In lieu of my usual weekly music review, seeing as how there are no releases this week, and me being the Fate fanboy that I am, I’ve decided to talk about some of the many Fate/Stay Night remixes I found over the week. First things first, I must pimp out Dies Irae for it’s awesome selection of every fate album released, all in easy download format. This is literally where I got everything. Also check out their gallery for all the CG’s from fate and ataraxia (nice for me since I never saw all the ataraxia ones). At first I was gonna review all of the 10+ cd’s, but then I realized how stupid that was and decided just to review my favorites, the remix albums Avalon and Fate/another remix.

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Awesome wallpaper version here.

First is the Fate/another remix album. This is the quintessential remix album which basically collects all the tracks from Number 201 released. Including both fate and ataraxia remixes several of these songs have already been released before. EMIYA #0 is from the emiya remix album (and the best EMIYA remix evar), and Outbreak and Wars are from the Broad Bridge Relive album (most awesome album name evar). All of the tracks are awesome in their own right, the only weak track being King of Heroes, but then again Golden King wasn’t that great a track to remix anyways. This was the first taste of Fate’s music I got and everything else just sounds weak compared to it.

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Avalon was the first remix cd put out after the original game soundtrack. Being the first also means it’s one of the better ones. Beginning with the prologue track, which is basically the UBW chant in english, you’ll find all the usual songs here. Highly recommended are the tracks Avalon, Excalibur, Come Across the Nightmare, and Unlimited Blade Works, the first remix of EMIYA. Also an awesome track is Sadness, which I can’t tell what it’s a remix of but halfway through it transforms from poppy electronic to full on classical fugue. Great stuff. However the best part of the CD and why it is my favorite are two tracks. The first is an english version of the opening THIS ILLUSION, and this isn’t engrish either but actually understandable english. I had no idea how beautiful the song was until I heard it in english. The other is an original track called Heaven’s Feel. If you’ve ever heard the Turn Back Time theme from End of Eva this song sounds just like that, with clapping the whole time and a nice, easy pop feel. Have to mention it’s also in english. Hard to believe it’s named after the most depressing scenario in the game.

Here’s the other CD’s gotten from the site, in case you need one to fill out your collection:
Fate/Stay Night game OST: It’s always nice to go back to the original once in awhile.
Wish: Various remixes and Jpop tracks featured here. Definitely check out ” Over the Mountain ”
EMIYA #0: I really didn’t find anything great here besides the first appearance of EMIYA #0 and the awesome Moving the seasons, which I really thought was on another remix.
THIS ILLUSION single: I’m really enjoying this more than disillusion.

And here are the Fate/hollow ataraxia tracks listed:
Hollow single: it’s too bad they don’t have the better ataraxia single.
game OST: it’s amazing how much the ataraxia ost blows fate out of the water.
Broad Bridge Relive: Just two tracks here for some reason.
Broad Bridge Relive remix tracks: the actual cd really. Still nothing all that great here.

Also for those interested there is the Anime OST album also.