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🌼🌼🌼 HAPPY 19TH NA BIRTHDAY FOREVER KINGDOM!!!!!! 🌼🌼🌼

DAY 867) Forever Kingdom - Doll Graveyard 

Composer: Kota Hoshino

From the sequel to the very soundtrack-infamous “Evergrace”, Kota Hoshino brings us something just as bizarre! Definitely one of the weirder tunes I’ve posted so far out of everything on this blog (even if timesig-wise it’s not too complex to parse)

This is mostly in 7/4 the whole time. There is one bar of “8/4″ (2 bars of 4/4, whatever, point is that there’s an ‘extra’ quarter note beat from the usual 7) at :51, and one bar of 3/4 at 1:17. 1:36 to the end feels like 4/4 to me because of the waah guitar part but just like everything else in this tune that section is rhythmically ridiculous and the pulse is less clear than the rest of this piece, so a number of ways to write it out could all work there (since other elements like the percussion could indicate 7/4 too).

Finally finished. The original, in its whopping 3161x1953 res, can be found here. Here’s a long accompanying description:

You see, I have a thing for Forever Kingdom -- a lesser-known RPG for PlayStation 2 released by From Software back in the early last decade. Yes, the same guys who made Armored Core and Dark Souls. And I want more and more people to play Forever Kingdom and know its good points AND its numerous flaws.

This drawing is a depiction of the three people responsible for the events that set the game in motion, and destroy the country they were once part of -- a country called the Rieubane Empire. In the background are what people in the game called the Twin Princesses, Karmyla (red) and Solca (purple). Their feud caused the fall of the empire, and Solca's soul was ripped out of her body and transferred to a girl with a heart as pure as hers -- Faeana, the lady in the front with the fiery rings.