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Well folks, we've got a pretty amazing update today: DarkeSword, who you may remember as the composer of some pretty rockin' Metroid mixes like Yellow Valkyrie and Torvus Clockwork, helped organize the OCR community to help his friend, bLiNd, who had been sick and bedridden. Community support was overwhelming, with dozens of mixers from the community submitting 'get well songs' in the form of remixes from bLiNd's favorite game, Super Metroid. Well, the album has finally been completed and is now available for download from several mirrors linked through DarkeSword's own website.

To help with the bandwidth crunch and enrich our site, the MDb has graciously agreed to make an exception to our Fileplanet rule by directly linking files from a folder on the site itself. Users who already have Fileplanet accounts can download the whole thing in a single zip. All others, right-click to save! Please visit DarkeSword's homepage for the artist notes. Listen to them below:

ZIP Containing entire album (Fileplanet, 139MB) *Link Fixed

01 - Heat Vision (Darkesword)

02 - Edenal (TheWingless)

03 - Energy Recharge (Another Soundscape)

04 - Lonely Petals (Lonely Petals)

05 - bLiNd Metallic Hope (Tensei-san)

06 - Unknown Origin (k-wix)

07 - In your Prime (Big Giant Circles)

08 - Photosymbiosis (bLiNd Version) (Radical Dreamer)

09 - Speed Run (AMT)

10 - bLiNd's Snowy Brinstar (Nario)

11 - The Planet's Call (Bren)

12 - Redemption (Bren)

13 - Health Item (Bundeslang)

14 - Eat This, bLiNd (Strike911)

15 - Groovin' to a Star (Sengin)

16 - I Ain't Afraid of no Pterodactyl (Vivi22)

17 - Jazzed Up 'Troids (Foxhull)

18 - Uplifter (Mano)

19 - My Minute (Electric Concerto)

20 - Sleeping Thought (Chicken Warlord)

21 - The Galaxy Awaits (Nutritious)

22 - From Brinstar, to bLiNd (Jewbei)

23 - Just How Deep (Jose the Bronx Rican)

24 - Power-Up (CN)

25 - One More Time, Just Once! (Prototype Raptor)

26 - Samus in the Inferno (short edit) (Audix)

27 - Brinstar's Good Enough (The Coop)

28 - Kindred (pixietricks, zircon)

29 - The Man Who Could Suddenly See (zykO)

Bonus - Jade Catacombs (bLiNd)

Cover Art

There's a LOT of interesting stuff on this album, and I have to admit I'm still listening through it as I write this! It's got metal, trance, alternative, orchestra... While there's admittedly a lot of Brinstar mixes on here, that just shows how popular the song is! The album's been under construction since the summer, and so it's great to finally see it live!

Bear in mind that not all of these tracks may have made their way past the judges at OCR - but that's not the point of the album. The point of the album was to send get-well-cards in the form of Super Metroid mixes, not to have an album that would make Stemage cringe with jealousy (though there's a few cool tracks here worth the listen!). So everyone put a LOT of their love and friendship into their work. OCR's strong community came together to create a fantastic collaborative Get Well album that bLiNd says helped him recover much faster than he normally would have! On the behalf of everyone here at the MDb, we wish bLiNd good health well into the New Year and through many more to come!

On another note, IE has been hard at work at our Cameos section, including some hot footage of the Zero Suit costume from Fatal Frame IV! We've got a few more cameos we've heard about on the way along with some rearranging of the section, so stay tuned for more updates!

Until next time...
Captain Commando