Topic: New Castevania vinyl, posters, and other merch coming from Konami and Mondo.

[AlexCalvo]

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3386213/castlevania-silent-hill-osts-getting-vinyl-release/

At least konami is still thinking about us on some level...

[JR]

At least it's a step in the right direction. I'd buy some of that.

I'd rather have some CV games, but I'd go for some collectibles...

[Shiroi Koumori]

Exciting news! I hope some of the merch makes it way to my country....

Lol at the article writing this: The-Once-Great-Publisher-That-Must-Not-Be-Named

[Abnormal Freak]

Konami OST records sounds like a cool idea, especially for Silent Hill. Watch as they're mastered from the CD versions, lol.

[AlexCalvo]

http://mondotees.com/blogs/news/118882819-castlevania-silent-hill-on-sale-info

[KaZudra]

*Still waiting to see if the Cv3 vinyl is the US or JP version*

[Dremn]

Dang, would have loved to get the poster and t shirt. I missed out on this.

[Abnormal Freak]

Just found out something that makes these vinyl soundtracks sound more promising (and likely not to be just CD rips): the guy behind Death Waltz, who releases a lot of remastered movie soundtracks and his Halloween III disc is supposed to be great, is the record label manager for Mondo Tees—and knowing this, I see now that Death Waltz records are now distributed and manufactured by Mondo. That basically ensures these will be high quality releases with cool original artwork.

[LuxKiller65]

Or you can just buy the 1998 Castlevania 1-2-3 soundtrack, which includes a few arrangements as well...? It's still cheap and easy to find out there.

I don't see the added value, except probably a new artwork, and if it's as stupid as the poster, it's a negative value. I love Castlevania soundtracks, but this thing is surfing on the current radness of old games & vinyls.

Besides, the poster was 60-80$ guys, seriously? Why not spend a similar amount of money on a real old Castlevania poster?

[Abnormal Freak]

Already got the soundtracks on CD, brug, but thanks for your condescension.

[LuxKiller65]

No condescension really. Maybe you could tell me why this vinyl is interesting, or why I should be happy/excited about it, as a Castlevania fan and collector. Just calling me condescending won't make it a must-have addition to anyone's collection.

[Dracula9]

Just when I nearly stop caring altogether, they go and put out something that's actually somewhat interesting.

[AlexCalvo]

No condescension really. Maybe you could tell me why this vinyl is interesting, or why I should be happy/excited about it, as a Castlevania fan and collector. Just calling me condescending won't make it a must-have addition to anyone's collection.

I'm guessing you are unfamiliar with Mondo?  You should fix that, they are universally known for their incredible work on licensed properties.

[Abnormal Freak]

The Simon's Quest record is up, the day/night variant anyway (the normal edition goes on sale at noon of whatever timezone Mondo works in, heh).

https://mondotees.com/products/castlevania-ii-simons-quest-original-video-game-soundtrack-10-lp

It looks pretty boss. I like the rendition of the "death" Dracula. The record features both NES and Famicom versions. Shame about the Konami Kukeiha Club credit and not individual musician credits, though.

I heard Mondo's record for the first game was pretty shitty and basically the CD audio slapped onto wax, so I hope fans complained and they changed their approach with this one and all VG OSTs in the future. Mondo needs to step up their game and start doing the quality work Data Discs and iam8bit are known for.

If their upcoming Silent Hill records aren't mastered-for-vinyl from the original master audio, I'll be beyond pissed.

[Sindra]

Surprised I'm the only one kicking up a shitstorm about the Super Castlevania IV vinyl Mondo is releasing tomorrow.

http://www.originalsoundversion.com/mondo-records-announces-super-castlevania-iv-release/