Drakengard OST - Chapter IV ~ On The Ground

Composer: Nobuyoshi Sano
Performer: Tokyo New City Orchestra
Mastering Engineer: Naomi Sassa
Conductor: Akira Naito
Release Date: Oct 22, 2003

[@Haurmeya]

I listen to this regularly during my night shift to remind myself that I’m human.

[@totallynotmrsinister8705]

How does this help

[@Shanguy]

@@totallynotmrsinister8705 it reminds you that you're a human

[@dickthebirthdayboy2132]

based

[@DYNOPUNCH]

Always remember: This took 4 people and a whole ass orchestra to make.

[@richanddarksbane1439]

Lol

[@SlyHikari03]

And a sampler. They had to arrange everything somehow. Everything came from raw orchestra samples.

[@futabapooping8234]

dude there is no way that anyone who worked on this game is mentally sane

[@shinrasoldier2348]

Anyone who listens to the whole soundtrack all the way through can’t be mentally sane either 🧐

[@saimysilvia]

@@shinrasoldier2348 The horrors of war music.

[@shinrasoldier2348]

@CostaTheMeme if it’s for our prince of hell, I’ll gladly play it again

[@jen7508]

@@shinrasoldier2348 I actually have listened to the whole thing before

[@bloodyidit4506]

It isn't about sanity. It's about the depravity of war. Do you think war is sane?

[@splattercorpse9951]

Chapter Verse description: In the lifeless wastelands, the subhuman monsters of the Empire gather. Their eyes reflect only bloodlust and hate. But Caim's eyes are the same

[@I.HEAR.A.SOUND.]

Man Caim is such a badass

[@edorasmarauder5761]

Caim sounds like a calm and reasonable person.

[@jonahbrown5669]

​@@edorasmarauder5761 is he a calm and reasonable person?

[@edorasmarauder5761]

@@jonahbrown5669 No. A common word to describe him would be bloodlust.

[@I.HEAR.A.SOUND.]

@@Mortis2435 you don't think caim is badass?!

[@STAAAAAAAAAAAARRRS]

Tell me you’re not sane without telling me you’re not sane: “I like Drakengard and the OSTs are bangers.”

[@eletgres519]

i think im the only few that unironicly likes the drakengard ost. its great for doing homework c:

[@girldinnerenchilada]

naww bc this shit is fire 💃

[@JabamiLain]

​@@eletgres519I love it too. I even try finding ways to dance to it, in a freestyle sort of way. Most them involve me imagining I have wings and flying around skipping through the ground, but there's one that is just me moving my head as if I had been possessed.

[@eletgres519]

@@JabamiLain dude i do that same thing but i just pace around my house when i listen to a pumpin track, its great :)

[@JabamiLain]

​@@eletgres519this OST deserves more representation.

[@mantis0380]

i thought my ps2 was breaking when i heard this

[@yourpalsammy9773]

I thought my copy of the game was FUBAR at this chapter until the progression came in. Lol

[@fred146]

hah, same

[@JCM-x84]

I swear this is like if a classical composer was trying to make beats out of his work and I actually love the entire OST for that reason 😂

[@K1z0ku]

It actually IS entirely sampled from classical works of music!

[@troywright359]

Surprisingly, adding hiphop or dubstep beats goes well, but the strength lies in the samples themselves

[@RogueBeatsARG]

This is a perfect Trap sample tho

[@4t7nova3]

Bro 😂😂😂😂

[@KosmonautKong]

Yeah I've accidentally set the snare track to horns before too.

[@assignedcringeatbirth69666]

Literally peak music

[@raivin7172]

Unironically one of the best videogame songs out there. Absolute madness incarnate, adore it wholeheartedly

[@Harlod814]

This song is just basically when your roommate accidentally locks his phone in his room before leaving the house with the alarm going and you can't fucking make it stop. I only ended up here because I wanted to verify that my emulator wasn't just destroying the music. Nope....it's supposed to sound that way.

[@Akay4444444444444444]

If you think this music sounds fucked up you got a good 75% of the game left to make this seem tame

[@blaba2639]

someone needs to rap on this beat its fire especially the pause at 0:54

[@lilithsmolinski4563]

Do you laugh? Does the spilling of the blood of so many amuse you so?

[@AshoreNevermore]

Playing this game at 7 is the explanation for every mental disorder I have as an adult. It just felt like everything in the game was wrong. It scared me and instilled me with a sensation of dread and hopelessness I'll never forget, no matter how poorly the game itself holds up.

[@diamondhamster4320]

Cause it had what many modern games lack - vision and soul.

[@veronis]

i feel like if i tilt my head to the side my brain will pour out of my ear like a smoothie after listening to this

[@kainevittulainen]

this song feels like sneezing and throwing up at the same time

[@JabamiLain]

That's how you know it works.

[@PsychoSi1989]

The track is trance like. It makes sense. The trance like state caim would enter during battle. Almost an art work of slaughter and bloodshed. It's beautiful imo.

[@diamondhamster4320]

Kino in Musical form.

[@ChukN0rris]

I can't decide wether it is dreadful or dreadful. It may actually be good.

[@omensoffate]

My children fall asleep to this music. I tell you this from the afterlife

[@coteobscur.]

Non-Understandable genius for the masses

[@godhandforps2]

Luv this soundtrack so much, all the sample looping/warping is so fucking cool

[@JabamiLain]

This chapter's whole OST would be my intro music for "KH"(in fact, it's gonna be the OST I'm gonna reference when making the descriptive chapter of how my fic's anime intro would look like). "In the sky" would be used to reference the friendship between Sora, Kairi and Riku. And then, in the scene in which Riku and Sora fall to those dark vortexes, "On the Ground" would play as scenes of their future battles are shown, always trying to depict the worst out of them.

[@Chibispore]

I have ptsd from stuff I don't want to talk about and I have to say, I have never seen a composer capture the double whammy of horrific clarity and mind-stopping shock of trauma that breaks you to your core and leaves you as a sobbing, scarred puddle formally known as a human being, and transcribe it perfectly into music like this. Hats off to everyone who worked on this soundtrack, you goddamn psychos lol

[@AngraMainiiu]

2:00 When the memoires come back flooding in but you're in the zone!

[@federicolarcher1108]

ah yes, my favorite music genre: schizophrenia

[@AliceBijiou]

ratJAM

[@Ameiii]

ratJAM

[@darshio8307]

This is so unique, i love it

[@DoragyoBlack]

esta canción me acompaña y acompañó en muchos momentos difíciles. Brutal como ninguna otra

[@JabamiLain]

Te dá una sensacion de victória, no es así ?

[@DoragyoBlack]

@@JabamiLain Al final sí, pero trágica. Una victoria pírrica diría.

[@Chars-F]

En mi caso la siento como un último empujón en una batalla que parece perdida Esta canción es única de cierta forma

[@PCMonkey202]

this is the best one yet

[@meowy2k]

this slaps

[@Kyosharo1]

You know what this is not bad if you are used to listening to/are a fan of rap and hip hop.

[@SonGoku-hd6ro]

what'd you mean by this? are you saying that rap music is bad or are you associating the music skipping with certain rap songs?

[@Kyosharo1]

@@SonGoku-hd6ro Most hip hop/rap songs are made with layered, looping sounds. Usually there is one main track that loops through most- if not, the entire song with other sounds added that can make things a little more dynamic and interesting and a bass track over it all to make it come together.

[@Kyosharo1]

I’m no expert and probably suck at explaining it but I have always listened to the instrumentals of songs more than lyrics and the comparison I made is just what I hear.

[@coteobscur.]

Exactly

[@amysel]

I dont think its a hiphop thing in particular, I just think they structured orchestral sounds like it wasn't orchestral music by looping and slicing sounds in all sorts of ways It kinda reminds me of a lot of (mainly prog) electronic music in particular where you just have a groove looping for a few minutes and then they kinda play around with the sample as it goes on but since its real instrumentation it does feel like hiphop at times too. Some of the crazier tracks toward the end of the soundtrack also almost give me dubstep vibes with how the samples are mixed to make "wobbles". It also kinda reminds me of the first minute of prog/post rock songs where literally nothing happen for a minute at time. Like its so easy to dismiss this soundtrack as repetitive trash and move on, but the more I listen to it, the more interesting I find it.

[@Brightnova12]

We making it out of shinjuku with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️

[@Teriaaaan]

I'll never forget one guy who said it sounded like fe music

[@sunzalea3257]

In the desert!

[@Ale-Y]

Im not sure if my taste in music is all that good anymore

[@zettashura]

on the old video someone said this sounds crazy if you play another tab at the same time and it sounds sick lol

[@SuolaSirkka]

Why on earth did I try that just now. It sounds like my heart is about to start beating twice the amount it's supposed to, and then jump off my chest and march to war by itself.

[@Imgonnahugyourmom]

Weird how quickly you get used to it, sounds like something they would actually put in game

[@spooky0407]

I actually kinda think this goes hard ngl

[@Lima75]

I know it's memed but listening to this while in the fight is strangely at place, there's no way it's not intentional lmao

[@thenonanator5236]

The Horrors of War

[@deltalags]

this is the funniest music in the world

[@jhandley0366]

I can't decide if I like this track or not. It sounds so awesome but also sounds very repetitive and annoying

[@emadonssongs3442]

That was the goal of the soundtrack: to sound broken, uncomfortable and annoying.

[@WhatisLove-g7e]

@@emadonssongs3442 But I don't find it broken. It is full and harmonious in its disharmony to such an extent that the disharmony disappears.

[@trevelyandovah8479]

Thats Drakengard for you

[@lipsontajgordongrunk4328]

@@WhatisLove-g7e it’s not that it disappears. You become normalized to it.

[@WhatisLove-g7e]

@@lipsontajgordongrunk4328 maybe. Horroric songs can have a calming effect on me, just like infernal dreams in childhood, instead of scaring me, made me feel like I was at home

[@leadintea]

This is a twerk worthy song, and I'm being so serious. There's just something about the drums and violins that makes it work!

[@luggy_7207]

dude if my girl starts twerking to this song, my life would be hers

[@Vindaya_]

Everytime when it snows it reminds me of this song

[@codman4372wx]

Is this what schizophrenia sounds like

[@xdarkwolfmanx]

"You are layin on the ground, beaten, bloodied, your heart pounds in your ears as you tilt your head upwards, you see your friends down helpless as well, but perhaps still alive, the enemy over them overpowering, intent on ending what they started, on ending you and everything you love, you try to stop them, you try to stand but you can't, you start to panic, your body fights a war of it's own between action and inaction, are you truly this weak? are you about to lose everything you love?" That's what this song says to me. Of course everyone has different interpretations of songs, I myself haven't played Drakengard yet, and I stumbled upon this song by chance, I was instantly intrigued by it as it painted a very clear picture in my head of what it might be describing, I'd love to know if I'm even close.

[@jankertonch.7783]

ye olde trap beat

[@sessamess910]

why do i like this

[@Crimsononon]

UNRELEASE IT 🔥🔥🔥

[@JabamiLain]

Why does this song make me feel victorious ? It's a great feeling, but it seems I'm the only one who feels it in this comment section.

[@whywyatt376]

I think 2:27 then onwards sounds hopeless. it invokes remembering that inuart betrayed you and that he took furiae. however caim's slaughter never falters so you just keep going

[@JabamiLain]

​@@whywyatt376 I guess. It does sound angry. Wow ! Caim was really hurt wasn't he ?

[@LedkiafDaGod]

There is a science to the music mixed with gameplay.. Amazing work

[@idlehour]

My mind plays song. Bells

[@techno--]

Peak

[@myuutosan]

yo ur cd keeps skipping

[@wikipediaintellectual7088]

If Macintosh Plus went postal

[@MateusSantos-kf3wc]

This game is too much for me

[@real1mem3s]

This is how you know no one play tested the entire game.

[@JabamiLain]

Works for me. Wouldn't want this song cut out.

[@allot5530]

It sounds like you let a kid mess with the CD of the soundtrack to the Lord of the rings

[@non-shockingtopics7563]

Ayo why has hl2.exe stopped responding tho?

[@Anithimous]

Lag the song

[@yoshisarethebomb]

Bro what is this

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

i mean, it's not terrible but its quite repetitive

[@youhavetogoback8449]

This is actually terrible lmao.

[@Total_L0ser]

Unappreciated Genius

[@karnevil9704]

You have to go back.

[@Luke--99]

Filtered

[@christinawolfys6482]

You gotta be honest tho; who would play good, spirit-lifting music in the middle of a battlefield of an insane war that’s taking thousands upon thousands of lives and sending others into a downward spiral of insanity?

[@christinawolfys6482]

@K.O.G.Fanstarks1610 …true. Mr. Taro would 100% play the most happiest music during a brutal war just to be the comedic genius he is

[@LilianaIrinae]

0:58 HOLY SHIT IT HAS A BEAT DROP

[@smithsmithony5401]

dude only had one key working on his keyboard

[@arimov0]

kino