A Musical Analysis of Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness 

I'd love to hear what Peter thinks about analysis like this. I can almost hear him say "I was just doing my job mate" 😆

The music you hear at the end of Angel of Darkness (4:02 / 6:14) is hauntingly beautiful and makes me emotional each time I hear it. Seeing AOD Lara walk into the darkness like that (never to return to us/leaving us hanging in a way) is an image that will never leave me.

Love the soundtrack so much! It is definitely one of the best if not the best in the series! 👏

This ost from peter was in my top played spotify list last year, i just throwing it on and getting tranformed back in time 💙

Excellent analysis! I adore how richly textured AOD's soundtrack is, how elegantly it sets the emotional tone and reflects Lara's internal character arc. Listening to this analysis reminds me of how cinematic the full score is and how it enhances the whole story. Bravo! 🎉🎉🎉

This is such a cool theory! I never would have thought of the theme this way even though I've sat listening to it on loop for quite a while many times. So happy a lot of us TR fans are keeping this one alive :)

I *LOVE* A.O.D.; I wish they had taken (or been given) the time to finish it properly... and complete the trilogy. The main theme was my go-to tune for ages. Great video.

I loved Alex C song angel of darkness

This analysis was exactly what i thought when i played Tomb Raider AOD and the theme song played! The relationship between the theme music and the story is just perfect. Great video btw!

Can’t believe I’ve only just seen this! Amazing work!!!! 🤩

Temple of Osiris' Soundtrack deserves more love aswell

Love the analysis! I haven't really thought about putting specific parts of the theme to specific parts of the story, I kinda saw it like yes, all those emotions that this music makes you feel will be reflected in the story too :D Also I find it interesting that the section he matched to Lara and Kurtis meeting in the Louvre is the same section that plays at the very end when Lara finds the Chirugai :) But also yeah the parts of the previous themes that come back are a beautiful way to show that Lara is still there, her sense of adventure and discovery hasn't fully disappeared, but this is a bit of a drastic way of forcing it back too. And as someone pointed out quite a while ago, the AoD and the TR4 themes actually start the same! So it's a nice callback to Egypt, another connection, just changed because a lot has happened since. AoD also reminds me of TR3 a little bit with the "military section" (which in the TR3 theme I always associated with Nevada, not surprisingly), TR3 theme also felt like being told in advance what things you might expect during the adventure (though for full disclosure, it'd proably need the addition of something haunting and very creepy). But there are also actual parts of the TR3 theme appearing in the AoD theme, and well, because TR3 was my first TR and its theme is extremely nostalgic to me, hearing any parts of it in the AoD theme is like punching my emotions with a steel pipe, so yeah

This was truly an interessting analysis of the tomb raider aod score - for me it was kind of a fusion of a cinematic ost and a video game ost, two seperate medias who did way more combined around this time (Sons of liberty, mafia, final fantasy x to just write down some examples). Angel of darkness is for me the first tomb raider game with a bigger cinematic touch and yeah the music reflects often Laras thoughs if you ask me. Of course there are also enviroment oriented music like the strahov with its factory touch in the music or the louvre (which also still reflects laras feelings to be sneaky here). But its way more often in the ost about laras feelings, emotions and the situation she needs to handle. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, also great editing as always :) The music is truly outstanding in this game and I like the ost in general more than the ost from the tr games before. Damn now I want to replay the game...even if I propably going to suffer a lot in the boaz boss fight xD...

I agree with this. I also think that the scores in the other core games did a good job of communicating Lara's personality

I love this video 🥹 I feel like TR:AOD could have been so much better, I love it so much, it deserves so much, your analysis is top notch as usual 💚 I long so much for tr:aod content, this video made me happy

About the start menu theme: It sounds French, speacially this 2 second flute part at 2:03. This song reminds me of the "ballet" art form, the only type of dance (that at least I know of) capable of expressing darkness, sadness, and feelings alike - in contrast to the popular idea that dancing is necessarily a happy thing. The ballerina starts dancing slowly and graciously at 1:55, then you can see her fastly spinning around in danger at 3:40 and a death scene right in the end (6:30) with the violin reminding me of the The Dying Swan by Tchaikovsky, not in how it sounds but what it means: a sensible creature debating herself to death.

Really 🥺❤

A great analysis video 👍, and by the way, the main theme for aod, does feature parts of the classic themes as well, but tuned beautifully to let you focus on the masterpiece directly, now i didn't find anyone talking about this but i found a video by a guy named vandersweater five years ago explaining it, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R6r7IkPR0eM.html Anyway, sorry if i got the comment a bit too long, keep up the great content 😎👍

Really neat analysis

Loved this video topic, I've always been obsessed with the music from all the Core games but especially the first 3 I've been playing the remastered synth mixes from Nathan McCree pretty much on repeat since it released 😅 Highly highly recommend checking that out

Fascinating! I don’t think I’ve ever listened to theme straight through, but I love the throwbacks to the main tune and the TR3 version specifically (if I’m hearing right)

Exactly,the orchasteral music in the parisian Ghuetto alwayas felt like loopy ,train of confusion thoughts IDK 😅

Loved all the TR music.... Hey when are we getting Husband Plays TR3?

Everytime I hear the ending of AoD with the animation where she slowly walks into the darkness... i burst in tears... knowing that she is gone and she will never return..... :( :( :(

For me tomb raider the Angel of darkness is the best one from all of them

AOD music was the first game soundtrack that caught my attention so much! Works perfectly with the story and the setting.

Loved the analysis in this video, also the ideas about the Parisian Ghetto music I found interesting - it is the only part of the soundtrack which I admit gets on my nerves due to its repetitiveness and how large that section of the game is, but now I'm wondering if it is intentional to make the player feel Lara's torment at that particular moment and she wants to escape those intrusive thoughts but can't.

No other videogame as achieved... Civilization and World of Warcraft: Are we a joke to you?

I wish they would remake this game, the story is so good..the game play is awful.