Take Go Sato's already excellent Raiden IV score and hand it to a roster of shmup and game music legends for remixing. That's the premise here and it absolutely delivers. Heavy Metal Raiden tears through tracks with blistering guitar arrangements that make the originals sound restrained.
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Daisuke Matsumoto from Cave brings his Dodonpachi sensibilities to the table, giving tracks a different kind of bullet hell energy. COSIO's contributions add rhythmic complexity that rewards close listening. The original versions are included too, so you get both the classic Go Sato compositions and their wild reinterpretations back to back.
If you want to hear one shmup soundtrack refracted through an entire scene's worth of talent, this is it.