Ryota Kozuka – Shin Megami Tensei V (2022)

SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI V

Artist: Ryota Kozuka (with Toshiki Konishi and Kenichi Tsuchiya)
Released: 30 March 2022
Genre: Video Game Music — elements of Ambient (dark ambient, tribal ambient), Industrial (electro-industrial, industrial metal), Alternative Rock
Label: Mastard Records
Producer: Hirohito Shindo
Length: 5:22:33
Best Track: there are too many good songs to decide, but Battle -dancing crazy murder- and Da’at: tennozu are up there

TRACKS: [CD 1:] 1) Ephemeral; 2) Circle; 3) Daily Life; 4) Jouin High School; 5) Tokyo -Daybreak-; 6) Takanawa Tunnel; 7) Spiral; 8) Another World; 9) If You Wish to Live, Take My Hand; 10) Nahobino; 11) Battle -humans, demons, and…-; 12) It Seems the Knowledge is in Control; 13) Da’at: takanawa; 14) Cadaver’s Hollow; 15) Leyline Fount; 16) Talk -Da’at-; 17) Battle -Da’at-; 18) A Rain of Light and Shadow; 19) Tension; 20) Amanozako; 21) World of Shadows; 22) Thou Shalt Play; 23) Battle -Magatsuka-; 24) Doubt; 25) Da’at: tamachi; 26) Quest -gentle-; 27) Quest -oasis-; 28) Lord of Chaos

[CD 2:] 1) Those With Power; 2) Battle -ferocity-; 3) Zen; 4) Da’at: west shinbashi; 5) Quest -blindly-; 6) Quest -elegy-; 7) Quest -raid-; 8) Battle -clash of the mighty-; 9) Quest -fate-; 10) Da’at: tokyo diet building; 11) Yakumo; 12) Reunion and Encounter; 13) Archangel Abdiel; 14) Koshimizu; 15) Ordinary Life; 16) Tokyo -Impatience-; 17) Battle -strength-; 18) Jouin High School -Other World-: Front Gate; 19) Jouin High School -Other World-: Inside; 20) Hayataro; 21) Sahori

[CD 3:] 1) Da’at: tennozu; 2) Quest -surreal-; 3) Quest -suspicious-; 4) Battle -droll-; 5) Da’at: konan; 6) Battle -origin-; 7) Da’at: shinagawa station; 8) Quest -grave-; 9) Imminent Threat; 10) Battle -seeker-; 11) Quest -LMs-; 12) Quest -fertility-; 13) Fairy Village; 14) Tremble as You Face Doom; 15) Tao; 16) Those Who Weren’t Saved; 17) Da’at: ginza; 18) Quest -queen-; 19) Quest -archaic-; 20) Quest -dainty-; 21) World of Shadows -Shining Bright, or Death’s Shadow-; 22) Da’at: kanda; 23) Da’at: tokyo station; 24) Battle -dancing crazy murder-

[CD 4:] 1) Demon King’s Castle; 2) Battle -edifice-; 3) Talk -edifice-; 4) Da’at: obaiba; 5) Battle -Mitama-; 6) Tsukuyomi; 7) Pandemonic Summit; 8) Collapse of Order; 9) Those With Knowledge; 10) Abdiel and Ichiro; 11) Tokyo -Twilight-; 12) Goddess; 13) Da’at: ueno; 14) Quest -order-; 15) Quest -disorder-; 16) Battle -destruction-; 17) The Only Righteous Path; 18) Temple of Eternity; 19) Battle -seraph-; 20) Falling From Grace; 21) He Who Fought the Forces of Chaos and Order

[CD 5:] 1) Empyrean; 2) Unavoidable Battle I; 3) Yakumo’s End; 4) Battle -Abdiel-; 5) Unavoidable Battle II; 6) Abdiel’s End; 7) Battle -Tsukuyomi-; 8) Tsukuyomi’s End; 9) Incompatible Beings; 10) Battle -Nuwa-; 11) Dissipation; 12) New Ruler; 13) Battle -eon-; 14) I Entrust the World to You; 15) Shin Megami Tensei V Main Theme; 16) The World of Humanity; 17) Quest -tension-; 18) Battle -addition-; 19) Quest -Fiend-; 20) Battle -Fiend-; 21) Hall of Chaos (Shin Megami Tensei III-Nocturne “Title Loop 1”); 22) Quest -Demi-fiend; 23) Battle -Demi-fiend-

Megami Tensei (known overseas as Shin Megami Tensei) is a long-running Japanese RPG franchise known in part for its mature content and exploration of the metaphysical hierarchy in which godly forces have placed humanity. Whereas mainline titles focus on a conflict between the alignments of Law and Chaos (i.e. the forces of God and Lucifer), a variety of spin-offs have allowed the core gameplay and thematic ideas of the series to take multiple forms over the years. One of those spin-offs, Persona, has by and large become its own thing. Shin Megami Tensei V came out in November 2021 on the Nintendo Switch, about eight years after the release of IV.