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[@JessesAuditorium]

Stuck in my head already

[@BlazeBuds]

Haven't stopped listening to it for weeks lol always play it on the way to work

[@dragonweirdocreap]

Relatable 👌

[@barioth6969]

Would be surprised if it wasnt.

[@NekuGrandChase]

Like being stuck in the coffin of who you used to be. You can scream all you like 'cause we're all mad here.

[@Harrowing999]

As it should be lol

[@xydru4365]

If you listen closely, you can hear the FF14 community scrambling to figure out which songs haven't been featured on the channel yet.

[@Zaque-TV]

Most early game music

[@nodot17]

Where is the whorl Leviathan

[@lambdafish291]

So for reference, FFXIV won the world record for most original music in a videogame......... Back in 2017

[@rubenmartinez4526]

@@lambdafish291 Just for 5 months because it was never the game with most original pieces of music (that's RuneScape and they hold the record since July 2017)

[@ArmoredPandaa]

Both phases of P8 are songs I really want to hear. But tbf in order to fully appreciate the song for phase 1 you need to have heard a dozen other songs as they all combine into that song.

[@or10nsharkfin]

"Buried alive in the coffin of who I used to be" is so. Freaking. RAW.

[@Khilo_Oh]

Athenas "never once were you truly alive" also hits like a truck and a little too close for me personaly 🥲

[@IceAokiji303]

*Jesse:* "I think I may have heard all the kinds of sounds XIV has" *Soken:* "Allow me to present my protege"

[@celadore]

Guys! Guys, we made progress! This time he only said he'd "probably" never play it! Kidding aside, there is so much music in Endwalker that you're going to love once it makes it through the queue. They went absolutely crazy with this expansion.

[@geletrode]

the best thing about FF14 is the MSQ can pretty much played the same as single player game, worth the experience for any rpg fan imo. the music has crazy depth to it if you really listen it, its playing things from past experience in the game and really is something magical.

[@gasparguruoftime5475]

@@geletrode Eh, I mean yeah it can be played like a single player game, but the problem is that it takes like 30-40 hours for the story to get engaging and it takes even longer before the gameplay becomes engaging. I dare say most Jobs feel absolutely boring to play below Level 70 and the Normal mode content isn't very fun to engage in below then either. It's hard to have an FF14 MSQ stream without your whole stream revolving around it for weeks on end. I'm not saying it *can't* be fun before then, but I feel like you really have to take advantage of the MMO side of things to stay engaged. I struggle to believe anyone can solely play the "single player" aspects and genuinely say it was fun until several hours have passed.

[@Tackleberry61]

@@gasparguruoftime5475 yes, but there has been plenty of games played that took plenty of hours. Besides, you can put down the game and come back to it at your leisure, as Yoshida-san said from the very beginning! ❤️

[@ep245]

@@gasparguruoftime5475 True, FFXIV can never rival the accessibility of other FF games, but so far as mmorpgs go, it’s absolutely the most single player friendly one out there.

[@gasparguruoftime5475]

@@Tackleberry61 Putting the game down was more in reference to content droughts than anything. But I mean yeah some games take a while to get engaging, but the gameplay being boring for nearly 50-60 hours isn't really something to just overlook imo. That's why I edited my comment and said that playing it "single player" probably isn't viable for many people early on since the fun comes from the MMO side, as the gameplay requires almost no thought and has no depth until Stormblood.

[@julianturberfield7101]

The boss changes in the video because this is actually the BGM to 2 different boss fights.

[@EmpyreanRagnarok]

Just the progression of that chorus. "Scream all you like 'Your gods can't hear you' 'The gods can't hear you' 'No one can hear us' 'Cause we're all mad here.'" Just, the storytelling of this song. Feigned embrace of their new forms, followed by Freudian admission that it was projection, followed by surrender to what they were put through. Also, it was still composed by Soken. It was arranged by Takafumi Imamura.

[@roetheboat1]

I particularly like the progression from "Fear the lions to "Be the lion". It just shows the slow corruption of becoming what you fear.

[@theshadowherself]

@@roetheboat1 Little correction: "Here be lions", not "Fear the lions". It's the translation of Hic Svnt Leones.

[@Setulge]

This song was very hype before we even knew it's actual name (it was featured in a patch trailer) and I guarantee that everyone had a similar reaction to "What is that? Where is this from? THIS IS LIT" and you can bet that most ppl were singing/screaming along when we finally found it where it is from. However it took a while to figure out the lyrics (and then we got the official ones). About Akino, I think personally, the biggest shocker for me was the fact that she's a POP singer and POP is her genre but she went with Scream like she had a different genre under her belt for years.

[@Ravemaster620]

I deliberately didn't watch the trailer when I heard my static gush about it. So glad I went into the fights completely blind, the song slaps and is welcomed so much over the the first tiers music.

[@harryrundle7897]

Wiping to p6/p7 for hours isn't too bad because this song slaps

[@BrattyCattyPenni]

Agreed, and then clearing P6/7 and then running it over and over solely to enjoy the music afterwards

[@Adrobiel]

So many wipes. Scream all you like, your healers can't heal you ;)

[@NatCr3w]

@@Adrobiel More like scream all you like healers don't exist this tier

[@VixenIcaza]

Wiping to P6/P7 happens BECAUSE this song slaps...... 🎵"Scream all you like your gods can't..."🎵 "oh f*** I missed that mechanic" 🤣

[@minuette1752]

Hell yea, right there with you.

[@kuroganekaze]

Fun fact, there's also a purely instrumental version of this song called "Silent Scream."

[@magus13131]

Not quiiiiite purely instrumental, there's some choir-like humming throughout the song that sounds really awesome too ;)

[@armanhammer]

Yeah, that's a brilliant title!

[@ryudhal]

It's very underrated as well. Some parts I actually like Silent Scream better! I usually listen to both as a single entity lmao

[@Nirual86]

@@ryudhal yeah overall I think Silent Scream wins out slightly for me, though a lot of that comes from knowing the context of the other version. Like the real danger is yet to come. Not that this unusual for raid tiers, the previous tier did something similar and even the non-boss themes in the alliance raids this expansions have been hinting at the final boss theme of their respective dungeons.

[@VerinVerdandi]

Takafumi Imamura does quite a lot as Arranger for FFXIV and some of his credits, funny enough, are "The Black Wolf Stalks Again" and "Wrath of the Harrier" among others.

[@JessesAuditorium]

2 of my favorites from XIV! I listen to WOTH quite often.

[@hyrule89]

Yeah. When Yoshi P got made head of Creative Business Unit 3 and put in charge of FF 16, Soken also received a promotion as Lead Sound Designer for CBU3 and not just FF 14. He hasn't actually composed much of what we got in the last 3 years or so, and left that up to his protegés. So yes, that means most Shadowbringers and Endwalker songs aren't Soken.

[@notverynotoriousg5674]

@Fusajiro yeah, Soken is still writing, everyone else is arranging. I might be wrong but this sounds like Soken, very typical of his use of leitmotif from his jazz background, then arranged by Takafumi Imamura who definitely does a metal kind of thing. Embers from 8 is a master class is leitmotif, obviously Soken. Close in the Distance didnt sound like Soken to me for some reason because of the arrangement by the Godhead guy/voice of Raubahn, but the new arrangement for the new tribe quest is obvious. I think most people forget Soken's roots are jazz, while he has thrown in some obvious jazz tracks the footprint is still obvious on other stuff, he writes in jazz for lack of a better explanation, which also makes it easier to arrange and re-arrange.

[@kuroganekaze]

5:10 "I can hear and see you all mouthing the words right now." Bruh I was *performing*, this song makes me feel like I'm in a stage. It really is one of those songs.

[@KLGChaos]

The lyrics for this song are incredibly well written. It's hard to NOT sing out loud.

[@jedimasterpickle3]

It's interesting that Jesse didn't think it sounded like FFXIV music. As a long time player, I instantly recognized the melody in the verses from "Hic Svint Leones", the theme for Hesperos in P4.

[@UCvow2TUIH0d2Ax2vik9ILzg]

@@DawnAfternoon dnb?

[@Demonsta]

That's because those two themes are directly related lol. You can hear similar themes in all of the pandaemonium tracks. Idk what else this guy has reacted to but FFXIV has hundreds of wonderfully diverse tracks, it sounds like FFXIV because it is FFXIV, but you couldn't pick a random track from like hw or SB and expect them to sound like the same game to someone who hasn't already heard them in context, unless the track you pick is the main theme or something

[@TheIndigoEclipse]

This song really reminds me of early 00s days of bands like Nightwish and Evanescence. Super nostalgic for me. I love the dark vibe of the lyrics.

[@KZorander]

There's an absolutely AMAZING mix of Scream and Going Under by Evanescence on KZbin, and it's everything you're hoping it is. It's SO GOOD.

[@rnedjed161]

@@KZorander I am so happy I found this that was poggers to listen too

[@BuffWarlocks]

One of my first thoughts upon hearing this song, right after "Wow this one's a banger" was "They're not gonna leave Jesse alone until he does this one."

[@Sollarious]

Incase it hasn't been mentioned already. There's a great mashup someone made a day or so after this was released. Evanescence + Scream, they called it "Scream Under" if you want to look it up. They jive really well together.

[@陳威麟-q7o]

謝謝！

[@dragonweirdocreap]

I had this song stuck in my head for weeks on end after doing the raids 😂

[@UltimaOX]

AKINO the singer of this song is a Japanese/American musician who with her Siblings bless4, did the soundtracks for a Mecha Anime Franchise from 18 years ago called "Aquarion". She hasnt done much other than this franchise but she has one of the most recognizable voices out there. "Genesis of Aquarion" and "Aquarion EVOL" are anime series about the Cycle of Rebirth with amazingly gorgeous soundtracks. I was going to put links to songs from her youtube for Jesse and anyone else to give a listen but it wont let me.

[@aeonspast]

"I can hear and see all of you mouthing the words right now" - fucking BUSTED. I still sing along every time I'm in the fights and I'm in them a LOT.

[@Kylesico912x]

This is the one song that I always thing of when I think of Final Fantasy XIV. It just lives rent free in your head so easily.

[@zaeynnezameel989]

5:10 I FEEL CALLED OUT!! i was just watching the video and STARTED MOUTHING THE WORDS AROUND THERE!! 🥲😭😭

[@manbearpigsereal]

5:10 you can't just call me out like that

[@Ravio.Helianthus]

Hope you give White Stone Black a shot too! It's from a same raids where Scream was used. Soken composed that one.

[@fridgegremlin5496]

Bumping this. White Stone Black is honestly the most unique track to come out of FFXIV, in my opinion. It’s also quickly become my favorite.

[@Noobleton1]

I really enjoy that wry smile you do in the first few seconds of a song, when you instantly realise why that song gets requested so much. Great video as always!

[@bakubread9308]

I think I speak for everyone here that we've been dying for this one, genuinely one of my all time favorites from XIV as a whole

[@cherrydragon3120]

By far one of the better songs. When i first heard this i fucking spammed the raid for the orchestrion scroll. By far one of my top 10

[@sylas3265]

This is the first video of yours ive seen and the moment you said youd thought youd hear everything from ff14 i audibly barked a laugh. Not bc im snooty, just bc every time I think they're done they come out with more and more. So much so at this point you'd have to sit through the whole game to hear it all hahaha

[@JessesAuditorium]

hit 100k today so I think YT is sharing it again lol.

[@sylas3265]

@@JessesAuditorium well it was a fun watch! Dont know nothing about you but you actually enjoyed the music it looked like, and I had a fun time :D

[@Röttingbabíes]

Yes. It is synced to the boss. Every boss battle music in the game is synced to the boss so you can go into a boss completely blind and if you listen to the pace of the song you can get through the boss and have an idea of what to expect.

[@Röttingbabíes]

When the beat drops there's something massive going down. When it gets fast, you need to as well, and when it gets quiet and slow pay attention there's a puzzle to solve.

[@MythagoWoods]

Just to add a little detail about the video. The video from HungryChad is mixing both the 6th (Hegemone, the tentacle lady) and 7th (Agdistis, the tree lady) and did a pretty cool job of it too. This is honestly my favorite song of 6.2 because it's so... addictive. The theory crafting of the lyrics before the official lyrics was fun, it's very catchy, and it has what's my favorite edgy lyric of FF-14 with "Buried alive in the coffin of who I used to be" is just so awesome.

[@geletrode]

This is fav track to date from FF14 and i didnt think anything would top the black wolf stalks again.

[@ruggedlemmings9163]

"Scream all you like, your gods can't hear you." This is easily in my Top 5 Favorite Lyrics of All Time. Like, not just from FF14, but from music in general. That's such a metal line!

[@10001vader]

It's pretty great. Another of my favorites is Last Surprise from Persona 5: "It's not an accident that noone hears your cries as your last strength seems to dissolve"

[@senounatsuru6453]

Worth noting: In the context of these raids, you've already met, and fought, some of the Twelve, and given them a reason to respect your strength. *YOU'VE MET THE GODS AND THIS SONG IS SAYING THEY'RE NOT GOING TO HEAR YOU IF YOU SCREAM.*

[@MizukiYumeko]

Definitely the Evanescence vibes! I also got Sirenia from this and I really love it.

[@theeuphoguy108]

This has been the anthem of my wednesday and thursday nights for the last month or so, because of savage raiding prog. Thankfully, much like The Extreme from last expansion, I'm not sick of hearing it yet.

[@dereklehman7639]

FFXIV has no shortage of ASTOUNDING songs, as you well know. Hell, when In The Balance came out, that blew everyone away. And then Scream happened, and the fact that this song isn't even used for a **MAIN** Raid boss, but two of the bosses leading up to them (and the instrumental version (Silent Scream) being used for the boss before these two), people were blown away by this one too. Less so by the following one, but I'd still say you might want to give it a shot. The theme for the boss of Pandaemonium 8 is called White Stone Black. (To explain the raid boss thing, for the 8-man Raid tiers, each series comes out with essentially a set of 4 boss fights per tier, for a total of three tiers per expansion. These are usually abbreviated as the first letter of the Raid (A for Alexander, O for Omega, E for Eden, and P for Pandaemonium. People just call Bahamut "Coils"), and the number on the sequence of 12 overall boss fights. Scream is used for the Boss theme for P6 and P7, and Silent Scream (the instrumental) is the boss theme for P5.)

[@AlarahCA]

not gonna lie, i bust up laughing when you said you could see everyone mouthing the words because I totally was.

[@MonstrousRegiment]

I was belting them out! \m/

[@aeternusvotum]

Huh, I've never paid attention to the lyrics yet because for some reason I like the instrumental version (Silent Scream) more but ah, just enjoying the strong without concentrating on the fight really is good :D I really love how in the first tier of this raid we had "Hic svnt leones" - here be lions, and then have that line repeat in this song followed by "be the lion" ♥

[@Nirual86]

I do like Silent Scream a bit better as well, though I find that knowing about the lyrics in this version kind of adds to the silent version. Like its looming in the distance. Kind of like you usually have the more quiet/relaxed takes on a zone theme when it's night, or the dynamic shifts in older alliance raids, Eureka/Bozja, frontline PvP etc. They also kind of did something similar with Asphodelos 1-3 towards 4, though its a much bigger shift. Even the normal Aglaia theme kinda hints at "In the Balance".

[@Poukena]

Been waiting for you to react to this! I've been listening to this song nearly every day since it was released. I absolutely froth over the line 'Buried alive in the coffin of who I used to be'. I wanna go wild every time I hear it.

[@meuanglao7]

"whoa, was that synced up with the attack????" YEAH HUNGRYCHAD HAS GOTTEN SO GOOD AT HIS EDITS I LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH

[@coolyeh1017]

But also some fights have mechanics that definitely sync up with the music. Soken and his music team have stated that they team up with localization, story, and raid design teams to line up the music such that the fights have more of a punch. Some of these include the Final Coil of Bahamut and Seat of Sacrifice fro "Answers" and "To the Edge."

[@meuanglao7]

@@coolyeh1017 oh yeah absolutely!! honestly the first thing that did that for me was shiva - the transition was so good. so good i could talk about the music from this game all day (and more LOL) like. not only is it good in context, it's good standalone and while it doesn't hit AS hard for times like that, it still hits so good when you get those times that line up with the fights. bc sometimes you can just. tell. even having not played the game hrgh music

[@WolfmanXD]

Been waiting for this reaction. Love this song. I listen to this song for about 3 hours a night, 3 nights a week while trying to raid these two fights. The rest of the people in my group are starting to get sick of it, but I fucking love it. I will still listen to it at work.

[@snaffu1]

There it is! I was WAITING for this one!! LETS GOOOOOOOO!! 100% agree, Jesse. This was such a throwback to After Forever, Nightwish, To-Mera, early 2000s metal that I listened to so much in school. Definitely one of the best tracks I've heard in the game, hooks you RIGHT into those heavy, chunky metal riffs.

[@tickledpickle5671]

I love how after hearing music from FF14, Jesse can NOT STOP SMILING.

[@MrZockio]

i actually like that all songs in the game are looped insanely well for every fight/dungoun, there is not a single song that has this"it looped right here" thinking, sure after 10 times you know the loop, but every first time of a song is just a own experience on how long it is, how it sounds ect.

[@KLGChaos]

I've heard many, many songs in FFXIV. I love nearly all of them. This one is by far my favorite. Can never get it out of my head.

[@LockelyFox]

There's an amazing mashup of this with Evanescence, actually. So, the vibes were definitely there for just about everyone who grew up in the 00s.

[@KMCA779]

details. You can't just drop that and walk away.

[@seekittycat]

That mashup is my raid music it's the best ❤️

[@Zologe]

I ran into the Pandaemonium Raids blind, and when this song (and its Instrumental variant) played, my jaw actually dropped. It's so BOSSY. Heavy, hitting you straight in the face with the themes of hell and punishment.

[@HellaGust]

The way so many boss fights in this game are actually synced up with the music is great. I'm sure hoping you've done In The Balance or that you will, because it just blew my mind the first time I saw 24 people just moving their characters in a single co-ordinated dance across the floor to perfectly dodge every single explosion and danger zone, all in sync to a song like something out of Disney's Aladdin. Like I didn't think I'd ever consider fight mechanics in an MMO beautiful, but goddamn if that moment didn't touch me in all the right ways.

[@deejnispeejnis]

Omg! I don't financially support you but I've been watching a lot of your content and I've been dreaming of seeing this one!

[@nicholasgraves3149]

The track plays for both the second and third boss of the raid. The second boss, Hedgemony, is the big girl with a snake and starcraft II looking wing coming out of her back. The third boss, Agdistis, is the big tree girl. The track for the first boss, Proto-Carbuncle, is called "Silent Scream", and it's just a less metal slightly more symphonic version of the song without vocals.

[@letari2252]

They absolutely time the music to match fight choreography! Ishikawa who was the lead writer of Shadowbringers and Endwalker made Soken redo a part of "To The Edge" so it would match perfectly to the fight down to the second pretty much. Also you sweet summer child, there's still so much more music from XIV. 😏

[@Nirual86]

and somehow the timing tends to match up regardless of pull timing, even in fights that don't force a sync with a phase transition that changes the music.

[@dakotanowlin4226]

You know I couldnt put a finger on who sang this song for a month now but as soon as he said Akino I was like ah that makes a lot of sense. Pretty sure she and her group (its name is escaping me) also sing the KanColle and Amagi Brilliant Park Openings

[@jstraziante]

Kancolle OP is so good, wanker memes be damned

[@dakotanowlin4226]

@@jstraziante it really is though

[@arinmochi]

bless4 is the group!

[@dakotanowlin4226]

@Arin Hendricks Thank You!

[@pforgottonsoul]

i've never payed attention to the lyrics i didn't realize they went this hard.

[@loomingdeath1758]

Just some back story. That song is a hell of alot darker and deeper than we thought. The whole line of Bastard and Beast lost child and lamb to the feast describes The Wol, The Man in white Robe, The Guy whom he gave power to lock them away, his father are descibed in that song, the screams are also hinted to be the Female boss, and the woman attach the the tree screaming for help. Yet no words can escape their lips. Its even more insane if you think like this Carbuncle fight them is Called silent scream...yet the two female bosses are Scream followed by extremely foreboding lyrics. I recommend looking up the lyrics lore its really well told. Remember these songs play for fun but they also tell a darker or happier story.

[@gryphon2251]

Yeah like Sophia during Heavensward. Those lyrics were damn dark when you understood what it was talking about. Several of the themes are like that.

[@loomingdeath1758]

@@gryphon2251 Yus it feels so good. Like Silent scream into -> Scream is such an amazing transition into what were getting. Considering the fights and the lyrics im amazed they took the edgelord route with that music.

[@Fireprincess161]

The mash up of the Agdistis and the Hegemone fight was really, really well done. It almost did look like a single fight.

[@maglen69]

The correlation to Nightwish was a good one. Symphonic Rock is the best way to describe it. But yes, Evanescence / early 2000s vibes as well.

[@CreechNBong]

"Still bound to the flame that I bear" shares a motif with a small section of the Radz-at-Han music. I still haven't figured out why- aside from the fact that raiders spend no small amount of time in Radz sorting out the gear they get. You know, from Pandæmonium, haha.

[@afewhundredyearslate]

This ones def up there as one of my favs!

[@somnus970]

"Scream all you like, your gods cant hear" is such a hard line

[@navii13]

ive watched this so many times lol. how it starts: "oh great another 14 song" 😶 song starts: *immediate smile creeps in*🙂 mostly thru the song: *smiling intensifies*😄 us FF14 fans watching you enjoy the song: 😎

[@sitnspin1819]

This is one of my all-time favourite game music!

[@Tackleberry61]

"still not played this game, and probably never will." 😞 big sadge. But omg, I love this song...especially the lyrics. Glad you enjoyed it too, sir!

[@shadowforge25]

Scream all you like cause we're all mad here.

[@theeuphoguy108]

The perfect encapsulation of the savage raiding experience. :P

[@gotanksshine]

The song loops during the encounters, and it doesn't seem to matter what part of the song you pull the boss on, it always manages to sync up the chorus with big attacks. It's impressive.

[@ZSAesthetics]

Oh hell yea! I have been waiting on your reaction since this song released 🤣

[@bananagher7555]

The funny part about you mentioning Evanescence is someone did a mashup using the instrumental from Scream and the lyrics of Going Under, and it works almost perfectly..

[@AvoCattoTV]

Context: This music plays as a theme to the Endwalker expansion's 'Pandaemonium' raid series. This is strongly based on Dante's Inferno.That's why there is a loud and dark theme to the music. You were also correct. The chorus was indeed synchronized to the boss fight. You caught it the first time, and the second was "Tumbling" when you were sent up into the air in a tumble.

[@TankyCrobat]

Yes, I love symphonic metal, aka Nightwish, Within Temptation, Kamelot, Epica, etc. So yeah, this song really got my vibes going.

[@tngdragon]

I've been waiting for this one!

[@syav4467]

This song, with this fight is so much fun to play.

[@leeselset5751]

"You guys happy?" Very.

[@saranodamnedh56]

I’ve listened to this one for hours and hours. Still a banger.

[@windsgrace688]

Honestly, the jump in the overall quality from the first tier of raids to the second tier of raids in Endwalker was an unexpected but welcome surprise. Can't wait for this section of the soundtrack to be released on an album. Also, I have to admit the best thing about the FFXIV fans on this channel is that they reliably pick the most popular, obviously-a-banger songs so I have the opportunity to make a list of songs that are a little more obscure lol.

[@TheGerrok]

This song slaps. I love the variety of music that FFXIV has, it's like having a good buffet to sample from.

[@albireo1989]

Jesse is psychic, I literally was starting to mouth the words along just as he called us all out... LOL

[@Dreadnought_XIII]

my favorite tidbit is that in the fights before this an instrumental version plays which is called silent scream lol

[@jedimasterpickle3]

Small bit of context to clear up some of the confusion. This track is used for two consecutive bosses in the newest raid tier for FFXIV, and hungrychad's video switches between footage of both.

[@cyberknight1188]

Whoa. I always just headbanged during the fight. Didn't know the lyrics were so heavy.

[@Harrowing999]

I work for a funeral home. I play this song in the crematory and it’s very fitting 😂

[@minuette1752]

O nice.

[@ryancurtis5425]

I've never touched FFXIV, but this song is awesome! It has an early 2000's alternative feel to it, like Linkin Park, which I adore. Also, when that chorus hits, I just imagine a hero has entered an evil berserk form and that's the part when they lunge at the bad guy for a beatdown. Fun fact: The vocalist, AKINO, is known for her work on the Aquarion openings.

[@WaterLockser]

Jesse - "I can just picture you all mouthing the words" Me-*caught mouthing the words in 4K* O.O

[@Klefth]

3:33 Probably just the editing in that video, but the music does feel like it syncs up pretty well in some fights, particularly in savage difficulty.

[@awrawrwar]

The only boss fights where I knew my 2 minutes were coming off cooldown without looking at my bar.

[@Guardie]

Funny how you mention evanescence. not even 2 days after that song was added to the game there was already several Scream/Down Under mashups. spoiler: theyre awesome, you barely notice its two songs

[@OrderShar]

I'm not sure if this was said else where but when you mentioned Evanescence others had the same idea cause they mixed Scream with Going Under by Evanescence and it flows together beautifully

[@austinsebben1402]

I’m glad you waited for like the clearing, it also let the lyrics get officially released, the lyric videos that got fan-made by ear got a decent percentage off, including the very first line

[@arbiterally101]

So this song is used for two boss fights. The lady with the snake arms, and the lady who's grafted into a tree...thing? And I will say, the tree boss slams the floor with a very loud audio crash that fits *very* well to the song. Like a massive beat drop.

[@SkandiTV]

Aww yeah, this is by far my favorite song in the game at the moment.

[@kase0118]

I met this boss at the first time , this song stuck in my head too! So I've been listening to the 1 hour version lol

[@craigfunk3453]

A truly Addictive song. Even it's no lyrics version 'Silent Scream' is great. This song plays for 2 fights only. the video you got for it has some SERIOUSLY talented editing done to really make it more impactful then usual. You fight what is essentially 'man-made' Demigods in these battles.

[@Manopeteca]

probably the reaction that i was most hyped to watch

[@Adrobiel]

Really glad you shouted out hungrychad, their videos are on point and the editing is amazing!

[@damascar3639]

The real question is, will this song or "in the balance" get a live performande with the otamatone at the next fanfest?

[@TheBubbeloo]

This song gets so much more layers added once you play through the raid story and know the plot.

[@lilangelki]

Soken is just this amazing. Also he is really well known to connect songs to the fights. You should check out e12s the second half of the fight the song the extreme. The high points of the music connects with the fight and its amazing.

[@jengogonar]

This sounds like Evanescence so much. Loved to fight with the song. the bad part: I was too busy banging my head to notice boss mechanics. BTW: the smash on the ground by the boss (the one you asked if it happens during gameplay) it was just in synch by the video editor (or a coincidence) This video features the 6th and 7th circle of the pandemonium (aka 2 bosses)

[@gshimon]

so according to the wiki The theme was composed by Masayoshi Soken and arranged by Takafumi Imamura ans the lyrics were written by michael koji-fox, the one singing is a japanese singer called AKINO

[@OldManInternet]

There are definitely points in fights that line up with the music, and they'll also have transitions in some fights to different songs mid battle sometimes. They don't do it in every fight, but some fights line up specifically with music. Just to mix things up a bit, I'm gonna reccomend the Safi'jiiva theme from Monster Hnter World. It's definitely one of the coolest boss themes in any game I've played. It goes on a journey, so pick the extended if you do listen to it.

[@cerebralisk]

Yeah it goes between two bosses because this is shared between the bosses Hegemone and Agdistis. They're both conceptually similar to the final boss from the first Pandaemonium wing in that they've been forcibly combined with some kind of monster, and Scream actually shares some leitmotifs with his Hic Svnt Leones (and of course this song even has the line 'Here Be Lions").

[@Theigzorn]

its not directly linked with attack ingame but , at least i take the music as a sort of counter (metronom) to find the right steps in the right time. the fights in savage and higher are like a dance with a rythem on its own.

[@July-gj1st]

Ohhh since you mentioned evanescense, someone made an edit of My Immortal vocals with this song's backing track (or the other way around?) either way it's awesome how well it fits. Also, you should listen to the instrumental version of this, it is pretty dope, I believe it is called "Silent Scream".

[@PrincessofKeys]

This is one of my favorite songs to listen to!