Akira Yamaoka, best known as soundtrack composer for the Silent Hill series, is joining Suda51's Grasshopper Manufacture, with plans to create the soundtrack for the project Suda and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami are making for EA.
There aren't very many video game projects that can be considered the equivalent of an album from a supergroup, but the upcoming collaboration between Akira Yamaoka, Goichi Suda, and Shinji Mikami is very close to that level of talent. When you've got the Silent Hill composer working alongside the creators of No More Heroes and Resident Evil, it seems like a recipe for success. The recipe added its latest ingredient--Mr. Yamaoka--when it was announced that he would join the ranks of Grasshopper Manufacture, according to Famitsu (via 1UP). While Yamaoka will solely focus on creating music for his upcoming Grasshopper projects, he stated that he'd like to utilize his "total sum of experience" in the future.
Yamaoka has been a driving force in the success of the Silent Hill series, creating the atmospheric music permeating the titles since the first game and serving as the producer for Silent Hill 3 and 4. He left Konami in 2009 after over 15 years with the company. According to the Famitsu article, Suda has hoped to work with Yamaoka ever since the first time he observed Silent Hill 2.
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