#dm dokuro

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My top 5 favorite video game composers in no particular order and with a bit of a meh summary on why I like them

1. Toby Fox (Undertale, Deltarune): Toby's music feels nostalgic to me despite not being around for very long. It's extremely catchy, it has a wide variety, and is just overall good. And also it's a very unique soundtrack. Some of my favorites are Undertale, ASGORE, BIG SHOT, and The World Revolving

2. Daisuke Ishawatari (Guilty Gear, Blazblue): Very catchy and memorable hard rock/metal songs. I like how well each theme has a meaning and how it's done. Guilty Gear Xrd and BlazBlue both have very underrated soundtracks since most people just talk about strive. Some of my favorites are: All I Can Do (Xrd; this one has a personal meaning for me), Hellfire (Strive), Bullet Dance II (Blazblue), Cry Camellia (BlazBlue; vocal version of Condemnation Wings), Requiem (Strive), and Marionette (Xrd)

3. Kan Gao (To The Moon): This is one of the most beautiful soundtracks I've heard in a long time. I cannot applaud it enough. Just play To The Moon, man

4. DM DOKURO (Terraria Calamity Mod): I like his music for similar reasons to Toby Fox. Very catchy, wide variety, and also it's very upbeat. I don't have much to say it's just really good. Some of my favorites are: Stained Brutal Calamity, what I like to call the "storm trilogy" (silence before the storm, storm before the catastrophe, catastrophe before the calamity), The Leviathan Trilogy, and Tale of a Cruel World

5. Andrew Prahlow (Outer Wilds): Same reason as Kan Gao. Go play Outer Wilds

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!YAP INCOMING!

Ok so like, this is going to come out of left field, but I am a massive fan of Terraria: Calamity Mod's OST. DM DOKURO was run out of the music production because people were sending him death threats over "Brutal, Stained Calamity," which fucking sucks, because if you listen to his work it's MAGNIFICENT.

Throughout every piece that he wrote, you can feel a story being told. A story, within every piece, every note and instrument choice so deliberate it's hard to imagine that it was made by a human person and not just a manifestation of the characters themselves.

Past the storytelling element, the integration of all of these different genres at once (things like symphonic metal/rock, EDM, ambient, slow orchestra, heavy metal/death metal, orchestral, and dark choir) which is rare to come across, and especially rare to see it done well. Some of my favorite pieces combine metal with orchestra and choir (like the aforementioned "Stained, Brutal Calamity" and "The Leviathan Trilogy"). If you haven't taken a deep dive into this music and you're a music theory enjoyer, please please do! You won't regret it.

Plus, like another modern famous composer–cough cough Toby Fox cough cough–DM DOKURO knew how to use motifs and leitmotifs perfectly well. Some are more obvious than others, like the Bells of Calamity, which play in the pieces of more god-like entities' battles. It tells you that they're connected with one another and that you're fighting a big bad at the same time, which is something you immediately subconsciously note. These themes connect bosses and environments together seamlessly and build upon the already known lore so well that it gives me the CHILLS.

If you haven't already listened to the sountrack, Terraria fan or not, please consider doing so. Every piece in the soundtrack is so wonderfully written and becomes even more beautiful when you take the time to dissect them. I say this as a fan of music theory and music in general.

Thanks for reading my yap!

[loss-detector]

btw if you follow me you are legally obligated to listen to this album (keep in mind the content warnings at the beginning of course)

it's peak. like actually album of the year. and this is part one.

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Game Name: Terraria (Calamity Mod) (2017) (2016 if you're going by the 1.0 release of the mod as opposed to the day the track was posted)

Composed and Arranged by DM Dokuro

[goobbugg]

they know who they are act I downfall genuinely life changing album

[ybouzl]

The Confusion Of Being Human

"What do you think.. Trust means to you?"

"..."

"If you want an honest answer, I don't know anymore."

[pandorathepenguin3236]

This is my full EP, it took around 4 months to fully make.

most of the details are explained in the description.

Don't mind the thumbnail, I'm not the type of person to take song and album covers seriously.

Please listen with headphones.

[sierra0451]

soooo dm dokuro dropped a new album,,,

tonight was shaping up to be pretty shit too, i'd been really stressed from a bunch of stuff hitting all at once, but this literally redeemed today for me ong

https://dmdokuro.bandcamp.com/album/they-know-who-they-are-act-i-downfall