Nylithia Get International Exposure From Video Game Cover — Video

The evolving flirtation between metal and video game music can be expressed as a hobby or as a career path, but with some resources and a bit of luck, it can propel a metal band into further recognition -- which is what happened to Vancouver-based death metal band Nylithia. They filmed a video for their cover of the castle music from 'Super Mario Bros.'

"At the time, it was mainly just something our friends watched," Nylithia vocalist Kyle Scott told Noisecreep, "and it got picked up by a South American news station and started popping up all over the Internet."

Watch Nylithia's 'Super Mario Bros.' Castle Music Video

The band filmed the video in their rehearsal space with the help of some friends, a few pieces of production equipment and Youtube. "We wanted to try and capture everything that we love about metal and eight-bit video games all in one," Scott said.

Scott attributed their inspiration to being raised with video game technology. "We've always felt that a lot of great metal riffs have subliminally planted into our minds as kids, since essentially our entire generation grew up on Nintendo and video games," he explained. "This particular song from the castle sequences in the very first Super Mario Bros. video game is one of the best examples.

"Our guitarist came to practice after figuring out a tapping part to go along with the chaotic sound in the foreground of the 8-bit version. We came up with some rhythm parts to go along with it and turned it into a metal song."

Lest the cover song overshadows anything else they've done, the metal band has a new album scheduled for release in the warmer months of 2011. Nylithia, who don't have the advantage of label backing, have recently completed a Canadian tour and are looking to cross the border into the States soon. The album release, however, takes precedence over anything else.

"We have a pile of new songs we are meticulously combing through and arranging," Scott said of the forthcoming album's material. "We definitely want to set the bar higher for ourselves on this album [and] inject a new sound into the vastness of the metal community."