Yeah, Aftershock and Predator have that brutal style, most fun song Is probably Redemption just the vibe It gives off is so much fun
80s hair metal vibes for sure. I loved the Jorn and Noora duet, would love to see them try more of that in the future.
Hello! Cellist here looking to get into film/video game music. How does hiring for Riot Games work? Do you guys hire an entire orchestra or do I audition to get into a “Riot Games Symphony.” Thanks!
Usually we work with an orchestra contractor, and we tell them exactly how many players we need and for how long of a recording session. They then assemble the group of players from a combination of freelance session musicians and sometimes symphony orchestra musicians, if there isn't a concert that day. That said, even though these are ad hoc groups of players that aren't collectively known or organized into a named orchestra, we often see the same faces at our sessions, and we can always request specific players if we want.
When we're looking for soloists as opposed to section players, we often look for ones who have a bit of their own extra sonic brand that they can bring to the table. There's one cellist in particular that we love using named Cameron Stone. While he's great as a session cellist, he is absolutely phenomenal at improvising to lead sheets or even just to the playback of the track alone, particularly in this snarling yet controlled sul ponticello styling t...
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The ending of the Pentakill stuff was pretty cliffhanger-y. Anything Pentakill related going to be up and coming? That tweet with the two unrevealed cards next to Viego's card was pretty strange...
:D :D :D
We've not forgotten about PK. And even in terms of Lost Chapter, there's plenty of loose threads I'd personally love for us to explore with y'all in the future. Viego is being tortured by a God of Metal for the Noiseome Host's sake...
This is probably too late, but when will True damage come back?
No specifics, but they're a staple of the roster for sure :)
Hi, sorry I’m late but I’m just curious as to what some of y’alls favorite artists are? (Also y’all have done amazing work!)
I am not reflective of the team's overall taste (k, we're all weird), but personally and recently:
Uzi Vert
Gesaffelstein
Lord Huron
Glass Animals
flor
MEMBA
0171
GRANDMA
Dandy Warhols
La Dispute
King Princess
I just want to thank you guys for Pentakill.
So Thank you!
Legit one of the most amazing things I've ever worked on. The band are gods and it was an honor to help create the show. We f*cking love you guys for listening.
Who in the team slaps?
the PK gang for sure. Check out Tre Watson's YT for some cool stuff (they were a big part of the Lost Chapter album and played Mutaris in the concert).
I love your creator-safe playlist! What are your favorite tracks from Sessions: Vi and Diana?
Vi: Growing Flowers - xander.
Diana: Ever Fall - Toyko
I have been listening to Lost Chapter daily, Why would you do this to me ?
Jokes aside, holy shit in particular the final build up in that song might be my favorite segment of anything ever
Hell yeah, I personally love Aftershock a ton -- the 2nd verse "the very nature of the animal you've cornered" is so beautifully brutal and the band are gods for that one.
Do you like listening to music
Yes! I'm always listening to something when I'm not in meetings.
No question, I just wanna say that I am amazed of how this year was full of music produced by you guys, we had Pentakill III: Lost Chapter, Arcane and Sessions:Diana.
Let's not forget about Hextech Mayhem and Ruined King games too they also had amazing music.
This has been an amazing year and you all contributed in making it better so thank you.
It blows my mind we got to do, like, close to 100 songs this year. Please do not take us 10xing our previous year's output as a sign we'll do 1000 songs in 2022 XD
What's your favorite smell?
The crisp air of winter in the woods.
For my first playthrough I picked the character I like the most, which is best girl Lohse (who also has a great song late in the game), on later, more optimized runs I picked Sebille and Fane for Flesh Sacrifice and Time Warp respectively.
Absolutely going to carve out time to do a WL3, DOS2, Disco Elysium, and Baldur's Gate 2 run in the next year.
Love Loshe a ton. I legit think the hardest part of that game is trying to figure out what character you want as your main vs. party member.
Which champion themes do you guys love?
Nami!
I also loved that you could just take drugs (a gas IIRC?) with some enemies and get a huge buff for the next fight, plus the Battle Hymn of the Republic is just awesome!
Only sad thing is that you can't play it as 4 people Co-Op even though you have 4 characters running around...
Oh I have a concept for a perpetually (PERPETUUM) drunk melee ranger with a sword for surrrrre.
As the top comment rightly says and we all know, you guys are legends but is there something that people criticise you guys for ? or some area you seek to improve in ?
I was the Creative Lead on Drum Go Dum's music video! I think a big lesson there was how much people value seeing a champion and a character doing their thing, above the more conceptual stuff we tried to do there. The dancer Bailey Sok is amazing and I did really enjoy how much people appreciated her even if they had criticisms for the MV. But yes, as someone who's worked on a lot of the video content of the last few years, that was a good learning experience personally and something I'd like to really show up on next time we give Kai'Sa her moment.
How do you decide which genere of music youre making next? Just what you think would fit or are there rules?
It's a really good question and a complex one. I'll try to hit a part of it:
One thing we value is not being stagnant or chasing trends. Which, sure, is a great idea in theory but the difficult part comes when you consider how fast music moves and what that means in practice.
I think what we all value is taking whatever genre space we're working in and making sure we put our own spin on it; our own interpretation of the sound that's agnostic of a specific time and space. What makes K/DA work IMO is that it has 80s elements, it avoided an overly trap-based sound (I love trap btw), and sort of took a route that felt a bit like a classic/modern mix. Pentakill's latest album had the same mentality, in a more overt way I think.
In terms of picking genres, it's complicated and we're going through that process right now on plenty of fronts. But yeah, from what I've seen and experienced as a non-composer: I think the best answer to your question is "don't be dated, ...
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I had two question that I wanted to ask, if you're still reading through some.
1) Lots of us have noticed that the end of Ruined King was reused for the end of Viego's theme. Let's call this the Harrowing leitmotiv. But I noticed some time later that this very melody had also been used for the end of the 2016 Harrowing theme.
Seeing that blew me away and made me wonder, what was the thought process behind this all? What order did these things come in? Did you look back at the 2016 track when making Blade of the Ruined King and thought that you could reuse this leitmotiv? Or was Blade of the Ruined King already underway at the time?
2) How early did you come to the idea of using only string instruments for Gwen's theme?
Hi! As I recall, we were working on Blade of the Ruined King before Harrowing 2016, even though BotrK came out later. We did notice that there was some similarity between the two, but it didn't really bother us - didn't seem that out of place for there to be a little bit of linkage between the two.
Kole's decision to call back to that moment from BotrK was very intentional, and I think it worked super well. It's changed enough to really fit in with the language of the new Viego composition, while still having its source be recognizable.
How much of an impact Mako has in the production? This guy is featured in nearly every banger you release.
He's amazing and we're lucky to have him involved in as many projects as he is! I particularly enjoyed getting to work alongside him on the score side of Arcane, as it's something he hasn't had the opportunity to do as much of but that he has fantastic instincts for.
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