Ranking Virtual Riot's 'Stealing Fire' Album

Virtual Riot just released his debut album on Monstercat and his 3rd album overall (if you don't include Deluxe & DLC versions). I am a huge fan of his "Simulation" so let's see how this one compares.

Reminder that music is subjective and these are just my opinions :)

[DCRanks]

Double upload day?!? Lol like this comment if you actually watched my beat saber vid

[deedgemaster]

Still thought it was an Alan Walker album when I first saw the cover art

[lucidyt]

Dino killer my fav song on the album and the “not yet” one of my favorite parts😭

[EliteEpicGamerz]

Even if i didnt like the song as a whole, the "not yet" on dino killer is hype af

[AgentGamer]

As a bass house glazer, I agree with Stealing Fire

[boooooooosh]

VROOM, Stealing Fire and Scorched Earth are crazy

[middaysilver]

Dude I’m so sad that Ridiculous has no chance of making it into the BO2024 comp. Literally sounds like if RIOT and Teminite had a child

[goofyahhhlocomotive]

Fun fact: The original Nights On Fire was on Disciple 2013

[barzeyther]

His 2 singles clears it out, even he just literally made an cool approach in genres like Micro Bass (I saw in Chime's A:B firstly, then this), Midtempo, Future Garage/Deep House
Awesome album, Scorched Earth & Believe What You Want are 🔥

[JoshyMcSquashy_Reviews]

Decent album. Loved the interludes ngl

[BraxtonKovary]

Nah, Dino Killer has to be one of VR's most fun tracks

[Master_]

My top 3 is Believe What You Want, Stealing Fire, and Reconnect.

[kmmand]

#16 - Sounds about right
#15 - For an intro this is super good, this flows into Stealing Fire so well
#14 - Agree with ya on this one. The instrumentation is sick
#13 - It goes hard and I love the switchup near the end where it slows down (just like Disorder by RIOT) but I wouldn't play this with friends. That's a guilty pleasure if I've ever seen one
#12 - Good
#11 - Has a lot of cool bubbly sounds
#10 - Would be higher up on this list if it weren't for "Give in to you"
#9 - This shit slaps, period
#8 - A really good way to close off such a masterful album
#7 - Yeah this one fucks. All three drops sound different from each other and flow very nicely
#6 - It's still a 9.5/10 at worst
#5 - Does also kinda sound like it would fit VR's Simulation album
#4 - So does this one
#3 - Absolute banger and a half. That switchup was nuts
#2 - I didn't expect Liquid DnB with good ass vocal chops from Val so I was pleasantly suprised about this one
#1 - WHAT THE ACTUAL LIVING FUCK (this is a compliment)

[FallinInAPhalaro]

First No Mana and Now Virtual Riot! My top 2 artists releasing albums on Monstercat this year!

[barzeyther]

4:26 This sounds like THYKIER - INTENSIFY

[OperationRG]

0:57 ok VR made chill classic music? Unexpected...

1:01 *bass sound intensifies*

[BVK.]

The pre drop on "Dino Killer" was the hype! The drop was not that energetic/cool though 😢, i was thinking of something like "REDLINE" second drop sound design craziness considering there's a DINOSAUR Theme! (At least I thought).

[ai]

I think virtual riot has had better projects but I really like this one too. Some great experimentation in tracks like Dino Killer and the Mongolian throat singing drop in Star Destroyer. Also, the combination of Night on Fire and Ridiculous is fucking phenomenal.

I’d say the only thing is that the advantage other VR projects have had has been focus/a theme to them (simulation is so good because of it). This one felt experimental and maybe also timelines that monstercat can have could’ve affected things. I enjoyed the project tho. Cleanest project by far and some amazing production done by the boy Valentin

[kmmand]

You know this album is cracked when Nawtystep pauses and/or rewinds multiple times while listening to the full album. The Mongolian throat singing in Star Destroyer completely broke Connor lmao 😂

[tremen]

just saw VR on tour, he said that the melody on ridiculous was a kids toy piano, and the 4 notes of the melody are just him playing the 4 notes on the piano unedited