It was first released on February 19, 2003, by DigiCube, and subsequently re-released on May 10, 2004, by Square Enix. The pieces have been described as 'hard-rock' with 'blazing synthesizers and guitars'. All the selected tracks are ' battle' music from the games. The album contains a selection of musical tracks from the games, arranged and performed in a hybrid of power metal and progressive metal by The Black Mages. The Black Mages is an arranged soundtrack album of video game music from the Final Fantasy series of role-playing video games.