AKIRA YAMAOKA (山岡晃, Yamaoka Akira, born on February 6, 1968 in Niigata, Jap… Read Full Bio ↴AKIRA YAMAOKA (山岡晃, Yamaoka Akira, born on February 6, 1968 in Niigata, Japan) has composed music for dozens of Konami video games. Yamaoka attended Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and interior. He joined Konami on September 21, 1993, after previously being a freelance music composer.
He is best known for his work on the Silent Hill series for which he composed all the music and sound effects in all seven current games (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for Game Boy Advance). Some of the music from the first four games was also remixed and used in the Silent Hill movie. He also played a doubly important role as producer of the third and fourth Silent Hill games (which were available for PlayStation 2/PC and PlayStation 2/Xbox/PC). His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany and at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Live! on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, where Yamaoka himself accompanied the orchestra with an electric guitar. As well, Yamaoka actively composes music for Konami's Bemani line of games, particularly, the Beatmania IIDX series.
His first original, non-soundtrack album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006.
Career
He joined Konami on September 21, 1993 after previously being a freelance music composer. He is most well known for his work for the Silent Hill series of video games, for which he composed all the music and sound effects in the whole series (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for the Game Boy Advance and Esperándote in Silent Hill, composed by 村中りか (Rika Muranaka)). Since Silent Hill 3, he is playing a more important role as the series' producer, also continuing with his music composition working.
Yamaoka's sound commonly contains strong melancholy undertones and generally identifies with the dark ambient, industrial, trip-hop and rock genres. Since Silent Hill 3, he also started working in collaboration with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Joe Romersa for vocal compositions.
Much of his work from previous titles has been compiled for the 2006 Silent Hill movie adaptation, directed by Christophe Gans.
His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany. Yamaoka also performed music from Silent Hill at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Live! on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, and accompanied the orchestra with an electric seven-string guitar. He also composed songs for Konami's Bemani series, which has also featured tracks from Silent Hill.
His first original album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006. He also wrote the theme of 101%, the main show of the French TV channel Nolife.
On December 2, 2009, it was announced that Yamaoka was leaving his long term employer Konami.
Personal Life
Before working as a video game composer, Yamaoka initially sought a career as a designer, but instead became a musician after studying product design at Tokyo Art College.
In 1993 he joined Konami to work on the game Rocket Knight Adventures 2. When Konami began searching for a musician to compose Silent Hill's score, Yamaoka volunteered because he thought he was the only one capable of making the soundtrack.
Yamaoka stated in a 2009 interview that his favorite game creator is Suda 51 and his favorite video game is No More Heroes.
He is best known for his work on the Silent Hill series for which he composed all the music and sound effects in all seven current games (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for Game Boy Advance). Some of the music from the first four games was also remixed and used in the Silent Hill movie. He also played a doubly important role as producer of the third and fourth Silent Hill games (which were available for PlayStation 2/PC and PlayStation 2/Xbox/PC). His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany and at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Live! on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, where Yamaoka himself accompanied the orchestra with an electric guitar. As well, Yamaoka actively composes music for Konami's Bemani line of games, particularly, the Beatmania IIDX series.
His first original, non-soundtrack album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006.
Career
He joined Konami on September 21, 1993 after previously being a freelance music composer. He is most well known for his work for the Silent Hill series of video games, for which he composed all the music and sound effects in the whole series (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for the Game Boy Advance and Esperándote in Silent Hill, composed by 村中りか (Rika Muranaka)). Since Silent Hill 3, he is playing a more important role as the series' producer, also continuing with his music composition working.
Yamaoka's sound commonly contains strong melancholy undertones and generally identifies with the dark ambient, industrial, trip-hop and rock genres. Since Silent Hill 3, he also started working in collaboration with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Joe Romersa for vocal compositions.
Much of his work from previous titles has been compiled for the 2006 Silent Hill movie adaptation, directed by Christophe Gans.
His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany. Yamaoka also performed music from Silent Hill at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Live! on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, and accompanied the orchestra with an electric seven-string guitar. He also composed songs for Konami's Bemani series, which has also featured tracks from Silent Hill.
His first original album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006. He also wrote the theme of 101%, the main show of the French TV channel Nolife.
On December 2, 2009, it was announced that Yamaoka was leaving his long term employer Konami.
Personal Life
Before working as a video game composer, Yamaoka initially sought a career as a designer, but instead became a musician after studying product design at Tokyo Art College.
In 1993 he joined Konami to work on the game Rocket Knight Adventures 2. When Konami began searching for a musician to compose Silent Hill's score, Yamaoka volunteered because he thought he was the only one capable of making the soundtrack.
Yamaoka stated in a 2009 interview that his favorite game creator is Suda 51 and his favorite video game is No More Heroes.
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Akira Yamaoka Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Akira Yamaoka:
A World of Madness [instrumental]…
Acceptance Time flows Nobody knows The years go by Where we go Alon…
Alex Theme It started long before me... I never saw it coming... Th…
Always on my Mind Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could…
awakening 愛しき思い 願い溢れ 切ない定めだろう 儚い記憶 戸惑いも無く 彷徨い続ける 眠らず 言葉も無く 溶けゆく白い涙…
Bitmania disco bit saisekka ... Waki no ke soyogu koi Hora kai no…
Blow Back Daylight Dark light Blinds me Am I fading in light? I …
Breeze There is another reason to fill your heart with hatred It…
Clockwork Little Happiness (The time when all will be forgiven their sins. When the…
Cradle of Forest There deep Deep in the forest night Children dance the waltz…
Dance with Night Wind (The world is teeming with unnecessary people. It's god's de…
Diamond Jealousy Ohayou takashimakun, konkai no kimi no ninmu da ga Rei ni…
Elle Theme Where have you been? You are a different man... You disa…
Empty Of The Sky Kanashii tsukiyo namida karete Kodoku na yume koori tsuku ko…
Fading... Daylight Dark light Blind me(?) Am I fading in light? …
Float Up From Dream (They've come to witness the beginning, The rebirth of p…
Forest There deep, deep in the forest night children dance the…
Heavenly Sun ささら波寄せ 足(さらいゆく 夢の続きを 失うのが怖いの 涙の波紋 もし打ち消せたなら ひび割れた この胸…
Hell Frozen Rain In your mind's eye lives a memory Hard to find, blinded…
Hole in the Sky Oh yeah, I've been here before I can see it with…
Hometown He spoke of tortured souls So outrageous the toll You can lo…
I Want Love I want a cup that overflows with love Although it's not…
I Want Love (studio mix) All right, let's do this One, two, three I want a cup…
iFUTURELIST You Came To Fight! 悪魔の葬列 Through The Night! 闇に葬り Take Yo…
Letter A letter to my future self, am I still happy,…
Letter ~ From the Lost Days A letter to my future self Am I still happy, I…
Letter%3A From the Lost Days A letter to my future self, am I still happy,…
Letter: From the Lost Days A letter to my future self Am I still happy? I…
Lettre du diable Elle te regarde amoureusement et pose ses mains sur ton…
Lost A letter to my future self, am I still happy,…
Love Me Do Sunday, monday, tuesday... Wednesday Watashi no cool cool da…
Maria Nemurinasai itoshiki hito yo Hikisakareta katayoku no hane …
Mon cÅur te sera fidèle jusqu'à son dernier battement Caresse ma joue du bout d't'es doigts avec t'es mitaines…
O.R.T Is it lonely where you are... In there... Dad? Does the da…
One More Soul to the Call Enough with light Tell me one more time My blood, your lin…
Rain of Brass Petals I am the first A …
Room of Angel You lie silent there before me your tears they mean nothing…
Shot Down In Flames Swear at the walls They make fun of me Day after day Eyes…
Shot Down In Flames feat.Mary Elizabeth McGlynn Swear at the walls They make fun of me Day after day Eyes…
Sun In the beginning people had nothing Their bodies ached and t…
tant pis pour toi Les absents ont toujours tort.…
Tender Sugar I run, I fall, what ripped away, check my body Was…
The policy of the iFUTURELIST Party …
The Reverse Will Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the lord…
The Sacred Line Is it me? This time... Am I too... far? Did I cross... …
Waiting for You Your gentle voice I hear Your words echo inside me You sai…
Walk on Vanity Ruins (In here is a tragedy, Art thou player or audience? Be as…
When You're Gone Did I wait too long? Moments gone and now wasted Coming ba…
You Your gentle voice I hear Your words echo inside me You said…
You're Not Here Blue sky to forever, Green grass blows in the wind,…
Your Rain Dancing alone again, again the rain falling Only the scent o…
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Steven Morris
There will never be a terrifying horror game like Silent Hill 1. Like man this game was away ahead of it’s time.
Resident Evil 1 was one thing. But Silent Hill was on a whole other level of extreme scary psychological horror. The most amazing horror game I’ve ever expected in my life that changed horror video gaming forever I bet. The level of terror, eeriness and freaking the crap out of people. No other game will be the most scariest game that took horror games to the extreme like this one. Most horror games now or days are guts and gore and senseless shock value. This relied on imagination and the psychological horror elements. It’s a work of art.
Seeing creepy shit in darkness and felt haunting, spooky and a bit disturbing. But in a scary way. Not in a nasty way like todays horror games. 😎👌
Jimmy Lance
I like Silent Hill 2 better
divinefallfromgrace
The Forbidden Siren games give it a good run for its money; I'd argue they're even worse. But, I agree, it is a masterpiece in Headfuckery.
Rickydo
No other game looked or sounded like Silent Hill at the time, in terms of art direction and sound design obviously.
This game felt accursed, it felt evil, playing it felt like I was doing something I shouldn't be doing.
Matt's Gambling Slots
Resident Evil was more action based than horror, this isn't to say that RE wasn't scary. Silent Hill is more focused on the horror factor
Lightweightwhitetrash
Best way to describe what this feels like is: Trying to hold back diarrhea in the elevator sweating bullets and it just keeps getting worse the closer you are to the bathroom.
Roofi S
I fking can't 🤣😂🤣😂
Lightweightwhitetrash
@Roofi S yeah me neither it just forces its way out and there's really nothing I can do.
Osaka Cadillac
What Panic attack feels like
Hugo Tate
Except not