It's me again. Happy The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth sixth anniversary! Thank you for your continued support, your hugs, shitposts, Isaac memes and dedication to the game. It means a lot to the team. So you may recall a few weeks ago we interview Team Ridiculon. Well, we're not going to do that again. At least not today. What we are going to do is continue to preview some of the rad tracks from The Binding of Isaac: Repentance in the coming weeks. This week we've tracked down (get it) Matthias to give us a new, um, song. It's called Fissure and it's your new favorite song. He also walks us through some of the more granular, fine details of the music.
So what should you expect while you listen to this track? Fissure AKA Mines has a really slapping half-time groove. Matthias and Jon want you to feels like youre getting sucked into the earth with elements like distant anvils are clanging away. Also.. Jon is literally destroying the guitar in the B section. It sounds like hes actually plucking feathers off of a live chicken. Matthias also played RotoToms. Which is a very dear part of his metal youth. Like other thematic songs in the Isaac work, the melody is Sad and Proud and Dissonant. What you are hearing in this teaser is both the Light and Dark worlds back-to-back. In usual Ridiculon fashion, the sound team continued to iterate on this one until they were happy with the feel and sound of the song. For Fissure it was four attempts to achieve the strangling guitar sound, the coaxing out textures that stray from traditional harmony. This particular track is filled with wonderful guitar noise. It's a Minor in straight up 4/4 time Also... Please note the cool backwards drums.
Chord progression (for those asking) is a secret recipe. Youll have to come find Ridiculon on Cape Cod and transcribe it in person on the back porch of the studio. Winters are cold so please wait to visit them until summer of 2077. Itll be like Rey finding Luke on that really tall rock near the ocean. Hopefully they don't just throw away a perfectly good lightsaber.