Thunder force IV - Metal Squad (original song)

[FlecheDeFer]

A brillant song. I've played games for 30 years on every possible gaming machine but this song is still a very solid member of my all-time top 5.

[coolshit28]

God I love this fuckin' tune!!

[dineboy89]

365 people kept playing Thunder Force IV just to get to Level 8 and keep hearing this badassery .

[phoenixpowerdesk1]

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE(loudness)にソックリではないでしょう­か？

[1shoryuken]

@phoenixpowerdesk1 HOLY SHIT IT DOES SOUND LIKE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE!! XD

l've been a big Loudness and Thunder force fan since my youth, how the hell did l miss that connection.

[AlphaOmegaSin]

still one of my all time favorite video game songs ever. \m/ fuck yeah

[Nintendough]

The Genesis/Mega Drive music always seemed to have this uniquely tinny, gritty quality to it. It works exceptionally well in this tune, and in "Sonic Spinball" as well. It actually 'feels' like being trapped inside a hostile machine; Great stuff!

[Karmoon7]

@Nintendough

Great assesment. Also, nice handle :)

[tyron3biggums]

Wtf is an nes ? Haha i only knows sega :)

[tyron3biggums]

Its one of the best classic themes ever :) it rocks the genesis away

[ultraNF]

This is the reason why I joined the Air Force lol

[dkkddefef]

waw epic , actually is rare to heard music of this qualitiy , brain about this

[SNESosT]

@dkkddefef Check Battle Mania 2, It's a Mega Drive game to borrow this type of rock music as well.

[PanterAmetal100]

@ SgtThom- snes have the MOST impressive sound chip, and you can't beat that!!!!!!

[flameringstudios]

[]_[] (  > O < ) []_[]

[lyzedpara]

lower key guitar riffs.

This is metal.

It's marvelous.

[DeltaWave16b]

友軍は既に遥か後方。高性能な新型とはいえ未完成機単騎による敵­陣深部への突出強襲は、しかしライネックス開発陣が懸念した通り­無謀な神風特攻にすぎなかった。「それでも俺達は人類の存亡を賭­けて」という悲壮感を表すパンフルート（PSG）。けど、やって­る事は破壊。ただただ破壊w…を表すディストーションギターの暴­力的な音色。

まだ反射神経と弾道認識視力が残っていた若い頃にこのゲーム、こ­の物語に出会い、そしてクリアできたのは、私としては幸せな事だ­ったと思います。メガドラの限界を見せてくれた、同時にメガドラ­の限界が見えてしまった作品でした。

[12ealDeal]

私は同意します。 ギターは非常にヘビーメタルのように聞こえます。 私は同じくクレジットのようにテーマを転がします。 同じく、私はそれが挑戦的であると理解します。 私はもっと多くのビデオゲームが公正な挑戦のこのレベルを提出し­たならいいのにと思います。 Sorry for my bad Japanese <X(

[Ultraboy94fsr]

This video alone made me check the rest of the game's soundtrack out, download the whole soundtrack to my MP3 player, then go and buy an original copy of this game. I now have one of the best shooters, and I bought it for the soundtrack alone!

[bddblade]

4 people got pwned over and over playing thunder force as a kid.

[fnorgen]

The SNES may have had a better sound chip, but prefer the crisp electronic sound of the Genesis over the smoother more organic sounding SNES.

[HowlingMoonCinemas]

Now this is the kind of track that makes you show off and take risks in a game with balls of steel! What an awesome motivating track!!

[sebdoom]

Freshly recorded a new metal version of Thunder Force IV song Stand Up Against Myself: watch?v=TvCs12UqWvU And a metal cover of metal Squad: watch?v=1Rrq3ffTwuA

[hardmancanada]

the best music ever 1000000/10!!!

[crazymetallian]

i'm the vewer 6666 \m/

xD

[MegaSegaGenesis]

HEY! I just recorded a sound glitch I encountered with this game! Its funny sounding! Listen to this!

/watch?v=e8Xzu7tpRpg

[HeyYoKillEmo]

Stuff like this is part of the reason kids grow up to love GOOD MUSIC

[otakuoverdrive]

OMFG YEEEEESSSS~!!! \m/ d(>_<)b \m/ The Genesis sound chip is better than ANY rock guitar~!

[Karmoon7]

@otakuoverdrive

Lol. I'm gonna ask the luthier to replace my EMG81s with the sound chip from a Megadrive/Genesis :D

[Karmoon7]

This track is more metal than so many bands out there today.

FFS, it's even called METAL SQUAD.

\m/ ^_^ \m/

Rock on!

[JUDS1234567]

See galbedia hotel

[Zore58]

"Do you smell that?"

"Yeah, is the Genesis's sound chip burning".

[mistertitanic]

@Zore58 YMF262 :D

[WumboWarrior]

@CaptainCrunchityzer Sounds like you know your stuff. Are you a recording artist or do you do something along the lines of digital audio?

Forgot all about the PC88. When I made that post, I really just had the SNES and Genesis in mind.

[WumboWarrior]

@CaptainCrunchityzer Well, the model I Genesis supported stereo through the use of a headphone jack. I just plug some nice stereo speakers in there

[WyattEpp]

The things they used to pull with the YM2612 are something close to divinity. And Yamanishi has only improved over time. Awesome.

[housev]

Holy fucking crap. I've had the game since I was a wee kid and I've only just heard this music now. Fucking Sega, hiding this gem at the back of an impossible game.

[Omegan01]

@housev go into the options menu, set your number of lives to zero, and proceed to enjoy your 99 lives while you blast through the entire game. :D

[WumboWarrior]

The Genesis is the best sound chip ever made.

[ZetbladeX13]

@WumboWarrior That would be the Yamaha YM2612 FM sound chip, good sir.

Long live the FM synthesizer!

[Tonygoal1]

Un super jeu et une super musique, le top du top à l'époque sur mégadrive !!!

[serpico89]

OH MY GODDD this song is fucking amazing!!!!! i just greew a beard from listening to it, that's how good it is!!!!!! :DDD

[mistertitanic]

This ranks right up with MUSHA!!!

[Jason9811]

This was another reason Nintendo had competition. The fact you could make music like that come off the Genesis.

[crapheadandidiot]

@Jason9811 Genesis does what Nintendon't, son.

All jokes aside, this was INSANE shredding back in the day. XD

[ged42]

\m/ mosh time \m/

[b3nd3runit22]

the single best word to describe this song is: AWESOME!

[skeeuk101]

makes you wonder how technosoft actually did this. i remeber putting on game to enjoy the music from selection screen whilst having morning breakfast.

tea + toast + thunderforce music :) i really wish i could turn back time and relive my thunderforce 3 and 4 days :(

[arabiancandybar]

@skeeuk101

Definitely trying that tomorrow.

[shadowwolf337]

This is the kind of music that REALLY keeps you in the game - - and even gives you the concentration and balls to show off!

[Thelast32X]

I remember that feeling of burning it up with starforce for 8bit, getting so far, feeling so fliping mad with the power of subconcious concetration when I hear this. It's really quite something to hit the zone in these, Radiant silver gun, thunderforce5, ikugra... Type of games....

[Thelast32X]

I just went and bought this from Aus (ebay) after hearing this for like 30secs, I understand now just how starved my dusty old sega Nomad is. It's time for some grainy master blasting 16bit synthesizing energy with Thunder force IV and the Mighty Nomad. This sounds just so deep to me right now. Makes you love life all over again.

[Ostnizdasht206]

Genesis= Better rock and techno music

Super Nintendo= Better Orchestrated music

[SonicTheJackrabbit]

@Ostnizdasht206

I love both consoles, but IMHO:

Graphics - SNES > Genesis

Sound - Genesis > SNES

[StyloXD]

@SonicTheJackrabbit Technically, the SNES is ahead the Genesis, because its sound chipset is more refined and the computer potency is also better, because the SNES was released after the Genesis. The rest is art.

[1shoryuken]

@StyloXD The SNES soundchip is surperior, but to my knowledge the SNES didn't have music that sounded like this, thats why l prefer the Megadrive soundchip, the composers took VGM out of the norm and brung in different genres, from electronic house (vectorman, SOR123 etc) to Metal (TFIV, M.U.S.H.A. etc).

[SgtThom]

@1shoryuken

"The SNES soundchip is surperior"

Yes at sampled music. But limited RAM make most games sound like trash. Genesis could have better sampled music but Sega mess that up with wiring the circut board. Genesis can stream samples from the cartridge unlike the SNES.

[InstinctualJealousy]

Proof the SNES's sound chip sucks ass.

[SonicTheJackrabbit]

@InstinctualJealousy

It's not bad, it just can't pull off as much bass and sharpness as the Genesis. The SNES can produce some pretty damn good sound as proven in the Donkey Kong Country trilogy, the Star Fox series, and Uniracers.

[Scioneer]

Makes me want to hook my Nomad up to my stereo and pop in Lightning Force.

[SonicTheJackrabbit]

All of this one five/six channels holy shit what is this i dont even.

[matthewdoucette]

amazing

[suckcocksinhell]

Awesome soundtrack. My favs are Great Sea Power and Omake-2. (become available after you finish the game)

[SNESosT]

dude i uploaded the entire ELIMINATE DOWN ost, that game is well worth up to $400 and has some pretty great ost

[jeancricri13]

1 of the best shot'em up i ve never played as much as his gameplay than all those great musics.thank you 

[lechuk]

Ufff!

Incredible and excellent games.. and difficult!

[SyriusBelsferg]

This song is so bad-ass, that it caused me to murder a bus full of nuns and orphans, while jogging to it.

[psychogorilla]

@SyriusBelsferg Needless to say, I thumbed this comment UP!

[SyriusBelsferg]

@psychogorilla

Thanks for that.

[Nardex]

This rocks so fucking hard.

[immrrossy]

Best best videogame song ever

[immrrossy]

best videogame music ever

[borborad]

Thunderforce 4. So many good Memories.

One of the best Sidescrollers ever.

[unbound1978]

One track that reminds me of a next gen TFIV is Night Wish, End of all Hope.

[Fanaticchickenwings]

This inspired me to play Thunderforce IV again on the ol' genesis. Man was this game hard, but the music does a good inspiration job, stage 8 was the hardest of the lot, and from the annoying snake thing at the beggining of the level, the ants with lazers all over the floors and cielings, and the fucked up owl at the end, this music had me hooked on ripping the shit out of every mechanical ant and wasp assisted owls with tentacles. I fucking loove this game.

[frenchydal]

goddamn that is tight. brings back memories of my "Mega Drive" days.

[ravenrage07]

that sounds like sumthing one of these new metal ppl play now. I cant put my finger on it, it sounds like children of bodom tho.

[Ostnizdasht206]

@ravenrage07 Children of Bodom is the shit.

[gomerfa]

I started crying when i heard this. brings back memories !!!

[Wampaa]

@gomerfa You started crying? What a puss.

[DanXienDarksorrowEU]

God I'm loving it, as a child is that was dreams are made of or what? Smashing soundtrack flying through space in not any, but THE best spacecraft ever, blasting things to crap?

[LiamRiordan]

Man, what system was this game one, how could I miss it!? I only ever had a Mega Drive II (Sega Genesis) PSX and onwards. I remember most games for the music and story, this one sounds like PURE action or reaction! Thanks for the upload.

[Skyline1994PL]

@LiamRiordan Yes, it's on Sega Mega Drive. If you still have this console, better search ebay for this game. :)

[hoboterror]

the music like tells You were courageous enough to get all the way here in this stage

[HangTheScientologist]

Hi mate can you upload the others?

[cjbgf1]

@HangTheScientologist Could do, pretty sure I still have them somewhere. Any in particular you want?

[HangTheScientologist]

@cjbgf1 I'm not sure of the names, but I remember loving the metal style ones. Also, another question, I downloaded this from your link and it went into itunes, but the other day i tried listening to it again and it says it cant find it? i dont understand why?

[VitalSignsElevated]

@HangTheScientologist Hahahah great username.



[1shoryuken]

l remember when l first reached Stage 8 just hearing and headbanging to this badass track, it's what made me lose so many lifes by crashing into stuff lol.

[idjoemama]

sick as shit

[aldi2500]

Hell yeah, Thunder Force 4 is the game I played most on Genesis. And I still play it on emulator. Good old times...

[capuchino1980]

best video game song ever

[fatraju]

one of the best games ever made !!!! i used to paly this when i was like 7 or 8 daaaaamn cudn get past one of those stages man

[Scioneer]

I've always wanted a model of the Stukks Starfighter to display next to my X-Wing and B5 Starfurry.

[VeniasVampire]

LEGENDARY!♥

I was 7 year old as i palyd tis game

[jadepalacios]

geez i have this game for 12 years now,..and this game rocks!!!!!!i played it on a megadrive...this soundtrack gives me bloody goosebumps when it starts playing ",)

[fatraju]

love this maaaaaan

[x3n0nfr4n]

FUCKING EXCELLENT

[Yemia]

Oh wow, sweet memories. thank you very much

[fatraju]

oh my God just remmebr this from waaaaay bak damn thanks u mademy day !

[hoboterror]

this games cool because the last part was the best

[eschdog1223]

i remember when i first heard this i was dancing while i was playing the lvl

[kanfor]

I was 15 years old!

Amazing!

[X3MCTZN]

@kanfor HEHEH I was, when I played for the first time, 7 years old ;)

[sergius666]

what a memories!amazing,thanks for uploading this,makes me feel a bit younger hehe

[idjoemama]

BEAST

[Dextrametorphan]

I remember playing this on my birthday back in 1996 or so, man, this brings back awesome memories...

[Kunjuri]

this song gives me goose bumps... hot diggity damn

[snkjack]

wow this is epic..man I love the genesis!

[malucassovei]

10 x 10 x 10.....GREAT GENESIS

[johneymute]

the advantage of the genesis is despites it can only generate 1 8bit dpcm channel,it can proccese 8bit data

and the fm channels can reach a samplerate of 96 khz.

despites the snes has 8 digital soundchannels.

it can only procces 4 bit data wich is then sampled to 16bit with sample rate of 32khz.

so despites the genesis limmitations it can provide hich dynamic range sound. will snes can only provide flatty sound.

[s3rris]

but SNES mutated samples so much it just gave it a unique sound! I appreciate both genesis' and snes' sound capabilities.

[ParappatheRapper]

I agree, I actually prefer the more distorted version of Raiden Trads theme for the Snes to the Genesis one.

[johneymute]

it,s incredible how they squeezed such good rock music out of the genesis fm soundchip!!!!

[stryder619]

@johneymute They did, but barely. When playing the game, the soundtrack and the combined AWESOME happening in the game would make the track prone to slowing down. You could only get a solid gameplay on emulators years later!

[zodiackiller12]

@johneymute You can't do this on Nintendo, lol.

[WolfCoder]

@johneymute I know, I wrote an FM synth just like the YM2612 chip inside and I can't get distortion guitars like here and Langrisser 2 to save my life.

[Deokishisu]

@johneymute

It's because of the Blast Processing.

[BrenMcGuire1]

Hardest VG track ever, just like thunderforce are one of the best series of all time. God I miss games like these... time to play some Tf3 and Tf4:)

[MrThunderwing]

Love this game sooo much.

[axelei]

Great song, but poorly recorded.

[nogginzinc]

sigh, I miss cover art like that from the 16-bit era. oh, the song ain't bad either :)

[kOHINa]

They should've given the pilots a radio with this song on it in WW2 instead of LSD.

[MDKcde]

wut you talking about Willis?

there are only 3 songs that you should play in a mass air combat.

-Aces High

-Highway to the Danger Zone

and whatever minmey is singing at the end of "Macross:Do you remember love"

This is the kind of song that you play when you are the only man left in a doolittle raid out to stop Hitler to fusing himself with a 50ft tall Nuclear Robot powered by a core made of pure antisemitism hatred.

[ShaithMaster]

@kOHINa they didn't give them lsd, its been proven.. if you know anything about drugs, which apparently you don't, it would have been literally impossible to pilot an aircraft on lsd.. there was some 'pilot doping' but it wasn't lsd

[serpico89]

@kOHINa they should use this song for the air force while they scramble out of their hangars ready to fight.

[PsychoReaper49]

@kOHINa

Why in god's name would our government give LSD to WW2 pilots?! O__O

[IronGoldie]

This is so awesome! Thanks for the mp3.

[JaegerRukajarvi]

I get goosebumps every time I hear this song.

[oooodaxteroooo]

@JaegerRukajarvi : it's epic, isn't it?

[thechainzter]

yea me too, the music in this game was freakin amazing....

[andy1hit]

i was 4 when i first played this awesome game i will never forget it

[damjen666]

One of the best tunes created by a human being EVER !

[NebilimXYZ]

Pure awesomeness !

If you like this song too, do not miss the version of the band "Future Idiots" who did an excellent cover of this.

[mo786brutal]

OHH dam unbelievable how crazy the game LOV IT all the way cmon ps3 u need this on the ps stores i dnt care & make sure its on the UK stores lol BIG UP ALL THUNDERFORCE especially the 4th game BRING BACK THE CLASSIC

[MattTheSpratt]

Er, there weren't any Thunder Force titles for the PS1.

[BrenMcGuire1]

Thunder Force V was realesed for both Saturn and PS=)

[yammy1688]

BADASS

[malucassovei]

its the better music of thunder force IV

[ljj67]

this is one of the best tunes of all time

[binscattic2]

many times i only start the game to hear the music :) awesome will never forget it :)

[andy1hit]

me too most of the time :)

[binscattic2]

or maybe 15 im not sure :)

[binscattic2]

i did it a loot of times in very hard, then i jumped to maniac and finished there at first try !! :D but that'sabout 17 years ago lol

[Saga00x]

One of the best game on genesis and one of the best song ever

[andy1hit]

love the game and the music

[hoboterror]

nice solo

[JaegerRukajarvi]

I just beat this game for the 9000th time... 12 lives left of 99.

[gs68]

99 lives cheat? That's not beating it at all. >:

[maz12004]

Absolutely awesome. \m/

[shiftyshard]

I fuckin love this game! And this tune!!!

[SailorCleopatra]

Great!! *__*

[NicolasVALLET08]

Best MD music ever with Whirlwind from Shinobi III and SOR level 4.

Thanks dude for sharing this gem !

[GameblogSanshiro]

I dream about a Guitar Pro Tab of this track !

[captainsparxxx]

While SNES had some good sound The Genesis was fucking awesome in that department no wonder I'm more of a Genesis guy.

[KleerSkeleton]

YEAH !!!!!!! :D

[KleerSkeleton]

FUUUUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[compactVotive]

It's songs like this that actually make me prefer the Genesis's sound chip OVER the SNES's.

The genesis has a unique sound that few, if any, consoles will ever match

[YukiTheLaughingMan]

If was to compile 100 top video game soundtracks, this one would definitely be in the top ten.

[METALatitsFINEST]

LOVE THIS SONG!!!

[johneymute]

i can,t imagine that the genesis could generate such incredible fm sound,cuzz doom 32x sounds horrible.

[KaraKaos]

For me , The best song ever. Best midi lol

[Segasaturn95]

I'm making a playlist of Genesis music, much like a playlist I made for NES music not too long ago. It amazes me just how much easier it is to find good music on the Genesis than on the NES!

[Stark1ller]

Totally rocks. Stage 8 if I remember correctly.

[Tails3S]

i'm gonna play this game

[Aadvek]

I was a huge fan of Thunder Force IV as a kid, and I find that this is absolutely amazing. I can't stop listening to it. Definitely one of the best video game tunes of all time.

[ZycaLaser]

And TFIV is one of the few games where the USA box artists didnt mess up the thing and drew a ship that actually resembles the ship in the game...heh

[peterdelane]

This is fabulous but i'm certain there was an song on Elemental Master that beat it...searching for it, I have it on tape somewhere

[peterdelane]

I'm wrong, this is the best tune of all time.

[jaleis1nsane]

Probably the best game song to ever exist.

[daz636]

yes! or maybe some road rash or streets of rage stuff.

[KleerSkeleton]

command and conquer Act on INstinct

[MDKcde]

Most of the people seems to only remember of Metal Squad from Thunder Force IV.

But very little people seems to give enough love to the rest of the soundtracks. "The Sky Line" "Sand Hell" and "Sea of Flames" are also among my favorites.

I remember that I almost shitted myself the first time I faced against Rancor (Sea of Flames boss- Stage 7) Almost 10 years later, I still feel a chill going up in my spine every time I face him.

[SAGAIA2]

Aww hell yeah! This is THE shmup music right there :D

[themexakin]

cjbgf1 .....your the man for posting this up :D but were can i down load this song from ?

[cjbgf1]

I have been meaning to upload it for ages, But never got round to it.

However i just uploaded it, I am putting it in the description now.

[themexakin]

dude.. you are a GOD : D thanks

[Sepheta7]

google for

"Thunder Force 4 Soundtrack by Toshiharu Yamanishi" and try the first page in the results.