And if you don’t know the game, it still stands on its own. “But when you listen to it and you know the game, it is a concept album. “I never set out thinking, ‘I’m gonna write a concept album for the game,’” Szczepkowski explains. There was no having to explain the credibility we were going for!”Īs if an entire album wasn’t enough, the team went so far as to create the artwork for the band’s CD inlay, which you read in the opening scene, as well as an interview with Rolling Stone. “ is probably one of the biggest metalheads I know. ![]() He ended up writing an entire metal album with Boudreault, much to the delight of his boss. ![]() “Having played in the clubs since I was 16, it’s nice to have that opportunity just kinda fall into my lap,” Szczepkowski tells us. When Montreal’s senior creative director, Jean-François Dugas, pitched the idea of Quill adopting the Star-Lord name from his favorite band, Szczepkowski relished the opportunity to deliver the riffs and live out a childhood dream. What you’re hearing is “ Zero to Hero” by Star-Lord (the band) performed and recorded by Szczepkowski and his long-time collaborator Yohann Boudreault. A lesser-known track from the KISS back catalog, perhaps? But no. With your head nodding along to the sound of harmonized guitar riffs and heavy drum beats, you’d be forgiven for thinking the music you’re listening to is one of the 31 licensed tracks that appear in the game. It’s the stuff that dreams are made of, but straight away I knew I’d be the right fit for the project.” “I jokingly said to him, ‘One day, I’m going to do a Marvel soundtrack!’ So when I got the call back in 2017 and signed the NDA, as soon as I found out what the project was I was just blown away. Marvel encyclopedias, comics, and figurines make up just as much of the furniture here as the massive mixing desk, old-school synths, and score sheets from previous projects. “I was introduced through a mutual friend and only had a brief chat with him, but was explaining how music is a really important part of his stories,” Jacques tells WIRED with a massive smile on his face from his studio in the UK. And in typical superhero style, it was there that Jacques made a wish that would become reality 12 years later. ![]() Not least because way back in 2005, at a video game concert in Los Angeles, Jacques ended up meeting the man responsible for creating the characters and stories that have made such a lasting impression on him: Stan Lee. Richard Jacques says he had to pinch himself when he got the call to score Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy game.
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