I Turned The ENTIRE Lord Of The Rings Movie Into A 3 Hour Metal Song

Howard Shore’s music from the legendary Lord Of The Rings movie trilogy captivated me ever since I first heard it way back in 2001. It was so epic, majestic, pretty damn Metal! It was my hope that one day someone would make a full Metal version of the films, but alas that day never came. So as a culmination of months of pandemic-induced boredom/frustration/madness I plucked up the courage to finally do it myself! Several months later, I proudly present the entirety of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring presented as one giant Metal song! 🤘 00:00:00 Disclaimer 00:00:23 Prologue: One Ring To Rule Them All 00:07:43 The Shire 00:10:33 Bag End 00:15:51 Very Old Friends 00:20:00 Flaming Red Hair 00:21:53 Farewell Dear Bilbo 00:24:58 Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe 00:35:54 A Conspiracy Unmasked 00:43:10 Three Is Company 00:45:08 The Passing Of The Elves 00:46:31 Saruman The White 00:51:55 A Shortcut To Mushrooms 00:58:29 Strider 01:02:40 The Nazgul 01:11:37 Weathertop 01:13:48 The Caverns Of Isengard 01:18:51 Give Up The Halfling 01:25:10 Orthanc 01:26:22 Rivendell 01:30:52 The Sword That Was Broken 01:35:23 The Council Of Elrond Assembles 01:39:50 The Great Eye 01:45:48 Gilraen’s Memorial 01:51:38 The Pass Of Caradhras 01:57:44 The Doors Of Durin 02:04:30 Moria 02:07:04 Gollum 02:09:30 Balin’s Tomb 02:21:47 Khazad-dum 02:29:46 Caras Galadhon 02:39:07 The Mirror Of Galadriel 02:46:39 The Fighting Uruk-hai 02:58:58 Parth Galen 03:08:48 The Departure Of Boromir 03:15:11 The Road Goes Ever On Here’s some questions you may have about the video... ⮞ Which movie is it? The Fellowship Of The Ring, the 1st one. ⮞ Is it the extended version? Of course! ⮞ Will it work if I try and sync this to the original movie? Yes! I played on top of the extended Blu-ray edition, so if you start this video at the same time as your Blu-ray copy it should line up perfectly. ⮞ How was this done? I imported my 5.1 surround-sound version of the Blu-ray into Reaper so I could split the audio tracks up into separate channels. The majority of the dialogue is in a single channel, so I could mute it and be left with an almost-instrumental version of the movie. I then had to painstakingly tempo-map the entire movie audio to a grid so that I could program drums over it. Once tempo-mapping was done it was “just“ a case of laying-down all the drums and guitars. Thankfully I had the orchestral score as a reference guide which sped-up the process significantly! ⮞ How long did it take? - Tempo-mapping and programming drums: 2 months - Recording Guitars: 1 month - Mixing: 3 days - Filming: 4 days - Editing: 3 days ⮞ Are you miming? Yes, and very badly too. Sorry! It would just be horrendously stressful to be filming whilst recording. ⮞ Why is your performance so boring? The music is constantly changing tempo and time signature so I have to really be paying attention to cues on my screen. This shit’s way too confusing to remember by heart 😂 ⮞ Was the project difficult? The music itself was very easy; cinematic music in general is usually not very demanding technically. It was however incredibly monotonous, dull and time-consuming; which is a challenge in itself! ⮞ Why does the mixing suck? It would take months to get every single part balanced perfectly and i’m really not up for investing so much additional time on this mess 😂. I feel like I got it to a listenable standard and that’s fine for me. ⮞ Why is the movie blurred-out? I wanted to display the movie in some form to provide a bit of context to what’s going on, but I also don’t wanna antagonize the rights holders so I had to compromise. ⮞ Why does the dialogue sound weird? Even though the main dialogue channel has been muted, there’s still some spill-over and reverb on the other channels. A few bits of dialogue are also baked-into all audio channels (such as many of Galadriel’s lines) so it’s impossible to eliminate those. ⮞ Will you do the other 2 movies? Absolutely not! I may do another movie in the future but DEFINITELY not one as long as this again. ⮞ Did you really wear the same t-shirt throughout the whole filming duration? Yes and I vowed not to wash it until I was finished as encouragement. ------------------------------- 🤘 My Socials & Music! 👉