Zelda Meets Tool: The Progressive Metal Reimagining
Tool-inspired progressive metal reimagines The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with polyrhythmic grooves, dark atmosphere, and hypnotic builds. A heavy, cerebral cover of classic N64 game music for focus, immersion, and depth.
//They gave me a fairy.
Told me to listen.
I didn’t know why time felt thin there.
Why the forest breathed like it was waiting.
I just followed the sound.
The first door didn’t open forward.
It opened *elsewhere*.
I left as a child.
I returned as something heavier.
Seven years don’t pass quietly.
They settle into the bones.
Every place I knew remembered me wrong.
Friends aged.
Enemies grew bold.
The land learned how to endure without hope.
I learned how to move without fear.
The ocarina didn’t change the world.
It changed when I stood in it.
Each song asked for restraint.
Each temple demanded balance.
Strength alone only made things worse.
I fought monsters that were really echoes.
Regret. Hunger. Pride.
They wear armor better than steel.
When I finally faced him, it wasn’t rage.
It was inevitability.
Time had brought us both there.
I didn’t win by force.
I won by arriving when I was supposed to.
When it was over, the future closed behind me.
The past opened its arms.
I laid the sword down.
Not because the fight was done—
but because I understood it.
Courage isn’t charging ahead.
It’s walking forward
knowing you may never be seen as who you became.
And still choosing to protect what comes next.
//Tracklist
00:00 Title Theme
05:01 Deku Tree
09:12 Fairy Flying
11:20 House
13:42 Kokiri Forest
17:57 Shop
20:06 Battle
21:47 Inside the Deku Tree
25:22 Boss Battle
27:25 Legend of Hyrule
31:02 Hyrule Field Main Theme
35:52 Kaeopora Gaebora’s Theme
38:35 Market
40:53 Shooting Gallery
42:55 Hyrule Castle Courtyard
46:00 Zelda’s Theme
48:23 Lon Lon Ranch
50:42 Mini Game
52:22 Kakariko Village
54:11 Hyrule Field Morning Theme
57:43 Goron City
01:00:11 Lost Woods
01:02:05 Dodongo’s Cavern
01:05:03 Middle Boss Battle
01:07:13 Dodongo Boss Battle
01:08:55 Zora’s Domain
01:11:47: Great Fairy’s Fountain
01:14:52 Potion Shop
01:17:30 Inside Jabu-Jabu’s Belly
01:19:33 Temple of Time
01:22:54 Ganondorf’s Theme
01:29:28 Chamber of the Sages
01:32:42 Sheik’s Theme
01:34:37 Horse Race
01:37:07 Ingo’s Theme
01:38:47 Kakariko Village Orchestra Version
01:42:09 Windmill Hut / Song of Storms
01:44:46 Forest Temple
01:46:35 Fire Temple
01:50:37 Ice Cavern
01:52:21 Water Temple
01:55:51 Shadow Temple
01:58:17 Gerudo Valley
02:00:33 Spirit Temple
02:05:30 Kotake & Koume’s Theme
02:08:03 Meet Zelda Again
02:10:50 Ganon’s Castle Bridge
02:12:49 Ganon’s Castle Underground
02:18:17 Inside Ganon’s Castle
02:22:48 Ganondorf Battle
02:25:03 Escape from Ganon’s Castle
02:27:49 Last Battle
02:30:59 Seal of Six Sages
02:34:34 Ocarina of Time ~ Zelda’s Ocarina
02:37:28 End Credits
//Made with AI.