Alan Wake's insane, fourth-wall-breaking multimedia adventure continues, now wearing the skin of this official Alan Wake 2 music video. Herald of Darkness is the hot new single from the in-universe band Old Gods of Asgard, and the track recounts Alan's journey in the form of a warped rock opera. Beware, SPOILERS ABOUND in the over nine minutes of insanity developer Remedy has favoured us with.
The effort put into bringing one of the game's best moments to life is staggering, with standout performances from everyone involved. Indeed, we're becoming concerned about the ever-growing cult of personality forming (potentially bending reality) around Remedy director and, quite frankly, the true star of Alan Wake 2, Sam Lake. He's wildly charismatic, talented, surreal, and, as we've all learned, an excellent dancer.
Official Old Gods of Asgard, also known as the Poets of the Fall, music and merchandise can be found here. What do you think of Herald of Darkness? Form an orderly mosh pit in the comments section below.
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They really need to perform this at The Game Awards. I don't know if they actually will though, considering the game will be only be out for 5 weeks at that time. Enough for most people to finish the game, but still kinda soon to drop a spoiler-filled musical performance.
It's been stuck in my head for a week! "And Mama gave me a magic clicker! Yes I think it's true and fair to say." GOTY
All hail the Old Gods of Asgard!
There is an album dropping on December 8th, too:
Rebirth - Greatest Hits.
I had a massive smile on my face for the entirety of this chapter.
I'm not one for singing and dancing but how this was done was funny and besides I'm a metaler. Very interesting watching the dubbed guitar he was in a different key than what I saw on the screen til I saw 3 of the same guitarist ah cool as Mick mars that dude had 5 guitar parts running in time with his musical parts. All very good 👍
Def the most memorable moment of the entire game for me, pure bliss
Check out the actual real band who plays the songs in the Control universe games: Poets of the Fall.
Great band
David Harewood is so cool.
This chapter and song drove me mad.
It's so bat s**t crazy that's it's just pure genius. Haha this segment in the game was well done. Tbh the whole game is crazy good.
Honestly, one of the greatest sequences I’ve ever played in a game. This and the Ashtray Maze are why Remedy is such a great developer. Sure, the stories are fantastic, but they’re just so far out there too with how they do things and, in those times, the gameplay shines like crazy. Love it. Alan Wake 2, pending the ending, may have launched into my top 10 of all time at this point.
When I started the level.......... I just put my controller down and listened to it, I thought it was quite good actually 🤣🤣🤣
This level blew me away. Finished the game - and easily my new GOTY.
Creative director Sam Lake and game director Kyle Rowley are brilliant. Can not wait for the 3 story expansions.
It was a very Finnish thing
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