#zektbach

[relecno]

Zeta

[aomarine]

Happy belated birthday to Catorce twins!

I can’t decide if I like the version with or without swords better so I keep both. Bonus: get along braid.

[hell-raven]

[discord-area]

i see numbers spiraling in my eyes.....

[foreveranonymousfa]

Hang on, let me cook

[yk-kurai]

Zektober 2024 1st week prompt : Desert

[hatsunemimikyu]

I’m rambling so much these last few days but the Zektbach part of my brain just reawakened and I NEED to let it out yáll. I just listened to Ristaccia for the first time since… idk? and I’m FEELING. I’m going by my old memory so details might be wrong but:

So, what’s Zektbach?

It was a project by a Japanese composer named Tomosuke Funaki which encompasses two albuns - Ristaccia and Masinowa - a few music videos and I think there was extra material like drama CDs? Anyway all the songs in the album kinda tell an overarching story, who I’ll let TVTropes resume for me:

Once, Aria Te'Laria was inhabited by the Eight Ancient Races. These peoples discovered the Ristaccia, a collection of eight gemstones that granted them sentience, emotions, and knowledge. Those who wielded the Ristaccia were gifted with miracles, and in their greed the Eight Ancient Races warred with each other over them until only two races remained: the Humina and Rufina.

The Rufina, wanting to further research the Ristaccia, created a "memeplex" named ∑ (Sigma) and mysteriously disappeared. Meanwhile, the remaining Humina continued fighting over the Ristaccia, resulting in the establishment of two dueling countries: the Holy Kingdom of Noigllado and the Kingdom of Azuelgatt.

Chapters 1-5 each focus on different characters in different locations and different points in time, exploring the problems they face and the Ristaccia's influence on them. Chapters 6-8 bring the earlier chapters together for a cohesive conclusion.

Why listen to it?

To me, all the music went VERY HARD, having a lot of mixing of classical and electronic elements. The PVs were also super cool, and you really felt like that it should become an anime or a game from how EPIC everything was. I remember reading a lot of explanations of the lyrics and how everything pieced together and dream about the awesome world the composer built. Another one of my favorite music projects as a teenager, Sound Horizon, had the same approach, building stories from music. Ofc that’s not a new thing, operas and other forms of storytelling through music are very old but… these two were the ones that enchanted me the most.

Anyway if ya never heard Zektbach ya should give it a listen bc it BOPS, here’s a yt link for the albuns (I’ll put the MVs under a read more so this post isn’t gigantic):

[fuckthispost-andhappybirthday]

July 23: Happy Birthday Sigma (Zektbach)!!!!

[piraprin]

the truth is only one- as you sow, so shall you reap

[gj340]

[decorusnervosa]

Here's an Epic of Zektbach fanart of Malchut that I drew back a few months ago. I meant to upload the full res awhile ago but I ended up getting busy/distracted. ;_;

[relecno]

Dirge of Swans

[aomarine]

Memento Mori

[hell-raven]

the ristaccia girl

[discord-area]

have a hell 15 birthday, sigma!!!!

[foreveranonymousfa]

Why did I blatantly lie on Facebook like this