In Hades, both the compositions and their use in-game are designed to keep the player off-balance. Until they aren’t.
The Hades soundtrack was written by Darren Korb.
Hades is available on PC, Mac, Switch, PS5, Xbo–everything. It’s on everything.
Other games shown:
Galaga
Risk of Rain 2
0:00 Intro
1:14 Soundtrack Structure
2:09 Chillin’ & Groovin’
3:30 OMG So Random
4:17 Jammin’
6:04 Why Can’t I Dance to This
6:30 Time Signature Crash Course
7:14 Decrypting “Out of Tartarus”
9:33 More Misdirects
10:01 No More Misdirects
11:10 Closing Thoughts
Correction:
8:35 Actually, he told me on Twitter he DID count to 21 over and over. What a mad lad.
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Ah rhythm my old enemy. Can never escape, just like the game haha. For all of Supergiant's games I absolutely love how music is incorporated into the world. Every little thing they do helps immerse you into the game. Here's hoping you can get more subscribers!
I hereby push for all instances of "Anonymous" to be replaced with "Who Knows" or "idk try-hard look it up".
I really appreciate the way you break everything down. As someone uninitiated in the realm of music theory I still find these videos very easy to understand and very interesting. I just hope it's not too painful to always have to break everything down for the people like me who don't already know all this stuff.
You deserve so much more subscribers, nice work man
I don't know if there's enough to make a whole video about, but I'd love to hear you say so many things about songs like bury the light or the only thing I know for real. loved the video btw
totally loved the video. keep it up
Randomly watched this video on fullscreen presuming this is probably one of those million viewed videos which got recommended but HOLY SHIT this is so underrated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never Stop man….
Wow, I thought I was just early, but it seems your channel is simply still small! You deserve more views, and I'm glad YT's algorithm, in its benevolence, graced my suggestions with your video 🙂
I have a soft spot for irregular time signature music that sounds good, so Out of Tartarus is one of my favorite tracks (I like Hades's OST for combining metal and Middle Eastern style, like Shades of Black). The game franchise Touhou Project has several tracks with irregular time signature (Rural Makai City Esoteria (my favorite), Hartman's Youkai Girl, Retribution for the Eternal Night ~ Imperishable Night, UN Owen was her?…).
nice breakdown, thanks for the knowledge
This was a joy to watch. You put to words some of the thoughts I'd had about the way the music sounds and the thoughts I've had about how it fits together with the game. It's a blast to play and jam to and it filled me with glee to hear you decipher it and break it down for us. Thanks!
glad youtube recommended this, very well produced! can't wait to see more
The soundtrack does in fact slaps
Shiiiii this videos are great, gonna have to drop a sub
This was a great video! I hope it get's the attention it deserves
Amazing work, man! Such an interesting topic to cover
6/8 != 3/4 in any dimension. 6/8 while yes is counted in 2 and you change where the emphasis lies, 6/8 is counted in duplets. A duplet is a note or series of notes that have slightly different musical timing. for example you can listen to Piano Man by Billy Joel which is 3/4 and then compare it to idk a sea shanty of example and even though I've they have the same types of notes in a given bar they will sound off.
This is a REALLY good video. I gave a like (I pretty much always do if a video is even slightly good) and was gonna leave, then saw you have only 700 subscribers? That felt like a couple hundred thousand lower than I expected. Subbed
Interesting, clear and easy to understand. Well done !
Great break down adn awesome video!
But as a metalhead… Metal and rock by proxy are associated with ALL macabre and occult themes. There are metal bands dedicated to Greek Mythology such as the song Thanatos which is a reference about Thanatos the actual god of dead to Hades being the god OF the dead. There are songs about ancient egyptians, witchcraft, demons both Christian/Catholic and Islamic, native american references, norse references.
Metal falls into any of the dark parts of the world as that is where it rests so having metal in a game about Hades is quite fitting.
Hell yeah
Subbed! Well put together and informative! Thank you. Youtube algorithm actually doing something good for once. lol
Hey man, I found your channel from the last video you uploaded about Nier and I am VERY happy that you've made another video in only 2 weeks.
Your videos and explanations are super well done and I'm very glad I came across your channel, please continue what you're doing, I'm sure you'll reach a greater audience someday!
I've shared this video with many friends and their reactions were like: wow I didn't even understand anything about music but the explanations were so understandable that I felt like I've been studying it for years!
Also one of the games that I've played recently which I really really enjoyed the soundtracks was Elden Ring, the final boss theme called The Final Battle actually made me cry for about 40 minutes straight, something I really felt while listening to it for hours after finishing the game was that in the second phase of the music, at the 3:44 mark I felt like they didn't let the music reach its climax and actually stole the feeling of joy from you when you could feel the track reaching its top form, which I also think it can be related to the god (Elden Beast) which is stuck there and its purpose is to stop you from becoming the Elden Lord, so he's forced to fight you and that's why they don't let the track reach its climax, or maybe I'm over analyzing stuff haha.
Thank you again for your hard work, keep on keeping on
I believe the fact that he would've regretted not having metal in a game about hell is just a Doom reference. You can even hear E1M1 from Doom IN the song Out of Tartarus. It's just a giant homage .
Wtf I’d expect this quality from a channel with 100x as many subs
Everything i learn about Hades makes me love it more
Is adobe really completely necessary?
This is not the stuff you are using but I found very competitive single-pay alternatives for photoshop and publisher so there must be stuff out there, right?
Appreciate the thorough details here. It’s awesome.
I never knew the music system was so in-depth. I don't know much about music composition but it's amazing what Korb managed to accomplish with such an odd approach to signature.
Also, what did you mean at 1:25 by "but you'll probably only hear two"? Are some tracks less likely to play / only play under certain conditions?
Dang I kinda noticed that the combat tracks play in a inconcistent way During Gameplay but I never thought about all the programing and extra work this most hace take It
Great video!
Wow!!!! This was REALLY cool and fun to watch, and I don't even know anything about music!
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This is so interesting actually! I never heard of Hades before but I'll have to check it out. The way these osts work is so original and smart! Once again, wonderful video on your end. I can't wait to see more!