved sound hardware brought with it new approaches to game sound design - modern games tend to have a lot more work with ambient and atmospheric sound design because they can store and play back actual audio with rich textures, whereas NES games were locked to basically three monophonic synth voices and a noise channel for drums. Everything has to be done melodically because there's no room for adjusting timbre and you can't even do full chords.

[@shred5]

@@drpibisback7680 That makes sense.

[@muaddib930]

... They had to be. -.-

[@dylanvaccaro6919]

They're not?

[@micahroch7284]

GAMING GENS REPPIN MINIBOSSES ALL DAY YO!!

[@Flux3on]

OWC 2011 :D

[@Sepulphagist]

@DrPolio232 uh, not at all, maybe if they had a song that was longer than a minute 30. but all their songs are so god damn short. Powerglove is amazing.

[@Triskitout]

@darthmortor3223 Maybe it's a throwback to Earthbound

[@Mr3dPHD]

Anyone know why The Minibosses aren't on Spotify? I really wish they were!

[@Wilzardthespy]

They are on Pandora.

[@kylas1902]

Cause Spotify steals from the music creators.

[@muaddib930]

Because Spotify is horrible trash.

[@Opalauge88]

Between Minibosses and Powerglove I prefer Vomitron.

[@skaman125]

@ReviewerKid90 in my world i don't have to *tilts head and has scrubs moment*

[@THESILVERNARUTO]

@SireAzmodan Who is Powerglove?

[@LightningCount.AC176]

It's all about Vomitron's Castlevania.

[@rogue-like4life]

Yeah, they are untouchable

[@MyR3tardedProduction]

1:38 Anybody know the name of this part, which song is it???

[@maxibunny]

@therealmerciless365 so you beat the whole games in about 12 minutes?

[@xXTiberiusXx]

What's all this mentioning Powerglove when you should be mentioning The Advantage? -.-

[@reddevilman94]

the best!!! hahaha!!

[@cyborgwolf1]

HI everybody, if someone has the tab i will be glad he sends it thanks !

[@sanzoghun]

O...M...G.. freaking 4:22 Vampire Killer...is fucken epic!!

[@zaphod77]

stalker (3rd song) needs 1.25 speed.

[@shrek187]

It was good, but disappointed it did not have Heart of Fire in there. But still good cover.

[@DrPolio232]

@xXTiberiusXx Agreed, The Advantage is way better than Powerglove.

[@darthmortor3223]

@420gz dude. why didnt you say EPIC-NES!!! thats more clever. its like a pun. you know. NES? epic-nes.

[@KarlaMaiden]

wicked child *___*

[@BlackKnightJedekai]

Duotonics.

[@ReviewerKid90]

I can't choose between Mini Bosses and Power Glove.

[@mettalicfan]

Ehh i prefer the demo version, had the nice build up into vampire killer.

[@Abadox50]

Dracula created an account just to dislike this song.

[@psychoshaneo]

1:06 - Made me puke awesomeness

[@MyR3tardedProduction]

nevermind

[@ellarachel272]

Anyone else from This Exists?

[@tylesaintcool]

This is awesome. But why do they need two guitar players to play the exact same thing every so often? There's two guitar players, they should take advantage of that!

[@zaphod77]

two pulse waves= 2 guitars. triangle wave=bass. to ba fair many of the parts could be squeezed into one guitar, but not all. so two are needed to do all the tunes right. drums do the noise and pcm channels (well except for that one song from skate or die 2, whihc uses samples for a third gitar, which they really should do someday)

[@drpibisback7680]

@@zaphod77 Also just classic heavy rock production - two guitars doubling up a part sounds a lot fuller than just one.