Battle to the Death (Final Fantasy VI) [Guitar Hero Boss Battle Arrangement] - GaMetal

It's a fierce Guitar Battle to the Death.... with yours truly! 🙂🎸

00:00 Battle to the Death Part 1
02:28 Battle to the Death Part 2 (Guitar Solo Sudden Death)

And last week we did just that! The new pack includes over 70 charts created by pro charter Miscellany, as well this special new track.

The concept to make a new "Boss Battle" track was the brainchild of Jason Paradise, who brought it up to me in a discussion we had several years ago, as early as the creation of the first pack back in 2019. I wasn't able to get around to it then, but figured I could throw something together if and when we got around to making another pack.

At first, I was going put together an arrangement with some of my more popular solos from older GaMetal songs, but what I ended up with sounded like a miniature version of the solo medley from the first pack, so I tossed that idea and decided to do something else: a bunch of soloing over one of my favorite game songs, Fierce Battle (which has now officially been renamed to "Battle to the Death" which I must admit is awesome) from Final Fantasy VI.

Originally this was only going to be the musical portion (the first 2:20), but this was taken a huge step further when the pack's charter, Miscellany, suggested I add a guitar-only "sudden death" section to go all the way with the GH3 Boss Battle influence.

Thus, "Battle to the Death" was born! I specifically wrote all of the guitar work in this song to be incredibly difficult for Guitar Hero-likes to challenge the craziest of 5 fret rhythm game players, so there's a whole lot of speed shred throughout this entire arrangement.

Quick note: there are two different versions of the charts for this song, a "true boss battle" version (seen in this video), and a single-player version with both leads combined (the toughest version).

[thedaver]

Sponsor: We would like to pay you by the note.
GaMetal: I have just the song in mind

[matthewhostetter]

The fact that FFVI celebrates its 30-year anniversary on April 2nd the time of this is perfect. Still the greatest Final Fantasy game of all time and the best Final Fantasy soundtrack.

[cr]

Definitely a student of the Skwisgaar Skwigelf Advanced Fast Hand Finger Wizard Master Class.

[panosplays]

May our lives be a constant turn based battle with this in the background

[citizenstrife]

*Atma attempts to cast Flare Star*
*Celes counters with Runic*
*Jonny hits hidden limit break: Gametal Massacre and Atma dies*
*Sabin shows up late and celebrates anyway, he was too busy suplexing the train again for fun*

[chaoticcranium]

It figures the only person who could possibly outshred Jonny Atma is Jonny Atma

[voidastralbirth]

This looks like a cool Guitar Hero boss fight… how do I play?
_…ok nevermind, this is just Jonny effortlessly flexing on us all XD_

[highmaxxx]

The Goat returns with another Banger, and a solid showcase of the Clone Hero track! Love it, keep up the fantastic work!!

[DodgeThisBam]

Always happy to see Jonny battling Atma!

[TetrisBen]

I only just recently discovered your channel, but you're quickly becoming my favorite video game musician. Everything I've seen of yours is phenomenal.

Charting both guitar solos as two separate tracks in GH was a brilliant idea, and it made this video quite fun to watch. I can't imagine how long it took to create them both. Cheers.

[KelpTheGreat]

Shortly after the song started, my jaw started hanging open like how you do when you're seeing something absolutely incredible and you're just kinda half laughing, half gaping at how awesome the thing is. And it stayed like that for the whole song. 🤯

[parzival-bo]

Jesus, that's gonna be _insane_ when someone uploads a playthrough of this...

Requesting Ark Mall from Astral Chain.

[JTTunes]

WE’RE BATTLING TO THE DEATH WITH THIS ONE GAMETALHEADS AND GAMERS 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[Consolous]

The Guitar Hero addition made the cover even more interesting than it already was. Sick!

[ordinaryhuman]

it's been a while since I've seen a Guitar Hero themed VGM cover video like this. Jeez, Lunatic Moon was over 16 years ago already.

[mskirby]

Catch me Atma Bustin' down to this track, what an unexpected surprise indeed

[moogleboy]

Those solos! I was getting Dragon Quest vibes, TMNT vibes, chills all around! What a legend! YOU ROCK!!

[SorrenRaclaw]

JonnyAtma is playing the Atma Weapon battle theme on an Atma Weapon guitar. It's Atmaception! 🤘

Edited to say that it would be awesome if you would make an Atmacoustics version of the Zozo theme you played at the end!

[KeltkeGH]

Really amazing work! Definitely getting the same vibes of the Guitar Battles in GH3! The guitar tone even reminds me of Steve Ouimette's Devil Went Down to Georgia.

[Destroyah]

Solo E got me, was not ready for that alt-tapping. Really cool song.