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A common question I get asked from the GaMetal community is: what songs do I want to cover purely for my own enjoyment, without regards to requests and such?

The answer is: at this point in time, I’ve pretty much covered almost all of my favorite game songs, so there’s no 1 particular tune that sticks out. But when one does come back to mind… in comes the Birthday Special!

Once a year, to celebrate my birthday on July 1st, I make a completely biased song selection to make into a GaMetal arrangement. Occasionally these might be inspired by current events (such as the release of Dragon Quest 3’s Adventure theme after the Hero  Smash reveal), but most of the time it’s stuff that isn’t necessarily requested… at all, but they’re favorites of mine (like the Bridge / City / Sewers medley from Darkwing Duck NES).

This year I’ve once again chosen a song from my favorite game soundtrack, Final Fantasy VI, but this time I’ve gone with a song I’ve always loved but does not get a whole lot of love in the remix world: Metamorphosis.

It lacks the popularity of songs like Dancing Mad or Terra’s Theme (and let’s face it, with this entire soundtrack, it’s got nothing but stiff competition), and is on the short side clocking in at around 35 seconds originally, but it’s a damn effective song that plays during a few of the games ‘all hell has broken loose’ moments, mainly when Kefka is doing some crazy s-.

I was actually working on a version of this song way back in 2013, but never got around to finishing it. Unfortunately I lost all of my pre-late-2014 files in The Great Hard Drive Crash of 2014, so I can’t dig it back up to comparison… but I’m sure this version here is way better than that one.

Since this song is practically a Kefka song, and the tempos are similar, I also threw a bit of Kefka’s Theme into the mix to provide some length and keep things interesting.

I’m glad I was finally able to get this one done! When I was trying to decide on what this year’s birthday song would be, I was having trouble finding the right one. I was scrolling through some of my favorite game OSTs when I came across Metamorphosis and was immediately like ‘yeah… this is the one.’