"Valley of Helmets" from Big Helmet Heroes on Windows, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox S/X (2025)
Composer: Pierre Galibert
Album: Big Helmet Heroes Original Soundtrack
Publisher: Dear Villagers
Developer: Exalted Studio
Come on a musical journey with me!
While listening to the soundtrack to Big Helmet Heroes, as it is The Squire's Game of Choice right now, this song came on, and I immediately (as of 1:02 that is) felt like I knew the song. I had heard this melody before, but I couldn't quite place it. Once I started humming and da-da-daaaah-duh-dah'ing, that was when it clicked. "Inis Mona" by Eluviete. I replayed the song from the beginning, but now with Chrigel Glanzmann's vocals, and I couldn't initially believe what I was hearing. Was this actually a cover of an 18-year-old Eluviete song in a game released in 2025?
Being the person I am, I started doing a bit more digging into the song "Inis Mona," and that was when I found out that the song uses the melody/aire from an older song from 18th-century lower Brittany titled "Tri Martolod." Then the last piece fell together, and everything clicked.
"Valley of Helmets" plays during the fourth stage, "No so rainy Brittany." It uses an 18th-century folk song/aire from Brittany and the Breton people. And, it's covered by a folk metal band originally from Switzerland.
That's really it. I was really excited yesterday afternoon while finding out all of this information, and now you're lucky enough to share in this personal discovery with me; if you didn't know already.
No comments:
Post a Comment