Truly a surprise. What a pleasure to listen to this. holy fjcknd

Ahhh thank you for this. We used Tina Guo on cello; she is amazing. Recently did all the Dune cello for Zimmer. I co-wrote this w George Sanger, who did the lyrics w me (I wrote the music/produced). We used a Russian translator to help align the lyrics and did the best we could with the vocals, provided by James Hayden. He’s a brilliant session singer. Guitar and strings are live, the rest is midi. Thank you so much, I’ve always loved this one, I’m happy to see it get a little love.

This is how 44 years of combat experience sounds like... A lot of suffering

Hellagur is a VERY VERY old man, hence an adorable nickname the community had for him, HellaOld. Just like how SilverAsh is SilverDaddy.

Hellagur's story is somewhat tied it with Patriot's as they were once officers of the Arknights version of Russia, Ursus. Both tired of the bs Ursus was doing, they quit, Patriot becoming a rebel while Hellagur inherits a clinic to save the very people his country tries to slaughter off the face of the world. They are both tired of war, but fate shackles them towards warfare as Hellagur's clinic was hit by the Reunion attack, forcing him to join Rhodes Island. While Requim was about the tragedy of Patriot and Frostnova, this song talks about how Hellagur is just tired. He isn't like the unstoppable Wendigo Patriot is, or the new blood Frostnova, he's just the guy that resents the way Ursus is but can't do anything besides inherit a clinic to try and soften the blow the infected are to deal with. The two even shares this idea in a side story where Patriot meets his former ally after the victory over Chernobog. Patriot does not celebrate, in fact, he has a hard time believing they won over the overpowering Ursus, while Hellagur just wants a normal life away from the violence, noting the happiness in the city that Reunion had destroyed.

May Hellagur reunite with his friend, not now, but soon. Proshchaniye, may not be known compared to Requiem, but its message is just as reflective than Requiem. Thank you for featuring this leitmotif for Arknights, as it is severely underrated.

I may be mistaken, but as a person who was born and grown up in Russia, I feel like this particular way of singing is usually used in old USSR songs about WWll. I instantly remembered all these sad pieces I used to hear in school during history lessons or in movies about war. They are all about how war is a terrible thing and how people are tired of it, but they have to accept their fate because everything's already happened and there are no way back. So I can't really listen to this song a lot. Brings tears to my eyes due to reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with the game, you know. Too much unwanted associations. But maybe this was a point. People from other countries can appreciate the language and style this way. Now there are three Russian songs in Arknights (this, Requiem and Lullaby), and I personally feel that they are extremely good at capturing and portaying... I don't know how to say it, "Russian soul"? "Russian feel"? "Russian reality"? Can't say that all Russian music is about neverending suffering in the cruel cold world, but most of classic pieces that live long and stay in people's heart for decades probably are.

The universal rule with arknights music is that when the Russian singing starts you KNOW the song is going to be an immaculate banger

I'm still sad, and also happy, that 'An Anonymous One's War' is the only interaction we read between Hellagur and Patriot. Because the Great Rebellion of Ursus can be interestingly told through the lens of actual living soldiers and expanded upon. Thank you, Marco for listening to this underrated track.

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY! Requested it so long ago when you listened to Patriot & Frostnova, Mephisto & Faust's theme! So happy!!! This has so much more feels because Patriot and Hellagur were once comrades-in-arms in the military, but now believing in their own paths, going their separate ways. This theme evokes Hellagur's personality and history so much. He's just a tired old grandpa. But a capable grandpa.

The cello at the beginning. It wails of sadness and loss. The choir cries lamentation. Chords that pluck love asunder. He leaves them. For the promise that he may find solace. But no matter how far he distances from war, his sword remains by his side, heralding his fate. Hellagur is only but one of many tragic stories in Arknights, but maybe there's hope for him.

You need to see [ Ensheath ] Młynar / An Obscure Wanderer Theme

Proshanye is definitely a very curious piece. It's not as popular as Requiem or Lullaby in the community but it's just as amazing nevertheless. Listen to this song again gave me goosebumps and your breakdown of the song helped me understand why I feel what this song is making me feel. This is a song about grief, sadness and loss and lament and I feel really lucky that the we get songs of such high quality and caliber for our beloved game.

Марко спасибо тебе за это! Очень долно ждал когда ты отреагируешь на это видео! - Будьте звездой в ночном небе!

In my opinion this is an anti-war song, It is worth thinking deeply about, both in terms of lyrics and melody. and I also hope you will analyse Ensheath, It's Młynar theme song.

Oh, i wonder what's this video about-- * *Sees 10 first second of the video* * Understandable. Also Marco's flabbergasted face like when he first heard the vocals never gets old.

lmao i took Russian back then and am able to hold a basic convo in it. My fiance is tired of my singing on any russian arknights song in the shower since i discovered the game last year lol.

Even though I've been listening to these songs for quite a while now, hearing your analysis and insight and seeing your fresh, first encounter reaction with the music I adore so much really just deepens my love for them. Wonderful work as always!

Guess who Hellagur was good friends with? Patriot, the dude from Requiem.

_Proshanye..._ - what a beautiful piece. It has that wartime or after-war feel to it. Lyrics say a lot but what I meant to say is that there are a lot of Russian songs about the war - its losses, the pain it causes, the suffering, the loneliness, the shallowness, the despair and so on. I said it once and I'll say it again, I'm fond of Arknights as a Gacha game to include another Russian song with a strong cultural, and historical implication to it. It makes me feel and happy to hear it. Thank you for reviewing it again.🙏

Did you guys ever get the feeling that foreign culture get your culture better than your culture sometimes? Yeah...

Commented earlier but actually just saw the video now. Others already explained Hellagur's story in the comments, so I will not repeat it. However, I want to thank you again Marco for covering this underrated song, and for helping us deepen our understanding of music. Please keep making such great content 🙏

oh my goodness, the deep cello intro was enough to get my entire attention in 1 sec, and then the vocals kick in. What a beautiful, melancholic piece, I love it!

First And secured in nine seconds... My momentum is finally back, hahahahahaha.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

YES!!, I'VE WAITING FOR YOU TO SEE THIS MATTERPIECE Marco never disappoint fr

LET'S GOOOOOOOO Arknights songs again. 🙏 And a great theme with that! Thanks Marco !

Amazing review, moved to tears. Looking forward to Requium cover, I know it will be just as emotional.

Just watching/reading your emotion as the song goes and then the translation of the song, wow! Thanks for experiencing this together with you!

OH LORD I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!! After seeing your emotional reaction to Lullaby, I kept thinking to myself that Proshanye would be PERFECT to hear you react to and god you did not disappoint. It's always always always been one of my all time favourite operator themes. Within all the glory and hype and even sometimes solemn moments we get from Operator Themes, none have so starkly represented that the future we're fighting for at Rhodes Island is built upon the backs of so much tragedy and pain, that war is not something glorious or something to be coveted. And having Hellagur's theme be this mournful dirge, this gorgeous but unequivocally sad and terrible requiem of parting could not be a more perfect representation of this dark, unglorious truth.

This is such a great video, thank you so much for listening to Hellagur's theme. I enjoyed it a lot.

If you like this, then i recommend Ensheath. It's a theme for Mlynar, another sexy old man. Even tho it isn't in russian but it kinda gives the same vibe

For those who seen his Bloodline of Combat skin and understand the meaning of it his fight is long from over

YES. YES. YES. YEEEES! When I started watching your videos on Arknights, I knew that it was gonna be good when you got to this one. This song just hits hard. Whoever sang this leaves me moved. Listened to this on a cold snowy night down by the lakeside, felt like I was _there_

Neat, you pick the underrated one. Great reaction

I've been waiting for so long for this one

oh my god, this is unexpected one but really welcome one! good to hear your reaction to our former war general, hellagur

Stunning vocals.

I’ve been on a spree of commenting on your Arknights videos over the last few days and honestly I thought I had said something here already. My friend told me to listen to this song like right after it was released and I forgot to, then finally remembered to listen to it 6 months later and god DAMN. It pains me to no end that not everyone is able to appreciate how lovely this piece is. The song does such a goddamn perfect job of conveying this feeling of hopeless reflection in the style of old Russian music, the same way songs about past Russian/Soviet wars and other horrors do, and on top of that was released just in time for Russia to invade Ukraine. There are so many negative connotations for people with any connection to those countries or their histories, and reading some of the comments of such people on this video just hurts my soul. It’s so indescribably gorgeous and laden with emotion…but on the other hand, it’s so laden with emotion. This song really does what it tries to do far too well thanks to current events. Man thinking about this and the resulting feeling of internal conflict is just making me angry now.

Это невероятно! Its incredible!

oh i was waiting for this one

Been waiting for this since Requiem 👍

Finaly some Helladaddy. He is a war veteran with 40+ years combat expierience as one of the highest fighters of ursus and his theme represents his mentally perfect.

Someday in the near future, I wish to hear you sing in one of their characters theme songs 🙏🙏🙏

Hellagur's theme sounds Tired, Calm, Determined yet Desperate, Prideful yet so Ashamed of what he has done in fighting for so, so long. Hellagur was also good friends with Patriot(The wendigo from Requiem) Both served The Ursus Empire, a once glorious country which has now become a very corrupt, unstable and weak country after the failed invasion on higashi, the bloodpeak campaign where they purged their own ranks and the most bloodiest uprising in Terran History known as the Great Rebellion along with the unexpected death of the Ursine Emperor.

I just really wanna see Patriot and Hellagur singing together

Absolutely beautiful. You should give Shining's theme "Winter Absolution" a try too.

I didn't understand a damn thing but still very cool. I also just noticed that your background have nightmode. Very cool.

So glad you enjoyed this one.

i see that you do many arknight song and i wanted to share that one with you "Heal the world" if i'm correct it's writen by the one who compose the ost for Made in Abyss. i hope you enjoy that song. thank you again for all your video :)

glad you like Hellagur's song. as you said, you can feel the regret and lament of a old soldier, who fought a gruelling kill enemies & at times his best friends. while he want to put down his blade forever, but to protect the new blood n budding life, fate has a cruel humor for him. i love seeing official art of him with younger character giving them sweets or protect them the rain. showing even after the horror of war, he still retain the strength to fight and care for the future generation.

This is Hella Gold

A song about a man who has seen, went, experienced, lost, suffered long enough. We don't know if he's at his wit's end or not, and yet he fights for a cause that is just. That's what war does to a man

Even before I knew the translation to the lyrics (though thank you for sharing them, loved them) its always been easy to see how much weight poor grandpa is carrying. That said, if anyone wants to see Hellagur being a little less, well, broken, to any new doctors out there who haven't played through the side stories we get to see him have some fun in Heart of Flame

I wish that you would peek at Wiki to learn more about the characters that theme you listen to, perhaps you should do so when you will do Magic Theorem as the lyrics of the song mean so much when you know story of Dorothy's Vision.

I'm here! I was alerted to the sound of sadness!

the frostnova patriot arc in arknights story was the best and i doubt it'd ever get topped for me personally. All this world war songs are making me tear up, beautiful but sad story.

One of my favorite character. This old general was a comrade-in-arms with Patriot when they're still in Ursus military.

Between two worlds by Mili For Limbus Company It would be a follow up to arknight video since these two game communities bond with each other for their stories

Oh boy i sure hope to see some Path To Nowhere songs covered here !

Theme of a really old general who passed through really lots of bad events and responsible for so many ended lives... Both enemies and allies...

This theme was released on February 22, 2022. And two days later...

I'm sitting here eating waffles I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY ARE SAYING AND I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO SAY IM IN TEARS AAAA

Tired old badass retired general... Still a badass who wouldn't let go of his sword. Even though he's overwhelmed by many new release units, still my favorite character, his s3 attack SFX is just so good.

The lyrics are just something else.

Lovely

Any chance we could get an Ambience Synesthesia reaction? It's the name of Arknights concerts, there were 2 so far and the 3rd was recently announced.

The first few seconds alone.... wow

I recommend arknights’ “winter absolution” for some more Latin-style vocalism!

Finally!

can i ask something did you ever think to collaboration with Arknight to make Classic music like this ? i sure with experience you have about music will make a masterpiece like this. in my opinion 😁

My God, this transliteration... It took me about 5 minutes to realize that this is the word "goodbye"

Something extra to touch on that I haven’t seen anyone address is that Hellagur is an insanely good fighter. He is capable of taking boss level enemies on 1v1

Arknights finally back :D

I’d also love to see him react to Shining’s theme

Will you sing this song too Marco ? (like La Signora and Scara)

Oh here i was starting up Arknights

Nice

By almost a tragic irony, the song was released on Feb 24, 2022, same day Russia matched into Ukraine (I seriously doubt Hypergryph knew Putin was going to pull the trigger on that day...)

음악에 이렇게까지 잠기는 사람은 처음본다. 다같이 슬픔에 잠기는 사람.

The russian oldman theme his so hard

You know it's gonna be a tearjerker when it's in Russian. Immaculate track.

I hope you could review Counter:Side ost too, altho well probably only 2-3 ost that are good

Limbus Company; Mili - Between Two World’s

Can you listen to winter absolution by arknights?

Ursus.... My Homeland....

Hey Hey heey , less gooooo I don't mean to be arrogant and cocky but for a while i kept on nagging on the comment section for Marco to cover it and hehehe you are welcome

How was this first play was a very sad tone and a fragile old man sing along its refleck on the character design and how was he is old and how was he desperated on this his memory that he describe to us and shown to us how he was been made off this whole time

Marco I will beg of you to do Reed The Flame Shadow’s ost from arknights

Psssst, you should listen to some of the music from Gundam: Hathaway's Flash.

Interesting. In some places there is no accent, but in some places it is downright creepy. I wonder who sang? Although, the game is Chinese, so it is quite possible that the Chinese... The feeling when the word "war" (voina/voyna) in the pronunciation of foreigners becomes "voiNYA" :D

Hellagur theme is hellagud

I don't know the meaning of the lyrics, but I can feel this song is about missing someone who passed away ☕

All hail Hella-daddy

Can you reacts to Arknights Roaring Flare BGM? Its very good

Just wanted to know when will you react to Nona Ouroboros from Punishing gray raven,!?😅

omggggg

Considering he has over **40 YEARS** of combat experience...

Try Lumen's theme

you need to react to garous theme from one punch man its one of my fav.!

"Fun" fact: this song release on Feb 22, 2022, Russia's Defender of the Fatherland Day, and the day Russia attack Ukraine. And I do believe this is an anti-war song.