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‘Resident Evil’ Soundtrack Creator Admits He Hired Ghost Composer
This week, famed Japanese musician Mamoru Samuragochi revealed he hired a ghost composer to assist him on scoring some of his work, including the soundtracks for Onimusha and Resident Evil: Director’s Cut. Samuragochi has struggled with a degenerative hearing condition that gradually worsened in the mid to late 90s, when his work was most in demand.
He continued his work even as he completely lost his hearing at age 35 while scoring Onimusha, though apparently, not without the help of another composer. How involved Samuragochi was in his work after that point is unknown.
Samuragochi was called a “digital-age Beethoven” in an interview with Time magazine back in 2001. “I listen to myself,” he said in the interview. “If you trust your inner sense of sound, you create something that is truer. It is like communicating from the heart. Losing my hearing was a gift from God.”
A statement from his lawyers reads “Samuragochi is deeply sorry as he has betrayed fans and disappointed others. He knows he could not possibly make any excuse for what he has done.”
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In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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