Awesome / Miracle of Sound

• Despite developing Tinnitus, Gavin has decided to power through it and is now continuing to make more songs.
  Made in pain. Screw pain, let's do this!
• At least someone involved with Mass Effect knows of Gavin's work. Here's Mark Meer doing a dramatic reading of the lyrics from "Commander Shepard".
  • Now available in Jennifer Hale variety.
• Gavin getting his first in-game song when Cries of a Dead World appeared in the end credits of Wasteland 2.
• Gavin released Metal Up, his metal album that was solely original content. It's been revealed to be his best selling album and was the best selling album in the Metal category on iTunes.
• During Episode 52 of the Jimquisition podcast, to celebrate the anniversary of Jim Sterling going independent, the 90's Australian kids show Round the Twist comes up in discussion. Both Jim and Laura mention the show's catchy theme tune will be stuck in their heads for the rest of the episode...so Gavin busts out his guitar, mid-episode, and plays an impromptu acoustic cover of the theme tune. Jim and Laura - and any audience members who remember that excellent show - are suitably impressed.
• The official Fallout Twitter account acknowledging his work and praising it.
• Miracle of Sound itself is a big Moment of Awesome. With the exception of the occasional collab, Gav does all the work himself. That includes singing, playing instruments, writing the songs, and recording. His music is consistently well-received by his fans, which is impressive as it is, but it goes to another level when all that work (which is normally done by multiple people) is put into consideration.
• Open Air is very much an uplifting response to The Day The World Died. How so? Whilst The Day The World Died is a somber song about the fall of man and the uncertainty of its future, Open Air is about the undying hope in the singer when he discovers that the world survives outside of the Moscow Metro. In the comments section one fan even nicknamed the song "The Day The World Was Reborn".
  • Comparing the verse about the future in The Day the World Died to Open Air shows just how much hope was inspired by discovering that the world yet lives outside the Metro.
    The Day The World Died: And the future's a tunnel stretching endlessly / Into nothing, stumble in the black./ And the light at the end is but a treachery/ It will blind you and force you back.
    Open Air: And the future's a railroad stretching endlessly / All our hopes keep rolling on the track. / As the shadows of home become a memory / They will haunt us but they can't pull us back.
  • Even better is a verse sung the exact same way as the closing verse of The Day The World Died shows up near the end of Open Air, and then the song keeps going proving that at long last the nightmare of the Metro is coming to an end and its inhabitants are moving on and that it's people have learned.
    Open Air: I watch the Sun rise / In skies so clear / We learn the Outside / There's Hope out here.
  • Some have even gone as far as to point out the Applicability of the song given the (at time of writing) ongoing social distancing orders for many parts of the world due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how so many people are yearning to breathe free and return to their normal lives.
• Only Us is a supremely epic tribute to the twisted love story of Jaime and Cercei Lannister. Many commenters who were unsatisfied with how their arc was concluded in the show itself admitted that this song went a long way towards redeeming it.
• Force of Nature. Aloy may be a hated outcast, but that only made her stronger.
• "The Tale of Cú Chulainn". Standing in at almost 9 minutes long, it is an amazing folk metal ballad retelling the story of the titular mythological hero in the Ulster cycles, from his beginnings to his many struggles and victories to his demise. It's accompanied by traditional Irish instruments and even includes phrases in the Irish language in parts of the song. It is an amazing tribute both to the character and to Gavin's own Irish cultural heritage.
• Whenever he does a remaster and update of one of his classic songs:
  • This is the original version of "City of Night" from 2013, when the game was announced.
  • And this is the updated version of "City of Night" from 2020, when the game was released.
• The chorus of The Crush really sells the power fantasy of piloting a giant mech. When I walk it will shake the ground, indeed.
• "Fallen Leaves". The lands between are infested by monsters, demons and mad demigods, and through it all walks the Tarnished, who stands up to it all. VaatiVidya's narration only makes it better.
• "Superhuman" walks perfectly in the butter zone of a kickass punk anthem about being pissed off enough at the untouchable superpeople to fight back, while also capturing how quickly heroes can turn into their own brand of villain. A perfect encapsulation of The Boys (2019) in general, and Billy Butcher in particular.

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