Dimitris Tsakas was the Saxophonist. He is the most recorded saxophonist in the Greek scene. Has worked with the composer Vangelis Papathanassiou(he did the Blade Runner soundtrack.) All around amazing sax player.
chris said that for this song he just wanted to let loose and do whatever wild stuff arises from his brain. i think it's fitting because "the void" where this plays is a place with an ancient being who collects anything and everything to hoard and analyze
There's a comment on the original upload of this track that I really love. Survivors of the Void is DLC (like you assumed) and one of the main features are new "corrupted" versions of base game items and enemies. For example, the Ukulele normally does a chain lightning effect, hitting multiple enemies a single time. But, when it becomes corrupted, it changes into the Polylute, which instead hits just one enemy several times. Similar but opposite is the idea. Essentially the comment points out that even this song follows that same idea. It's very "Risk of Rain 2" sounding, but at the same time sounds almost nothing like the rest of Risk of Rain 2's soundtrack. That sax in particular. This is the only instance of saxophone in the OST. It's like one of the usual instruments "corrupted" into a saxophone, etc. If I'm honest, this track is not particularly high up on my list of favorite RoR2 tracks (which is really my list of favorite songs, period, btw). But still, I just love that idea so much and Chris did an amazing job as usual.
This song plays in the end game after the end game. Like you have won the rogue like, one of the hardest out there and then you decide to not get your prize and go even deeper and fight a Creature Spider Cyclops from the Abyss while floating whales are in the background swiming in a planetarium. The sax, for me, is the player improvissing everything to not die and the guitars are the monster batteling us.
Im not sure what exactly is said following the end of the solos, but i think the first word they say in "entaxi" which is essentially greek for alright or ok, so it sounds like somone (probably chris) adressing everyone with a verbal cue for the reset.
if you wanna hear some metal with sax then the band rivers of nihil is a must-listen. they have both melodic and chaotic sax sections and it all sounds so sick
id love to see your take on "Destiny 2 Warmind OST A God on Mars" severely underrated track and i think right up your alley, keep up the good work jesse
Honestly I'd say this is my least favorite track from this DLC's OST but it's still a banger, kinda wished it leaned into the freeform jazz metal style more. Really hoping that Once In A Lullaby or They Might As Well Be Dead come up soon
@@RoffleMahWaffle Yes I did, because you have a chance of not having it at all when you reach the final bosses. Yes you can force it but the chance is non-zero. Movement check doesn't equate to "movement trivialize". Against Voidling it's a hard check and against most other bosses it's a nice thing to have but not a must.
Dimitris Tsakas was the Saxophonist. He is the most recorded saxophonist in the Greek scene. Has worked with the composer Vangelis Papathanassiou(he did the Blade Runner soundtrack.) All around amazing sax player.
Fun fact: The “V” in Petrichor V from the Risk of Rain 2 soundtrack stands for Vangelis (among other things).
That’s fucked. Holy shit
chris said that for this song he just wanted to let loose and do whatever wild stuff arises from his brain. i think it's fitting because "the void" where this plays is a place with an ancient being who collects anything and everything to hoard and analyze
Survivors of the Void is indeed a DLC expansion. This is the theme of the alternate final boss added in the DLC.
There's a comment on the original upload of this track that I really love.
Survivors of the Void is DLC (like you assumed) and one of the main features are new "corrupted" versions of base game items and enemies. For example, the Ukulele normally does a chain lightning effect, hitting multiple enemies a single time. But, when it becomes corrupted, it changes into the Polylute, which instead hits just one enemy several times. Similar but opposite is the idea.
Essentially the comment points out that even this song follows that same idea. It's very "Risk of Rain 2" sounding, but at the same time sounds almost nothing like the rest of Risk of Rain 2's soundtrack. That sax in particular. This is the only instance of saxophone in the OST. It's like one of the usual instruments "corrupted" into a saxophone, etc.
If I'm honest, this track is not particularly high up on my list of favorite RoR2 tracks (which is really my list of favorite songs, period, btw). But still, I just love that idea so much and Chris did an amazing job as usual.
SPACE CRAB SPACE CRAB
Risk of Rain 1 and 2 are both sonically incredible.
No joke it’s at least half the reason I come back to the game so often.
My favorite part of the solo is that it sounds like people screaming at each other
This song always makes me feel like I’m in a place I don’t belong, the void is not for us and man this song makes you feel it
This song plays in the end game after the end game. Like you have won the rogue like, one of the hardest out there and then you decide to not get your prize and go even deeper and fight a Creature Spider Cyclops from the Abyss while floating whales are in the background swiming in a planetarium. The sax, for me, is the player improvissing everything to not die and the guitars are the monster batteling us.
Im not sure what exactly is said following the end of the solos, but i think the first word they say in "entaxi" which is essentially greek for alright or ok, so it sounds like somone (probably chris) adressing everyone with a verbal cue for the reset.
The instrument you couldn't figure out is actually a talkbox!
7:51 I think that was a guitar that was run through a Talkbox
if you wanna hear some metal with sax then the band rivers of nihil is a must-listen. they have both melodic and chaotic sax sections and it all sounds so sick
id love to see your take on "Destiny 2 Warmind OST A God on Mars" severely underrated track and i think right up your alley, keep up the good work jesse
Hell yeah more risk of rain! Awesome track too
Honestly I'd say this is my least favorite track from this DLC's OST but it's still a banger, kinda wished it leaned into the freeform jazz metal style more. Really hoping that Once In A Lullaby or They Might As Well Be Dead come up soon
Idk how i missed this haha. Love chris’ work to death, always glad to see more commentary on it
this has to be my favorite track from risk of rain 2
this song is crazy and i love how it uses 5/4
Maybe some talkbox filtering on the mystery guitar?
0:05 Risk of Rain 2 remake confirmed.
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sax
Do you still play tekken?
Please!!! Do they might as well be dead
is your right eye okay?
This was a while ago yea lol
Is your eye ok?
yes
Looks like a burst blood vessel. They can take a little while to go away (like 1-2 weeks) but are completely harmless.
the best theme for the worst boss, the theme is so rad but it's such a shame that voidling is such a lame boss
the crab boss is like the coolest thing in the game what are you on about
@@RoffleMahWaffle He's not wrong. Voidling is both a gimmick boss and a movement check boss, both of which just doesn't work well in RoR2.
@@takeachance5881 bro really just said that movement check doesn’t work in the game when that’s like 90 percent of not dying
@@RoffleMahWaffle Yes I did, because you have a chance of not having it at all when you reach the final bosses. Yes you can force it but the chance is non-zero. Movement check doesn't equate to "movement trivialize". Against Voidling it's a hard check and against most other bosses it's a nice thing to have but not a must.
@@takeachance5881 hell even mithrix can be beaten without movement if you know your stuff
please please please do "They may as well be dead" at some point, You'll have great time jammin to it