#I legit started panicking because I felt so detached from myself it felt like my soul was going to leave my body

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Here's the youtube version for those that prefer it

and here's the one with added vocals cuz why make this perfect piece even better

gawd as someone whose taste in music is 90% soundtracks from movies, videogames and shows, Million Knives stands out as one of my alltime favorites, and this is coming from a list of several hundred songs that I've listened to. Let me tell you this song is TOP TIER

If there is a song I would tell people to listen to to get them hooked onto the trigun OST, it's this one. It's gorgeous. It's sweeping, it's powerful, it's uplifting, it's tragic, it's hopeful, it's desperate it's everything. It makes use of both traditional orchestra and electronic sounds, but they blend so perfectly together you never would've been able to tell. It knows how to use contrast perfectly, going from soft to powerful, from loud to quiet and introspective, and it always feels like it's meant to be there, it flows beautifully, it's not jarring

Thematically in the show it has a lot of weight to it as well. It's played when the titular big bad himself Million Knives shows up and starts wreaking absolute bloody carnage, but as much as his own arrogance would like to claim it as his own, especially since it's usually played with him there, it's not actually his theme. It's the PLANT theme. Something he doesn't wholely represent by himself. His brother is a plant just like him, and of course there's all of their sisters as well. While the theme usually plays with him around, it doesn't ONLY play when he's around. And thus the theme is also symbolic of the main conflict between him and Vash

It's the desperate conflict, the tearing apart of bonds and loyalty of two brothers who love each other and just wants the other to be a part of their life, but ultimately their polar opposite views on humanity's relationship with plants and themselves drives them apart until there is no salvaging that relationship. This song is them desperately trying to ignore this conflict while also every time being thrust headfirst into it and it's unavoidable

ugh I could write a whole 50 page analysis on the entirety of the Trigun Stampede OST and it starts with this piece. Millions Knives is THE piece that ties a lot of things together. Granted I haven't listened to many other new anime osts this year, but as someone who's a major soundtrack nerd and enthusist, I'm pretty good at judging the overall quality of an OST and this song is defacto easily on my top 5 recommendations to people. It is a gorgeous 1000/10 piece

The Trigun Stampede score is a masterpiece of musical storytelling and wasn’t even nominated for Best Score at the Anime Awards, let alone the winner. Tatsuya Kato was ROBBED.

How can anyone listen to “Millions Knives” and think that track ALONE isn’t even nomination worthy?