Patreon supporters have been requesting this one for several months, so if you wanna blame someone for making you witness my bad singing, it's them! Also Maximilian Dood. Thank you guys for telling me about this game
I think the word you were looking for when talking about the "blurring" way that he spoke was "enunciation". He didn't care about proper enunciation and cared more about the flow and sound of the vocals. Thanks again for the video!
There is a classic meme on the Guilty Gear scene that goes "Man Daisuke is great, he gives us a whole free ass game with each of his new album releases"
"Dude you gatta listen to Xrd, the bitch put a mother fucking anime in his album. And don't get me staryed with XX theadman pit a visual novel in that Sheeeeeesh"
@@roylim1169 Daisuke is (from what I remember) the director of the game, he composes the music, is responsible behind the design/look of each character and he writes the plot (I may be wrong on that last one). The man is busy, thats for sure.
Its so insane that Daisuke Ishiwatari literally is a one man army with Guilty Gear. He does pretty much everything and his music STILL ends up INSANELY good
Haha sorry, I heard that part but at that point there wasn't much else I had left to teach, so I cut it out of the video. Blew my mind tho! But my favorite parts are definitely the less brutal ones I talked about here
Honestly, alot of Guilty Gear songs have this weird sense of being really positive and uplifting, while also being real aggressive sounding. Gives me a sense of determination to rise against conflict.
@SNES Nes Given that the game's been in development, let alone known for much longer than the lockdown I'd say any reading as such is prolly a coincidence Doesn't feel like something they'd do anyways since being anti lockdown is a mostly american brand of stupid to begin with
@SNES Nes I mean believe me anti-lockdown/maskers w/e are a plague but genuinely i dont pick that up from the song and the song was in all likelihood written before there was even a call for a lockdown to begin with
If anyone wants to hear more of the vocalist on the song, his name is Naoki Hashimoto and he's the lead singer for the Japanese thrash metal band Outrage. Anyway, great video! I hope you do more stuff on Guilty Gear music, because there's a lot of it and it's all great!
@@argonianguy6226 Yep, Ishiwatari named the weapon after the band. It must have been like a dream come true for him to be working with them to make music.
I wonder how heavy your music taste goes, but another amazing Japanese vocalist is in Crystal Lake who also does extreme distorted vocals mixed with all kinds of cleans and mixed singing.
Fun fact about the GG franchise; a lot of the characters were inspired by different bands. Daisuke's favorite band was Queen, and he named the main character after Freddy Mercury's nickname "Mr. Bad Guy (Sol Badguy)". Ky Kiske was also named after Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen.
Queen is Daisuke's favorite band. That's why this song is genius And Alex! If you want some colorful songs from guilty gear, check out "Freesia" It has jazz, blues, valsa...it's amazingly good!
4:38-4:50 may as well be Sol’s entire backstory from what I’ve understood so far So the whole thing about gear is that the initial aesthetic is based on metal and rock from the era Daisuke grew up in. Sol Badguy’s real name being Frederick, nickname badguy and a headband that says rock you? The round call being “let’s rock”, musical references abound... yeah, it ain’t just for the tracks you’ll love this Alex I feel, even if you don’t become an online god in a fighting game lol
Yea, to be more precise is the main theme of the story overall, imo the story is all over the place and actually easy to find some plot holes here and there cause they weren't expecting the game to be as successful as it is now, but it doesn't make the characters less charming or intriguing, just like jojo
The "Badguy" in Sol Badguy is both a reference and a story thing: 1) Nicknamed "Badguy" by the UN for destroying multiple Gear facilities accross the world 2) "Mr. Bad Guy" is a Freddie Mercury album
@@armetz Might as well add that ky and sin use the special move "Ride the Lightning", there's a whole magic system in the world called "tuning", I'm sure there's more
@@KurosakiNaturo Break a spell is #4 on XRDs vocal tracks for me. I prefer Heavy Day and Six Black Heavens Guns to it, but you cant go wrong with any of them.
your voice is FINE alex. singing is an expression of oneself, and even as a method of example, you can tell the passion you have for music! by the logic, you can't sing badly. checkmate. also, awesome video as always. thanks for continuing to make content, it's some of my favorite to watch!!
Exactly. Damusicmahn’s vocals in his cover of “Reach Out to the Truth” is honestly a bit rough, but that just makes me love it more. It’s like...the purest expression of who he is, as a person.
The joys of the guilty gear OST is how so many songs go so damn hard in the rock and make the fights even more intense. Strive went a bit crazy by seemingly making different kinds of rock too (such as the theme for our lady with the doggo).
From what you described at the midway point. They change from majors to minors constantly, and that fits in a sense. The song's lyrics are basically rebellious, so it's literally a song about struggling. The final bit when they say 'game' is them using both at the same time, so it sounds extremely discordant, but because it's used as a final note on a final lyric it goes from a feeling of discord to punctuated finality bringing the conflicting sounds together. I don't know if that's what you were about to say, but it feels right and I think it more or less sums up a lot of the odd tones going on.
Sol Badguy, GG's main character and basically Daisuke Ishiwatari's alter-ego (at least in first few games - he even voiced the character himself) is canonically a fan of Queen so it's no surprise that out of nowhere we get Bohemian Rhapsody vibes.
I really hope you react to "eye to eye" next, oh and in strive they say that every character will have a proper theme with vocals, so the lyrics and the general song and progression are pretty much connected to what the character feels and that kind of stuff, I think this is pretty unusual for a fighting game to excel ya know
@@bloody4558 they are good too, but I like eye to eye more, cause it's the most different imo in comparison to the rest of the tracks even in older guilty gears (I didn't listen all the music's and actually strive will be my first GG, so if I missed some that's like eye to eye pls tell me)
A little late to the party, but hearing someone in the same field I'm going to school in nerding about the music I absolutely LOVE, and my love has only increased from learning how deep music composition goes, really makes me feel even more validated in why I love Guilty Gear's music so much. What's great about Guilty Gear, is *every* single piece of music has something to offer, each character's themes are crafted so weirdly perfectly, when you hear the song, you instantly think of the character. Not only is it good for character identity, it's also just really well made when it comes to recording. It's so interesting to listen to each song critically, and hear the amount of layers in each musical aspect, vocals and guitars especially. The harmonies used to represent each character, and the game as a whole for that matter, is spectacular. The gritty nature of "Smell of the Game" really shows how badass this game is, and how powerful it makes YOU the player feel. It's a lifting experience to both appreciate the music on a whole different level, as well as just feel like a kickass vigilante when playing the game. Anyways, I love your content man, keep it up!
Haha I love how you mention Max! I loved watching his FFVIIR playthrough for example cause he always gets hype over the music and never misses a chance to say "MAN the MUSIC dude!". I love it. I wonder if you now know THE SMELL OF THE GAAAAAAME
This when soundtrack has a lot of really interesting progressions. Specifically the song Colours is all over the place and it's super duper interesting. I would love to see you cover more from this soundtrack it's very unique.
Ahh, I was really hoping you'd talk about the variation in the vocal melody for the last chorus. The choice to take the "If the words kill me I don't need a[...]" phrase and stretch the first few notes and create a descending pattern really gives the last "NEW WORLD ORDER" a huge impact. It speeds up and descends so there's a TON of momentum. Definitely my favorite bit.
I don’t usually feel this giddy with videos but this has me smiling really big. This song is amazing and hearing someone talk about it is bringing me life
Guilty Gear as a franchise has a WILD Musical history given how deeply Daisuke Ishiwatari has always drawn from grungy ass metal to inspire so much of this franchise. There's literally a dude in this franchise named Slayer. It's almost Jojo levels of on-the-nose musical reference... but in a fighting game franchise that has such a crazy cast and volumes upon volumes of lore on it's twice-over post apocalyptic world.
And don't forget Testament with his attacks Badlands, Warrant and Grave Digger, his overdrive Master of Puppet, which are all (mostly metal) music references.
Colors is also a trippy one, goes all kinds of places and just has powerful emotional energy. Eye to Eye is cool and playful and I've heard people compare its sound to like 15 different things and I'd like to see where you go. And to take a trip backwards, I'd enjoy you looking at Fressia, which is like a groovy Power Ballad.
I lost my singing voice during puberty and learning vocal distortion, or vocal fry as we call it in voice over, is what helped me ease back into singing. So hearing you comment on how difficult it is to sing a melody with distortion, I appreciated the acknowledgement. Not only to hit the notes, but also the amount of breath control and capacity you need. Love hearing your breakdowns!
Ngl I love all the GG soundtracks but so far I'm in love with every song in the game even more. Faust, Potemkin, Nagoruki, Chipp, and Gio all have amazing themes can't wait to hear more of the smell of the game.
The Guilty Gear series has always had some great rock music. Daisuke Ishiwatari also voiced the main character for many entries in the series. Guilty Gear Xrd's "Heavy Day" was a great welcome back to the series that had really been treading mud on a bunch of X2 remakes. They cranked up the budget and even gave a full-on Anime with Xrd and Xrd Rev 2. I'd recommend checking the Guilty Gear X opening as it has a number of OST tracks on display. I'm curious what Strive is going for since the ending of Xrd really did wrap up everything from the first game through all the loose ends of X2.
Just wanted to let you know that your videos have been facsinating to me. I've been learning music theory privately for a while now, even before watching your vids, but your analysis of video game music (which i always loved more than a lot of popular and/or mainstream music) helped me see implications of things i learned in songs, as well as actually learn new stuff! your videos have been a great method of getting me more and more interested in music and inspires me to hopefully be able to make songs that do at least a few of these great techniques im seeing and hearing all the time. It's especially great to see your compositions that break down or reverse engineer pieces. I love your content!
Daisuke Ishiwatari fills Guilty Gear to the brim with rock/metal references the same way Hirohiko Araki fills JJBA with music references. From character and special moves referencing iconic bands and songs like Slayer, Ride The Lightning, Iron Maiden, etc, to super attacks being called Overdrive (while BlazBlue calls them Distortion), and then you straight up just have young Axl Rose being a character in the game called Axl Low. Love it
Aw what!? Stopped just before my favorite part!!! The defiant pull back into the hard rock, letting it out, and then that moment of calm as the chorus comes back in for the big finale!!!
while i believe this song is technically the main theme of the game, it's also the main character's theme and i think daisuke himself has said is supposed to be a reflection of his life up until and into the events of this game my favorites of his tracks that have vocals are "Icarus" and "Heavy Day"
I'm so happy you're checking this series out. It's one of my favorite fighting games of all time because of it's sheer aesthetics. Metal as hell and the music shows. There's a certain segment in the track "What Do You Fight For" (Nagoryuki's Theme) that I hope you get to hear at some point. So much good stuff in this whole series.
I think you should really check the other tracks in the game even if you dont cover them in the channel just because I think Daisuke left a lot there for you to dig into
Yeah, I feel like a lot of tracks from GGX and GGX2 are the best for the series so far, never cared much for this one from Strive. My favorite still goes to "Still in the Dark" for the Assassins Guild character fights.
@@starbreaker6441 Right you are. I forgot there was an Assassin's Guild character song for X2, and Still in the Dark is Millia vs Zato-1/Eddie specificall, on top of them all having their own individual themes for generic matches.
The one thing you need to realise about Daisuki Ishiwatari is that he loves hard rock and crams his games with as many references as possible. The main character is a walking Freddie Mercury reference
Alex thank you much for taking a look at this. I'd been encouraged by a friend to take a look at the OST and listening to this video was the last straw to actually go check it out. Holy crap, the Guilty Gear soundtrack in general is incredible and I've been super enjoying it! So thanks again for helping kick me the rest of the way
has never played Guilty Gear before and says he is going to play and enjoy the game very much...yo man you in for a rollercoaster ride just like the music
You know what's really impressive. He doesn't know anything about the game, but he can look at the chord progression at 4:37 and he essentially gets the entire arc of Sol. Kudos to Alex for picking up on it and to Daisuke for making it something somebody with the right ear could pick up on.
Wow, it's probalby the first reaction type video, that had an effort and knowledge in there. Some people don't even edit these reaction videos and these dude even showed how the vocals are made. I wish i could give more than just 1 like.
When that vocal sandwich hit me blazing, caught my cursor on the like-button blazing. That stuff killed me and now I welcome the new world order. Nice one, Alex!
Alex, absolutely love how you dissected this one (and also your singing). If I may, I absolutely recommend checking also "Colors" and "Society" from the same game. I'm sure you'll be blown away by them.
Patreon supporters have been requesting this one for several months, so if you wanna blame someone for making you witness my bad singing, it's them!
Also Maximilian Dood.
Thank you guys for telling me about this game
Do yo think you could make a video on music from Monster Hunter, such as Valtrax’s Theme?
I think the word you were looking for when talking about the "blurring" way that he spoke was "enunciation". He didn't care about proper enunciation and cared more about the flow and sound of the vocals. Thanks again for the video!
Lmaoo. I remember watching Max go ape shit over it. 👍🏽😂😂💯💯🔥🔥🔥
@@KainYusanagi no it's just Engrish. He speaks incredibly good english, but his accent is pretty much perfect for hard rock music
I will blame the patrons for the lack of Made in Abyss analysis then...
There is a classic meme on the Guilty Gear scene that goes "Man Daisuke is great, he gives us a whole free ass game with each of his new album releases"
It's the best part. Every game feels like dual pack
"Dude you gatta listen to Xrd, the bitch put a mother fucking anime in his album. And don't get me staryed with XX theadman pit a visual novel in that Sheeeeeesh"
He even draws the game while making the music
@@roylim1169 Daisuke is (from what I remember) the director of the game, he composes the music, is responsible behind the design/look of each character and he writes the plot (I may be wrong on that last one). The man is busy, thats for sure.
Wait... that's just a meme? ... why did i pick up gg2 overture for then?
Its so insane that Daisuke Ishiwatari literally is a one man army with Guilty Gear. He does pretty much everything and his music STILL ends up INSANELY good
What exactly does he do?
@@HKWHH Director, composer, writer and the voice actor of the protagonist.
@@sigmavirgin3749 he no longer voice acts for sol and hasn’t for years . But everything else is true still.
Show NAOKI some respect too! He made some of the best GG songs
You're not kidding, he did some of the concept art too and it's insanely good.
I was so waiting for him to hear the scream after "I'm just a small part of the world" lol
Saaaaaaaaaame
Haha sorry, I heard that part but at that point there wasn't much else I had left to teach, so I cut it out of the video.
Blew my mind tho! But my favorite parts are definitely the less brutal ones I talked about here
@@AlexMoukalaMusic oh that's totally fine I get it 🙂. I just thought your reaction to it would be funny 😄
Simple just insert a Dante stinger sound.
BUT NO ONE CAN BREAK MEEE
"singing is not my strong suit"
proceeds to absolutely kill it
Something may sound great, but the singer still knows they could do better with some training. Can't help noticing your own errors.
Honestly, alot of Guilty Gear songs have this weird sense of being really positive and uplifting, while also being real aggressive sounding. Gives me a sense of determination to rise against conflict.
don't be afraid to listen to your own heart
@@xmiseryjokers9570 BIG BLAST SONIC
THAT'S MY HEARTBEAT ANEW
Nothing is more metal than healthy emotional awareness in Big Blast Sonic
Don’t be afraid to look yourself in the eye.
Grasp the TRUTH
Hold it HIGH
Wait till you hear Nagoriyuki's theme where they just start talking about the economy mid-theme
Lmao
I learned more from that than a semester of economics in high school
@SNES Nes Given that the game's been in development, let alone known for much longer than the lockdown I'd say any reading as such is prolly a coincidence
Doesn't feel like something they'd do anyways since being anti lockdown is a mostly american brand of stupid to begin with
@SNES Nes I mean believe me anti-lockdown/maskers w/e are a plague but genuinely i dont pick that up from the song and the song was in all likelihood written before there was even a call for a lockdown to begin with
There's def anti corporate sentiment to be gleamed from nagoriyuki's theme i feel but anti lockdown? not really,,,
If anyone wants to hear more of the vocalist on the song, his name is Naoki Hashimoto and he's the lead singer for the Japanese thrash metal band Outrage. Anyway, great video! I hope you do more stuff on Guilty Gear music, because there's a lot of it and it's all great!
I’m checking them out right now!
Holy shit it's insane how his band is literally named like sol's weapon. I guess that another music reference in guilty gear
@@argonianguy6226 Yep, Ishiwatari named the weapon after the band. It must have been like a dream come true for him to be working with them to make music.
the comment I was looking for, thanks!
Thank you so much for the info. I'm actually a big J-Music fan and I didn't knew about this band. Mostly focused on Galneryus lately.
"he is rocking like he doesn't give a shit" yeah that sums up the franchise pretty much.
Let's not forget singer is Japanese and he sings perfect English.
I wonder how heavy your music taste goes, but another amazing Japanese vocalist is in Crystal Lake who also does extreme distorted vocals mixed with all kinds of cleans and mixed singing.
Not perfect but it's great
An american from Japan, not perfect engrish but I don't think the song is near as lovable without his accent.
Wouldn't change a thing.
@@doctormadness4167 man said engrish 😂
Not perfect but it is really great. Couldn't hide that accent but that just add more to the charm to the vocals really.
"Bear with me, singing is not my strong suit" main if you don't stop being humble.
Fun fact about the GG franchise; a lot of the characters were inspired by different bands. Daisuke's favorite band was Queen, and he named the main character after Freddy Mercury's nickname "Mr. Bad Guy (Sol Badguy)". Ky Kiske was also named after Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen.
Sol’s original name is also Frederick Bulgaria!
Wait, so Sol Badguy wasn't some regular Engrish, but rather a reference to a nickname Freddy Mercury had? That's honestly even more amazing.
@@NEEDbacon And then they go and make an american character, he's fat and called Goldlewis Dickinson ;)
And give him a gun
theres a theme for Giovanna called "Eye to Eye" and totally sounds like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Daisuke Ishiwatari is a madman in a good way
Mah man you can't just embrace only one GG song
Yo, listen to this guy \m/
FREEEEEEEESIAAAAA
@@tokiwotamale6416 HERE I AMMMMM
@@gbong802 AND SORRY
SORRY
SORRRRRRYYYYY
JUST A HEAVY DAAAAY
Queen is Daisuke's favorite band. That's why this song is genius
And Alex! If you want some colorful songs from guilty gear, check out "Freesia"
It has jazz, blues, valsa...it's amazingly good!
oh hell yeah, and that screeming "FREEESIA" around the end? fucking ay
FREESIA is god-tier! I sang it at a singing competition and won! That shit rocks
@@noonoox12 you had won already the moment you though about singing Freesia, my dude
4:38-4:50 may as well be Sol’s entire backstory from what I’ve understood so far
So the whole thing about gear is that the initial aesthetic is based on metal and rock from the era Daisuke grew up in. Sol Badguy’s real name being Frederick, nickname badguy and a headband that says rock you? The round call being “let’s rock”, musical references abound... yeah, it ain’t just for the tracks you’ll love this Alex I feel, even if you don’t become an online god in a fighting game lol
To go deeper on that Sol's full real name is Frederick Mercury.
Yea, to be more precise is the main theme of the story overall, imo the story is all over the place and actually easy to find some plot holes here and there cause they weren't expecting the game to be as successful as it is now, but it doesn't make the characters less charming or intriguing, just like jojo
@@Hattori75 his full name is Frederick Bulsara, Bulsara being Freddies last name before he legally changed it to Mercury
The "Badguy" in Sol Badguy is both a reference and a story thing:
1) Nicknamed "Badguy" by the UN for destroying multiple Gear facilities accross the world
2) "Mr. Bad Guy" is a Freddie Mercury album
@@armetz Might as well add that ky and sin use the special move "Ride the Lightning", there's a whole magic system in the world called "tuning", I'm sure there's more
I still hear the lyrics as "That is bullshit crazy" and it always cracks me up. I love this video. Dope stuff Alex!
Same bro
this music is unforgettable
Wait what are the lyrics
Isn't that the line ?
It's blazing not crazy for the doods asking
I really hope Alex does more Guilty gear and maybe checks out the songs from the older games
I’d love to have him look at “Meet Again” or “Still in the Dark”
BIG BLAST SONIC
@@rainer9931
BIG BLAST SONIC is the best vocal track ever made for a fighting game thats not True love makin'. Those are the two.
@@Dasaltwarrior Break a Spell exists, bud.
@@KurosakiNaturo
Break a spell is #4 on XRDs vocal tracks for me. I prefer Heavy Day and Six Black Heavens Guns to it, but you cant go wrong with any of them.
Oh boy I hope he reacts to Faust’s theme Colors sometime. Cuz that song is something HECKIN GLORIOUS
Not enough people are talking about the grand masterpiece that is Colors.
I support this and Giovanna's theme.
Why does everyone call it "Colors"??? It's called Alone Infection....
@@tiersexualcommunistpropaga2766 because the official name hasn’t been dropped at the time of this video
@@SharpestSniper99 ooooohhhh, I see
your voice is FINE alex. singing is an expression of oneself, and even as a method of example, you can tell the passion you have for music!
by the logic, you can't sing badly. checkmate.
also, awesome video as always. thanks for continuing to make content, it's some of my favorite to watch!!
Exactly. Damusicmahn’s vocals in his cover of “Reach Out to the Truth” is honestly a bit rough, but that just makes me love it more. It’s like...the purest expression of who he is, as a person.
@@combativeThinker Waitasec! Alex does a cover for "Reach Out to the Truth??!!" o.o
@@mikejonesnoreally
I think you misread my comment.
There's no one better at getting you hyped up for a game you dont even play than Maximilian Dood. He is the Hype Commander!
2:55 Honestly great moment in the video
LETS GOOOO you have no clue how much I've wanted this
👉😁👈
@@jordanadams1417 lesss goooo
The joys of the guilty gear OST is how so many songs go so damn hard in the rock and make the fights even more intense.
Strive went a bit crazy by seemingly making different kinds of rock too (such as the theme for our lady with the doggo).
It mostly suprised me that not that many people know that aggressive music can be happy. It's just really intensifying and gets you into it.
You do not know how long I waited for this
Alex on his way to becoming the next Alina Gingertail, whipping out his vocals and every instrument he owns.
From what you described at the midway point. They change from majors to minors constantly, and that fits in a sense. The song's lyrics are basically rebellious, so it's literally a song about struggling. The final bit when they say 'game' is them using both at the same time, so it sounds extremely discordant, but because it's used as a final note on a final lyric it goes from a feeling of discord to punctuated finality bringing the conflicting sounds together. I don't know if that's what you were about to say, but it feels right and I think it more or less sums up a lot of the odd tones going on.
God bless Daisuke Ishiwatari. What a creative genius that man is.
Forgot this was a pun and thought you got a physical copy early and smelled it ❤️. We gotta run some matches when this drops
My favorite song from this game is Fight like a Tiger, everything about it is great
All the songs are amazing but Fight like a Tiger is my favorite too.
Sol Badguy, GG's main character and basically Daisuke Ishiwatari's alter-ego (at least in first few games - he even voiced the character himself) is canonically a fan of Queen so it's no surprise that out of nowhere we get Bohemian Rhapsody vibes.
I really hope you react to "eye to eye" next, oh and in strive they say that every character will have a proper theme with vocals, so the lyrics and the general song and progression are pretty much connected to what the character feels and that kind of stuff, I think this is pretty unusual for a fighting game to excel ya know
Eye to Eye? Not Society or Colors?
@@bloody4558 Eye to Eye might be Alex's strong suit
@@bloody4558 they are good too, but I like eye to eye more, cause it's the most different imo in comparison to the rest of the tracks even in older guilty gears (I didn't listen all the music's and actually strive will be my first GG, so if I missed some that's like eye to eye pls tell me)
A little late to the party, but hearing someone in the same field I'm going to school in nerding about the music I absolutely LOVE, and my love has only increased from learning how deep music composition goes, really makes me feel even more validated in why I love Guilty Gear's music so much. What's great about Guilty Gear, is *every* single piece of music has something to offer, each character's themes are crafted so weirdly perfectly, when you hear the song, you instantly think of the character. Not only is it good for character identity, it's also just really well made when it comes to recording. It's so interesting to listen to each song critically, and hear the amount of layers in each musical aspect, vocals and guitars especially. The harmonies used to represent each character, and the game as a whole for that matter, is spectacular. The gritty nature of "Smell of the Game" really shows how badass this game is, and how powerful it makes YOU the player feel. It's a lifting experience to both appreciate the music on a whole different level, as well as just feel like a kickass vigilante when playing the game.
Anyways, I love your content man, keep it up!
Haha I love how you mention Max! I loved watching his FFVIIR playthrough for example cause he always gets hype over the music and never misses a chance to say "MAN the MUSIC dude!". I love it. I wonder if you now know THE SMELL OF THE GAAAAAAME
This when soundtrack has a lot of really interesting progressions. Specifically the song Colours is all over the place and it's super duper interesting. I would love to see you cover more from this soundtrack it's very unique.
Ahh, I was really hoping you'd talk about the variation in the vocal melody for the last chorus. The choice to take the "If the words kill me I don't need a[...]" phrase and stretch the first few notes and create a descending pattern really gives the last "NEW WORLD ORDER" a huge impact. It speeds up and descends so there's a TON of momentum. Definitely my favorite bit.
I don’t usually feel this giddy with videos but this has me smiling really big. This song is amazing and hearing someone talk about it is bringing me life
Guilty Gear as a franchise has a WILD Musical history given how deeply Daisuke Ishiwatari has always drawn from grungy ass metal to inspire so much of this franchise.
There's literally a dude in this franchise named Slayer. It's almost Jojo levels of on-the-nose musical reference... but in a fighting game franchise that has such a crazy cast and volumes upon volumes of lore on it's twice-over post apocalyptic world.
And don't forget Testament with his attacks Badlands, Warrant and Grave Digger, his overdrive Master of Puppet, which are all (mostly metal) music references.
RISING FORCEEE
@@ScaryMeadow or the "megadeath" class gears
Jojo and Guilty gear are on the same level of western rock/metal appreciation
I love this man. He finds beauty in ALL music. I wish i could do it as much as he does.
Damn, didn't expect an upload today after yesterday! There really are some bangers in Guilty Gear
Colors is also a trippy one, goes all kinds of places and just has powerful emotional energy. Eye to Eye is cool and playful and I've heard people compare its sound to like 15 different things and I'd like to see where you go. And to take a trip backwards, I'd enjoy you looking at Fressia, which is like a groovy Power Ballad.
Alex, dressed in Tactical Business Casual, for when you have to Solid Snake your way to the office
I lost my singing voice during puberty and learning vocal distortion, or vocal fry as we call it in voice over, is what helped me ease back into singing. So hearing you comment on how difficult it is to sing a melody with distortion, I appreciated the acknowledgement. Not only to hit the notes, but also the amount of breath control and capacity you need. Love hearing your breakdowns!
Ngl I love all the GG soundtracks but so far I'm in love with every song in the game even more. Faust, Potemkin, Nagoruki, Chipp, and Gio all have amazing themes can't wait to hear more of the smell of the game.
Six Black Heavens Guns is my favorite guilty gear song. It’s just so heavy and gets me so hype.
The Guilty Gear series has always had some great rock music. Daisuke Ishiwatari also voiced the main character for many entries in the series.
Guilty Gear Xrd's "Heavy Day" was a great welcome back to the series that had really been treading mud on a bunch of X2 remakes. They cranked up the budget and even gave a full-on Anime with Xrd and Xrd Rev 2. I'd recommend checking the Guilty Gear X opening as it has a number of OST tracks on display.
I'm curious what Strive is going for since the ending of Xrd really did wrap up everything from the first game through all the loose ends of X2.
Just wanted to let you know that your videos have been facsinating to me. I've been learning music theory privately for a while now, even before watching your vids, but your analysis of video game music (which i always loved more than a lot of popular and/or mainstream music) helped me see implications of things i learned in songs, as well as actually learn new stuff! your videos have been a great method of getting me more and more interested in music and inspires me to hopefully be able to make songs that do at least a few of these great techniques im seeing and hearing all the time. It's especially great to see your compositions that break down or reverse engineer pieces. I love your content!
you gotta do Let Me Carve Your Way (Zato's theme) it's a trip and does some really cool stuff
Daisuke Ishiwatari fills Guilty Gear to the brim with rock/metal references the same way Hirohiko Araki fills JJBA with music references. From character and special moves referencing iconic bands and songs like Slayer, Ride The Lightning, Iron Maiden, etc, to super attacks being called Overdrive (while BlazBlue calls them Distortion), and then you straight up just have young Axl Rose being a character in the game called Axl Low. Love it
2:54 Now I want someone do an acapella cover of this song.
Aw what!? Stopped just before my favorite part!!! The defiant pull back into the hard rock, letting it out, and then that moment of calm as the chorus comes back in for the big finale!!!
I've been listening to this for the last 2 weeks
i was actually hooked to GG from Ky Kiske theme "Holy Orders (Be Just or Be Dead)"
Hey hey hey! Fighting game themes? Yessss! I'm really excited to see some more Guilty Gear and Blazblue on the future!
Daisuke's Music always has touch of Queen.
two uploads in a row?? dope
Funnily enough it was through Max i found your amazing channel!
Love your stuff dood!
I always heard the lyrics as "i hear my heart is racing, I feel my blood is blazing" and I'm almost upset it isnt.
I will never unhear this. And I dont think I mind
I'm upset it isn't too now
He's like a Fighting Game enthusiast, watching his favourite combo video.
That was a good video. I liked it!
while i believe this song is technically the main theme of the game, it's also the main character's theme and i think daisuke himself has said is supposed to be a reflection of his life up until and into the events of this game
my favorites of his tracks that have vocals are "Icarus" and "Heavy Day"
I'm so happy you're checking this series out. It's one of my favorite fighting games of all time because of it's sheer aesthetics. Metal as hell and the music shows. There's a certain segment in the track "What Do You Fight For" (Nagoryuki's Theme) that I hope you get to hear at some point. So much good stuff in this whole series.
Just wait until he realizes how all of the music symbolizes specific traits in the characters lore
I didn't expect you to break down the Chorus so well, holy shit. great video.
I think you should really check the other tracks in the game even if you dont cover them in the channel just because I think Daisuke left a lot there for you to dig into
How can you be so amazing? Love your videos, you refuel my love for music each time
I return to this video a month later, requesting a full breakdown of every characters theme like you did with the Palaces in Persona 5 :)
Ok, that sample you gave of the chorus Alex, that was fucking awesome! Keep on rockin'!
I would like to see him do Blazblue and older GG reacts!
Yeah, I feel like a lot of tracks from GGX and GGX2 are the best for the series so far, never cared much for this one from Strive.
My favorite still goes to "Still in the Dark" for the Assassins Guild character fights.
Imagine him reacting to Must Die
@@starbreaker6441 Right you are. I forgot there was an Assassin's Guild character song for X2, and Still in the Dark is Millia vs Zato-1/Eddie specificall, on top of them all having their own individual themes for generic matches.
@@hipo3314 why having him listening to the worst BB song ever tho
@@nvrmltice because why not?
Damn, that vocal layering break down is damn interesting. Without a music background, I would have never noticed that. Thanks for this!
4:39 - 4:50 Describe Sol Badguy's entire character arc in a chord progression
The one thing you need to realise about Daisuki Ishiwatari is that he loves hard rock and crams his games with as many references as possible. The main character is a walking Freddie Mercury reference
You should react to "Society". It's Potemkin's theme from Strive.
Actually called armor clad faith
5:52 -Alex just got Smell of the Game .
Thank you for amazing video, Alex !
You should try 'Break a Spell' from Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2. It's a godlike song.
Alex thank you much for taking a look at this. I'd been encouraged by a friend to take a look at the OST and listening to this video was the last straw to actually go check it out. Holy crap, the Guilty Gear soundtrack in general is incredible and I've been super enjoying it! So thanks again for helping kick me the rest of the way
finally, the realization of that twitter clips from like a few months ago :p
you say you're not good at vocals but I genuinely wish I had the money to comission a cover of smell of the game by you because you KILLED it
has never played Guilty Gear before and says he is going to play and enjoy the game very much...yo man you in for a rollercoaster ride just like the music
Found your channel with your FUNKY One Winged Angel. I love your musical contributions and also your analysis of the work of others. Stay amazing!
Dude, your vocals are killer! Don't sell yourself short, m80 💪💕
I am fairly certain the "what am I?" bit was inspired by the "now I know" bit in The Prophets Song by Queen.
You know what's really impressive. He doesn't know anything about the game, but he can look at the chord progression at 4:37 and he essentially gets the entire arc of Sol. Kudos to Alex for picking up on it and to Daisuke for making it something somebody with the right ear could pick up on.
Just wanted to say that I think it's really cool how you tackled the singing, love the content :)
Man, you HAVE to listen to the main theme of Zato=1 in Guilty Gear Strive, is absolutely gorgeous
You sir, have earned a subscriber. We need more GGST content.
Now I want Alex Moukala multi-tracked vocal covers of things.
Never in my life would I thought of a comparison between Guilty Gear music and Jacob Collier... hell yeah, great vid.
Alex I am so happy you're talking about Guilty Gear. Now please do EVERYTHING DAISUKE HAS EVER DONE. THANKS BUD
Oh shit, that vocals breakdown was crazy. It's crazy how good it sounded when you put them all together
Wow, it's probalby the first reaction type video, that had an effort and knowledge in there. Some people don't even edit these reaction videos and these dude even showed how the vocals are made.
I wish i could give more than just 1 like.
i love the analogy that you made at the end! so freaking beautiful!
so glad too see you cover something like this. Been a fan of Max's for a long time, excited to see that you are too
When that vocal sandwich hit me blazing,
caught my cursor on the like-button blazing.
That stuff killed me and now I welcome the new world order.
Nice one, Alex!
Huge props for mentioning Haken, such a great band that many of my friends don't even know. Guilty Gear dude is insane, I know :D
I can't hear this song the same way now that i noticed the little details. Thanks, really.
I've been reeeeally waiting for this .
Now Alex, you got me beyond motivated. Guilty Gear is what I love.
Alex, absolutely love how you dissected this one (and also your singing).
If I may, I absolutely recommend checking also "Colors" and "Society" from the same game. I'm sure you'll be blown away by them.
THE HARMONIES THABK YOU i knew it had Layering but hearing it like that…thank you…🛐