Page 1 of 1

WoW Composer Leads Game Cover Band, Critical Hit

Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 1:09 pm
by ccgr
Blizzard’s composer Jason Hayes and VGMarket’s founder Michael Gluck as a freelance PR consultant to help them launch Critical Hit. Together, they’ve founded the all-star game cover band, performing their own arrangement of soundtracks from some of our favorite videogames of all time – and featuring award-winning performers and recording artists with credits, including Primetime Emmy’s, American Idol, MTV Music Awards, Cirque du Soleil and more!

Today marks the formal announcement of Critical Hit and their debut album, Critical Hit: Volume One. They’ve also released their first music video to their performance of Angry Birds: “Main Theme”. Eleven other tracks are featured on the album



Critical Hit website: http://www.criticalhitband.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: WoW Composer Leads Game Cover Band, Critical Hit

Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:31 pm
by ArchAngel
I follow the violinist, Taylor Davis (she does some pretty great covers of movie and game songs), so I found out about this through her. It was pretty good. Wish they chose something other than the Angry Birds theme, but they did a good job with the source material.

Re: WoW Composer Leads Game Cover Band, Critical Hit

Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:31 pm
by ccgr
the CD tracklist seems pretty good

Re: WoW Composer Leads Game Cover Band, Critical Hit

Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:32 pm
by baconisgood23
That's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing! :mrgreen:

Re: WoW Composer Leads Game Cover Band, Critical Hit

Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:49 pm
by ArchAngel
They released another video today. Still good.

Re: WoW Composer Leads Game Cover Band, Critical Hit

Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:55 pm
by ccgr
Since their debut in October 2013, they’ve been working to line up a series of concerts. Today they announced that they are co-headlining Orlando Nerd Fest 2014 with Final Fantasy’s Nobuo Uematsu’s band, The Earthbound Papas. They’ve also unveiled their latest music video from Tetris.


Re: WoW Composer Leads Game Cover Band, Critical Hit

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:18 pm
by ArchAngel
Not dead enough to be resurrected, so I'm bumping this back up. I'm a bit disappointed they didn't get more exposure, they're covers are really good.
The Tetris one is the best yet.