Wednesday, September 17, 2025

MIDI Week Singles: "Metal Beat: Part 1" - Metal Masters (DMG)

 


"Metal Beat: Part 1" from Metal Masters on the Nintendo Game Boy (1993)
Composer: Alberto Jose González
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Electro Brain
Developer: Bit Managers


If anyone asks, Stage Select Start is now also a stan account for Alberto Jose González because holy damn does this guy write banger after banger!  And he's not even classically trained!!  I didn't even know that this particular song he had composed until I started putting this article together.  I listened to this song earlier yesterday, and found myself humming along after the first repeat.

What's interesting about this song, specifically "Part 1" is that I nearly skipped it thinking that all three minutes were going to be a low drone and sound effects, but then at 0:37 we get our first semblance of a melody and then it's just on from there.  The other two songs, "Part 2" and "Part 3" are nearly identical except for the intro which is used at different parts of the game, but the main melody that starts in "Part 1" at 0:37 starts around 0:11 in the other two versions.  And that's it for music in this game.  Three intros and one theme.  But I guess when the one theme you write for the whole game is this damn good, why bother writing any more?


~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
Don't Try to Fix Me I'm Not Broken

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