Touhou 7 PCB - Border of Life 【Intense Symphonic Metal Cover】

Intense Symphonic Metal Cover of 幽雅に咲かせ、墨染の桜 ～ Border of Life (Bloom Nobly, Ink-Black Cherry Blossom ~ Border of Life), Yuyuko Saigyouji boss battle theme from 東方妖々夢 ～ Perfect Cherry Blossom (Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom), the 7th Touhou game.

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► Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom OST: 幽雅に咲かせ、墨染の桜　～ Border of Life (Bloom Nobly, Ink-Black Cherry Blossom ~ Border of Life)
by ZUN / Team Shanghai Alice

Arranged and produced by Michał "FalKKonE" Sokołowski.

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[FalKKonE]

Ghosts, spirits, and cherry blossoms intensify!

[ajarofpickles]

Ahh yes more from my favorite game about magical little girls flying and shooting lasers at each other... it’s a thing of beauty tell ya

[oCheatoro]

Oh more Touhou. I won't ever find this game series boring. And its OST is an infinite goldmine, even if people tend to always remix the same tracks.

[Wallyuwu]

Metal and Touhou. Name a more iconic duo.

[bubblycrash]

Border of Life! My personal favorite Touhou song. Symphonic Metal is a great style for it.

[kirbykirisame]

If you do Reincarnation from Touhou 3, I’ll love you forever.

[GrahamChapman]

"Let me tell you a story... As tends to be the case when powers manifest themselves, I did not have any control over my ability when it first surfaced. As a consequence, the people closest to me became my first victims... and, as luck would have it, my power just so happened to be pretty irrevocable... my family... they were the first ones my power of death took... Perhaps it was to teach me how serious the power to control death actually is? Or maybe it was a warning? Or perhaps it was some karma from my previous life that had to be repaid? Or maybe it was a sign that I should've ended it all right there... Whatever the case may be, from that day on, I decided that I would not let my power claim another life ever again... ... ...if only things were ever that easy, huh?

As I grew, my powers grew also... and as they grew, they began to outgrow me... The first sign was the sudden deaths of a couple of elderly but still spry people living in my village... soon after that a couple of sickly people followed... and then the piles of dead mice and rats started popping up... One night, the villagers came to me. They were angry and sad. They accused me of being the one behind all of these deaths... and, at first, I tried to deny my involvement in it... I tried to explain it away, you know... 'They were old, it was their time.' 'Illnesses claim many lives.' 'Maybe the death of the vermin is a blessing, an act of god?' Most of all, I guess I told those lies to myself. I may have even imagined myself the victim of a mob who unjustly attacked that which frightened them... but they were right... and I refused to accept it, even when the cicadas wouldn't play that spring, even as the birds would not sing in the forest that summer and... all the stillbirths... the world around me was dying and yet... I refused to believe that I was the one responsible for it all...

Everyone else knew, though... the shrine maiden from up the hill... the monks from the temple... even the butterflies knew... and when the villagers followed the butterflies to my house, with their sickles and torches and spears, I panicked... I didn't want to die... not yet... I didn't want to die yet... ... ...but I didn't want them to die, either... I didn't mean for it to happen... and if I could change the events of that day, I would gladly let them take my life... my life in exchange for theirs... yes, I would gladly make that trade today...

After that event, I started isolating myself, I cut myself off from the rest of the village... and they tried to cut me off, too... I only had one visitor at that time, you know... a strange and beautiful woman who sometimes came to me just as the sun setted and the world was bathed in twilight... She brought me good food and drinks. She talked with me. She didn't fear me... Even when I warned her about how dangerous it was for her to come visit me, she just laughed and said that the boundary of life and death didn't mean anything to her... We spent a lot of time together, she and I. Sometimes she'd even spend the night at my house... but she was always gone again before the light of dawn rose above the hills... then, one day, I noticed that she didn't look so well... and I knew that it was my power-- no, that it was _me, _ that _I_ was slowly killing her, too... It wasn't all just me, though... It was you, too... Though saying that is just passing the blame, isn't it?

The people that died because of me were not buried at our cemetery. Instead, they were all buried under the roots of a beautiful cherry blossom tree a bit outside of the village... at first it had just been the villagers respecting my father's wish of being buried under its boughs, but it quickly became a "tradition" of sorts... Maybe the villagers were scared of burying my victims anywhere else in case they were cursed or something... to be fair, maybe they were, because that's where you entered the picture... My family, my friends, my neighbours, all of those bodies made a rich soil for you to grow big, strong and beautiful upon. And as you feasted upon the bodies of my victims, you also somehow took into yourself my power -- the power that had claimed their lives... as you grew, my powers grew within you, and you started thirsting for more... You called upon the souls of the living, made them come to you, just like how the butterflies had come to me. You compelled them to lie down by your roots and surrender themselves to their early graves... and here you are now, feeding off of your own victims, and you're growing ever bigger, ever stronger, ever more beautiful... ever more powerful... ever more _evil..._

I suppose it's a bit funny in a way, isn't it? That the murderous tree that I, in a sense, gave birth to should be the one to hear my life story... and my last words... But there is a reason why I'm telling you all of this: You see, much like my powers, you are my responsibility. And much like how I failed to take proper responsibility for my powers, I have failed to uphold my responsibility in regards to you... but I have finally decided to make amends... I told you my story because I want you to know that though I'm responsible for many lives coming to an early end, I've never even once intentionally killed anyone... But I am going to _murder_ you. And I do not intend to make it out of this fight alive."

[BloxyReimu]

I see some battle against a true hero song leitmotifs, but this came before so toby literally was using border of life music leitmotifs in BAATH

[Ketsui.]

I feel like Yuyuko's Final Spell would sound amazing in this style

[superstarpyromusic]

I showed this to my penguin...








It can fucking fly now....

[neico]

That's still my favorite touhou theme
It's emotional, epic and it powers you up(like in the final, battle at journey's end) while still being somewhat calm.

[PunYT]

I find your lack of the Resurrection Butterfly segment disturbing.

[okuuunyu]

Yay~! Amazing job as always <3
Love all your touhou covers so much !

* silently hopes for Solar sect of mystic wisdom ~ Nuclear fusion *

[lasatar]

Funny, because I actually got into the Touhou series just recently. Now you're making a number of Touhou covers. Coincidence?

Regardless, I'm very much looking forward to any future covers you do.

[bigboibreadstick]

I really hope you keep doing these Touhou covers
they're AMAZING (like pretty much all of your other covers honestly)

(yeah i've already requested this on your previous video, but is Kobito of the Shining Needle - Little Princess possible to do? I just really want to hear what it'd sound like covered by ya)

[SoggyCatFanNo.]

How the HECC do you keep pumping out these quality covers so often? It's insane dude.

[angelinesmith]

incredible, two of my favorite things: yuyuko and symphonic metal!! it’s so different and inelegant but AWESOME! :D

[phantasmpostor]

Yuyuko is my 2nd fav! you did a good job on this

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ive been waiting for this for a thousand years thank you so so much

[houndrysmagolyteofhope]

Honestly this track always reminds me of the ending song in Asura Wrath, It has a certain feel to it.