Music Producer CAPTIVATED by Terraria Calamity Soundtrack

Fun fact: DM DOKURO outright REFUSED to compose a single note for this theme until he finished the themes of every other boss prior; he wanted to incorporate as many of their motifs as possible into S.Cal’s theme. I’ve said it before, but it really is a shame he left.

Fun fact: Stained brutal calamity has actual lyrics the whole way through.

Never forget DM Dokuru composed one the greatest game soundtracks of all time as an unknown artist for a FREE mod.

The story behind the Stained, Brutal Calamity is actually quite tragic. DM Dokuro refused to start it until all the other OST had been finished, but the community request it non-stop, over and over and over when Dokuro literally clarified multiple times that he wont start until others are finished. He was annoyed A LOT by the community, apparently some people even sent death threat to him just to make him compose this piece. By the time he finally started working on it, he was very demotivated but also forced to continue. Until it is eventually done, some people said it was bad, worse than the filler, could have been way better. This broke Dokuro and he quite around a year later due to the negativity. It is ridiculous.

This great journey has finally come to an end. I can do no more than suggest the soundtrack of one of Calamity's biggest inspirations: METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE. Seriously: You will not regret listening to it.

That final bit of the song always hits when you imagine the scenario happening without the obfuscation of 2D pixel art. You had Calamitas beaten and bloodied; it was a struggle to get here, with adrenaline and exhaustion both fighting for control over you. And then she concedes. The player character wouldn't be blamed for ending her there and then... but they don't. Calamitas, a witch powerful enough to turn oceans into deserts and scorch hell to ash... Is spared. Was it mercy? Greed? Logic? Who knows.

I suggest you check out the lyrics. On the first 3 major parts of Stained, Brutal Calamity; Grief, Lament, and Epiphany. Each have their own perspectives. For Grief, the perspective of the lyrics points toward Supreme Calamitas, the Brimstone Witch. Lament points towards the player as he confronts the witch. And Epiphany is the rest of the world as they look on to this legendary battle of the ages... Thank you for the series. <3

Truly an epic final theme for the final boss. Infernum next?

Every time I hear Stained, Brutal Calamity, it just gets better and better. Always great to see someone who has never experienced this OST experience it for the first time. Glad I could be here for this journey

every single time, without fail, hearing the line "the end has come" in epiphany, will send the biggest goddamn chills down my spine lol. SCal's theme is absolutely incredible. and thanks for this series! i've been following along since it first started!

The true calamity was the wedge that was driven between DM Dokuro and the Calamity fandom. He definitely deserved better, but we never really deserved him... Thanks for taking the time to listen to the Calamity soundtrack, it's been really fun to watch.

STAINED, BRUTAL CALAMITY LYRICS: =Grief - Perspective of Calamitas= No more holding back They'll wish for demise They thought they were invincible But you could see through their hollow lies You've seen how far they've come How many they've slain You will gladly tear their limbs apart All before they start to kill again They were seen as a threat by the moment the dragon was killed by their hand Now you're sent to demolish the foe upon your ruler's despondent demand Something tells you they have scaled in their power Should they win, it shall be your final hour But you still have control of the fight If they mess up, you might have a chance to destroy them But is this the right path that you've taken? Are your morals correct, or mistaken? Are you sure you want to lose your mind From a legend whose power could salvage mankind? =Lament - Perspective of the Player= You have known for certain Your path is one of justice All those who try to obstruct shall have paid the ultimate price Yet, upon inspection Your foe is overwhelming But you remember what she tried to sacrifice Signs of self-disappointment start infiltrating (These putrid emotions begin to take control) Symptoms of paranoia begin invading (Such petty emotions have sabotaged your soul) Your mental fortitude is fading Losing trust, ending friendship, and rage escalating Right on the road to your sadness Watching closely as courage turns into madness Are you sure you'd want to lose your life From a witch who had caused you nothing but strife? =Epiphany - Perspective of the world= The end has come; The witch and the prophecy Deciding fates with the world on the line Who shall emerge From the ashes of calamity? How shall this fable end through these legends intertwined? End of reasoning Carnage and pain A feral sense of dominance As all the blood melts into the rain A clash of history In blood, sweat and tears This war will cause our world to change And will be remembered through the years

What’s funny about interlude 3 is that it perfectly matches up to Stain Brutal Calamity, as if its the music that plays over a montage of everything that happens after defeating Yharon, like collecting the necessary materials, crafting Supreme Calamitas’s summon, and even building the arena (which is basically just 1 wooden platform lmao). Also to note, most Calamity osts don’t have an ending, usually a fade to nothing kind of way, heck, Yharon’s theme simply repeats twice probably due to a mistake in editing. But Stain Brutal Calamity has a clear ending, while Acceptance can be seen as interlude 4, or epilogue, as by the time this section of the song starts playing, the witch has already been defeated, only giving out one final monologue about the big bad. It’s poetic that the current final boss of the mod is one of, if not the only, theme that has an ending.

Since I'm early, I might as well leave a little comment explaining something. The melody at 4:53 is one that DM Dokuro initially created to be associated with a boss that was at the time unreleased, Draedon's Exo Mechs. Since his fight is meant to be fought at the same place in progression as Supreme Calamitas, you can also hear the strings from her theme(s), meaning the interlude is actually teasing the two main threats that remain. As DM Dokuro left the project before the release of the Exo Mechs fight, the theme for the fight fell to other artists and as such it's unfortunately not part of the Tale of a Cruel World/Raw, Unfiltered Calamity album, but if you happen to cover the other tracks that have made their way to the mod you might pick up on Draedon's motif. Either way this has been a very pleasant series to watch. Keep up the good work

Pro tip: listen to Catastrophes Before the Calamity while your plane is taxiing.

You are nothing but a fly to be swatted. Bells are ringing. After ripping through the same world she destroyed so long ago, and more importantly killing her boss’s pet, you’ve become an annoyance. The fight has am incredibly brutal start, an incredibly fast and unforgiving bullet hell, most tries at the fight end during it. But when you persevere, when you find your way through her swarm of skulls, she has to start trying, and so the guitar comes in. You’re no longer just a fly to be swatted, it’s personal now. You finally get to start hitting her back, ticking her health down bit by bit, and you claw and scrape and fight for every second of the 12 minute long boss fight. You keep clawing your way further and further, and suddenly the music feels different. The sections only progress when you get her health down to certain thresholds and the attacks keep getting harder and harder. But you keep getting further, and the music changes once again, because she’s scared, by the time DM DOKURO has started singing she’s trying so desperately to get you to give up. She’s furious you won’t stay down, and as soon as you clear that section the music has its most important change. It’s your theme now, it’s your bells, they herald your immanent victory. Because the end has come, the witch and the prophecy. She’s still fighting as hard as possible, you’re still clawing for more and more time, to be able to reach the end of the fight, to just have enough time to deal enough damage, but now she’s on the back foot, and you both know it. It keeps getting harder, it keeps getting more intense, the end of the fight has multiple persistent, run ending, and nearly unfair projectiles as she summons all her allies, uses huge and slow moving projectiles that take up almost half the arena and follow you around for the rest of the fight, and never lets up the onslaught of fireballs. But you’re so close, it’s only a matter of time at this point. She’s terrified, she’s pulled out all the stops and somehow you’ve persisted. She is the Crimson Witch, sinker of seas, curse of the hells, killer of gods, a one woman army who serves only the godking conquerer of galaxies. But the player has killed gods too, and now she’s next. She’s witnessing and unstoppable force and as much as she likes to believe it she’s not an immovable object. She was like the player once, but she broke against the cruelty of that god emperor who took everything from her so long ago, the one who she has been fought on behalf of. Your bells won’t stop ringing, she’s tired, she’s tried everything. Your theme rings out forcefully once more, those bells that were once hers, that have been ringing for you since you entered this world. It’s over. In the quiet section at the end she has stopped fighting. She has accepted her loss, so she just talks to you for a little bit. She failed, she can’t return to her post as lieutenant, and if she just hides on some distant world from the godseeker she will surely die by his hand for her failure. She has been so filled with rage for so long, serving the same tyrant who killed her brothers. Perhaps this needed to happen, you’re different than her, you have a chance, Yharim will come but when he brings his armies perhaps you will finally do what she could not. Kill the Godseeker. But for now you rest, for now she does too. And when the day comes when Yharim finally arrives, she’ll help you finish what she failed to do all those years ago.

YO STAINED BRUTAL CALAMITY

We did it, finished the story! Thank you for blessing us with your knowledge and reaction. It was a pleasure experiencing this with you. ❤

SHE IS HERE !! !

Oh boy. Here we go. The big one. ...I will always remember the day Stained, Brutal Calamity came out. And I wish it were for better reasons. The story of the personal connection I formed to this song upon its release is a long one that I shan't recite here fully (as I, frankly, believe this isn't the place for that). The short of it is that it came out exactly one week after the worst experience of my life. So imagine my surprise and my joy when this song comes out and is every bit as good as I thought it would be. Hell, even better in ways I wasn't expecting. That, my friends, forms an attachment, and it's how a song quickly becomes your favorite song in an OST. And how it stays there for five, going on six, years now. If that's not a testament to the power of music, I don't know what is.