This is from the X68000 remake of the original Akumajou Dracula (the Japanese name for the Castlevania series), a game that has actually been remade about 4 times, though none of them contain any of the same levels (save for the first level, which gets remade in just about every other title in the series). The Sharp X6800 was a home computer system made by Sharp that, like the MSX and PC88 before it, was popular in Japan but entirely unknown in the United States. Konami, having an odd habit of supporting this type of thing, saw fit to release this game on it in 1991, and then rereleased it at the end of the original Playstation's life along with um.... we'll say a rebalanced version with a new sprite for Simon, at the risk of calling it a remake of a remake. That version was called Castlevania Chronicles, which is what people usually like to call the game, though I tend to refer to it as "Castlevania Sharp".
Enough about the game though, on to the music, which was composed by "Shin Chan" and Den Kobayashi. A lot of the tunes are taken from previous titles (as is common in the series), but the game does have it's share of original compositions. Thrashard in the Cave is one of them, and it plays in the second level, which is (not surprisingly) a cave. Its perhaps tied with Moon Fight for my favorite original tune from the game, but that has had much more exposure (having been used in place of the last level theme in Dracula X Chronicles), and has also already been uploaded here on youtube, so it's time for this song to shine! Save for Etude for the Killer, its the least used of any of the level themes, haveing been reused exactly zero times in future titles. Tower of the Dolls was in Order of Ecclesia and was also the Golem's theme in Castlevania Judgement. Hell even the damn LOAD BGM got to be the level 4 theme in the very recent Castlevania the Adventure Rebirth (excellent game, by the way). However, it WAS covered on the second Dracula Battle metal album that konami put out, and that was my first exposure to it. I do like Naoto Shibata's rendition of it, but I think that Snappleman (a freelance video game metal cover artist) handled it better in the Dwelling of Duel's Castlevania month, with higher production values to boot (check out that version here: [ Ссылка ] ). This track, like all the tracks, was remixed for the arrange mode on Castlevania Chronicles, though I can't say that I care for it. On that subject, i just learned while doing research tonight that if you hold l1 and r1 when you selecting original mode, you can select from three different sound modules! How cool is that! Maybe I'll give some updated impressions of this song in the other two modules once I test it out.
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