Daisuke Ishiwatari wrote a full-blown metal album and disguised it as a fighting game soundtrack. Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- dropped in 2015 across arcade, PS3, PS4, and PC, and every single character theme sounds like it belongs on a stage with pyrotechnics.
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"Magnolia Eclair" is this gorgeous vocal rock ballad for Elphelt that has no business being this catchy, "The Lily of Steel" brings crushing riffs for Millia, and "Diva of Despair" goes full operatic shred for I-No. The story mode tracks shift gears hard.
"Reunion" and "The Blue Horizon" pull into cinematic territory, strings and piano carrying weight that the metal tracks deliberately avoid. Even "Does the Sheep Count the Sheep" has this weird dreamlike calm before everything explodes again.
Ishiwatari singing his own lyrics on half these tracks. Just a guy making exactly the music he wants. If you've been sleeping on Guilty Gear soundtracks, this is the one that'll make you wonder why you waited so long.