Hollow Knight Bytes - Full Package

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We are proud to present our take on several of the songs of Hallownest, from the hit indie game Hollow Knight! Hopefully the songs don't infect you... with ear worms... because infection is real bad in this game.

Hollow Knight by Team Cherry
Music by Christopher Larkin

Mantis Lords:
Broken Vessels:
Grimm: Alex Beckham

Chorus:
Alex Beckham

Timing by Emily Go
QC by Tom Previte

[腰原誠]

Neat detail that the zotlings repeat "yeah that was lucky" showing they are just repeating, and don't really have any other thins to say.

[ianhaight]

Hornet:you cannot unite the void
The knight:those words can’t stop me cause I can’t hear

[skullofglory]

The sun stared at the void...And the void stared back with piercing rage.

[higztv]

The transition from Dung Defender singing about his loyalty to the king to broken vessels revealing how the king had left them to die hits really hard
Like, imagine wholeheartedly trusting and serving a guy who's secretly committing mass infanticide as one of his plans

[The_Hollow]

The chat losing their marbles over the radiance saying moth was beautiful.

[penguinlover]

I love how in the live chat of this video, by the time Sealed Vessel started to play, I was almost picturing the viewers singing the echoing voices like the fanbase itself tries to comfort the Hollow Knight at their final moments…














AND THEN when we got Radiance, almost everyone went to “M O T H”

Good lord I love this fandom.

[Leaffyleaff]

I love how chat reacted to Ogrim. A collective DOMA and FARFUNDA!

[starkeeper_youtube]

Best part of the premiere was looking at chat during Dung Defender and seeing it completely full of DOMA!!!

[zipline_whiplash]

0:26 whoever made this fucking animation is a powerhouse, I love this animation so fucking much and it's so fucking simple.

[errorcringyname]

The whole package is just infected with some sort of radiance. Really a great set of songs.

[logandamudkip]

There was so many surprises during this, that halfway through Grimm I thought they were going just throw in Pure Vessel after Grimm.

[oreganoking]

The Hollow Knight Bytes were consistent in high quality. I'm actually blown away by the sheer amount of power all the VAs brought. Amazing stuff, and these covers will remain some of my absolute favourites!
Also the chat blowing up at Ogrim and Zote was hilarious lol






...BUT WHERE GORB-

[Fae-Fey]

37:52 MOTM have learned their lesson and now bowed to grimm before the fight

[hellandruby]

I loved the radiance cover. You captured the radiance's personality better than the entirety of hallownest could capture her whole.

[Karatastrophe]

Hollow knight is by far my favourite game of all time, so when I saw Hornet came out and I realised that there would be musical bites, I specifically didn't watch them so I could have my reaction to all of them back to back. Consider me damn well impressed! You did Hollow Knight justice!

Dirtmouth has a wonderfully serene yet sombre voice, like a hymn floating on the wind, which makes perfect sense in canon. Dirtmouth is a tiny town that starts off with only one inhabitant, thus the quiet tome of the song matches the setting.

Hornet was regal and commanding, yet did not feel demeaning. The lyrics you gave her shows that she purposely acts as a roadblock as to make sure you are worthy of the King's Brand, as well as strong enough to combat the infection.

The Mantis Lords shared a similar feel to Hornet, which makes sense. Hornet guards the King's Brand while The Mantis Lords guard Deepnest. Unlike Hornet, their lyrics contain some condescension, which make sense. The Sisters of Battle are prideful of their combat prowess, and would look down on those who haven't earned their respect. You absolutely nailed that feel.

The Dung Defender is done near perfectly. The lyrics you gave convey a feeling of a competitive nature, yet a man who sticks to his morals. A knight, even when he no longer serves the king or queen.

Oh, Broken Vessel. This is my favourite. When I realised it was Broken Vessel, I thought you would go down the route of a child losing his mind to the infection. You broke my expectations and surpassed them by a long shot. You made the Broken Vessel/Lost Kin a voice for all of The Ghost and The Hollow Knight's fallen siblings. Their rage, their sorrow, and most prominently with that ever-present whispering, their melancholy. You conveyed the feelings of a collective of abandoned children eerily well, and I am all for it.

The Hollow Knight is a masterpiece of sorrow and tragedy. The voices of what I believe are The Ghost's shade siblings contradicting The Hollow Knight, the desperation in his voice as he fights, the solemn note it ends on. All of that crafts the story of a boy desperately clinging onto the only task his father gave him, so he wasn't tossed into the abyss like his siblings. Horrifically beautiful work.

The Radiance speaks (or sings) for herself. A dream god of light that genuinely believes herself above all life and wants all of it under her control. The lyrics show her looking down on The Ghost, telling them to give up because their efforts are futile. The choir you gave The Radiance shows her love of being worshiped, as the choir simply repeats things that The Radiance herself already said. Wondrous execution of a deity that sees no issue in what they have done.

Grimm. I was so happy to see this get a remaster like Dark Pit's theme, as those were actually the first two of your lyrical adaptations I listened to. I still believe it to be an example of how to make a cult leader charming yet very intimidating. At first, when it's The Grimm Troupe, Grimm is playful and acts like this is a dance. But that transition between The Grimm Troupe and Nightmare King Grimm was not only flawless to the point that I thought they were the same song for a while, but also showed the seamless swap from a charming troupe master to an extremely dangerous nightmare god leading a cult. And the new art! Absolutely brilliant and completely in character to our Nightmare God.

All in all, I am very happy with every song in this package. Not only are they all amazing to listen to, but they faithfully portray the characters and story of Hollow Knight to the point where I believe even Team Cherry would endorse these. Bravo, everyone who worked on this. Brilliant work.

[腰原誠]

The first 3 boss songs: Nice music, and nice cheerful fights
Basically everything else: We noticed you were feeling happy, so now we give you the gift, of depression.

[squidddy]

The way the hollow knight cover has an alternate ending that imitately leads to the radiance cover is just amazing

[SirLuckySlime]

The whole chat going wild over NKG was hilarious.

[ThePikPals]

This is the greatest moment the Hollow Knight community has had in months!

[errorcringyname]

The Sealed Vessel was amazing. I bet the whole package will be even better.