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69. Saya no Uta | Schizophrenia (17 points)
Nominated by: rwlh (2/5 remaining)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSSwtJEJVjU

Importance: 1
Fear: 8
Snake: 8

There's no other way to describe this track than as a musical representation of extreme agnosia, the condition the main character of Saya no Uta suffers from, which distorts his world into a hellish landscape of wriggling flesh and pulsing gore. Schizophrenia is an absolutely bone-grinding track, with a clear influence from grindcore bands like Napalm Death, stripped back & infused with the dark ambience of Akira Yamaoka. A static buzz emanates through the entire track, representing the agony of the mind as it struggles to interpret any meaning in its surrounding, and is actually closer to the real agnosia where the brain loses the ability to recognize an object or person totally. As Schizophrenia buzzes and grinds on, I picture in my mind jammed gears that eventually breaks away under its own weight, giving way to total emptiness. At around 1:30 all that remains is this heavy but distant guitar riff, as if we as the listener are struggling to find an escape, to focus on something, anything, to escape our self-loathing and torturous prison of our own mind. Any reprieve is over quickly as the buzzing returns, however making room for some melodic tones, which in game I feel is a representation of Saya, the only bright spot in your life among your nightmare scenery. It's an interestingly terrifying track, I enjoy its darker musical themes, and it's got a strange relaxing tone to despite its harsh sound. This is what I look for in horror music.

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And it's gonna be a long October, and I don't have reasons to believe, in much of anything, alright
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