The Sun Rises (Okami) - GaMetal Remix

The sun.... has risen!

I've been getting requests to do this song for years. It wasn't until recently, when I looked outside and saw the sun coming up, that I decided to get it done.

Go play Okami, it's awesome.

(PS: Extra shoutout to Zach D. for gifting me the Taishōgoto/Nagoya Harp used in this song!)

[harryguidotti]

"Oh, Johnny Atma. Origin of all that is Metal, and Father to the Riffs."

[geistgrace]

A case of this isn't the Final boss' theme.

This Is YOUR theme.

YOU are the unstoppable force.

[BingBangPoe]

_"If you pray with all your heart maybe the sun will cheer up and show itself once again, lightning our world with its heavenly glow! After all, the best thing about the great god Amaterasu is that happy-go-lucky spirit! Right, Ammy? Answer if you can hear me, ya big furball!"_
*- Wandering Artist Issun*

[JimGio]

Ah man, so yeah what it’s been like 7 years since I first started requesting this song? Hard to believe, and even harder to believe that it finally exists. There’s a lot I *could* say but I feel maybe it’s best to leave it at a simple thank you. This was a really popular request back in 2015, it was incredibly common alongside songs like Zanza and Serpent Devouring the Horizon. I grew impatient waiting for this song and seeing it fall further and further back into obscurity, and I decided to rally some people on the Discord to make some noise for this one. Even if we basically annoyed Jonny into submission, I’m still kinda amazed it worked.
Okami is a masterpiece, and replaying it for the first time in a decade for this video made me remember that. I thank you for that opportunity. I cant thank you enough for this cover, this absolutely beautiful and magnificent cover. Thank you, Jonny. I’d love to see you return to the series someday, but for now, the sun has risen, and thus it has set.

[thedom]

Yami: "Why do I hear boss music?"

[GanyuSimpingDegenerate]

Everytime Okami is brought up someone always mentions this song and for good reason

[bloodclaw]

This song has been in my "top 10 video game songs" for years. One of the best final boss fights for arguably one of the best video games ever made. So glad to hear a Gametal version.

[matthewbankey]

Sit, Ammy, sit.
Now raise the sun.
…Good girl!

…I know nothing about Ōkami, I just know Amaterasu is an adorable white wolf doggie. :3

[yourlocalraccoondealer]

This is another one of the most impressive covers you've made, holy hell you did this masterclass of a song justice.

[not-crown]

I CANNOT EXPLAIN IN WORDS HOW GRATEFUL I AM THAT AN OKAMI COVER HAS FINALLY BEEN MADE

[darkseahunter]

I'd been playing Okami for my parents - we sit down at the couch for about an hour every week and they watch me play - for the last year almost, and just this week we finished the game, so this timing couldn't possibly be any better.
I knew this song was coming and it would always bring tears to my eyes just hearing it, so the leadup to the final battle absolutely wrecked me and I couldn't hold back the tears, and in front of my parents, no less.
Love this song, love what you've done with it, and keep up the good work!

[ellyjockey]

OH MY GOD, YES.

I believe Okami is a game that touched the hearts of many people I've met. And I believe that today, you touched the hearts of those who grew up with Okami.

I haven't played Okami in forever (I don't have patience for long stories and got distracted, so I didn't know where to go or what to do.) However, the love for this game and its canine goddess is real. And if Amaterasu is real too (and I don't know how much of that is imagination), I like to think she'd smile upon the remix you made today.

Amaterasu - or as Issun calls her, "Ammy" - would particularly be happy because the execution was on point. If someone had to make a metal remix of Amaterasu's theme, it would be good enough to play a tense, "cinematic" guitar. But playing it in your powerful style while *still* keeping a traditional Taishōgoto/Nagoya Harp (Shoutout to Zach D. again) to keep a little bit of Amaterasu in there? That's something else!

I'm going to need to listen to this song more for a proper opinion, but right now, at least from this song alone, you made a good part of my past happy. Who knows if the sun goddess is happy, too?

Thank you.

[FullMetalFeline]

I just realised why this song makes you feel so hyped up in the final boss, why this fight feels like a formality that you cant lose, its because its not the boss's theme playing it's Amaterasu's. Don't think I've played any other game where it's the good guys song playing in a boss fight, at least none as memorable as this. Anyhow, great cover!

[DeviDoesNothing]

And now Starb can rest easy. Banger song as always.

[alexemp]

Totally out of the blue, but we take it!
Edit: not that I expected otherwise, but this remix was godlike!
Hope you do a cover of world's end valentine in the future, keep it up Jonny, your work is amazing

[mr.vanillamilkshake]

I didn't even realise I needed this for the morning. Really great job GaMetal!





PS. can't wait for the next song, be it Metal Gear, Maverick, or just some random JRPG thingy.

[MagicianFairy]

FINALLY THE MAN DID AN OKAMI COVER! AND IT'S AWESOME! AW IM SO GLAD.

[GoldStorm]

My favorite piece of VGM next to Tragic Prince from SOTN, it can never have enough remixes. Great effort with this one.

[okami]

That was so phenomenal, Okami has always been my favorite video game probably of all time (and yes, it’s my go to username when I can’t think of anything else) and every rendition I hear of Rising Sun makes me smile. 8Bit, with lyrics, a metal version. It’s so nostalgic to hear, I remember being so terrified even before leaving Kamiki Village back in the day due to hearing Orachi’s roars in the distance and being like “nah I don’t like that” as a child playing the Wii versuon. Beating Yami for the first time was such an adrenaline rush and I thank you so much for bringing back these memories.

[bananabike]

This ROCKS!! The Sun Rises works surprisingly well in metal form, great job!!