By Rainy andyomon00 SoundCloud rainywishes Tumblr YouTube YouTube andyomon00 Twitter (composition, arrangement, production) and dbnet18 dbnet18 Bandcamp user-201967720 SoundCloud dbnet18 Twitter dbnet18 YouTube dbnet18 Tumblr (composition, arrangement, production).
Cover art by dizzims. dizzims Twitter.
Released 3/22/2023.
Duration: 2:16.

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Contributors:

• dbnet18 dbnet18 Bandcamp user-201967720 SoundCloud dbnet18 Twitter dbnet18 YouTube dbnet18 Tumblr (mastering)

Artist commentary:

Rainy: (YouTube description, excerpt)

As you are probably astutely aware of at this point, By My Blade is collaboration between me and dbnet. I’ve actually been a pretty big fan of his VE work for long time prior to joining the music team and I thought it would be a cool idea to collab with him on a song. He agreed and I got to immediately starting cooking up a melodic idea for us to work on. Within an hour of tooling around on piano, I had the main melody and we got to work. From there, the collab mostly consisted tossing an FLP + stems back and forth while adding to each other’s ideas. When dbnet arranged the initial idea he gave it a “very homestuck era Toby Fox” feel, so I decided to lean into that a bit and take influence from “The Blind Prophet” by incorporating Shreddage guitar and MMX2 instruments. Neither of us really had a concept going into making BMB but I eventually settled on making it a Vigilant Protector track given how heroic it sounds. It works shockingly well as a battlefield theme too. Anyway, you should give dbnet’s work a listen if you haven’t already, he’s pretty good at music imo.