Kenji Yamamoto (山本 健誌, Yamamoto Kenji, born April 25, 1964) is a Japanese v… Read Full Bio ↴Kenji Yamamoto (山本 健誌, Yamamoto Kenji, born April 25, 1964) is a Japanese video game musician working for Nintendo, notable for composing music in many titles of the Metroid series, mainly Super Metroid and the Metroid Prime trilogy. Yamamoto also plays a role as a music director at Nintendo, overseeing audio for several of their games. He frequently collaborates with fellow composers Minako Hamano and Masaru Tajima.
Yamamoto's music utilizes heavy drums, piano, voiced chants, clangs of pipes, and electric guitar. In development of Super Metroid, Yamamoto came up with some of the game's themes by humming them to himself while riding his motorcycle home from work. He was asked to compose the music for Metroid Prime to reinforce the series' continuity. Developers from Retro Studios noted how the process of fitting all the sound effects for a world in Metroid Prime into 6 MB of space was crucial in producing a quality aural experience, as each sound had to be of very high quality. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption took advantage of the increase in the amount of RAM that took place when the series switched from the GameCube to the Wii; this allowed for higher quality audio samples to be used and thus a better overall audio quality.
Yamamoto's music utilizes heavy drums, piano, voiced chants, clangs of pipes, and electric guitar. In development of Super Metroid, Yamamoto came up with some of the game's themes by humming them to himself while riding his motorcycle home from work. He was asked to compose the music for Metroid Prime to reinforce the series' continuity. Developers from Retro Studios noted how the process of fitting all the sound effects for a world in Metroid Prime into 6 MB of space was crucial in producing a quality aural experience, as each sound had to be of very high quality. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption took advantage of the increase in the amount of RAM that took place when the series switched from the GameCube to the Wii; this allowed for higher quality audio samples to be used and thus a better overall audio quality.
Title Theme
山本健誌 Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Title Theme' by these artists:
Game & Sound Come on and light the fuse, He's a rocket and he's…
The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos
More Genres
No Artists Found
More Artists
Load All
No Albums Found
More Albums
Load All
No Tracks Found
Genre not found
Artist not found
Album not found
Search results not found
Song not found
@clydegustafson3587
And then Yamamoto-san created the music, and he saw that it was good.
@zephmckee872
Kenji Yamamoto is the best vg composer IMO. Metroid Prime has one of the best soundtracks in the history of gaming.
@XSnowboardNMetalX
Can’t wait to hear his latest work in Prime 4
@BelmontKnight
it was a dual work of Yamamoto and Minako Hamano for metroid saga and others :)
@stevenyjtsai
very cool BGM, great
@paulmaldonado5157
1:05 sounds like A Clockwork Orange
@av3nger3
4:23 some of the synths used in the phazon-themed tracks from Metroid Prime 3 leaked in here.
@GameAudio77
You are correct! But please note that the songs featured in the video are solely composed by Yamamoto-san : )
@DNchap1417
This is the GOOD Kenji Yamamoto, unlike the hack that worked at DBZ. Make no mistake, both Kenjis are talented and have great taste in music, but one makes an effort in creating original material, even if it’s inspired by existing works. The other Kenji often just copied and pasted other works with almost no tweaks.
@symfonio
Lol I thought these guys were the same person but now I know this Kenji is the best