The guys from the band Checkmate are very close friends of mine and one day I told them "I'll show you how it would be if you guys were a progressive metal band". They provided me with the vocal stem track and here's the result.
This is a quite tricky exercice to Mashup around an already "metal" song but it's very interesting.
All is midi programmed except that this time I asked to my beloved friend Pierre Danel to add more Guitar Awesomeness to it with a crazy solo
Original Artist : Checkmate
Track Title : Invictus
credits
from The Mashed Experiments,
released May 23, 2014
Guitar Solo : Pierre Danel
Everything else : Steeves Hostin
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