Matt Uelmen Mephisto Lyrics

"Mephisto" - Liner Notes - October 11, 2000

"I originally began this one thinking that it would be the tune for the showdown with Mephisto underneath Kurast, but realized midway through that I actually had the town music for Act IV. Almost everything in my more electronic bag-of-tricks makes an appearance here, with the starring role definitely going to the nasty old monophonic Korg micropreset. I had promised myself throughout the writing of these tunes that I would get some sweeping electronic stuff into the game once the player left behind the silly mortal realm.

The real reason the name stuck is because of a melody directly lifted from Franz Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, a piano piece which one day I will be able to actually play. Though I liked the way the town in Act IV looked, I was a bit dissapointed that we did not do something colder, and more mechanical-looking, for Hell. Of course, I am one of those sick individuals that likes to destroy genres more than anything else. Lasers in hell... HELL NEEDS LASERS!!"

- Matt Uelmen