Music Producer OVERWHELMED by ULTRAKILL Soundtrack 

For context, Versus is a song that takes place in a bossfight where you fight a character thats meant to be a near perfect rival.

Ultrakill is so good that it pisses me off. I gave Hakita $20 and he gave me infinite joy and dopamine. ITS NOT FAIR. HOW DID HE DO IT?

"Some chaos is happening". Ultrakill in a nutshell

The next couple tracks for this I would recommend the VIOLENCE layer tracks for your next batch of videos. Happy listening!

The best way I can describe the ULTRAKILL soundtrack in terms of vibes: Act 1: Aggressive power trip with depressive undertones. Act 2: A frivolous journey of discovery. Mysterious and grand. This time the depressive undertones are more subtle. Act 3: Overwhelming and terrifying. Any time you survive an encounter you either feel extremely relieved or still in a state of minor shock.

14:07 you made a really good point here. in the boss battle, V2 is constantly using different weapons that mimic your arsenal. he telegraphs which weapon he's about to use by making a specific sound effect, so there's a lot of dings and beeps and chimes going on.

Hakita has some midas effect on the music he makes The majority of the song he makes is automatically gold

You should listen to The Song That Plays in the Level Colloquially Known as 4-S. The Song That Plays in the Level Colloquially Known as 4-S is one of my favorite songs on the soundtrack of ULTRAKILL, a game by Arsi “Hakita” Patala, song composed by Arsi “Hakita” Patala for the soundtrack of the game ULTRAKILL. The Song That Plays in the Level Colloquially Known as 4-S plays in the level colloquially known as 4-S in the hit indie game ULTRAKILL by Arsi “Hakita” Patala.

The 2nd part of the piece altars of apostacy is also known as halls of sacrilegious remains, and references the halls of sacred remains track from 1-3

Here are a few more Ultrakill Songs you should listen to! "THE WORLD LOOKS WHITE" and "THE WORLD LOOKS RED" "He is The Light in my Darkness" "Danse Macabre" "War Without Reason" And im pretty sure youve listened to it and i just forgot but "Glory"

This channel still remains such a unique concept and I love every minute of it. Can't wait for Payday series music reactions!

Fact: The song "versus" has the same BPM as the song "Megalovania" (sorry for my english, i speak taco taco chimichangas)

you should definitely look into the new Violence Layer Soundtrack, every track in the new layer are so well composed and portray such emotion. Tracks like "The World Looks White/Red", "Do Robots Dream of Eternal Sleep? + Hear! The Siren Song Call of Death", and "Suffering Leaves Suffering Leaves + Danse Macabre" are all masterpieces, and each one with a + plays into each other very well. I definitely recommend reacting to those.

9:46 "I thought it would be obvious, brother. After all I AM YOU, *but stronger* "

Altars of apostasy is probably my favorite in the entire soundtrack, love your input on it

As others have said, Versus and Duel both play during boss battles against a sort of mirror-match version of your character - to get more specific, you play as blood-fueled combat android V1, and the boss fights that go with those songs are both against a similar-looking combat android named V2. An interesting thing to note gameplay-wise is that both fights against V2 end with the player taking an arm from them, which can then be used as an alternative to the game's base melee attack (which is a quick, single-target attack that can reflect/parry all kinds of projectiles with proper timing) - the first bossfight against V2 gives you the Knuckleblaster, a slow and often less-used choice that takes a second to wind up but unleashes a powerful, knockback-inducing AOE blast when it's finished (balanced out by a cooldown and the fact that unlike the default melee, it cannot parry projectiles). After the second (and currently final) battle with V2, you get the green Whiplash arm - it's a grappling hook, you can use it to swing around, grab certain objects (like skull keys or torches) from a distance, and grapple enemies to pull them to you (if they're smaller/lighter than you) or pull you to them (if they're bigger/heavier than you). Also, for both fights V2 gets a watered-down version of the moveset you'd have access to at the point in the game you initially fight them - to slightly misquote Max0r, this makes it easier to prepare for the fight, because V2 is limited by your moveset, but it makes it harder to win the fight, because *V2 has your moveset* and your moveset can generally be described as INCREDIBLY LETHAL (when used competently).

(Lore wise) It is my personal Headcanon that all of this music is composed on the fly in V1’s head as it’s going nuts in hell Which means it literally remixes Verses and Divine Intervention for second battles with V2 and Gabriel

Damn. You COOKED for your addition to Duel. Hats off, that was wild.

"Its Ultrakilling time!" As always, your reaction video keeps on delivering because of your educational format when explaining the music Kudos!

I think you'll love "he is my light in the darkness" from Ultrakill. It's another classical like piece with hakitas chaotic touch and the stakes invert halfway into the fight. The song reflects that

You are correct mentally on duel. I like too picture versus as what they are commanded too do, but duel is more personal, both have grown stronger, but one wants revenge from losing the other fight, it becomes personal instead of an order. They both have advanced in power from their last fight, this will tell who is better.

The way you review and react to the music is always so fun and entertaining. Your videos are always so well done, and I always love to see them.

cant wait to see him react to the violence layer soundtrack, specially for "The world looks red"

To explain the shimmery ambient noise at the end of Versus and Duel, the album releases of the ULTRAKILL ost often have fluid transitions between a lot of the songs, so the end of Versus smoothly flows in the the beginning of Cold Winds, and the end of Duel transitions into Deep Blue

Mi madre me dió la vida y la música de Ultrakill las ganas de vivirla. ✌️

The "hopeful" section of altars of apostacy always came off as more mournful to me, but thats likely due to the context in game as its the theme of a level building up to a boss that lost *everything* because of your first fight.

The fact that hakita can make sudden modulations sound so good without the use of pivot chords is extremely admirable! As a side note, as someone who's in Theory IV and has done analysis in classical music, it's always really enjoyable to hear your analyses on VGM, it's helping my ear a ton with noticing patterns/techniques in these tracks, very informative content as always!!

Being a big fan of Ultrakill and its lore, its a treat seeing your reactions and analysis of each piece! Can't wait for more!

It would be so cool to see him watch the duel down the SIDE OF A PYRAMID as the climax starts. I can't think of a cooler final phase to a boss, sliding down a monument while you have a gun battle.

Dude this music is so good that I can feel Gabriel Ultrakill coming inside me.

HUH?! WHAT?! My comment has never featured in anyones videos before- (to my recalling) Holy shit tysm!

Your improvisation over Versus made it sound like a "Wave 2" of sorts, like a theme for a harder version of the fight in question, I like it a lot

Loved the video, you are so cool! Your analysis is interesting and your additions are a treat! What you mention during the first song with 'classical instruments and modern style', I love that sort of principle a lot. It's really fun!

Tysm for looking at these!!!! There’s also the layer 7 ost which just came out recently that i recommend looking at! My favorites being the world looks white/red, war without reason, and Danse Macabre

Man, I can never understand how you manage to make Ultrakill songs even better, I honestly want a mod with your Ultrakill ost remixes (or etc.). I'll be waiting for the next video of yours, as they are SO GOOD, each of them! Everyone who says otherwise are liars.

I’m glad your still making videos on the music of ultrakill. It’s cause of your first video on ultrakills music I ended up getting the game myself and I’ve been enjoying it a lot. Thank you for making these videos on ultrakill.

I do have to say I appreciate you making your own little twist/addition to the melody. Genuinely adds to both the feel of the music itself and the genuineness of the reactions.

Whoa! Your play over Duel was amazing! I would absolutely listen to it often

2:19 This part in Alters Of Apostasy ALWAYS makes me feel like Gabriel is throwing every little enemy he can to try stall you. (Gabriel is the boss right after the level this song plays in if you didn't know.)

I genuinely wish you react to the music in order, because you miss some key parts in songs. This game, and oh boy I know a lot of games, has the most emotional Leitmotifs I’ve ever heard, and it’s beyond amazing.

I love at 18:00 you call the rhythm more ‘danceable’. In the game, this level takes place at around the halfway mark. Compared to versus which takes place near the beginning. This is just a simple connection I noticed… Versus is a brawl, a slugfest between 2 fighters. Versus reprise is quite literally a dance, 2 destructively fast opponents locked in battle a second time…

"wow" is my favorite statement for that one song

I love hearing your references to other music because a lot of the composition feels familiar but I can never place my finger on it. The added part to versus was super good and made it truly feel like a showdown which the original lacks. But oh my god the addition to duel made me feel like I was right there in the level. It made it truly feel like the deathmatch that 4-4 is.

Som of the most iconic musics for the Ultrakill fanbase, great video as aways, you have no idea how it is fulfilling to have a channel dedicated to something like that. A personal note of myne, renember "Tenebre rosso sangue" from one of your preview reaction videos from Ultrakill? Keygen church has actually made a even bigger and "epic" song more heavily inspired by classical music while having the usual mixmash of musical genres that Ultrakill does the best. "Asgretalos" is the name of the song, and since i don't think its technically inside the game it can't slip inside a reaction video but definitely worth checking it and hey! Just a comment saying if it was actually worth it would made my day. Keep up the good work representing our favorite games OSTs, love your work.

I just woke up and saw this in my recommended. . Day already better

Altars of Apostasy makes me feel like I’m levitating every single time I listen to it

The intro to Duel really sounds like the sun beating down to me, for some reason

Watching this after P - ranking the second layer feels great Also, since you are looking for more soundtracks, I would recommend you the Subnautica soundtrack. About the game: In Subnautica you play as a lone survivor of the crash of the ship Aurora from the Alterra corporation. It starts off slow with you collecting various materials and minerals in the shallow water, but as time goes on you are forced to explore deeper waters for blueprints from ship fragments and data from many alien laboratories. The deeper you go, the more dangerous (and the bigger) are the creatures that you will encounter. Thankfully you'll be able to navigate the murky water relatively safely in diverse ships. About the soundtrack: Most of the tracks are very ambient, and they differenciate from another like the biomes or scenes that they play in do. My personal recommendations are: -Abandon Ship -Leviathan -Red Alert -Salutations (Main menu, introduction) -Islands beneath the sea -Lost River The first three are more intense and the rest is ambient. I hope you'll see this and maybe even make a video to Subnautica, as part three of it is up and coming this year! PS: Love your vids! PPS: Yeah, I copied my last comment

amazing solo at the end!! went on for so long, i was genuinely shocked

Really love watching your reactions to different games' OSTs, love the deeper look we get thanks to your simplified analytical approach - no matter how many times I've listened to some songs, you always point out things I've never noticed before! If you decide to give some Ultrakill songs another listen, I'd totally recommend "Unstoppable Force", "Divine Intervention" and most definitely "Deep Blue"! Deep Blue features some really beautiful elements that aren't seen in other songs from the Ultrakill OST (as far as I know ^^)

You gotta look at the newest layers music, the violence layer, I think you'll love it. Especially 'the world looks red'.

Lets goooo! Ultrakill reaction! Btw you are sick with the metal violi!,, never stop playing it after the reactions! It's awesomeeee

I love your videos and your Music please keep producing your awesome man!

The final section of altars of apostasy may give u castle vein vibes. Thats cos its called “halls of sacrilegious remains” while the level castle vein plays in is called “halls of sacred remains” halls of sacred remains also has a boss at the end of it, while the room where halls of sacrilegious remains plays has u fighting 2 of those while enemies spawn when one of them dies Versus is the theme of V2, this games version of the “im u but better” trope. Duel is the theme of ur rematch against V2, and the very egyptian sounding drone ambience comes from the desert theme of the layer where the rematch happens (hell u literally slide down a pyramid while gunning each other its cathartic af) The vid for duel shows blurred gameplay of the fight as well

those synths in duel are also present in the soundtracks of the 3 levels preceding the fight, to fit the setting as well

I appreciate how Versus toes the line between the distinct genres of Biker-Bar Classical and EDM-Rave Classical

I don’t think I would have considered this game without coming across your channel and hearing the music through your reactions. Thanks for sharing your expertise and thoughts, clearly the soundtrack is worth the price of admission.

YESSSS MORE ULTRAKILL!!! I will say, I love Alters of Apostasy, but there's something to be said for its proceeding track, Chord of the Crooked Saints, being an oppressive buildup to it, even if it's not musically interesting to hear one chord trailing on for over two minutes LOL Also love both Versus and its Reprise, they both have different vibes to offer and you nailed it when you said the reprise expands the original into something more cinematic, as the stakes have gotten higher. So happy you're enjoying this OST! It's changed my life.

damn dude, you fucking COOKED with the Versus cover

i didnt notice until now but towards the end of alters of apostasy it mixes with castle vein

i really recommend listening to "the world looks white" and "the world looks red" next (in that order), and also "war without reason"

You need listen "Unstoppable force" And hi from Russia! We love ULTRAKILL too!

from 6:38 you can hear harpsichord very quiet in background playing exact same theme from ost castle vein which you have reacted to in the past, im not sure it can be heard on speakers though

6:35 this part of Altars of Apostasy is a reference to a previous track, "Castle Vein", which was in a previous video. The name of the level with Castle Vein, "Halls of Sacred Remains", is repurposed in this one, as the section in Altars of Apostasy is called Halls of Sacrilegious Remains. Additionally, this part of the song is triggered when you begin a boss fight where you fight two of the Hideous Mass, the end boss from Halls of Sacred Remains.

Altars of Apostasy is what happens when YOU need boss music. Because you are the boss. Everything in this game is desperately trying to survive you and there will be no mercy. They have blood and you need blood; they WILL give it to you.

"I thought it would be obvious, brother. After all, I am you... BUT STRONGER!" - Wes (as V2)

"there's some chaos happening" best description of the entire game i ever heard lol

The ending bit of alters of apostasy is called halls of sacrilegious remains and is combination of alters of apostasy and castle vein(another song in the ost)

The last part of altars of apostasy is a trowback to castle vein, the song for the level 1-3, which in itself is a reference to castlevania.

i had no idea how classically inspired Altars of Apostasy was but... oh my god it really is

Hey Nice aperture science t-shirt You got there

Trust me, you'll *love* "Chord of Crooked Saints."

can you react later to the ultrakill violence soundtrack? good video too, i love Ultrakilling

If you end up doing the more recent music, made for the 'violence' layer in the game, I hope to see you play along to some of it, because there are some very wonderful and very emotional guitar and violin melodies that I would love to hear you accompany with your strings!

Last part of Altars of Apostaty is actually Castle Vein song from the other episodes but on a different style!

fun fact: in the last part of altars of apostasy, if you listen or have heard to castle vein, you can hear it if you listen closely

Its crazy that there are tons of other songs with just as good composure (if not better) that would take forever to go through

I think I saw you playing your violin with a vocalist at Magfest? I was listening from a balcony area and you were both stunning

you should absolutely do the violence layer tracks. war without reason is my favorite but I bet you'd love the calmness of many of the other themes

I love your melody analysis, all about the feeling of music, and noticing the classical music similarities! I'd REALLY appreciate if you reacted to"It's time for your medicine" and "beyond reasoning" From Dead cells, this game is FULL of bangers

Just saying, I feel like hearing the whole ULTRAKILL soundtrack in order from start to end is an amazing experience, as it tells a story by itself

I love that Versus has a similar theme to fighting games, since in fighting games the characters are not very different from each other, exactly what happens in the battle of V1 and V2. Also, at the end of the song, the beginning of "Cold Winds" starts playing, another song from ULTRAKILL that just happens to appear in the next level after V2's level.

Man I would love to see your reaction to ,,Deep blue" because every time I listen to that it feels like I am ascending to another dimension

loved this video

Good reaction as always. You should check act 3 soundtreck as well, it is amazing

Half-life 2 has some great original sound tracks, I would love a video covering Half-life’s music

I highly reccommend both "Hear! The Siren Song Call Of Death" and "War Without Reason", they're the 2 most recent additions to the game's soundtrack and are both amazing. Please give them a listen!

Quite a good catch on the 2nd versus track since by that time you fight the same boss as in versus 1 but you both have learned new tricks

Very good video as always! I would recommend Tenebre Rosso Sangue, as that is my favourite track in ultrakill

YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

Maybe I'm the only one, but Altars of Apostasy gave me chills when I first listened to it. It still does sometimes.

For the context Altars of Apostasy plays in 6th Layer of Hell: Heresy. And I find very interesting that all music in Heresy Layer is a classical music "corrupted" by metal (aka. Music Of Hell). That's truly the best description of heresy I hope to see more of Ultrakill OST reaction videos because this soundtrack is sick

I never noticed that versus and versus reprise sound techno but it makes sense since you are fighting a robot thats basically identical to yourself also a good song to check out next would be war without reason

I’d love to hear you thoughts on citizen sleeper which has very synthetic sounds, but also really portrays emotion. Such as my favorite songs, photosynthetic skin, prismatic lens, yatagan, and among ruins. Id also love to hear your reaction towards the music of signalis which is very ambient, sometimes hopeful, mostly fearful, and loss oriented. And project wingman which is very orchestral, intense, and cinematic. All I can tell you about and recommend songs for if you’re interested.

the second part of alters of apostasy is a callback to a song in limbo called "castle vain" and is why this song hit hard for a lot of players

This is awesome. As I love music reaction videos, I would like a petition, *to make him react to ACE COMBAT MUSIC, like Zero and The Unsung War*

Can we just admire how he did the SOLO ON VERSUS?!

A prevalent theme in Ultrakill's music is the heavy use of Leitmotifs; the game puts a focus on callbacks to previous levels in the game; to show you how deep into the bowels of hell you've gone, as well as referencing connections to events in the game, or the story that plays out in the game's lore. Here's a list of all the leitmotifs present in the game so far: Order: Contains a leitmotif of Requiem, as well as a slight resemblance to Glory Duel (Versus reprise): Obviously contains a leitmotif of Versus Altars of Apostasy: Contains leitmotifs of Guts as well as Glory Hall of Sacreligious Remains (2nd half of Altars of Apostasy): Is essentially a remix of Castle Vein, which is the song name for the level: Halls of Sacred Remains War: Contains leitnotifs from Sands of Tide ---- Separated for potential future video ---- The World Looks Red: Contains a motif from Order Hear! The Siren Song Call of Death: Contains a motif from Death Odyssey War Without Reason: Contains a motif from Requiem.

The last part of "Altars of Apostasy", which is named "Halls of Sacrilegious Remains", is basically a Castle Vein remix (Castle Vein is the song with the harpsichord section). The level in which Castle Vein plays is called "Halls of Sacred Remains", so a nice parallel is drawn with the names

by the way, the end of Altars of Apostasy is the motif and key from a previous level, coming from the song Castle Vein it is a reference because in that level playing Castle Vein you fought a boss, and in this level you’re fighting two of them