{"id":6691,"date":"2022-08-15T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T12:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/15\/metal-hellsinger-where-video-games-and-heavy-metal-music-collide\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T12:37:36","slug":"metal-hellsinger-where-video-games-and-heavy-metal-music-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/15\/metal-hellsinger-where-video-games-and-heavy-metal-music-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal: Hellsinger \u2013 where video games and heavy-metal music collide"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a blistering bespoke soundtrack, and featuring artists such as System of a Down\u2019s Serj Tankian, this shooter is a metalhead\u2019s fever dream<\/p>\n

Video games and heavy metal music have long shared a passing curiosity with one another. Look no further than the iconography of Doom, or Tim Schafer\u2019s Br\u00fctal Legend<\/a>, for evidence of that. But it was in the mid 00s \u2013 during the reign of music and rhythm games such as Guitar Hero \u2013 that the link was most obvious. Count me among the ranks of those who learned about Pantera and Megadeth by way of the plastic instrument.<\/p>\n

Which is why this year\u2019s Metal: Hellsinger<\/a> is on my radar. The game is a cross between a first person shooter and a rhythm game: by matching your shooting to the tempo of the music, you build a score multiplier that increases the damage you deal. We\u2019ve seen this before in BPM: Bullets Per Minute<\/a>, but Metal: Hellsinger brings its own setting and original heavy metal soundtrack to the party.<\/p>\n

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\nWith a blistering bespoke soundtrack, and featuring artists such as System of a Down\u2019s Serj Tankian, this shooter is a metalhead\u2019s fever dream
\nVideo games and heavy metal music have long shared a passing curiosity with one another. Look no further than the iconography of Doom, or Tim Schafer\u2019s Br\u00fctal Legend, for evidence of that. But it was in the mid 00s \u2013 during the reign of music and rhythm games such as Guitar Hero \u2013 that the link was most obvious. Count me among the ranks of those who learned about Pantera and Megadeth by way of the plastic instrument.
\nWhich is why this year\u2019s Metal: Hellsinger is on my radar. The game is a cross between a first person shooter and a rhythm game: by matching your shooting to the tempo of the music, you build a score multiplier that increases the damage you deal. We\u2019ve seen this before in BPM: Bullets Per Minute, but Metal: Hellsinger brings its own setting and original heavy metal soundtrack to the party. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a blistering bespoke soundtrack, and featuring artists such as System of a Down\u2019s Serj Tankian, this shooter is a metalhead\u2019s fever dream Video games and heavy metal music have long shared a passing curiosity with one another. Look no further than the iconography of Doom, or Tim Schafer\u2019s Br\u00fctal Legend, for evidence of that. …<\/p>\n

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