At long last, I have finally found a source for mp3 rips of the music from “Shadow of the Beast”. I’d had the music from Beast 2 and 3 for a while, but the best I had for the original game was the off-key music from the PC Engine port.
I don’t know if it really holds up for new listeners. It’s a mere four channels of 8-bit samples. There’s no humanity to the playing, despite some very earthy, windy instruments. But to me it was the sound of wonder; Shadow of the Beast was the first game that really started to experiment with what the Amiga could do in terms of sound and video. Sadly it was also not really much as a game, with terrible disk load times to boot. But who cared? It was light years beyond what the other home systems could do.
Anyway: I got the music from here, and it’s a pretty decent rip. It sounds like being eighteen and amazed did to me. And because this stuff seems to be so rare, I’m also posting it right here to my site, after cleaning up the tags and adding some album art. Enjoy.
01 Intro
02 Main Title
03 Beast – Deep Cave
04 The Forests
05 Battle on the Fields
06 Beast’s Stronghold
07 Underwater