And now for my all time favourite quote in relation to how much of a masterpiece this song is especially on such limited hardware: "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like an artist using Crayola crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." -Jeremy Jahns
It gets better. You play the GBA port of FF6. You think Dancing Mad is epic. Then you find out there's a sound restoration patch for it. That music was good before, now its GODLY
What I love about dancing mad is the amount of symbolism and tension this song and fight gives off. For those who don’t know the symbolism of the song, Phase 1 represents Kefka’s lust for death and destruction Phase 2 represents his insanity Phase 3 represents his ascension to godhood and even mocks Michelangelo’s pieta and takes a piece of Tocata and fugue in d minor Phase 4 is Kefka himself and it even cuts to a sad part to represent that Kefka is going to die for everything he did
I always saw it as: T1: Rooted in ice, a wasteland that is and will be. Hell is the foundation of reality and existence. T2: Repetition, mindless ad nauseum. The mortal world is a cyclic mess that repeats its mistakes forever. T3: Ascension is Egoism. The only reason people strive to help others is for their own selfish desires. T4: *I Am* above all of this. I will destroy everything to free you all. t. hermeticist
It’s also a play on the divine comedy. Rising from the frozen and dark depths of a torturous hell, through the looping insanity of purgatory, and into the gates of heavenly paradise. And at the end, God tells Jacob what the meaning of life is. “Life... Hope... Dreams... Where’d they come from? And where’re they going? Such meaningless things... are mine to destroy!” -Kefka to the party right as you reach him.
No, pause four is victory. He has won, he lets you die by his hand because he accomplished what most other FF villains dream of. If he killed you what would he do? He's already demolished everything. His life would be without purpose.
"I love JoJo" Views drop off between parts 4 and 5's adaptation due to manga hiatuses and forced "part 5 never" memes. "HERE'S WHY THE JOJO FANBASE IS THE MOST CANCEROUS FANBASE ON EARTH AND HERE'S WHY JOJO IS OVERATED FUCK JOJO FUCK JOJO FUCK JOJO REEEEEEEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEE WRYYYYYYYYY" The absolute fucking state of you, lad. Just delete your channel homie.
I preferred the previous one just straight up tossing the laugh effect in there rather than trying to replicate it with an instrument, tbh similar with how the one issue I have with the Waluigi Pinball cover he did took out the SPROING sound effect
@@AStandsForFrench It turns out that if he'd kept the Kefka laugh in, he wouldn't be able to put this song up on Spotify and such, due to copyright issues. Apparently they're very strict about using voice samples, sound samples etc.
That's the last remake for the time being, I just really wanted to do Dancing Mad this year, but also knew it would take me a while since it's such a long song. On to some new stuff next week! :)
GaMetal Jonny, this is the best cover of Dancing Mad I’ve heard, ever, beating out even the distant worlds version. You truly have made this song your own! EDIT: oh no the Phase 4 lyrics are gone... oh well doesn’t change that this is the best Dancing Mad cover I’ve seen yet.
IMO, The Original Was Perfect... But Once I Again, I Was Proven That Perfection Can Be Perfected... Somehow... Anyways, This Is Probably My Favorite Cover From U... Only Thing That Would Made It Better Is If U & Uematsu Joined Forces To Make The OST For That FF6 Remake That *WE BETTER GET ON SWITCH!!!* & That FEVII Remake While We're At It
Nah, the composer (that being Uematsu) said Dancing Mad is as long as it is because he had the opposite of writer's block, he couldn't stop adding to the track...
Well, you don't get to stay as the main composer for the better part of the Final Fantasy franchise (in many senses of the word) if you don't ave plenty of inspiration. And even after he left, there's this company called Mistwalker, where all the ones who actually created that better part went after one mistake too much from Square...
He actually has quite a few vocal pieces, and they're some of my favorites! Unfortunately, he's never created a playlist of them, But if you're interested, I have a list of links that I made for myself. 😉
Since I didn't see any, here's some translations for the latin: Gloria = Glory Fortuna = Fortune Deleo = Exterminate Interneco = Kill Poena Mortis = Death Penalty Vorto = Swap Diem = Day Flammus = Flame Nova = New Caelum = Heaven
@George Saffos I think it's more "glorious fortune" "exterminate, kill death, penalty" (all related to ending someone else's life) "swap" "day of flame" "new heaven"
Bit disappointed that he didn’t keep the lyrics in phase 4 part 2, but Y’know, it’s fine when, and I speak for everyone here when I say that, this is the best Dancing Mad remix ever.
Sure, this version is somehow an improvement over something that was already perfect, but without Super Shadow playing the keyboard, is it really a proper Jonny Atma cover of Dancing Mad?
I... I just... I've been sitting here, just basking in what I just heard, for half a damn hour. That was magnificent. I don't think i've ever heard anything THAT good in a long time. Just... Bravo. Holy shit.
When doing the boss fights your self its a whole different story. The adrenalin and our fantasy let snes & playstation sounds sound like apocalyptic orchestra and / or raging heavy metal arrangements. This special kind of genre / style (ff / bof a.s.o.) seem to direct touch our souls and take at least me sometimes to ecstasy like states. Only masterpieces like Dance Of Eternity, and the like, from Bands like Dreamtheater have the same effect on me.
I'm here to subscribe because Horizon's End was at PAX East 2023 this past weekend and played this song to draw people to their booth. Those guys love your stuff and were telling everyone about how talented you are.
This is my favorite arrangement of this song! It's SO good! My jaw literally dropped when you started doing the vocals. It was an absolutely beautiful audio journey, and I appreciate that you took the time to make and upload it 💜
Perfection doesn't come close in describing how awesome of a job you've done with this one. Perhaps a return of the old fedora, just to come full circle? :D
I honestly kind of like the fedora. But I think he said on a QA stream that his dog kinda ate the fedora, and he just took it as a sign to stop wearing it. So, uh, not likely.
Jesus, man. I just woke up at 3:40am and watched a Siivagunner Video of Dancing Mad with the Majoras Mask Soundfont - and here you are underneath it. I clicked not knowing what kind of quality I was falling into to; it went onto the soundbar and now I guess just fuck everyone getting sleep tonight lol
""The world watched from below, gazing in fear, yet also a small, glimmering spark of hope. As they fought against Kefka, the deity himself attacked ruthlessly, attempting to end The Returners, once and for all, even if it meant felling the rest of the world a third time with them...especially if it meant that. Kefka's mortal childhood had not been the kindest to him, always being demanded around to learn the art of combat from a young age, rising the ranks until a general, prompting strategic warfare to be of aid as well. Everything the boy had been through, he hated. He never seemed to take any of it seriously, even as a Gestahlian general. General Leo, another man, was always much more popular among the mass population, and much more loved. Kefka had had a grudge against the man for years. But now, there was no need to even remember the names of all the billions of lives shed for this cause. As The Returners climbed the pieces of Kefka's demonic structure, they had no clue what to expect. Neither did Kefka, whom was placed into medical care by Cid all those years ago. A simple mental patient at the time, he had barely even heard of the term, "MagiTek", yet now it was being embedded into his DNA. Kefka quickly became less of a bitter man, and more overly eccentric, yet still insane to the point of men fearing his very name. Now the man was a living god, who would burn entire towns to the ground with the blink of an eye. The world was dead by his hand, and the only need for religion was prayer towards him. But would it last? Any of it? The Returners all had made it to the top, having destroyed horrendous monuments to the evil deeds Kefka had set into permanent stone. The entire band of warriors would not stop until Kefka was dead. Kefka, however, would not stop until everything else was dead. The entire world could hear the deafening blows from miles above; all praying to their new god for his very death. It was all up to them now. Could it be done? The War of the Magi had already led the world into a nearly irreversible apocalypse, and Kefka had already scorched the world since then to an even worse state. If The Returners couldn't kill Kefka...there would be no second chance. The small, spark of hope now seemed subatomic. Finally, somehow, the final blow had at last been dealt. Time itself seemed to cease. Kefka, the God of Magic, had finally fallen, and would now atone for his sins, his crimes against all living things. As the horrible entity fell from miles above the sky, he slowly blew away in the wind, as if simply a pile of dust. The world was no longer at risk of permanent ruin. Yet, what would become of Terra? Magic itself was vanishing swiftly from the universe; Espers, Magicite, even the remains of Kefka...would Terra succumb to these as well and lose her life to the sudden, swift change? There was no time to answer any of these questions as the tower was beginning to collapse. The Returners needed to escape quickly, lest they too be lost with the wreckage...""
What a fucking masterpiece. For a single guy to manage to record and edit the whole 14 minutes of 4 completely different music… cant imagine how this is possible
Holy shit! I was just randomly searching “Dancing Mad” thinking I wouldn’t really find any new covers. And here I am... you’ve done justice to one of my favorite songs in the franchise and one of my favorite songs of all time. Not only have you stayed true to the arrangement, your notes are as accurate as I can remember. Not even their official live orchestrated performances are as close to the original snes arrangement. Even your drum beat is closer to the original than the black mages version and the official orchestrated versions. 👍
Holy F*CK! This is the best remix of Dancing Mad EVER!!! An i can't believe it took me *this* *long* to find it. The 2nd movement of Dancing Mad is my favorite 'cause i consider it the glue that holds the whole thing together, alot of the different versions i've heard try something weird with the 2nd movement and i forget half the time that Dancing Mad actually has lyrics. This right here though... Is full-on commitment, actually i half expected him to imitate the "Kefka Laugh" at the end as well lol. Well done sir ^.^ In my humble opinion you've elevated Dancing Mad to a whole new tier.
Whenever I search up GaMetal, this is one of the songs that is usually recommended to me a lot from the search results, and I can't believe it took me this long to listen to this. This is so awesome, especially the lyrics in the first tier. So damn epic
I'm pretty sure I got to this point around May of 1995. Got this game for Christmas of '94. Loved it. I remember hearing all 4 sections of this tune around that time. I remember finishing up the school year (I was in 5th grade). Freakin' amazing.
Can you lot just stop asking for requests and appreciate this song? This is an amazing cover Jonny made and it makes me mad most comments aren't appreciating his work, just "Now remix this", give the guy a brake and appreciate what you have in your hands right now folks!
I was not prepared for the vocals, this cover is INSANE. Also that little tease at the end of Kefka's Theme? You really need to give that track the full treatment.
I love the absolute joy on your face when you play this. This proves that you the best here! And this is your best remix)) (sorry for my grammar, I am russian)
Well, after how badly Square screwed up FFVIIR, I don’t know if I want them to remake VI. They’ll just throw in some “arbiter of fate” or some crap like that. Trust me, I want a VI remake as much as anyone, but I don’t trust Square after VIIR.
A remake is not a remaster... Plenty of lore and plot lines set in this world that's not part of the original game. This is not really the case with a lot of the other installments of the series.
Mister Gametal, I guess you should know this by now, but with songs like this you brighten up the lives of many people every day. Including me, of course. I listen to "dancing metal 2019" each day, since the very day you upload It. Keep your great work 👍🤟
Kefka made one critical, strategy defining error... He ticked off a breakdancing moogle who bosses a beefy sasquatch around. I mean, there is brave, there is ballsy, and there's stupid. Don't poke the moogle.
I can't and will never get over the fact of how crazy a masterpiece Dancing Mad is regardless of it being composed to be played by such a limited synthesizer. This cover is a perfect tribute to it.
this is honestly my favorite remix of this song. Counting the official remakes and orchestral versions. I normally multitask while listening to music, but I had to stop all that I was doing to just listen to all of this. Great job, to use the understatement of the century.
Omg that's hardly fair, I just watched your original version and rated that a 15/10 and this was the next video on autoplay. What the hell, man. This is such a great leap forward from the last one (something I didnt think was possible) Fantastic!!
If I didn't know this was Dancing Mad, just from the multiple playstyles I would think this was a collaboration between Mettalica, Boston, and Electric Light Orchestra, my word this is just nuts what is going on here and I am all for it! O.O
I randomly stumbled on your channel while searching for the Lufia 2 boss theme in a bout of nostalgia. "Wow, this guy's really good! I wonder what else he's done." I saw Dancing Mad, my favorite boss theme of all time from my favorite Final Fantasy game of all time. You just got yourself a new subscriber.
AAAUGH THE DISTANT WORLD LYRICS ARE (almost) COMPLETE AND I LOVE IT! I don’t know any way that I can fully express my love for this cover, Jonny. You’re amazing.
I listen to the old version all the time - possibly my favorite song you cover. That you redid it is the stuff of dreams. THANK YOU! Going to donate ASAP 👍
The vibrato dude, technical singer too, you're a one man musical army, that's crazy. Respect and admiration gauges are full, I just can''t express it différently than what it is
I keep forgetting you’ve got only about 100k subscribers. Your audio quality and musical talent is worthy of at least 10 times as many people’s ears. I wanna try making game covers myself soon :)
That was F*CKING AMAZING!!!! Awesome job dude! The only thing missing was that SNES Kefka laugh that is normally in there. I wasn't expecting anything super special when I clicked on this video. But man was I ever suprised. Now I'm gonna show my Final Fantasy VI/Music fan friends. Rock on, my man!
(Comment borrowed from GrahamChapman) 0:00 Heed the first movement, remember the destruction of the world. Now, behold the destruction of life, dreams, hope; it is the fate of all things. 2:50 Heed the second movement, and stand in awe. Now, behold your former vain attempts at stopping the inevitable. 4:44 Heed the third movement, this is the power you oppose. Now, behold your savior and god; there is no salvation, prayers fall on deaf ears. 6:26 Heed the fourth movement, the skies are tearing apart. Now, behold the wild dance of a charming star.
I was wondering if I'd find you somewhere in this comment section and, lo and behold, here we are. Also, wow, you're actually giving me cred for that poem now, too? ´xD ...Feels weird to be credited. It's a "weird" I'm not entirely used to, but it's also a pleasant kinda "weird." ^__^;
@@GrahamChapman I've been seeing comments between you two in places like these for quite a while now, so I feel I should at least ask: What is this about? Did you make that comment, and if so, how did it get so popular?
@@ethanotoroculus1060 Well, since you went ahead and asked I suppose I could share with you that tale: Approximately 8-9 years ago, I went on TH-cam and listened to an upload of the Distant Worlds II version of Dancing Mad (if you haven't heard it yet, go and do so, it's pretty great imo). As I was listening to it I started writing a comment, but mid-sentence I was overcome with a very inspiring sense of "No, I _do not_ want to write a comment that's just going to disappear in the sea of comments! I want this comment to _become_ something! I want it to stand out! Imma write me some goshdarn poetry!" Aaand the comment didn't disappear in the sea of comments... Quite the opposite, in fact; it got _a lot_ of attention. In fact, it got so much attention that when I one day down the line ran a google search to see if I could find the poem again, I actually did end up finding it... but not, to my great surprise, on TH-cam. Rather, it had been posted a little here and there and all over the place. I started occasionally googling the poem, basically just to keep an eye on it, but eventually basically forgot about it... Skip forward to a few months ago (actually, maybe it's more like a year or so ago by now...) when I came across the poem by pure chance in the comment section of some Dancing Mad remix. It had been posted by Nicodapeek and since I was pleasantly surprised to have come across the poem I decided to reach out and strike up a conversation. We chatted for a bit and, yeah, that's just about it, I guess... Nico is still posting my old poem in the comment section of Dancing Mad remixes, but now that we've chatted they're apparently crediting me, too, so that's pretty nice of them I'd say~
This is easily my favorite song he has performed. Dude you are extremely talented. Keep playing those tunes your music helps me to get through my good and bad days.
Jesus man, I remember when your original version of this came out, I thought nothing could top it. Clearly I was wrong, this fuckin' rocked man! I've been following your work since the Newgrounds days and it's actually crazy to see how far your channel has come. Keep up the good work dude!
Listening to this again, I really wish Theatrhythm commited and did the full version of this song too. Also I love the wee bit of just Kefka's theme at the end there too. Wish Theatrhythm had that as well honestly.
wow, I've been in love with your mix of Dancing Mad since it came out. I didn't think there could be a better version of Dancing Mad. Here you are proving me wrong. Keep up the excellent work man.
To think I never would have heard this song if not for this cover. For this, I must extend great thanks. Also, you actually made the third tier as entertaining to listen to as the others. Bravo for that.
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Everybody gansta until the guitarist starts singing in latin
I think that bit at least until 2:25 is actually english
@@SkippytWalrus just turn on sub titles to see
@@solisimperium1203 and i spent so much time comparing the lyrics to his earlier remix of dancing mad
@@SkippytWalrus RIP
The guitarrist?? It's the same guy in all instruments
Dude: "So you're a musician? What instruments do you play?"
Gametal: "Yes."
bruh
This comment deserves way more likes.
"I play the instruments"
I'm not telling!
And now for my all time favourite quote in relation to how much of a masterpiece this song is especially on such limited hardware:
"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like an artist using Crayola crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel."
-Jeremy Jahns
It gets better. You play the GBA port of FF6. You think Dancing Mad is epic.
Then you find out there's a sound restoration patch for it.
That music was good before, now its GODLY
Jeremy Jahns is an hack and poor film reviwer/ critic. I do not place much stock in high profile and youtube preferences movie reviewers on this site.
That doesn't change anything.
It's still a good quote.
not as limited as you think, just have to be creative
@@Santiago-Farrell This was made in like 1994. different world back then.
The moment that you realize that your deep love for prog metal started with Nobuo Uematsu.
exactly this!
I knew it came from somewhere. No wonder dream theater actually kind of fits FF7
7:12 onwardsss
th-cam.com/video/WKNOlDtZluU/w-d-xo.html
this inspired dancing mad.
And Motoi Sakuraba
What I love about dancing mad is the amount of symbolism and tension this song and fight gives off. For those who don’t know the symbolism of the song,
Phase 1 represents Kefka’s lust for death and destruction
Phase 2 represents his insanity
Phase 3 represents his ascension to godhood and even mocks Michelangelo’s pieta and takes a piece of Tocata and fugue in d minor
Phase 4 is Kefka himself and it even cuts to a sad part to represent that Kefka is going to die for everything he did
I always saw it as:
T1: Rooted in ice, a wasteland that is and will be. Hell is the foundation of reality and existence.
T2: Repetition, mindless ad nauseum. The mortal world is a cyclic mess that repeats its mistakes forever.
T3: Ascension is Egoism. The only reason people strive to help others is for their own selfish desires.
T4: *I Am* above all of this. I will destroy everything to free you all.
t. hermeticist
It’s also a play on the divine comedy.
Rising from the frozen and dark depths of a torturous hell, through the looping insanity of purgatory, and into the gates of heavenly paradise. And at the end, God tells Jacob what the meaning of life is.
“Life... Hope... Dreams...
Where’d they come from? And where’re they going?
Such meaningless things... are mine to destroy!”
-Kefka to the party right as you reach him.
I thought it was supposed to represent hell, purgatory, and then heaven
@@madlyfwipp9511 that's right that's what it represents
No, pause four is victory. He has won, he lets you die by his hand because he accomplished what most other FF villains dream of. If he killed you what would he do? He's already demolished everything. His life would be without purpose.
One-Winged Angel: I'm sooo epic
Dancing Mad: First time??
Holy shit this has to be one of the best Dancing Mad remixes on TH-cam, if not the best!
Oh hey! Didn't expect you to be here.
Yo, how you doin?
The Rpg Monger Hello kirby theorist.
"I love JoJo"
Views drop off between parts 4 and 5's adaptation due to manga hiatuses and forced "part 5 never" memes.
"HERE'S WHY THE JOJO FANBASE IS THE MOST CANCEROUS FANBASE ON EARTH AND HERE'S WHY JOJO IS OVERATED FUCK JOJO FUCK JOJO FUCK JOJO REEEEEEEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEE WRYYYYYYYYY"
The absolute fucking state of you, lad. Just delete your channel homie.
@@GoyBenius_0901 hey what are you talking about? he did something jojo related?
9:04 I love how you replicated Kefka's laugh with the guitar
Kefka: *laughs in metal*
I preferred the previous one just straight up tossing the laugh effect in there rather than trying to replicate it with an instrument, tbh
similar with how the one issue I have with the Waluigi Pinball cover he did took out the SPROING sound effect
@@AStandsForFrench It turns out that if he'd kept the Kefka laugh in, he wouldn't be able to put this song up on Spotify and such, due to copyright issues. Apparently they're very strict about using voice samples, sound samples etc.
The end comes beyond chaos...
*Kefka laughs, then casts Goner*
@@AStandsForFrench I agree, I prefer Kefka's memorable laugh.
Life...Dreams...Hope...where do they come from? And where do they go? Such meaningless things... *I'll destroy them all!*
Where do they come from, where do they go, where do dreams come from, cotton eyed joe
Kefka- The Joker but going through an existential crisis
Where do they come from Cotton Eye Joe? *Kefka laughs*
Edit: ... Just saw the replies... >_>
I_Am_Dragoon you fool, you fell for my classic blunder
@@boomdini9744 i smell game grumps
That's the last remake for the time being, I just really wanted to do Dancing Mad this year, but also knew it would take me a while since it's such a long song. On to some new stuff next week! :)
GaMetal
Jonny, this is the best cover of Dancing Mad I’ve heard, ever, beating out even the distant worlds version. You truly have made this song your own!
EDIT: oh no the Phase 4 lyrics are gone... oh well doesn’t change that this is the best Dancing Mad cover I’ve seen yet.
This is sick Johnny, the ultimate Proggy game song!
Gametal do the final boss on super Mario Galaxy 2 please
Ya did good lad ya did good
IMO, The Original Was Perfect... But Once I Again, I Was Proven That Perfection Can Be Perfected... Somehow... Anyways, This Is Probably My Favorite Cover From U... Only Thing That Would Made It Better Is If U & Uematsu Joined Forces To Make The OST For That FF6 Remake That *WE BETTER GET ON SWITCH!!!* & That FEVII Remake While We're At It
2014 GaMetal: Hahaha noone will ever be able to top my Dancing Mad remix!
2019 GaMetal: *hold my beer*
DaesPlays What? So he's talking to himself?
Yes... well no... uh... maybe?
@@daesplays8737 Timetravel...
@@aksis2111 ...Ruins everything. Don't let him do it.
So he just passes a beer from his left hand to the right then?
素晴らしい！素晴らしい！素晴らしい！素晴らしい！Excellent！Excellent！Excellent！Excellent！Excellent！Excellent！Excellent！Thanks upload！from Japan！
This song was the true final boss for the composers
Nah, the composer (that being Uematsu) said Dancing Mad is as long as it is because he had the opposite of writer's block, he couldn't stop adding to the track...
That man was feeling inspired
Well, you don't get to stay as the main composer for the better part of the Final Fantasy franchise (in many senses of the word) if you don't ave plenty of inspiration. And even after he left, there's this company called Mistwalker, where all the ones who actually created that better part went after one mistake too much from Square...
@@ezekielbaskerville2710 Not that Mistwalker's had an especially impressive run either.
Christopher Moon and musicians, it’s crazy complex
I've never heard him sing before.
Holy shit. He needs to do this more.
He actually has quite a few vocal pieces, and they're some of my favorites! Unfortunately, he's never created a playlist of them, But if you're interested, I have a list of links that I made for myself. 😉
@@micchristian5817
I'd be interested in it lol
It's a good thing Jonny recently made a playlist of every single vocal song he has.
ってお前が歌うんかいｯ!!
とツッコんでしまったわ。
ジャパニーズジョークだよ。
とにかく凄いな。全てを1人でこなしてる。
エリック クラプトンじゃん。
I don’t understand how this psychopathic man clown has my favorite ff final boss theme
Kefka is a GOD of a villain. Supreme amongst his co-horts! It should follow this was his ultimate battle theme.
Simple:He belongs in league of greater villains there is...
League of Villains that 𝐖𝐎𝐍
Me: Nice, a metal dancing mad cover...
*Vocals kick in*
*face melted*
Kefka isn't a Villian...
HE'S A SUPER VILLIAN!
how? Presentation!
Since I didn't see any, here's some translations for the latin:
Gloria = Glory
Fortuna = Fortune
Deleo = Exterminate
Interneco = Kill
Poena Mortis = Death Penalty
Vorto = Swap
Diem = Day
Flammus = Flame
Nova = New
Caelum = Heaven
@George Saffos I think it's more "glorious fortune" "exterminate, kill death, penalty" (all related to ending someone else's life) "swap" "day of flame" "new heaven"
Hey thanks
Those vocals are fucking amazing, Absolutely beautiful.
Agreed! I’m shocked he didn’t put the lyrics again for this one. Still super awesome!
Bit disappointed that he didn’t keep the lyrics in phase 4 part 2, but Y’know, it’s fine when, and I speak for everyone here when I say that, this is the best Dancing Mad remix ever.
Humans evolved ears for the sole purpose of hearing this.
The mad jester would definitely spare you from utter annihilation if you presented him with this.
I suppose
Heh. Those he annihilated were the lucky ones. The rest who live are doomed to an existence in a dead world. Kefka truly is cruel…
There has not been a Final Fantasy cover that has managed to surpass a Black Mages remix. This is the first for me and it's glorious.
Have you checked out the Symphonic Arrange by Sangnoksu? It's definitely one of the best imo.
@@handson920 Thanks for the recommendation! Tried it out but it's not my cup of tea. Thanks still!
@@71775926 You're welcome!
Sure, this version is somehow an improvement over something that was already perfect, but without Super Shadow playing the keyboard, is it really a proper Jonny Atma cover of Dancing Mad?
Lol
@Deso Lark YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU HERETIC!!!
(6 months later)
It's because Shadow's in the gameplay during Phase 1. Did nobody else notice?
ChaosMiles07 bro you have a point
@@chaosmiles07 (4 months later)
Oh hey miles
I bet Mr. Uematsu heard this and felt how much respect and work were put into this cover. Fucking amazing.
I was JUST listening to the 2014 version more recently, this is madness (But a good kind)!
Almost makes you wanna dance, huh?
@@gratuitouslurking8610 Madly.
😉👍
Madness?
*THIS IS SPARTA!*
@@murakumo65
We went back to 2014, not 2009.
@@HEX33C1FF
looks like the time machine didnt work for him
Okay, so we have One Winged Angel, we have Dancing Mad...
*_Can we have The Extreme now?_*
The Extreme would be so great
That and / or "Dark messenger "
Yesyesyes pleasepleaseplease
Neo-Exdeath too
I'd love to see Zeromus too
I... I just...
I've been sitting here, just basking in what I just heard, for half a damn hour. That was magnificent. I don't think i've ever heard anything THAT good in a long time. Just... Bravo. Holy shit.
This is basically what I heard in my head as a 10 year old, fighting Kefka for the first time. Thank you.
When doing the boss fights your self its a whole different story. The adrenalin and our fantasy let snes & playstation sounds sound like apocalyptic orchestra and / or raging heavy metal arrangements. This special kind of genre / style (ff / bof a.s.o.) seem to direct touch our souls and take at least me sometimes to ecstasy like states. Only masterpieces like Dance Of Eternity, and the like, from Bands like Dreamtheater have the same effect on me.
Top Ten Dancing Mad Remixes:
1. This one
2. The first one he made
3. That’s it, that’s all you need.
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I'm here to subscribe because Horizon's End was at PAX East 2023 this past weekend and played this song to draw people to their booth. Those guys love your stuff and were telling everyone about how talented you are.
This is my favorite arrangement of this song! It's SO good! My jaw literally dropped when you started doing the vocals. It was an absolutely beautiful audio journey, and I appreciate that you took the time to make and upload it 💜
Tier 1: 0:00
Tier 2: 2:50
Tier 3: 4:50
Tier 4: 6:26
What are tiers?
Santiago Gomez basically the levels or phases of the song
Tier 2 and tier 4 👍🏻
You're a mobile legend
Hmmmmm i wonder why my comment didnt get the notice but someone else making the same one does 🤔
Perfection doesn't come close in describing how awesome of a job you've done with this one.
Perhaps a return of the old fedora, just to come full circle? :D
I honestly kind of like the fedora. But I think he said on a QA stream that his dog kinda ate the fedora, and he just took it as a sign to stop wearing it. So, uh, not likely.
Yeah I remember that, that particular fedora is long gone but...another one could take its place, if that was to ever happen. C:
No
Jesus, man. I just woke up at 3:40am and watched a Siivagunner Video of Dancing Mad with the Majoras Mask Soundfont - and here you are underneath it. I clicked not knowing what kind of quality I was falling into to; it went onto the soundbar and now I guess just fuck everyone getting sleep tonight lol
Ahem.
There's GaMetal in my playlist.
Yes and you r problem is what? Is there not enough of it?
@@singletona082 And thus, you missed the reference.
@@handson920 Lay off man i haven't played ff6 in twenty years.
insane cultist hello fellow terrarian
素晴らしい！！
この曲大好きです！！！
ありがとうございます！！！！
10 years since the original cover..
Man where does the time go 🥲
""The world watched from below, gazing in fear, yet also a small, glimmering spark of hope. As they fought against Kefka, the deity himself attacked ruthlessly, attempting to end The Returners, once and for all, even if it meant felling the rest of the world a third time with them...especially if it meant that. Kefka's mortal childhood had not been the kindest to him, always being demanded around to learn the art of combat from a young age, rising the ranks until a general, prompting strategic warfare to be of aid as well. Everything the boy had been through, he hated. He never seemed to take any of it seriously, even as a Gestahlian general. General Leo, another man, was always much more popular among the mass population, and much more loved. Kefka had had a grudge against the man for years. But now, there was no need to even remember the names of all the billions of lives shed for this cause. As The Returners climbed the pieces of Kefka's demonic structure, they had no clue what to expect. Neither did Kefka, whom was placed into medical care by Cid all those years ago. A simple mental patient at the time, he had barely even heard of the term, "MagiTek", yet now it was being embedded into his DNA. Kefka quickly became less of a bitter man, and more overly eccentric, yet still insane to the point of men fearing his very name. Now the man was a living god, who would burn entire towns to the ground with the blink of an eye. The world was dead by his hand, and the only need for religion was prayer towards him. But would it last? Any of it? The Returners all had made it to the top, having destroyed horrendous monuments to the evil deeds Kefka had set into permanent stone. The entire band of warriors would not stop until Kefka was dead. Kefka, however, would not stop until everything else was dead. The entire world could hear the deafening blows from miles above; all praying to their new god for his very death. It was all up to them now. Could it be done? The War of the Magi had already led the world into a nearly irreversible apocalypse, and Kefka had already scorched the world since then to an even worse state. If The Returners couldn't kill Kefka...there would be no second chance. The small, spark of hope now seemed subatomic. Finally, somehow, the final blow had at last been dealt. Time itself seemed to cease. Kefka, the God of Magic, had finally fallen, and would now atone for his sins, his crimes against all living things. As the horrible entity fell from miles above the sky, he slowly blew away in the wind, as if simply a pile of dust. The world was no longer at risk of permanent ruin. Yet, what would become of Terra? Magic itself was vanishing swiftly from the universe; Espers, Magicite, even the remains of Kefka...would Terra succumb to these as well and lose her life to the sudden, swift change? There was no time to answer any of these questions as the tower was beginning to collapse. The Returners needed to escape quickly, lest they too be lost with the wreckage...""
What is this quote from?
Where is this from?
Holy shit, that was an amazing quote, where is it from?
To answer all of your questions, it seems to me that he simply wrote it himself.
I will give the closer to Terra's story. She held to her human side strong enough and as magic and her esper form dissapeared, Terra lived.
The absolute pipes on this lad.
Possibly the best Dancing Mad metal remix on TH-cam.
5 years later the opera singing is still 10/10
Your original cover of Dancing mad is how I discovered your channel, it's amazing how far you've come since.
Never stop being awesome.
What a fucking masterpiece. For a single guy to manage to record and edit the whole 14 minutes of 4 completely different music… cant imagine how this is possible
You can never have enough Dancing Mad in your life.
Holy shit! I was just randomly searching “Dancing Mad” thinking I wouldn’t really find any new covers. And here I am... you’ve done justice to one of my favorite songs in the franchise and one of my favorite songs of all time. Not only have you stayed true to the arrangement, your notes are as accurate as I can remember. Not even their official live orchestrated performances are as close to the original snes arrangement. Even your drum beat is closer to the original than the black mages version and the official orchestrated versions. 👍
"Dancing Mad 2014 is evolving!!!"
*Dancing Mad 2019 appears*
Ears exploding of pure joy.
Dancing Mad 2019 used Perish Song!
The perish count fell to 13:05!
13 minutes for a single song. You are the mad man!
The Dancing Mad man!
As someone who loves ff6 as my favorite RPG and metal as my favorite genre of music I agree with this mans taste on all accounts
Holy F*CK! This is the best remix of Dancing Mad EVER!!! An i can't believe it took me *this* *long* to find it.
The 2nd movement of Dancing Mad is my favorite 'cause i consider it the glue that holds the whole thing together, alot of the different versions i've heard try something weird with the 2nd movement and i forget half the time that Dancing Mad actually has lyrics.
This right here though... Is full-on commitment, actually i half expected him to imitate the "Kefka Laugh" at the end as well lol.
Well done sir ^.^
In my humble opinion you've elevated Dancing Mad to a whole new tier.
He did! 9:04 🤠
Whenever I search up GaMetal, this is one of the songs that is usually recommended to me a lot from the search results, and I can't believe it took me this long to listen to this. This is so awesome, especially the lyrics in the first tier. So damn epic
Hot damn... I never even heard the original and this made me cry. Astounding performance!
I'm pretty sure I got to this point around May of 1995. Got this game for Christmas of '94. Loved it. I remember hearing all 4 sections of this tune around that time. I remember finishing up the school year (I was in 5th grade). Freakin' amazing.
For this level of performance. You deserve to have atleast 10 times the amount of subscribers you have now.
Damn. I was not expecting my man to bust out the one man choir to accompany the track. Bad ass dude
I can't believe you remade this! The original was pretty good, but this... this is perfection.
Can you lot just stop asking for requests and appreciate this song? This is an amazing cover Jonny made and it makes me mad most comments aren't appreciating his work, just "Now remix this", give the guy a brake and appreciate what you have in your hands right now folks!
I was not prepared for the vocals, this cover is INSANE.
Also that little tease at the end of Kefka's Theme? You really need to give that track the full treatment.
*_The end comes... beyond chaos._*
video length: 13:05
W E W L A D
(the good kind of "wew lad", though)
Never played final fantasy, at least not yet. Did NOT expect this to go so hard
The original was on SNES too so let that sink in.
This is the first dancing mad remix I heard and I already think that this is the best remix I will ever find.
I love the absolute joy on your face when you play this. This proves that you the best here! And this is your best remix))
(sorry for my grammar, I am russian)
Антон Стрелков I guess you where RUSSIAN while typing.
@@N..O Puns don't work as well with homophone errors.
No worries, your English is great
Best version hands down. Not only are you a multi instrumentalist but you also sing which really impressed me in this opera style.
You're amazing man! Please do the Zeromus theme. Keep doing those awesome show covers
I got goosebumps from this...AWESOME JOB GAMETAL!
The original god-like psycho-clown. Oh, and this cover is legendary.
hands down best cover for this song. those guitars are freaking gorgeous!
Bro. Epic sauce!! We need a full Final Fantasy Epic Orchestral your!
THEY NEED TO REMAKE THIS FKING GAME ONCE AND FORALL BEST FF EVER
Well, after how badly Square screwed up FFVIIR, I don’t know if I want them to remake VI. They’ll just throw in some “arbiter of fate” or some crap like that. Trust me, I want a VI remake as much as anyone, but I don’t trust Square after VIIR.
@@nicholasmendoza3550 I seriously doubt that FF7R is a "remake", as long as I see is a sequel disguise as a remake.
A remake is not a remaster... Plenty of lore and plot lines set in this world that's not part of the original game. This is not really the case with a lot of the other installments of the series.
Mister Gametal, I guess you should know this by now, but with songs like this you brighten up the lives of many people every day. Including me, of course.
I listen to "dancing metal 2019" each day, since the very day you upload It.
Keep your great work 👍🤟
Kefka made one critical, strategy defining error... He ticked off a breakdancing moogle who bosses a beefy sasquatch around. I mean, there is brave, there is ballsy, and there's stupid. Don't poke the moogle.
I can't and will never get over the fact of how crazy a masterpiece Dancing Mad is regardless of it being composed to be played by such a limited synthesizer.
This cover is a perfect tribute to it.
this is honestly my favorite remix of this song. Counting the official remakes and orchestral versions. I normally multitask while listening to music, but I had to stop all that I was doing to just listen to all of this. Great job, to use the understatement of the century.
Holy f….. that made my year. 69420 out of 10 thank you for this, amazing
I'm kinda speechless. Probably the best rendition on YT
Omg that's hardly fair, I just watched your original version and rated that a 15/10 and this was the next video on autoplay. What the hell, man. This is such a great leap forward from the last one (something I didnt think was possible) Fantastic!!
11:30 Planets finest arpeggio work. Yngwie's got nothing on you...
If I didn't know this was Dancing Mad, just from the multiple playstyles I would think this was a collaboration between Mettalica, Boston, and Electric Light Orchestra, my word this is just nuts what is going on here and I am all for it! O.O
Your voice is so powerful, just like your instruments skills! Super remix of your pre-existing remix! ♥
I randomly stumbled on your channel while searching for the Lufia 2 boss theme in a bout of nostalgia.
"Wow, this guy's really good! I wonder what else he's done."
I saw Dancing Mad, my favorite boss theme of all time from my favorite Final Fantasy game of all time.
You just got yourself a new subscriber.
AAAUGH THE DISTANT WORLD LYRICS ARE (almost) COMPLETE AND I LOVE IT!
I don’t know any way that I can fully express my love for this cover, Jonny. You’re amazing.
I arrived here. And I am truly blown away. Bravo sir. Bravo.
I listen to the old version all the time - possibly my favorite song you cover. That you redid it is the stuff of dreams. THANK YOU! Going to donate ASAP 👍
Can I just point out how *MAGNIFICENT* the Puzzles and Dragons Kefka art is for the thumbnail?
Oh my god, he sings too?!
The vibrato dude, technical singer too, you're a one man musical army, that's crazy. Respect and admiration gauges are full, I just can''t express it différently than what it is
Man. I remember getting the original version when you made it. And now this one is just intense.
I keep forgetting you’ve got only about 100k subscribers. Your audio quality and musical talent is worthy of at least 10 times as many people’s ears. I wanna try making game covers myself soon :)
YES! The original was one of my favorite covers of yours but I always wanted to hear it with the improved quality your channel has now. Amazing job.
Dam hearing your voice makes me want to hear you do the ff6 opera...
Have you seen the cover by Jake Kaufman? It’s called The Impresario I think, it’s basically a Queen-style cover of the FF6 opera.
@@lordtobias3016 I know little about FF6, but The Impresario is one of the best songs I know.
@lordtobias3016 I'm so very late replying to this but hell yes the impresario is incredible thank you
Hey, don't mind me. I'm just dropping in to tell you that this is literally perfection, and that you should be very proud of yourself.
I like how you can say anything random but it will sound deep with the right opera voice
Everytime I feel angry or anxious, I come to listen to this madness masterpiece
That was F*CKING AMAZING!!!! Awesome job dude! The only thing missing was that SNES Kefka laugh that is normally in there. I wasn't expecting anything super special when I clicked on this video. But man was I ever suprised. Now I'm gonna show my Final Fantasy VI/Music fan friends. Rock on, my man!
He plays it on the guitar, here, Pilgrim 🤠
9:04
(Comment borrowed from GrahamChapman)
0:00 Heed the first movement, remember the destruction of the world. Now, behold the destruction of life, dreams, hope; it is the fate of all things.
2:50 Heed the second movement, and stand in awe. Now, behold your former vain attempts at stopping the inevitable.
4:44 Heed the third movement, this is the power you oppose. Now, behold your savior and god; there is no salvation, prayers fall on deaf ears.
6:26 Heed the fourth movement, the skies are tearing apart. Now, behold the wild dance of a charming star.
I was wondering if I'd find you somewhere in this comment section and, lo and behold, here we are.
Also, wow, you're actually giving me cred for that poem now, too? ´xD ...Feels weird to be credited. It's a "weird" I'm not entirely used to, but it's also a pleasant kinda "weird." ^__^;
@@GrahamChapman I've been seeing comments between you two in places like these for quite a while now, so I feel I should at least ask: What is this about? Did you make that comment, and if so, how did it get so popular?
@@ethanotoroculus1060 Well, since you went ahead and asked I suppose I could share with you that tale: Approximately 8-9 years ago, I went on TH-cam and listened to an upload of the Distant Worlds II version of Dancing Mad (if you haven't heard it yet, go and do so, it's pretty great imo). As I was listening to it I started writing a comment, but mid-sentence I was overcome with a very inspiring sense of "No, I _do not_ want to write a comment that's just going to disappear in the sea of comments! I want this comment to _become_ something! I want it to stand out! Imma write me some goshdarn poetry!" Aaand the comment didn't disappear in the sea of comments... Quite the opposite, in fact; it got _a lot_ of attention. In fact, it got so much attention that when I one day down the line ran a google search to see if I could find the poem again, I actually did end up finding it... but not, to my great surprise, on TH-cam. Rather, it had been posted a little here and there and all over the place. I started occasionally googling the poem, basically just to keep an eye on it, but eventually basically forgot about it... Skip forward to a few months ago (actually, maybe it's more like a year or so ago by now...) when I came across the poem by pure chance in the comment section of some Dancing Mad remix. It had been posted by Nicodapeek and since I was pleasantly surprised to have come across the poem I decided to reach out and strike up a conversation. We chatted for a bit and, yeah, that's just about it, I guess... Nico is still posting my old poem in the comment section of Dancing Mad remixes, but now that we've chatted they're apparently crediting me, too, so that's pretty nice of them I'd say~
@@GrahamChapman What a unique and incredible journey you've had.
@@GrahamChapman What can I say? You're a masterclass at writing. :D
This is easily my favorite song he has performed. Dude you are extremely talented. Keep playing those tunes your music helps me to get through my good and bad days.
Jesus man, I remember when your original version of this came out, I thought nothing could top it. Clearly I was wrong, this fuckin' rocked man! I've been following your work since the Newgrounds days and it's actually crazy to see how far your channel has come. Keep up the good work dude!
Listening to this again, I really wish Theatrhythm commited and did the full version of this song too. Also I love the wee bit of just Kefka's theme at the end there too. Wish Theatrhythm had that as well honestly.
wow, I've been in love with your mix of Dancing Mad since it came out. I didn't think there could be a better version of Dancing Mad. Here you are proving me wrong. Keep up the excellent work man.
To think I never would have heard this song if not for this cover. For this, I must extend great thanks.
Also, you actually made the third tier as entertaining to listen to as the others. Bravo for that.