arrangers:
- link: artist/4870
  names:
    en: Ransom Rath
- link: artist/1261
  names:
    en: Beatdrop
catalog: N/A
categories:
- Game
category: Game
classification: Original Soundtrack, Original Work
composers:
- link: artist/1261
  names:
    en: Beatdrop
covers:
- full: https://media.vgm.io/albums/48/10184/10184-1219341623.jpg
  medium: https://media.vgm.io/albums/48/10184/10184-1219341623.jpg
  name: Front
  thumb: https://media.vgm.io/albums/48/10184/10184-1219341623.jpg
discs:
- disc_length: '77:01'
  name: ''
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Lights Out
    track_length: '2:07'
  - names:
      English: Mantra
    track_length: '4:59'
  - names:
      English: Smoke
    track_length: '6:21'
  - names:
      English: Unrest (feat. Chris Serani)
    track_length: '4:29'
  - names:
      English: Freefall
    track_length: '7:06'
  - names:
      English: Energy Burst
    track_length: '5:52'
  - names:
      English: Afterburner
    track_length: '4:35'
  - names:
      English: Sensation of Space
    track_length: '7:30'
  - names:
      English: Trip The Breaker
    track_length: '4:59'
  - names:
      English: Epiphany
    track_length: '4:40'
  - names:
      English: Phase 1
    track_length: '6:11'
  - names:
      English: Tinderbox
    track_length: '4:34'
  - names:
      English: Here Stand We Who Defy Gravity
    track_length: '4:21'
  - names:
      English: Azure
    track_length: '4:28'
  - names:
      English: Until Forever
    track_length: '4:49'
- disc_length: '63:34'
  name: Disc 2
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Guilty
    track_length: '3:20'
  - names:
      English: Heterodyne Principle
    track_length: '4:52'
  - names:
      English: Together / Set To Flame / Hyperion
    track_length: '6:47'
  - names:
      English: I Dream of Killing
    track_length: '3:18'
  - names:
      English: crush&EXPAND
    track_length: '3:56'
  - names:
      English: Mantra (Stompin Edit)
    track_length: '5:11'
  - names:
      English: Yume no Kage
    track_length: '5:57'
  - names:
      English: Trip The Breaker (Broken Mix)
    track_length: '4:12'
  - names:
      English: Eternalizer
    track_length: '3:39'
  - names:
      English: Trigger Finger
    track_length: '4:46'
  - names:
      English: Style Free
    track_length: '5:55'
  - names:
      English: Trip The Breaker
    track_length: '4:12'
  - names:
      English: When Last Alone
    track_length: '4:34'
  - names:
      English: Decimation By Decibels
    track_length: '2:55'
link: album/10184
lyricists:
- link: artist/1261
  names:
    en: Beatdrop
media_format: 2 Digital
meta:
  added_date: 2008-08-21T09:56
  edited_date: 2023-03-08T08:21
  fetched_date: 2026-06-06T02:06
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 3773
name: In The Dark
names:
  en: In The Dark
  ja: In The Dark
  ja-latn: In The Dark
notes: 'Track 1-04 ("Unrest") vocals performed by Chris Serani

  Track 1-15 ("Until Forever") licensed by Konami for Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA
  2 (and later, Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2)

  Track 2-12 ("Trip The Breaker") remixed by Ransom Rath

  Inspirational and motivational thanks to:

  Ferry Corsten, Infected Mushroom, KMFDM, Armin van Buuren, Nine Inch Nails, Fleetwood
  Mac, Billy Idol, Disturbed, Daft Punk, VNV Nation, BT, Hybrid, Wave Theory, Concord
  Dawn, High Contrast, L.E.D., Adam Freeland, Shinichi Osawa, TaQ, Above & Beyond,
  Goldfrapp, General MIDI, Ils, Mauro Picotto, Röyksopp, Overseer, Plump DJs, Probspot,
  Snake River Conspiracy, Takkyu Ishino, Kidney Thieves, tefnek, Venus Hum, Flesh
  Field, Way Out West, Blondie, Benassi Bros., The Avalanches, Ernest Saint Laurent,
  Yuzo Koshiro, Apoptygma Berzerk, Celldweller, Digital Talk, Juno Reactor, Alex Gold,
  Faithless, Ace of Base, Hardfloor, Junkie XL, m-flo, Lemon Jelly, Mindless Self
  Indulgence, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Richard Vission, Square/Enix and the team
  behind Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children, Takashi Miike, Park-Chan Wook, Image-Line
  Software (http://www.flstudio.com), Roland Corporation (http://www.roland.com) ,
  Tweakbench (http://www.tweakbench.com), id Software, Valve, Konami, Monolith Productions,
  green tea, Camel Light cigarettes, Suicide Girls, sushi, Morse code, Taco Bell,
  Coca-Cola, Mark Z. Danielewski for his fantastic book ''House of Leaves,'' the United
  States Navy (hooyah!), the English language, Japan, the United States of America,
  humanity, and the universe.

  On a much more personal note, enormous thanks to:

  my parents for always being there to bail me out of whatever bullshit I buried myself
  in and for always supporting my music - I really cannot thank you enough; my brother,
  David, for caring as much as he does about everything, for being my best friend,
  and for his musical openmindedness; Christina for being one of the most important
  things to ever happen in my life, this album would never have been complete without
  you - take care; Chad for becoming the first lifelong friend I''ve ever had and
  being the cool bastard that you are, you''re the epitome of greatness; John for
  being a complete psycho and helping fuel my own insanity; Kevin for the same reason
  as John; Lexx, you were one of the first real-life inspirations I''ve had, and a
  major proponent in me continuing to attempt to improve my music, and you''re also
  the most incredible artist I''ve had the privilige of knowing; Flik for his support,
  encouragement, musical abilities, and friendship - here''s to many years of friendship
  to come; Mr. Getman for being one of the fucking coolest human beings I''ve ever
  met and for allowing me to idolize him - I promise it won''t turn sexual; Royal
  - you''ve served as a tremendous help to me, both musicially and personally.  You''re
  like a wise, old sage (when you''re not projectile vomiting), and I''m so glad I
  met you; Sammy D. for helping me maintain my sanity (what''s left of it) at Corry,
  and for turning me on to so many good industrial acts; David Lloyd for being one
  of the largest reasons I have as many fans as I do; Tyler "RedShadow" Schulkers
  for being my absolute hugest fan (seriously, his knowledge of my music probably
  surpasses even my own) and for always pimping it to the internet; Jeremy "Jem" Lim
  for always letting me remix your melodies and for being one of the few people who''s
  always asked the right questions in regards to production - your friendship has
  helped me to keep doing what I''ve been doing; Richter also for his continuing support
  and for allowing me to mooch his server space for my own personal uses - couldn''t
  have made it this far without you; Alex "A_Rival" Esquivel for always being a major
  reason that I always stuck with it and strived for excellence - you blow my fucking
  mind.  Thank you to all of my friends and fans - none of this would have been possible
  without you.

  It''s strange how you''re never really able to understand the choices you have to
  make and the decisions you have to come to until you''re thrust into the situations
  that create them.

  I''ve always thought that creating an album never simply happens.  It has to be
  a conscious decision.  Throwing together a bunch of tracks that total up to an hour
  and calling it an album is haphazard at best.  It may in fact be an album, but it
  won''t have the cohesive feeling -- the feeling of perfection -- that something
  that was planned through and through would have.  Something I''ve noticed about
  myself is that I write best when I focus on a theme.  Thematic.  Of, relating to,
  or being a theme.  Might just be one of my favorite words.  When I started working
  on this album, I was in a very dark place.  Depression, loneliness, and dissatisfaction
  with my life were common place in every passing hour of every passing day.  Some
  say that music is an outlet for the soul and mind.  It''s a language that everyone
  can understand.  It transcends all societal boundaries and touches you somewhere
  in a way that can''t be put into words.  You feel it.  No, that''s not right.  You
  SENSE it.  It reaches into your biology and takes ahold of each of the five senses
  you were given.  I suppose it even goes beyond that, since it''s difficult to say
  that animals comprehend music like we do.  It''s expression in its keenest and purest
  form.  As I began to write song after song, starting with "Guilty," a song that
  has since been cut from the final tracklist, my depression, loneliness, and dissatisfaction
  went away and my understanding of what I was truly feeling and expressing became
  more whole: darkness.

  Darkness is an interesting thing, really.  It''s nothing more than the absence of
  light.  It''s commonly represented in paintings and in our own minds by the color
  black, which in and of itself is comprised of pigments which will not reflect light.  Half
  of the globe is shrouded in it at any given time.  It blinds us.  Confuses us.  Even
  frightens us.  We use it to describe evil.  However, from what I''ve seen, it''s
  not the darkness that we need to be afraid of.  What we should really fear is that
  which comes out in the darkness.  And usually, there''s nothing to stop that same
  faceless terror from showing itself in the light.  It can also be said that darkness
  helps to make a blinding spotlight out of even the dimmest glimmer of light.  That''s
  where this album truly finds itself and myself.  As an aside, a number of these
  songs are emerging from the darkness of my archive where they were nearly doomed
  to spend eternity in an unfinished state.  This project gave me a reason to revitalize
  them and finish them with my new goal in mind.  While some may view the title "In
  The Darkness" as being negative or depictive of some truly disturbed side of me,
  it isn''t.  In the 11 months that I spent working on this album, I learned a lot
  about myself, human nature, perception, light, and darkness.

  So as the first track begins, dim your lights--if you can--and immerse yourself
  in the dark...

  -Lights Out-

  The lights are fading.  Definition, telling you what you''re seeing, is blurring.  And
  as the final embers burn out, one of your five senses is stolen away.  They say
  that when you lose one, such as sight, your other senses become naturally sharpened
  to make up for it.  Most of my best work has been done in absolute dark, with only
  the steady glow of my computer monitor to tell me where my open energy drink is
  sitting and losing its carbonation.  Started out as an intro for an old album that
  never made it anywhere for lack of concept, so I picked it up and revitalized it
  to serve as an intro for this album.  It fit so well, after all.

  -Mantra-

  There''s a section in Mark Z. Danielewski''s House of Leaves that talks about one
  of the characters reciting a mantra about fear as the darkness slowly dissolves
  his sanity, and it made me start to think about the idea of having a mantra.  I
  started doing a bit of research on the internet, but it didn''t really help my concept
  out at all.  It did, however, lead me to wonder what my mantra would be like.  Video
  games, electronic music, Japan, and all sorts of other geeky shit.  Put it all together
  and what do you get?

  -Smoke-

  Another one that was started quite some time ago and only finished just for this
  album.  The original version was dull, to put it lightly, but it still had what
  seems to matter most with my creativity: concept.  I had already started up this
  dual bassline thing, sequencing it to morph and twist around bit by bit like a whisp
  of smoke, so what I did to it for this album was overhaul the production value and
  compose another four minutes of material on top of what I already had.  The reason
  smoke is so significant to this album is because it has the curious ability to be
  invisible even in the light.  I think sometimes we all just wish we could disappear
  without the aid of shadows...

  -Unrest-

  There really is nothing quite like falling in love with someone who''s hopelessly
  infatuated with someone else who''s only going to treat them like shit.  Seems to
  happen to me all the time.  I''d been listening to Röyksopp''s second album (which
  I adore fanatically) a lot around this time, and I felt inspired to take my emotions
  and do something similar.  Wrote the lyrics up, but never got around to recording
  vocals because I didn''t trust my cheap computer microphone to give me quality results.  Passed
  the lyrics off to my good friend Chris and he hooked me up.  Hours of programming
  and processing the vocals alone passed, and here''s how it ended up.  Wrote the
  primary melody around the same time as I started on "Smoke," so this is another
  one that''s been in the works since beyond the original scope of this album.

  -Freefall-

  There''s a line in the film adaptation of ''Lemony Snicket''s A Series of Unfortunate
  Events'' that mentions the feeling you get when you''re climbing your staircase
  in the dark and you think there''s one more step left than there really is, and
  for a moment your foot falls through the air and your stomach twists as your mind
  rushes to grasp what''s going on.  That moment provides you with an inkling of a
  feeling of what it might be like to plummet from the heavens.  Consider this to
  be the aural version of that very same feeling.

  -Energy Burst-

  Late on a Saturday night in Florida, I finally overcame my hesitation to watch ''Final
  Fantasy VII: Advent Children.''  Some time later, I emerged from my room to find
  a barracks courtyard completely deserted at an hour that nary a soul would be awake.  But
  while they slumbered, I was completely fuckin'' pumped.  I smoked a cigarette in
  the cool night air to calm myself a bit, and then returned to my room to make this
  song.  At a time when I should have been extremely tired, I wasn''t.  By the time
  I finished, the sun was high overhead.  A lot can be said about something that gives
  me enough inspiration and motivation to sit down and write an entire song from start
  to finish without stopping.  It''s hard not to act when every sound and transition
  of a track is pounding in your skull.

  -Afterburner-

  Just about any Navy pilot would probably tell you that the scariest thing about
  flying a jet is taking off and landing in the dark.  To launch a 40,000 pound aircraft,
  an aircraft carrier''s catapult fires off at over 250 feet per second, subjecting
  the pilot to G-forces that make his internal organs feel like they weigh three times
  as much as they normally do.  The flightdeck of an aircraft carrier is pitch black
  at night.  I''ve been told that you can''t even see your hand in front of your face.  What
  a sight it would be to watch the the ultrabright flames of a jet''s afterburners
  exploding across a football field''s distance in just over a second in such conditions.

  -Sensation of Space-

  Chapter 10 in ''House of Leaves'' briefly touches on what''s referred to as a sensation
  of space.  That is, the mind''s ability to perceive space and surroundings.  When
  you''re little, things seem so much larger.  The same can be said about darkness.  Walk
  into a familiar room in the dark and try to find your way around.  You may have
  a vague idea of where everything is and where your hands should be reaching out
  to avoid bumping into things, but the confusion is still there.  Perform the same
  act in a room which you''ve never entered.  The feeling can be... quite claustrophobic...

  -Trip The Breaker-

  A circuit breaker is a switchbox which prevents enormous surges of power from shorting
  electrical wiring and devices.  This can commonly be seen in action during a thunderstorm.  A
  lightning strike channels through to the circuit breaker, which blows a switch open
  on a circuit to prevent damage to anything just beyond that switch.  The noticeable
  effect: your lights go out.  In my experience, at least some portion of the human
  brain functions in the same capacity.

  -Epiphany-

  A moment of enlightenment.  It''s utterly refreshing to have all the information
  come together and click mentally.  As previously mentioned, darkness is synonymous
  with confusion, and no one wants to be... "left in the dark."

  -Phase 1-

  Purely a concept track.  It''s hard to forget.  You train a crew of astronauts to
  embark on a mission of space exploration, performing tasks to take us all one step
  closer to the next ultimate goal.  Enough is never enough.  Countdown.  5.  4.  3.  2.  1.  Something
  is wrong.  Readings from the instruments aren''t as they should be.  But it''s too
  late.  A small leak in an auxillary thruster forces the entire tank to ignite at
  a speed that mankind only dreams of traveling.  Burst of light.  Utter darkness.  Silence.  Horror.  The
  lives of seven exceptional human beings are ended.  And on live television, millions
  watch as the next step forward comes crashing down...

  -Tinderbox-

  It''s hard to light a fire without some fuel and a little spark.  The same is true
  about love.

  -Here Stand We Who Defy Gravity-

  There''s something about power and energy that makes you feel like you can take
  on the world.  When everything''s going right, it''s hard to think about how it
  could all go wrong.  And that''s usually when it does.  It''s a ceaseless flip-flop.  You
  think things can''t get any better, and instead they get much worse.  And then just
  when you''re about to give up, it all turns around and starts to get better.  But
  no matter how things are going, we''re still alive because we''re still feeling.  It''s
  when we choose to ignore the gravity of our situation that we''re truly dead inside.

  -Azure-

  Blue.  Next to white, this color is most representative to me of purity.  Blue skies.  Blue
  waters.  Dilute with a bit of black, and you''re left with only black.  Impurity.  Darkness.  Time
  to clean the palette and start over...

  -Until Forever-

  Balance is definitive of perfection.  In utter brightness, perception is washed
  away just as easily as it is in utter darkness.  With the sun in your face, you''re
  just as blind as you are with your eyes closed.  A continual cycle of day and night
  allows us to plan our lives.  Greater goods and necessary evils.  Harmony and synchronicity.

  Lyrics:

  "Tinderbox":

  You''re my

  You''re my

  You''re my

  You''re my

  You''re my

  You''re my tinderbox

  [Repeat]

  Archaic mystic

  Toxic technic

  Styptic ethic

  Lovesick tactic

  Photic gothic

  Scenic psychic

  Karmic music

  Epic traffic

  Disastrous fullness

  Mindless focus

  Faithless goddess

  Mirthless venus

  Leaseless nexus

  Nameless virus

  Voiceless temptress

  Needless menace

  Crimson vixen

  Pagan vision

  Sodden omen

  Hidden marksman

  Shotgun session

  Chosen fission

  Barren nation

  Solution stricken

  [Chorus]

  You''re my tinderbox

  My triggered tripwire

  Just one spark

  And you ignite my fire

  You''re my

  You''re my

  You''re my

  You''re my

  You''re my

  You''re my tinderbox

  [Repeat]

  Hateful gospel

  Forceful sparkle

  Fragile puzzle

  Thermal satchel

  Vigil kestrel

  Total neutral

  Glacial needle

  Tonal angel

  Vulcan cannon

  Frozen demon

  Poison reason

  Asian ruin

  Risen dragon

  Heightened motion

  Broken haven

  Urban siren

  Fairer creature

  Fire eater

  Fervor mortar

  Minor fluster

  Harder, sleeker,

  Meaner, faster,

  Smarter, cleaner,

  Finer, stronger

  [Chorus]

  "Trip The Breaker":

  Behind my eyes I''m clawing at the tissue

  I keep my sight switched off so I can miss you

  How do I feel now that I have these issues?

  My mind still works and one thought: that I miss you

  But now that it works I don''t even think I know you

  Clarity engulfs like light, drowned in full view

  Close my eyes once again, back to one hue

  Black as the darkest night, reminds me of you

  [repeat]

  Open up my eyes to the light

  And it takes her

  Synapses burst under pain

  And under pressure

  Take my last bit of will and lay to sunder

  Allow my apathy to boil and render

  From herself I no longer will defend her

  Cleansed of emotion I''m now thinking clearer

  Burn through my flesh with the heat of a Solar

  Radiate with light intense enough to trip the breaker

  "Unrest":

  Not tired

  Or wired

  From the words

  That I heard

  Something stirred

  And now I hurt

  Waiting for

  Disclosure

  Can you see

  What I mean

  That I mean

  To be here

  You''ve suffered

  I suffer

  But now can''t

  Shed a tear

  I wait in

  This unrest

  True wording

  From my chest

  Put me to

  The one test

  To prove it''s

  For the best

  Here you''ve been

  Unnoticed

  For what feels

  The longest

  Idle by

  My lenses

  While you''re brought

  In focus

  [Repeat, faster]'
organizations:
- &id001
  names:
    en: Beatdrop Music Productions
  role: publisher
performers:
- link: artist/699
  names:
    en: Chris Serani
- link: artist/1261
  names:
    en: Beatdrop
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platforms:
- Sony PlayStation 2
products:
- link: release/3157
  names:
    en: Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA2
    ja: Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA2
    ja-latn: Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA2
publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id001
related:
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2007-11-27'
  link: album/13381
  names:
    en: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2
    ja: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2
    ja-latn: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2
  type: game
- catalog: V-RARE SOUNDTRACK-14 USA
  date: '2008'
  link: album/9585
  names:
    en: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 Limited Edition...
    ja: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 Limited Edition...
    ja-latn: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 Limited Edition...
  type: bonus
release_date: '2007-04-01'
release_events: []
release_price:
  price: Free
reprints: []
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/album/10184?perpage=99999
votes: 0
