Return of None · Something Unto Death · Boss Theme (Extended) - Honkai Star Rail 2.0 OST

Part of “Honkai: Star Rail - The Flapper Sinthome (Part 1)” Original Game Soundtrack
Version 2.0 “If One Dreams At Midnight”
℗ 2024 HOYO-MiX

· *Return of None*
Composer: Yj.W (HOYO-MiX)
Arranger: Yj.W (HOYO-MiX), TSAR (HOYO-MiX)
Mixing Engineer: TSAR (HOYO-MiX)
Produced by: HOYO-MiX

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Penacony · The Reverie (Dreamscape)
Memory Zone Meme Boss Theme / Something Unto Death Boss Theme
#HonkaiStarRail #Penacony

[ytscpmd]

People really came back to apologize to Gallagher’s dog.

[generalcorgi]

2.0 hoyo: This is the most brutal and ruthless depiction of the concept of death we can get to.
2.2 hoyo: wdym it scared you? It's just a lil guy

[nixsidus]

I would like to formally apologise to **checks notes** Sleepie.

[bilihsartsiwoc]

It really was just penacony’s version of a pitbull named cupcake

[orein]

Gallagher: thats my dog, his name is sleepie dont worry it dont bite
Firefly & robin: *YES IT DO!*

[HelloWorld-ymvx]

You get a death flag
And you get a death flag

Everyone gets a death flag

[RamonTukoso]

Correction: Gallagher and his very interesting Method of Transportation

[isESAcheronOutmetaYet]

Before 2.2: D E A T H
After 2.2: Awww who’s a cute little Sleepie…

[murkysaltwater]

The fact you can hear a wolf’s howl around 2:00 is amazing foreshadowing lol

[zephyrprime]

Something Unto Death in 2.1: 💀
Something Unto Death in 2.2: 😊😁

[cjmarshall]

WE GETTING TRAUMATIZED WITH THIS ONE! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[potatosforeveryone]

GALLAGHER WHEN I CATCH YOU GALLAGHER GALLAGHER WHEN I CATCH YOU GALLAGHER GALLAGHER WHEN I CATCH YOU GALLAGHER GALLAGHER WHEN I CATCH YOU GALLAGHER

Edit: It seems I need to apologize to Gallagher and Sleepie, I wasn't familiar with their game 🫡

[RamonTukoso]

Average bartender and his innocent Pitbull

[daemon]

Mofo about to be the most-killed weekly boss in HSR

[championgundeer]

"Who's stronger, you, or the meme?"

"If Something Unto Death came after me while I was in the Dreamscape, it might be a little draining..."

"Would you lose?"

"Nah, I'd win."

[idontspeakjapanese]

It's fine guys Sleepie is just working hard and was just misunderstood

[flagadodouss]

HOW I'M SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT HE WAS NOT A BAD GUY BUT JUST A LITTLE BIT VIOLENT IN ACT

[tripleslash]

Both mechanically and thematically, this boss is portrayed very differently to the rest, and the music reflects this nature of Something Unto Death so well.

This track is so pointedly aggressive and irregular, it reflects SUD's status as a primal horror of the human psyche being an entity borne of the PERCEPTION death. All of the theming in this track reflects horror (in the constantly escalating synths), anxiety (with the pounding beats), oppression (with the synth bass being loud and spatially close to the listener), isolation (in the distant, reverberated brass) and finally, naked and unfiltered aggression with the constant variation in rhythm and instrument panning.
This thing isn't a weapon of galactic war, a corrupted leader, a grandstanding emanator of destruction OR an experimental rebirth of an Aeon's dead path.

Something Unto Death embodies the primal feeling of mortality dawning on someone. It doesn't have a reason to exist, it simply does because sentient beings conceptualize it. There's no ulterior motive, there IS no plan. It embodies the moment where a bus zooms right behind your heel and you feel the air rush into your back reminding you that you could have been splattered on the pavement, it's the brief moment you feel like you just might fall when you step onto a glass floor terrace of a tall building, the fear of your breath fading as you swim towards the water's surface, the paralysis of a gun being pointed ANYWHERE near you.

The Sunset cometh, make your final goodbyes.
In three turns, night befalls us all.

[Kavoooin]

Me making my apology letter to sleepie for killing him over 200+ times and promise him to give headpats.

[halfmettlealchemist]

They popped off so hard with this track. The frantic synth baseline is so tense, but the muted trumpet is so ethereal and off-putting - it feels like you’re actually trapped in a nightmare.