Tag: Soundtracks

Aria’s 20th Anniversary Album is a Best Hits!

This year marks Aria’s 20th Anniversary, and this anime franchise has various projects planned for release, including a Best Hits, and we got the track listing!

ARIA The BEST 2005-2025ARIA’s is celebrating 20th glorious years, and this anime’s producers have more than a best hits album planned to acknowledge the fact. This 3-disc album will feature the best songs performed ever since this IP made its way to television and cinema!

This coming of age series focuses Akari Mizunashi as she trains as an apprentice gondolier (known as Undines). Along with Aika and Alice, they face various dangers on a terraformed planet now known as Aqua (formerly Mars). The manga written by Kozue Amano debuted in 2001, and since then, creators have regularly released new material.

From the Press Release:

The five main theme songs featured in the trilogy, ARIA the AVVENIRE, ARIA the CREPUSCOLO, and ARIA the BENEDIZIONE, have been recorded on albums by their respective artists before, but never on an ARIA album until now. The first disc will be a collection of 14 opening and ending themes from the anime, the second disc a compilation of 13 insert songs, and the third disc will feature an original collection of songs on piano by pianist and producer Mina Kubota.

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From Wild Arms to Armed Fantasia, This Video Game is Worth Waiting For!

The best part of why Wild Arms is so beloved is because of the music first, and world building second. It lives again under a new name: Armed Fantasia!

Armed Fantasia- To the End of the Wilderness Prromo PosterWhen I last wrote a retrospective that included the latest status of the Wild Arms franchise, not much has changed. Although the original is available on the PlayStation5, sadly no one is interested in continuing. There was a Wild Arms Mobile and Million Memories for smartphones, but sadly when it didn’t get translated and offered to an international market, the game died. Thankfully, executive producer Akifumi Kaneko is not letting the world he helped create fade. In its place is a spiritual successor titled Armed Fantasia, which is still in development.

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In 2025, Aquarion Myth of Emotions Series Will Arrive & Songs Announced!

Fans don’t have to wait long for Aquarion Myth of Emotions Series as its set for debut next month!

Aquarion Myth of Emotions Movie PosterBack when the Aquarion series started, some fans wondered if it would be the same as Neon Genesis Evangelion, and thankfully, the two are dissimilar. In what’s different lays in whether the series is about the end of the world, or kidnapping individuals to further the enemy’s gain. The next instalment is coming and it’s titled Aquarion Myth of Emotions!

As both series have their own loyal following, I’m interested in seeing what the producers will do for its anniversary year. This giant robot series created by Shōji Kawamori (Macross series) and SATELIGHT has a style I really like, and I’ll admit, I’m behind. Over the holidays, now will be the best time to get caught up! This series is also on Crunchyroll.

January will see the premiere of the fourth entry, and earlier this week a special event screened the first episode and included a talk show revealing the opening and ending theme song performers.

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LIL LEAGUE’s Ready to HEAVY GAMER with this Music Single Release

For those folks who is enjoying the anime Shadowverse F: Arc-hen, they can now listen to LIL LEAGUE’s HEAVY GAMEr in full.

LIL LEAGUE BAND MATESFans of the anime Shadowverse F: Arc-hen can now thrill to the release of LIL LEAGUE’s single, “Heavy Gamer.”

This track can be heard over the end credits and this energetic track combines a variety of new wave sounds over a synth track from New York-based producer SKYBEATZ. It’s described to blend genres such as trap and Jersey club over a foundation of drum & bass.

This track can be heard in full not only online but at these following music services at https://lilleague.lnk.to/HEAVYGAMER

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Kauan Explores “The Terror” with Ice Fleet & RPG Concept Album

The little town the players find themselves is detailed well enough to let game masters allow players to roam about freely, asking questions and searching for clues. 

The TerrorBy Ed Sum
(The Vintage Tempest)

Artoffact Records 
Preorder available on Bandcamp

There’s been a handful of doomed expeditions to the Arctic circle early in exploratory history, and perhaps the most famous is Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition. This particular case is well known in Canada since it was found near our waters. AMC’s The Terror gave their take on what may have happened, and its legend still sends shudders to those wanting to find definitive answers. 

Although only two boats were involved, Russia’s own home grown terror is not well known and perhaps covered up! Anton Belov from the folk metal band Kauan learned about this tale from his research into his country’s unsolved mysteries and turned it into a concept album, aptly named Ice Fleet. He said, “The only real artifact is the hand-written letter of a person whose grandfather was part of a scientific expedition on the northern shores near the Laptev Sea. This man was involved in blowing up huge ice layers to find the right place to build a meteorological station. After one explosion, the snow revealed a dozen masts. This is where our story begins. The letter itself is carefully translated to English and presented in the next chapters in its entirety.”

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Doing More than Scratching Planet Wax in this Review

Planet Wax has made me think it’s time to put together a playlist based on the songs actually mentioned. It’s a terrific callback to all the tunes I enjoyed listening to, including a few that I haven’t considered.

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Available to purchase on Amazon USAThe Terror

By Ed Sum
(The Vintage Tempest)

Music editors Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas are back with Planet Wax, and they are blasting off again with a nostalgic look at more iconic movie scores from the past. This time, they are looking at the many soundtrack albums which defined last century’s best genre films, and there’s some obscure titles which I wasn’t aware of.

The focus on sci-fi and fantasy defines this release. Like this team’s prior work, Blood on Black Wax: Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl, and there’s no need to reprint entries. Overlap is inevitable, and it’s tough to find something new to say about specific albums. Phantom of the Paradise and Rocky Horror are analyzed to death, and I’m okay with them not being included here. They are considered more “horror” than “sci-fi” even though some people will argue over which genres the Picture Show fits under.

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