The VAAL HAZAK Theme Reveals He's Not Such a Bad Guy

The VAAL HAZAK Theme Reveals He's Not Such a Bad Guy - MONSTER HUNTER WORLD

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@DaviVasc Ай бұрын

Here is that video about the Namielle + Vaal Hazak theme easter eggs that I talked about (turn on english subtitles): kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3y9fn2hgah2iqM

@Sandlchi Ай бұрын

Wow. That has to be one of the coolest things in Monster Hunter music so far. Respect for sharing your source instead of pretending you found it, your honesty is appreciated

@yiangaruga4928 Ай бұрын

Vaal Hazak is essential to Rotten Vale thriving cause it helps balance the amount of effluvium. Without it the whole place would eventually die out of lack of oxygen Vaal Hazak's theme is super underrated

@DaviVasc Ай бұрын

What a nice guy!

@TheBestestKitty Ай бұрын

For the lore of the dragon, Vaal Hazak is only of the only elder dragons that actually lives in symbiosis with its environment, being the Rotten Vale. The effluvium it controls consumes corpses, and then distributes the excess nutrients into the biostream without allowing the effluvium to become so strong it would consume everything. It's like a gardener, tending to an ecological niche and keeping everything in perfect order.

@spiritice2863 Ай бұрын

Elder Dragon that lives in complete harmony with its environment. The commision: “Anyways we have to kill it.

@albertfrostrudebeck4037 Ай бұрын

@@spiritice2863 thats because xeno jiiva made all the elders act up including vaal

@ivanoflavender9523 Ай бұрын

One of my fav elders for that reason

@nackedsnake1 Ай бұрын

Also Nergigante

@burningGodzilla1 Ай бұрын

I feel like the reason Vaal Hazak's theme is set up like a poser is because underneath all the rotting flesh, he's a funny fish looking dude

@DaimlerSamsel Ай бұрын

To be fair to Vaal Hazak, he's just a guy trying to farm his flesh eating bacteria in peace

@Sandlchi Ай бұрын

...have we been beating up the janitor all along?

@TheGoldenJay637 Ай бұрын

@@SandlchiWorse, we've been beating up a peaceful gardener.

@Cottonmouth255 Ай бұрын

“Farming? Really? A dragon of your talents?” “It’s a peaceful life.”

@qbYeetmaster Ай бұрын

Vaal Hazak isnt even attacking you if you walk anongside him as he wanders through the vale. Hes just chillin

@Glebblegweb Ай бұрын

On the point of Vaal being just a guy underneath it all, there's also the fact that the Blackveil Vaal Hazak isn't some gruesome invader - it's kinda just a Vaal Hazak that felt like exploring more of the world (it just happens to accidentally have some tragic effects on the forest)

@jamfilledjars Ай бұрын

Considering Vaal Hazak is essentially the only barrier between the effluvium from either dissipating or spreading rampantly, I’ve never really thought of this dude as a negative force of nature. If anything, he’s like a worm… if they were the size of a small house and had a pharyngeal jaw.

@Majoraspersona Ай бұрын

Vaal Hazack, the best Elder in World by virtue of being the only one that isn't a complete pain in the ass to fight

@Rageouz Ай бұрын

till black veil came in

@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 Ай бұрын

Learn lance, then go back and fight nami. Every elder has a hard counter.

@optimusck1826 Ай бұрын

I thought Teostra was the easiest, Vaal Hazak has always been a pain in my ass.

@Majoraspersona Ай бұрын

@@Rageouz Until they nerfed effluvia resistance into the ground in iceborne lmao

@Majoraspersona Ай бұрын

@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 I meant World specifically, not Iceborne. Nami and Velk are awesome.

@Nasa1423 Ай бұрын

I am so glad you brought up the Namielle + Vaal Hazak easter egg!!! not so many people know about it even though it's really cool...

@nightdrivenen7909 Ай бұрын

Vaal Hazak is just trying to do his job. It is his domain. It is his to rule. He decides life and death to those in the Vale. The Effluvium and Miasma are everywhere by his design. Tou wandered in still strong and alive. The song sounds more like he is testing you, judging you, doing his duty. If I was to come up woth my own set of lyrics for that slow down: "Here you en-ter my court, make your plea, standing in my sight! In my domain I regulate. Now will you live or will you fall and die!?"

@Angy-yk3hh Ай бұрын

Here is some clue i found 1. Vaal's armor(female) depicted as wedding or party dress 2. It live at place where life suppose to comes to die 3. There is a rare item called Elysian Fruit there, search the meaning of Elysium can help to understand Rotten Vale 4. It has symbiotic with Effluvia that suppose to grant death and decompose living creature, while Vaal help spread the spore(can be seen by it's act in Master Rank quest, Blackveil Vaal Hazak) 5. "When people travel to the other side, there are places full of fear and sadness that you must bear alone. You'll know that same feeling if you face a Blackveil Vaal Hazak." Tears of Nirvana quest description. Maybe the heroic part you heard is, this creature suppose to die by the Effluvia, but it's not, it defeated death and control it instead, as for the wedding dress, maybe can explain why Vaal refuse to die, Elder Dragon tho, they suppose to be unexplainable indeed, so i'll say it's a lady who doesn't want to die a virgin.

@Neon_Dragon18 Ай бұрын

I think Vaal Hazak is more of a ferryman of the dead. The person who rows the boat for dead spirits along the river. It seems to live a lonely life, spreading and taking life with each step. It clearly doesn't do this on purpose as you can freely walk around it and it won't attack you. Vaal Hazak just seems like an Elder Dragon who wants to rest and sleep harming no one. Which can be seen how it has never appeared until the very end of the game. It seems like a peaceful monster who only wakes up to do their job and go back to sleep. Also the variant being Blackveil Vaal Hazak also seems to be apparent with my idea. As it fled to the Ancient Forest which seems like a quiet and calm place to rest while still not attacking us😢

@darkluxgames2347 Ай бұрын

I've never drawn the connection of Roar/Forest and Hills and the beginning of the main section of Keeper of Hades. (What a badass name for Vaal's theme btw!!) I'm sure you're right that there's no true connection, but it's definitely repeated in Morning Star of the Dark Tide (Namielle's theme) I'll definitely have to go back and watch the Namielle video with subtitles on to see the connections made. I still love how both Vaal and Namielle's themes sound both villainous and heroic at the same time. What a fantastic balance.

@darkluxgames2347 Ай бұрын

*on an app that won't let me edit for some reason, but I realised I misread and misheard it being a different creator's video when typing my original comment lol. It does make it more interesting to hear the two together.

@athos9293 Ай бұрын

Well, Vaal Hazak is basically holding the New World together

@atomicbanana55 Ай бұрын

Aside from Vaal being a fairly slow and not very aggressive monster, I think a big part of the reason Vaal's theme is so calm and heroic is that they wanted Vaal's unique noises to fit into it. I think if his music was too intense, it would take away from his own intimidation and weirdness.

@grantowens7537 Ай бұрын

To be fair, Vaal Hazak is probably one of the most calm and least likely to attack you out of the blue out of all the roaming Elders. His role in balancing the Rotten Vale’s effluvium is crucial for the survival of that environment, as opposed to the other Elders who instead twist the environment around them. Of course, then there’s Blackveil, whose presence in the Ancient Forest could literally trigger an environmental collapse, so I’m not sure how that fits into the more heroic elements of the theme.

@acatcheckingitstemperature394 21 күн бұрын

Black veil was just wondering around, its not actively trying to destroy ancient forest but rather its a side effect of its presence in ancient forest. He probably was roaming the land to find another quiet and peaceful place to rest like rotten vale

@spacemegalodon5049 Ай бұрын

It makes sense that Vaal Hazak and Namielle’s themes go together because the rotten vale and coral highlands are interconnected with each other.

@salamid Ай бұрын

Almost every elder dragon is destructive to their environment. Vaal hazak is one of, if not the only elder who is directly BENEFICIAL to their environment. I think thats why his theme is more heroic.

@datpieceofbread9570 Ай бұрын

Vaal was always one of my favorite dragons. Edit: And the quieter point where it's mostly the harpsicord, I've always felt that was trying to emphasize an almost royal feeling. Like it is the king of the Vale and carries himself in a similar way to Kushala or Velkana

@ivanoflavender9523 Ай бұрын

An unexpected heroic figure really fits Vaal Hazak. He’s one of the least aggressive elder dragons in game. Like you said, keeps the balance of the Rotting Vale. He’s not rampaging around. While he does take life, it does not seem to be out of spite. More like an animal sensing that something is off and needs to be tended to. And it serves to allow life to exist in the Vale. 😊

@hansgretl1787 Ай бұрын

I feel like the Baroque undertones on the Harpsichord go a layer deeper than how you ecplained it. Vaal Hazak drains your health with the effluvium throughout the fight, kinda like a vampire sucking blood. So giving Vaal Hazak vampire sounding music really fits as well. The Monster Hunter composers truly are broke nerds.

@aaronbertram763 Ай бұрын

Hell yeah! I've been listening to Vaal Hazaks theme a lot recently, it is one of my favorite pieces

@damb1858 Ай бұрын

Vaal Hazak 🤝 Malzeno Themes where the monster itself serves not as your typical Jho Smith monster & has fleshed out piece of music

@JolyonPalmer01 Ай бұрын

He is basically the keeper of the dead In my headcanon, he’s trapped in the rotten vale, only able to stay alive by absorbing the effluvium and feasting on the dead. So basically he looks scary on the outside, decomposing body and all that, but in reality he’s trapped forever wondering the rotten vale and having to feast on dead corpses to stay alive. Because otherwise if he dies, so does the ecosystem.

@monty5405 Ай бұрын

Even the Reaper has his role to play. I like that more somber portion of Vaal Hazak's theme, it feels to me like a reverence of his imprtance to the world... which the transitions into the classic heroic, "knight battling a dragon" portion of the track!

@bastienchalvin5242 Ай бұрын

Oooh the vaal hazak theme ! Such a cool music, for such a cool monster

@devilsnevercry7 Ай бұрын

What’s also kewl is when he inhales etc it’s in pitch with his song😄

@zetta8277 Ай бұрын

Remember Davi all these themes are heroic themes for the monster. I fought Vaal so much trying to get the giant version that this became my favorite theme in the game lol.

@jamfilledjars Күн бұрын

I find it interesting that some of the most docile elder dragons we have encountered, interacted with and fought are both based heavily on deep sea abyssal creatures for their design. Vaal has hints of a moray eel, viperfish, angler fish and frilled shark, while Namielle has facets of bioluminescent jellyfish, (vampire) squid, sting rays and the sort. It’s a nice juxtaposition to the normally alien view we have of those animals living in a world so far separated from our own on land.

@greenhydra10 Ай бұрын

Alternative title: Davi roasts the flesh-eating bacteria dragon for about 10 minutes

@99v6cam Ай бұрын

Aaaah, I’ve wanted you to do this song for so long. The harpsichord is nearly impossible to hear in game and because of your channel way back when you started doing monster hunter music, I started listening to it more outside of the game and noticing little details like that.

@gelokabute1304 Ай бұрын

Vaal Hazak is such an underrated monster by design, fight, and theme. shame nobody talks about him much compared to other elders like Nergigante.

@whisnu_ayodya Ай бұрын

Great video! I think you should also consider explaining Monsters chase theme as well & the vibe they bring, because for me, Vaal Hazak's chase theme is so captivating it made me love the whole theme when I first actually listened to its chase theme!

@quarantinetherustgod Ай бұрын

I would LOVE to see you cover some of Darkwood's music. And also potentially play it. I've just come across your videos and am loving them so far!!

@naniteslayer Ай бұрын

I used to hunt Vaal over and over just because I loved his theme so much, always a fun fight for me too

@HighLanderPonyYT Ай бұрын

Sounds more like struggling hero than evil bad guy which sorta fits.

@Amber_Daldeus Ай бұрын

Yes finally! I’ve been waiting for this ever since I discovered you back when you had around 2.5k subs! Great stuff!

@DaviVasc Ай бұрын

Thank you for sticking with me for so long, it means a lot :)

@darihunter3308 Ай бұрын

I like to think of Vaal Hazak as of death itself: Neutral, just outright playing his role. He isn't evil, but still a force to be reckoned with for those who defy it

@tentatrises5475 Ай бұрын

Sorry in advance if my english is not that good. I love Vaal Hazak he's probably in my top 10 favorite monsters. Personnaly i see his theme and him like it's and elder past its glory, slowly decaying but still attached to his pride. We are his last fight, like he was gonna say to us "if i must die, i want to die in the heat of the battle". I find his theme intimidating, epic, almost majestic with a touch of sadness, almost like the weight of the years falling on him, thus the feeling of his end approaching but not wanting to let go easily. I know that it's totally not Vaal Hazak, i know he's regulating the effluvium, but that's how i felt everytime i fought with this one and i grown attached to that vision. Still on of the best themes of World IMO 😁

@WeeWeeJumbo Ай бұрын

every Monster Hunter theme celebrates and advocates for the monster

@blazouille2453 Ай бұрын

You should check on Vaal chase theme too, it's probably the best in the game imo. And yeah, Vaal Hazak is among the few "classic" elders than aren't too dangeerous, unless you encounter it when it decides to create some more food stock ( by using it's long maw to inject effluvium directly in the body of a creature, apparently )

@cim3994 Ай бұрын

The best part of Val hazak theme is how it portrayed she can command her minions, and I like to imagine the heroic part of the song is actually the hunter that facing val hazak

@daeamiralis Ай бұрын

I would always spend a few minutes chilling with vaal when I ran into him. Nice guy.

@el_guapo1318 Ай бұрын

Vaal Hazak is basically the Monster Hunter Universe version of "you are bad guy, but this does not mean you are bad guy."

@BagelGoose52 Ай бұрын

Yo, finally I've wanted somebody to do this for a while. For this part 1:13 specifically.

@Tooberculosis Ай бұрын

The urge to comment something because I'm here early, stunted by the fact that I haven't yet watched the video and have nothing to say...

@DaviVasc Ай бұрын

In my experience, people faced by this same dilemma will often comment something like "first" or some times even "second"

@Oisin80 Ай бұрын

Yeah, just comment "first" or "second" the next time jaja. I'm usually here early but I don´t like to leave a comment if I haven't watch the video yet, but it's tempting.

@athos9293 Ай бұрын

@@Oisin80No, please never encourage anyone to do that

@Joeynator3000 20 күн бұрын

...I've been thinking since I found your channel and your reactions to the monster battle themes. I'm thinking, you should react to the map battle themes as well. Or even do comparison videos since some of the maps in Rise/Sunbreak have remade maps with new versions for the theme. (Sandy Plains being the only exception having a completely new theme for some bizarre reason. lol)

@andycrisis971 Ай бұрын

I think Val hazak is actually my favourite monster and theme from world, was the first monster i had to really farm hard too.

@RexusChrysalis Ай бұрын

His chase theme is also very interesting

@rhanhur7912 Ай бұрын

YES YOU DID VAAL HAZAK TOO!! WOOOO-

@bennytilleul7419 Ай бұрын

Great sound, great monster. Yes the sounds doesn't looks that scary but it go really great with Vall sounds and roars.

@greenshyguyfrommario 13 күн бұрын

I feel like Vaal “isnt a bad guy” in the same sense that the grim reaper isn’t a bad guy, or the rotten veil itself isnt a bad/evil place. Death and decay is simply a part of life, and a very important one.

@emmik946 Ай бұрын

Truth is, even Vaal’s design communicates the theme of “scary on the surface, but is just a guy.” Physically, he looks like a freaky zombie-creature, but when you look at his artwork, you realize that he’s just a normal fish-looking dude covered in corpses.

@DanrleyMessias Ай бұрын

Now only nameless king is left Lets go boy

@pehhhk2916 Ай бұрын

I love the chase theme on vaal hazak, very out of the ordinry, I'd really like to see what he thinks about it

@DexFire1115 Ай бұрын

Vaal Hazak my beloved!!!!! :O

@grenindraw6947 Ай бұрын

I loveeee your videos, honestly id love to see you react to some hades music, Through Asphodel being one of my favorites, keep up the good stuff 👍

@dragonlord4194 Ай бұрын

Again, I feel like the theme of Vaal Hazak is in the viewpoint of the hunter, who meets him for the first time. Vaal Hazak looks frightening, but really is not as threatening as Nergigante, Kushala Daora and Teostra. Though still a powerful Elder Dragon with one of the most dangerous status effects

@Ravelx27 Ай бұрын

Probably its because i spend years playing cod zombie, but Vaal Hazak its my favorite elder from World-Iceborne and his theme its amazing

@Sunaki1000 Ай бұрын

Dont forgett hes a passive monster who wont attack unprovoked. Ultimatically Vaal is just some Eel guy, he just looks scary.

@jdlenl Ай бұрын

yay! my favorite MHW theme!

@0rteku Ай бұрын

While hearing the music, I heard in my mind the sound of Vaal Hazak when he preparing to do his breath attack and I thought "Yeah, definitely is Vaal theme",. Unrelated, but i miss to see gameplay to know for what is the music, especially for games I don't know.

@arch_imedes7108 Ай бұрын

The song is also titled "Keeper of Hades" so do with that what you will.

@munchy4238 Ай бұрын

Amazing thumbnail

@TheGrandKoopa Ай бұрын

Arch Tempered Nergigante!

@fedezotto9189 Ай бұрын

Of he ever knows about mount themes he's going to have content for another year.

@robertm0499 Ай бұрын

Hey Davi. Have you watched the new trailer for monster hunter wilds that Capcom put out?

@IvoryMadness. Ай бұрын

VAAL HAZAK.... I think I like this name, I'm gonna name the next dog I have after it... Great video as always!

@SeyrenSamin Ай бұрын

Dawg WHAT

@IvoryMadness. Ай бұрын

@@SeyrenSamin I wonder why the word 'dog' didn't appeared 🤔

@Aleksandr_Skrjabin Ай бұрын

Rachmaninoff piano concerto X game music = Vaal Hazak theme

@dannymerfeld7711 Ай бұрын

Death is scary, but not evil. That's my interpretation for why he sounds the way he does because like death Vaal Hazak is an environmental regulator.

@sgtcarniev Ай бұрын

please someone show him the BONGOS in the mount music of this monster

@unknowna8056 Ай бұрын

How dare you call my guy a poser lol 😂, I always loved vaal hazak s theme. It sounds very grand since he's the elder of death And I also love his chase theme!

@lewa3910 Ай бұрын

Honestly Vaal's theme just felt like a sleepier Bazelgeuse theme to me

@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 Ай бұрын

I mean, he's a decomposer. Without Vaal, the whole rotten vale might not function as well.

@Oisin80 Ай бұрын

Oh woah, I remember this track and I have only heard it in your MH stream lol. But I remember really enjoy it, it's so cool. And yeah, it seems a good guy lol. Ofc, since the capitalism stream was a few hours ago, I will take the opportunity to say that you must listen to The Last Door OST or make a video, you can't refuse (joking ofc cause I know it will make terrible and you don't even know the game lol, but los sueños, sueños son jajaja). Either way, such a good video. That's it. ¡Adiós!