MUSIC DIRECTOR REACTS | Sound Horizon - Yoiyami no Uta

[@regtiangha]

Essentially the same band with the same members. Sound Horizon came first and plays original works; they're mostly story-based musical stuff (think Disney musicals but on crack and less dialogue, or Andrew Lloyd Webber type stuff) which is why you sometimes hear speaking voices and narration in the background. Linked Horizon is for collaborations and commissons with other properties like Attack on Titan and the Bravely Default video games; the naming helps separate their work. Revo is the composer and main singer for both.

[@piadas804]

I understand REVO being the main singer for Linked Horizon, but Sound Horizon doesn't really have a main singer, it has a lot of singers

[@Nguyenthu.artist]

Even other people like it or not, I can't deny that SH is incredible talented. Each albums of them have deep meaning like a puzzle, some base on myth and fairy tales, some base on religion, some base on different story/context in real life. Some albums you must try to puzzle and solve the hidden message like Roman, Nein. Lots of songs are dark and deep but when he connects all the songs, in the end of album he always want to send a message of hope. Revo himself can sing, play lots of instruments and also can be a conductor. He can sing and compose in different languages too. Moira was singing in Greek + Japanese, Romans was singing in French + Japanese, Marchen was singing in German + Japanese, some albums was singing in English + Japanese, Spanish + Japanese. Their performance on stage was great with high quality VR from 10 years ago. Sounds insane to me. This album Marchen bases on Grimm fairy tales and the story of Rheinland Pfalzgraf, Landgraf of Thüringen. That's why you can hear German in this song.

[@jonasw3945]

It's the exact same band lol, Linked Horizon is just the name of the band when they do music for stories and soundtrack purposes like anime and video games. Revo the singer here is the same in Linked Horizion and is the composer for it too. The "bands" are actually just Revo, he is the only permanent member and he basically does everything, he is always credited for vocals, composition, arrangement, guitar, percussion, conductor, accordion, bagpipes, piano. Other guest vocalists are there sometimes like the guy who does naration type vocals in german or japanese you can hear him in AOT and in this song + some recurring live musicians for live performances

[@erufailon4723]

Other commenters have already explained the relationship of Sound and Linked Horizon, so for an extra piece of context, this is the first song of an epic historical fantasy rock opera concept album named Märchen, and it's my favourite SH album - although they're all great (they're all more or less epic historical fantasy rock opera concept albums). One song usually tells a part of the story, but for the full story you need the entire album. Usually the most standalone listenable song in an SH album is the first one, as is here, as it's kind of the introduction to the story while the rest of the songs are the actual story. tl;dr: there's more of this - a *lot* more - and it's all great

[@Kurogami25]

Actually there’re three songs before this one, they’re more like prequels telling you more bout the main characters

[@DrumRollTonyReacts]

That's a good tldr, lol this band was fun

[@Kurogami25]

@@piadas804 I know, just saying that there's more about the plot in those songs

[@KuromiAK]

11:48 That is indeed the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku. In the stage play, this voice is a cursed(?) doll that talks to the protagonist, encouraging him to take revenge. She appears at the end of each song to give ridiculing remarks to the moral of the story.

[@KagamineRinVocaloid]

Not to mention that the doll is an amalgamation of the protagonist childhood friend memory and his angered mom, who was burned alive due to witchcraft.

[@seebling]

Sound horizon is basically the name the band uses for original works (every single album and single follows a distinct storyline) and Linked Horizon is the name credited for all the works for Anime (AOT being the big one, but also the song Moon Pride from Sailor Moon Crystal was written by Revo, the man behind both bands' composition and lyrics. He's actually the main vocalist for this song playing the role of "Mär," who is the protagonist of this album.) And Video games (I think right now the only video game credits are for Bravely Default, and Bravely Default II, Bravely Second had a different composer due to scheduling issues) That being said, Märchen, the album this song is from, was released on December 15th, 2010. Predating the debut of the anime AOT by a good 2.5 years. Something that I'm sure other people have pointed out by now is that is song is part of a bigger storyline, with the Single "Ido e Itaru Morie Itaru Ido" being what's basically a Prologue to the songs in Märchen, and you really have to go through every song in order with the accompanying translations (and life performance) to experience the story. Would highly recommend watching the whole thing to anybody who hasn't yet! Even though it's not on YT for copyright reasons, I'm pretty sure it's available on another video sharing platform! If you ever want to react to more of Revo's Music I would highly recommend the following songs (labeled SH for Sound Horizon Releases, and LH for Linked Horizon Releases) SH- Raijin no keifu (Chronicle 2nd) SH- El's Paradise -Side E- (Elysion) SH- Battle of the Dying Heros (Moira) LH- Serpent Devouring the Horizon (Bravely Default) LH- Love's Vagrant (Bravely Default) LH- Eyes that gaze into the nexus (Bravely Default II)

[@soundslikealotofhoopla3066]

Glad to see you react to a SH song! My favorite album from SH is Moira. I’d love to see your analysis of the album (or really any song from it). My favorite way to watch Moira is to see the live recording because it has both visual context for the songs and subtitles so I can better understand the story.

[@Kurogami25]

Moira was prolly the only album that most of the songs are about the main plot (others would have several side plots) too bad that they had to cut lots of plot due to the 80 min length

[@renapundarika2135]

You reacted to sound horizon!? How did I miss this haha. Sound horizon is best experienced by understanding the lyrics and seeing the live performances. Revo is a good storyteller through his musics. He was also my main reason to watch AOT in the first place haha. Edit: AOT's shinzou no sasageyo opening has melody similar to one of sound horizon's song. A nice surprise for SH fans!

[@pluubooruu]

So, this era of Sound Horizon was my favourite era of them. I also really liked their last few albums before it. I'm sad because it seems as though Revo has been fully invested in Linked Horizon at this point. This album is definitely one of the favourites though!

[@tianyiwang6]

絵馬に願ひを is not even going to have a concert video recording release because of the lack of budget.

[@dennishantman]

⁠@@tianyiwang6they’re releasing a whole app version and blu-ray version of it though. Not sure a live recording rly fits the way Ema works

[@KagamineRinVocaloid]

Tbh, I would've liked a concert of Ema no Negai wo. It's such an amazing and complex story.

🤣Of course this sounds a lot like Linked Horizon. This basically is Linked Horizon Revo is the main composer and singer They go by Sound Horizon for their original productions (full on rock operas) and when they make music for other people they go by Linked Horizon

[@yuyu-uh5ow]

Thank you for enjoying my favorite SoundHrizon song. Recently SoundHrizon released an album with the main theme of Japanese "Gagaku" music, and the song "Rouran Jinja" is very cool and I hope you will listen to it.

[@Elfaia]

The only consistent member in both sound horizon and linked horizon is REVO, who is the founder of both bands and also the composer, lyricist, and producer for almost 90% of his works. Sound horizon is "parent" in the sense that it's REVO's main band until he decided to collaborate with square enix for bravely default, which he debut the OST album under the new moniker, linked horizon, and continue to do so for collaboration till this day. However, he did collaborated with other games and anime, like gunslinger girls and a couple of MMORPG, under sound horizon as well, mostly before ROMAN, his 5th album. In short, songs from sound horizon sound extremely similar to linked horizon because they are all written, composed, and arranged by the same guy.

[@NakuruKouChannel]

its essentially a musical so you'd have to read the lyrics to understand what's going on in its entirety :) there's a whole live concert! and also this predates AoT by like 3 years usually in this guy's music he gives each prominent instrument a solo part so its really fun to see people reacting to his pieces

[@piadas804]

This guy likes music, not lyrics

[@PaKuaKwon]

Waiting for Tony to discover bravely default.

[@narutoshippuden3379]

Me too bro😅

[@jordirieramarti1514]

Same, hopefully some day 😅

[@dooniv]

Yes, it's crazy that in this reaction channel there isn't yet Serpent Eating the Horizon. It's like in every anime/videogames music reaction channel. I feel like Tony would greatly enjoy the live too as a drummer.

[@OdinDerSehnsucht]

Let's just give it some time, it's surely coming eventually lol

[@melonlord5026]

Finally someone reacted to Sound Horizon. You should react to their live performance, it's really amazing like watching a musical theater with doping. This song is from the 7th Album, Märchen. Personally I recommend Moira and Roman tho

[@victormedina8380]

sound Horizon and Linked Horizon are the same band except that sound Horizon tells original stories created by Revo and linked Horizon focuses on making songs that tell stories created by others, for example video games like bravely default or anime like attack on titan

[@taqwadynamic]

This Marchen album is my favourite in Sound Horizon. Their live concert is on another level. I really love it. This album is basically historical fantasy about the seven sin. 7 seven girl, 7 sin and each one tell their own story. Sound Horizon is an expert in using music to tell a story.

[@wasabiilaurant2266]

AoT anime: came in 2013 This song: came in 2010 AoT songs are actually rip-offs from Sound Horizon, if we put it like that 🤔

[@Kurogami25]

ya that's the thing I thought, ppl tend to forgot that aot came later. Maybe it's because aot is more popular Sad that in one of the video of the song, there's even ppl saying that it can be aot song(dude the plot's not even alike)

[@wasabiilaurant2266]

@@Iamnobody543 Yes, I know about it, I just meant that if you were to say one is based on another, it's the Linked Horizon songs that are based on the Sound Horizon ones (in this case, ofc). The other way is true for Ema ni Negai wo, for example.

[@wasabiilaurant2266]

@@Iamnobody543 Not always. Even now he can create entirely different melodies for songs with similar vibes. When he chooses to use a past leitmotif, ofc he's basing the new song (or part of it) on some past themes.

[@DuskChill]

@@Iamnobody543 Recycling, or rather referencing, is probably more like it. 6:24 is used in the Serpent Eating the Ground OST from Bravely Default (2012).

[@fly-with-ricky]

@wasabiilaurant2266 Revo's been using melodies for Aot dating back to Chronicle 2nd at the very least. I find it amusing how what would later become Aot music has actually been around since the late 90's.

[@aussieboy4279]

They’re literally just the same band. Sound Horizon came first and Linked Horizon is the name they use when they do songs for media like games and anime.

[@tsubakilaurant1410]

Actually it would be more interesting if you watch the live concert. Unfortunately nowadays it's very hard to find märchen live on youtube

[@m0ment219]

Welllll, it's hard to find a good HQ transcode. (I've yet to find one) If you know how to search the web, then you'll find some alright ones. Not much on YT though.

[@thatguy5683]

AOT + Beethoven + Vocaloid = I guess it was cool 😂 Great reaction, this song was a trip

[@Kurogami25]

The fact that not much ppl know that sound horizon is earlier than linked horizon is kinda sad

[@Kurogami25]

these songs are in another level if you know the context of the whole plot, spoiler alert like this one is basically the prologue of the story, telling you bout the current state of the mc(forgot who he is and the ones he loved/loved him) and the main plot(revenge for seven dead girls)

[@Kurogami25]

Fun fact: the songs of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin etc. represents the direction of the Black Death(the story took place during medieval times) from west to east by the map

[@Deiki.]

spoilers in songs? this is another level of craziness

[@Kurogami25]

@@Deiki. it’s not spoilers if you watched the live, it’s just kinda weird to explain it directly

[@cherieakira1980]

The bassist is Hasegawa Atsushi. He plays in a progressive band which name is GERARD.

[@uS0ra]

the composer is the same for both bands so thats why they sound so similar, but also this is probably one of their songs that has the most similar vibes to AoT openings, they have a lot of other songs that are kinda going for a different mood, like Takkei no Seijo or Yield and would be awesome if you reacted to their other songs :) also the creepy voice in the middle is a vocaloid your hunch was right :)

[@Kurogami25]

though the song had similar vibes to AoT openings, the lyrics doesn't

[@normandygonzalo7902]

maybe someone already mentioned but to add with miku hatsune, the melody was the Grieg Peer Gynt Suite something something (forgot the whole music piece), it embodies a smaller tone to a grandiose implicating something big is about to happen. something like hoping you get what I mean hahaha

[@normandygonzalo7902]

you might want to try to watch the live to see the whole picture of the story though there was the prologue comprises the story of 3 characters before Marchen. When it was first released a lot of theories were created including also the total number of tracks resembling into number 7

[@nathamonrojapiman1465]

Why I don’t see this reaction sooner😂😂😂😂 This is one of my fav SH songs❤❤❤❤

[@acyned8079]

lmao, it was so funny watching Tony trying to understand this. Don't worry, I don't get it either! I have to read the lyrics and learn the lore, lol.

[@dennishantman]

These albums are actually full on live musicals/theatrical plays, kinda like Hamilton. The entire Märchen live concert with English subs has been uploaded to Dailymotion. It’s a bit hard to find but if you google smth like “sound horizon märchen live” it should be there.

[@Icelandchan]

This is actually a musical with performance and stuff...and I love it so much. It's about 6 different Märchen (fairy tales) and one tale (which was only in the first edition of Brother Grimm's tales). The theme is revenge. The eerie female voice is (if I am not mistaken) the voice of Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid).

[@vonbardy]

The book of Moira and Marchen has the saddest and tragedy story of all he made

[@hl-river8580]

since everyone else has already explained it, i kinda recommend maybe doing a bit more research on the bands before making these videos? and maybe you'll have an easier time understanding what's happening musically if u watched the live performances? or would that be too distracting?

[@Kurogami25]

ya you can't get good reactions without knowing the context of these songs, lyrics are required, really

[@m0ment219]

Probably too much effort... and there's still the element of surprise, so why not? :)

[@ballerdonk]

It's like anime music and Rammstein had kids.

[@サーモンの塩辛]

Sound Horizonリアクションしてくれて嬉しいです。 是非下の曲を聴いてください。 奴隷達の英雄（dorei tachi no eiyuu）

[@yukionna77]

Gain some knowledge here..no wonder the music sounds like familiar..its from the same band..

[@asunder409]

ARE YOU CALLING ME A DENIZEN OF THE BLT

[@donati1938]

do you know if your going to do the bluelock ed's? If so i hope u do!

[@YNGLK]

Would you consider reacting to Nefarious by Monuments? Its insanely good, it's also kind of similar to Bury The Light and we all know how good that song is

[@v2b158]

I think Tony would really like the song by Imperial Circus Dead Decadence - Uta

[@ZeKnife]

cool vid

[@shauntaylor-ps2vo]

Do spider dance

[@DustyDimmadome]

Hell March from red alert 3 would be an incredible video

[@ElPinoles17]

haikyuu pls

[@maroon5290]

Please React Top 10 drops solo GBB 2021

[@albertbarse9451]

What episode of aot is this from ?

[@Kurogami25]

this has nothing to do with aot except made by the same band

[@albertbarse9451]

@@Kurogami25 ohhh okok i though this was on aot, it has the same vybe. Thanks

[@Kurogami25]

@@albertbarse9451 also, this is way earlier than Aot

[@piadas804]

@@Kurogami25 Märchen: 2010 AOT: 2009

[@Kurogami25]

@@piadas804 I mean the anime is released in 2013

[@littleredruri]

You should listen to Rei's theme from Evangelion! Hauntingly beautiful, sinisterly blissful...

[@MyPareidolia]

Wildfire from Honkai: Star Rail please 🙏

[@majnoorgamer9806]

Reaction Idea Pls react to the soundtrack of the spiderverse movies. Daniel Pemberton goes soo hard on them. Was worried if he would be able to do good on the sequel's ost but boi did he stepp upp. He does mindblowingly amazing leitmotifs for every character

[@elcoolhaag7737]

Day 1 of asking for jujutsu kaisen ost - hollow purple