Melodies Zone and fan composer KB release Sonic The Fighters: Redux cover album digitally and on CD
Did you know that Sonic the Fighters turned 30 years old this year? Melodies Zone and composer Kamikaze Bitch (Henceforth KB) decided to celebrate the occasion with the release of a whole album covering the game’s entire soundtrack.
Sonic the Fighters was one of Sonic the Hedgehog’s very few arcade games and one of only two fighting games starring our favorite hedgehog (Not counting the Super Smash Bros. series). It was designed by the team at Sega AM2 that worked on Fighting Vipers and is very similar to that game, but with a very different kind of upbeat soundtrack originally composed by Maki Morrow and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. Now, all 24 of the game’s songs were recently remixed by the talented EDM composer KB and compiled into a whole album now available to stream or purchase called Sonic the Fighters: Redux. As of this writing, there are even physical CDs you can buy if you’re one of the cool kids who collects those today.
The whole album maintains the entire upbeat, cartoonish nature of the game and its soundtrack, with an eclectic variety of instrumentation. As a love letter to Sonic the Fighters, it should please any fan of that game’s music and make clear what a fan KB himself is of the game (As well as a different fighting game series from Sega AM2, which you may be able to guess from the album art.) If you wanna hear this treat to the ears, gather all 8 Chaos Emeralds and take the one-seater rocket past the break to read more.