Not much time after getting started with the very early work on Empires in ruins, now 4-5 years ago, me and I my father sat down in front of my laptop in order to plan a proper soundtrack.
https://soundcloud.com/reddewhellpipes
My old man plays the bagpipe and is mostly into folk/traditional music.
While during the highschool days he made fun of me being a metalhead, across the years he started listening to more and more metal, until he found the enlightnement with Folk metal (talking about bands like the finnish Korpiklaani or the estonian Metsatoll).
Being myself into the same kind of music, and loving the idea of giving EiR a gutsy soundtrack, we decision was easy. Listening to a whole lot of RTS/strategy games soundtrack, we noticed how little relevance the music had in such games and how often it was just a very generic medieval-like orchestral music.
Almost not a single one of them had anything memorable to listen to. It was our intention to go the opposite way.
It took us some years, my old man wrote the melodies, a bunch of metalheads musician friends (Drums, Bass guitar, Electric guitar) wrote and recorded in studio the arrangements and under the monicker of Red Dew Hellpipes they did produce a 9 tracks soundtrack I am personally in love with.
Slow tracks and fast tracks do alternate in battle according to the pace and the situation of the fight, and, I must say, we only got super positive feedbacks about it until now.
In order to spice up the whole “album”, a few musicians did play some additional instruments in some of the songs, adding up Flutes, Accordion and Contrabass to the compositions.
But now, without further words, if you’re interesteded, give a try to the RDH soundcloud with 3 full tracks and a little medley out of EiR soundtrack!
https://soundcloud.com/reddewhellpipes
As a last thing, in order to further enrich the soundtrack, we did receive from some other friends, the Tribauta Celtic band, the rights to use some of their songs as well. We did pick 3 of them and used them in the 4X part of the game, where the pace is less frenetic and the atmosphere a little more relaxing than in the frenzied battlefields.
Here’s their full album!
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