'Ancients' - Liner Notes - October 1, 2001 Kirk Trevor of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra conducted and 'Ancients' is one of the tracks that resulted from these sessions. Way this worked in the game, and felt it did the job as a backdrop to the nefarious plans of Nihlathak.Īn ambient shot of central Europe captured by Scott Petersen.Įarlier this year, a composer and crew from Blizzard North went to Bratislava, Slovakia to record the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction score with the Slovak Radio Philharmonic. I attempted to take advantage of this freedom with this track, pushing theĮlements of the horror soundtrack - clusters, atonality, glissandi, sudden hits - as much as possible. Songs featured in the town or opening fight sequence. Much more freedom to explore different musical elements than music which the player will face inevitably and repeatedly, like the Tunes like this one, featured in a 'sidequest', have On my end, this structure creates a different set ofĭemands from pieces located in different places in the structure of the act. Level or can opt for the scenic route, letting no miniboss escape their wrath. Seem strange to 'waste' perfectly good content, I have always like the idea that the player can either choose to rampage through the Often including some excellent unique background art, are able to be ignored without impeding completion of the act.

If one were to break down the structure of the levels of Diablo 2 into a flowchart, you would make the surprising discovery that some areas, What remains after too much editing only goes half of the way there - a bit of a shame seeing as how interesting an enviroment like 'ice caves' should be. If I were to step back into the time machine and rewrite this one, I would try to keep the pacing away from the extremes used here, and would have also used a bit more of the electronic and choral textures which I consciously avoided in these sessions. The jarring breaks between the hypnotic harp ostinato and the brass hits succeeded more in breaking a consistent mood than creating one. Though I was hoping for a combination of some of my favorite moments from Bernard Herrmann's 'Vertigo' and a sequence in Orff's 'Trionfo di Afrodite' with this one, I ended up with a rather frustrating product which really didn't work as well as either of my two models.

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