Final Fantasy - Battle Arrange: The Black Mages - Soundtrack

Another Japanese band performing rock interpretations of video game soundtracks, the Black Mages have the advantage of official endorsement from the original composer Nobuo Uematsu, whose work across the popular 'Final Fantasy' series of role-playing games forms the basis of their material. Nobuo himself is involved only at a production level in this debut release, arranged and performed by Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito against a drum machine, but as the project gained a cult fan base, the Black Mages expanded into a full live band and have even seen Nobuo incorporated into their ensemble. To ease the task of picking and choosing a select number of the ...  Read the complete review