The Living Tombstone

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The Living Tombstone
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Logo used from 2014 to present
Background information
Origin Tel Aviv, Israel [1]
Genres
Years active2011 (2011)–present
Labels
Members
  • Yoav Landau
  • Sam Haft
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2011–present
GenreMusic
Subscribers8.21 million [2]
Total views3.50 billion [2]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2013
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2015

Last updated: December 9, 2024

The Living Tombstone (TLT) is an electronic rock band and YouTube channel formed in 2011 by Israeli music producer Yoav Landau and later joined by American singer Sam Haft as a musical duo. The group is notable for their songs and music videos based on video games and pop culture media, such as the Five Nights at Freddy's series, Overwatch , and My Little Pony , as well as original music. They have released one studio album, Zero One (2020), with a second studio album expected to be released in early 2025 titled Rust.

Contents

Several of their songs have garnered online popularity, and they have been credited with spawning various internet memes. In addition to their music videos, they have created music for the video games In Sound Mind , Beat Saber , and have created the video game AudioClash: Battle of the Bands. Music publication NME has referred to them as "the internet's biggest gaming band". [note 1]

Career

Background

The Living Tombstone was founded by Landau in 2011 as both a YouTube channel and a musical project. [3] [4] Landau, a native of Israel, [4] was involved in the online fan community of the media franchise My Little Pony , where he created a remix of one of the songs featured on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic . [3] [4] After the remix garnered several thousand views, Landau created more songs of the franchise before eventually shifting his focus to various video game communities, creating songs based on video games. [3] [5]

Five years after forming The Living Tombstone, Landau moved to the United States where he met vocalist Sam Haft. [3] [4] Haft had previously been involved with other musical projects in the past, such as the comedic music group Sam & Bill. [4] Landau and Haft sent each other their songs before eventually collaborating on music, with Haft becoming an official member of The Living Tombstone. [4] The pair wrote songs such as a remix of Super Mario Odyssey 's "Jump Up Superstar" in which Haft contributed backing vocals, and the original track "My Ordinary Life" which was cited by LA Weekly as their most popular song. [4] Both Landau and Haft worked on the worldbuilding for The Living Tombstone, including the characters, story, and lore surrounding the group's music and videos. [3] [4] The attention their music received online caused Warner Music to notice the band, and the record label signed The Living Tombstone. [3]

Content and musical style

Logo used from 2014 to 2020 The Living Tombstone's logo.png
Logo used from 2014 to 2020

The Living Tombstone's content consists of both original music and homages to various video games and pop culture media, several of which became popular online. [3] One of the group's first video game-related videos was a trilogy of songs for the first three games in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. [3] [6] The trilogy went viral on YouTube with each song accumulating hundreds of millions of views; [6] the first video in the series reached over 68 million views by 2016. [7] Houston Press listed the trilogy as one of the best songs based on the horror game. [6] The trilogy's success led the band to develop a cult following amongst the game's fandom. Rolling Stone credited the band with launching a subgenre of Five Nights at Freddy's themed music inspired by hyper-pop. [8] The first song was later used for the 2023 film adaptation in the credits. [9] Shortly before the film's release, the band released a gothic remix of the first song. [10] After the film's release, the song reached the top 5 of Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart, peaking at #4, previously only charting on the Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart. [11]

In 2018, The Living Tombstone's song based on the hero shooter game Overwatch , No Mercy, went viral on social media. [12] [13] [14] Originally released as an animated video from YouTube channel Mashed in January 2017, [13] the song describes two players on the same team arguing about their choice of characters and its contributions to the team's repeated losses, mainly due to the lack of a support character in the team. [note 2] The song features the refrain "I'm Already Tracer," which became the subject of numerous videos made on social media platform TikTok in which users recorded themselves lip-synching to the song. [12] [13] [14] The meme attracted negative attention as it was the subject of various compilations on social media. Outlets such as Kotaku , Polygon and The Daily Dot noted that such compilations soon became rooted in misogyny, with comments disparaging those who created such videos miming to the song alongside mocking women who play video games in general. [12] [13] [14]

Other songs of theirs that have become viral include their remix of various My Little Pony songs [16] [17] and a remix of "Spooky Scary Skeletons". [18] [19] In 2012, The Living Tombstone remixed the song "Discord" from the Eurobeat producer Odyssey/Eurobeat Brony, which accumulated over 40 million views on YouTube and was used in over 500,000 videos on TikTok in 2021. [16] In 2013, Landau made a remix of Andrew Gold's 1996 song "Spooky, Scary Skeletons," which garnered over 90 million views on YouTube. [18] The remix was also listed by The Daily Dot as one of the most popular songs of 2019 on TikTok, [19] and as one of the best Halloween songs by USA Today . [20]

The group's music has been labeled as electronic rock, alternative rock and pop rock, with influences from EDM and Middle Eastern folk music. [3] [4] [12] Landau has also stated that genres such as complextro, dubstep and drum 'n bass has inspired the band's musical style. [17] The band has been regarded as an audiovisual project. [4] Their music and aesthetics have been compared to Gorillaz and Daft Punk, along with Lindsey Stirling's videos. [3] [4]

The group has one studio album, Zero One, released on September 4, 2020. In anticipation for the album, a CG-based music video for their song "Chosen" was released, created by the studio The-Artery during the COVID-19 pandemic. [21] [22] Their second studio album, Rust, initially being announced for a 2024 release, is expected to release in early 2025. [23] [24]

Game development

The Living Tombstone has also contributed music for video games. In 2021, the band created the soundtrack for the indie horror game In Sound Mind from Israeli game studio We Create Stuff. [25] [26] [27] Their contributions to the soundtrack were praised alongside the game, with several outlets noting that the poignant and reserved compositions added to the dark atmosphere of the game. [26] [27] [28] The same year, The Living Tombstone collaborated with game studio Big Boat Interactive to create the music-based strategy game AudioClash: Battle of the Bands. [29] [30] [31] Described as an amalgam of various rhythm games, the role-playing games Pokémon and Dota and the Scott Pilgrim comics, the gameplay consists of assembling a group of musician characters to compete against rival bands. [3] [31] The game was released on Steam in early access in late 2021. [31] [32] The group also contributed a DLC track to the 2019 rhythm game Beat Saber , [33] as well as some music for the 2010 Half-Life 2 Mod Nightmare House 2 and the soundtrack for its upcoming remake Nightmare House: Reimagined releasing in 2025. [34] [35]

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

Remix albums

  • Tombstone Remixes (2013) [36]
  • Zero One: Reloaded (2021) [36]

Compilation albums

Soundtracks

As guest composer

Singles

As lead artist

List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name
TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US
Dance/Elec.

[11]
UK
Ind.
Breakers

[45]
"Cracks"2011Non-album singles
"Rainbow NukeStep"
"September"
(featuring Mic the Microphone and PinkieSkye)
"Sister Hate"
(featuring Mic the Microphone)
"Good Ol' Days"
(featuring Mic the Microphone and JackleApp)
"Like a Spinning Record"
"Party Cannon"
"Louise the Lab Rat"2012
"Octavia's Overture"
"לעוף (Fly)"
"Magic"
(featuring Lauren G.)
"Stuck in Time"
(with Bronyfied)
"Dubstep Dishwasher"
"Doodle"
(with Temporal Walker)
"Good Girl"
(with Dasha)
"Mic the Microphone's 21st Birthday Song!!!"
(featuring LilDeuceDeuce)
"Hush"
(with Archie)
"Ignition"
(with Silva Hound)
"Spyro Does a Thing (Remix)"2013
"Run, Shoot, Kill... and Cry"
"Tachles (תכלס)"
"Bec (Happy Birthday Bexy)"
"Jumping Devil"
"Cats"
"Manehattan"
(with Asi Meskin)
2014
"Collecting Cookies"
(with Mic the Microphone)
"Quartermaster"
(featuring Automatic Jack and Nexgen)
"The Road to El Dorado Remix!"
"Five Nights at Freddy's"48
"It's Been So Long"
"Markiplier Rock Opera"
(with Project RnL)
2015
"Die in a Fire"
(featuring EileMonty and Orko)
18
"Dog of Wisdom (Blue Version)"
(featuring Joe Gran)
"Dog of Wisdom (Red Version)"
(featuring Joe Gran)
"Squid Melody (Blue Version)"
"Squid Melody (Red Version)"
"Dead Kitten Song"
"I Got No Time"2016
"Two Handed Great Sword (Remix)"
"I Can't Fix You"
(with Crusher-P)
"Cut the Cord"
(featuring EileMonty)
2017
"1000 Doors (Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion Song)"
(featuring BSlick and Crusher-P)
"Yumbo Bear (דובון יומבו)"
"My Ordinary Life"14
"GBA SP Blue Edition Song"
"Circle of Death (PUBG Song)"
(with Roomie and Dan Bull)
2018
"Basics in Behavior (Blue Version)"
(featuring OR3O)
"Basics in Behavior (Red Version)"
(featuring OR3O)
"Pikachu's Lament (Blue Version)"
(featuring Sam & Bill)
"Pikachu's Lament (Red Version)"
(featuring Sam & Bill)
"Right Now (Blue Version)"
(featuring Damsel is Depressed, Emi Jones and Sam Haft)
"Memory"
(featuring Sam Haft, Emi Jones and Vylet Pony)
2019
"Goose Goose Revolution"2020
"Drunk"Zero One
"A Doll's House"
(featuring Hayley Nelson)
In Sound Mind (The Original Soundtrack)
"Alastor's Game"Non-album single
"Sunburn"Zero One
"Love I Need"Non-album single
"Chosen"Zero One
"Hunters"
(featuring Dan Bull, Izzy Deluxe and Schäffer the Darklord)
2021Non-album singles
"Getting Bigger"
(featuring Daniel J. Edwards and Cassie Ewulu)
"Report, Report, Report!"
(featuring Kellen Goff)
"Here Comes a Savior (In Sound Mind Theme)"
(featuring Mick "Ricepirate" Lauer)
In Sound Mind (The Original Soundtrack)
"Temporary Love"
(with CG5)
2022Non-album singles
"Hit the Snooze"
"This Comes from Inside"
"Trapped"
"4get"
(with CG5)
2023
"Five Nights at Freddy's (10th Anniversary)"
(with Charlie Rosen & the 8-Bit Big Band)
2024
List of singles, showing year released and album name
TitleYearAlbum
"Heavy's Pizza Song"
(RubberFruit featuring 2007excalibur2007)
2012Non-album singles
"Goomba Got Back"
(featuring Gaijin Goombah)
2014
"Stuck Inside"
(featuring Baasik & Kevin Foster) [48]
2023

Remixes

List of remixes, showing original artists, year released and album name
TitleOriginal artistsYearAlbum
"Melting Pot of Alcohol (The Living Tombstone's Remix)"Alex S.
(featuring Ghost)
2011Non-album singles
"Plastic Smile (Remix)"Perfume
"Party With Pinkie (Remix)"Alex S.
"melody pet remix (Remix)"DQN ILLMINATIONZ & 錯覚
"Willy Bum Bum (Remix)"ALIEN REd WOLf
"Winter Wrap Up (Remix)" Daniel Ingram
"Beyond her Garden (Remix)"WoodenToaster
"Summer (Remix)"JackleApp
"Pinkie Piggy (Remix)" Daniel Ingram 2012
"Discord (Remix)"Eurobeat Brony
"Chop Suey (Remix)" System of a Down
"Flim and Flam (Remix)" Daniel Ingram
"One Trick Pony (Remix)"JackleApp & Mic The Microphone
"Smile Song (Remix)" Daniel Ingram
"What You Do (Remix)"The Queenstons
"Atomizer (Remix)"
(featuring Ibeabronyrapper)
Furries in a Blender
"After Midnight (Remix)"Rocket Ship Resort & ShadyVox
"Song of Storms (Remix)" Koji Kondo
"Pony Rock Anthem (Remix)"ShadyVox
"Colgate Brushie Song (Remix)"Rina-chan
"Badger Badger Badger (Remix)" MrWeebl
"Saturday Night (Remix)"Michelle Creber
"Babs Seed (Remix)" Daniel Ingram
"Hooves Up High (Remix)"
(featuring EileMonty)
Silva Hound
"Gypsy Bard [remix]"Griffin Lewis2013
"Nightmare Night (Remix)"WoodenToaster & Mic the MicrophoneTombstone Remixes
"Neverending Strife (Remix)"H8 Seed
"Pinkie's Brew (Remix)"Sherclop Pones
"Friendship (Remix)"Aviators
"Luna (Remix)"Eurobeat Brony
"More Than a Chicken (Remix)"General Mumble
"Rainbow Factory (Remix)"WoodenToaster
"Save The Badger (Remix)" MrWeebl Non-album singles
"Computer Guy (Remix)" Savlonic
"Shade Man's Stage Theme (Remix)"Toshihiko Horiyama, Yüko Takehara & Makoto Tomozawa
"Taking Flight (Remix)"d.notiveThe Fantasy [49]
"Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix)" Andrew Gold Non-album singles
"Absolute Territory (Remix)"Ken Ashcorp
"Jenny (Remix)" Studio Killers
"Hampire (Remix)" LilDeuceDeuce 2014
"Final Transmission (Remix)"Temporal Walker & [voodoopony]
"Stop The Bats (Remix)" Daniel Ingram
"Make a Wish (Remix)"
(with μThunder)
"Stay (Remix)"Knife Pony
(featuring Feather)
"Rats (The Living Tombstone's Remix)"mrSimonSpirit [50]
"Sorry Jack (The Living Tombstone Remix)"Scratch21Non-album singles
"Atop The Fourth Wall Remix (AT4W)"Vincent E.L.2015
"Ghostbusters Theme Song Remix" Ray Parker Jr. 2016
"Bonetrousle Remix" Toby Fox
"Grim Grinning Ghosts (The Living Tombstone Remix)"
(featuring Crusher P & Corpse Husband)
Buddy Baker & X Atencio
"It's Raining Men Remix"
featuring Eilemonty
The Weather Girls
"We Are Number One Remix but by The Living Tombstone"Máni Svavarsson & Stefán Karl Stefánsson
"Carol of the Bells (The Living Tombstone Remix)" Peter Wilhousky
"Epoch (The Living Tombstone's Remix)" Savlonic 2017Neon Remixes [51]
"Don't Tattle On Me Remix" Caleb Hyles & FandroidNon-album singles
"Bendy and the Ink Machine Remix"
(featuring DAGames)
Kyle Allen
"Beep Beep Im a Sheep Remix"
(featuring TomSka & Black Gryph0n)
LilDeuceDeuce
"ECHO (The Living Tombstone Remix)"Crusher-P
"Jump Up, Super Star! Remix"Naoto Kubo & Noboyoshi Suzuki
"Goodbye Moonmen (The Living Tombstone Remix)"Ryan Elder, David Phillips & Dan Harmon
"Clip Joint Calamity (The Living Tombstone Remix)"Kristofer Maddigan
"Floral Fury (The Living Tombstone Remix)"
"Last Christmas (The Living Tombstone Remix)" Wham!
"Inkwell Isle One (The Living Tombstone Remix)"Kristofer Maddigan2018
"Globglogabgalab Remix (Blue Version)"David Hutter
"Globglogabgalab Remix (Red Version)"
"I Don't Know What Sex Is Remix (Blue Version)"Sam and Bill
"Long Time Friends (Spooky Mix)"The Living Tombstone2020
"Anthropology (The Living Tombstone Remix)"Awkward Marina2022
"No Mercy [Overwatch 2 Remix]"
(featuring Black Gryph0n, Jayn & Dan Bull)
The Living Tombstone
"Cats (2023 Remix)"2023
"Witches, Witches, Witches (The Living Tombstone Remix)" Andrew Gold
"Join Us for a Bite Remix"JT Music
"Five Nights At Freddy's (Goth Remix)"
(featuring Black Gryph0n & Baasik)
The Living Tombstone
"Afterburn (The Living Tombstone Remix)"Sam HaftBadder Times (Deluxe)
"Poison (Hazbin Hotel Original Soundtrack) - Official Remix"Blake Roman, Sam Haft, Andrew Underberg2024Non-album singles
"Slave To The Factory Line Remix"DAGamesPress Start to Rewind
"Croc Main Theme (Living Tombstone Remasterful Remix)Justin Scharvona, Karin Griffin, Martin Gwynn JonesNon-album singles

Songwriting and production credits

TitleArtistYearAlbumCredits
"Rooftop"Sam Haft2022Bad Times EPSongwriter, Producer
"Grow Up"Sam Haft, CG52023
"Kitty"Band of SilverArchdukeSongwriter
"Archduke"
"2D"2024Non-album singles
"If This Is A Game"

Notes

  1. "When someone mentions 'passionate' online communities in 2021, you may find yourself recoiling in horror. Yet, as the calming smiles of Yoav Landau and Sam Haft populate my Zoom window, I'm reminded of the early 2000s – and friendlier fandoms. Listening to the excitable duo reminisce about their formative years, it's hard not to think that these very online pals could be any message-board-lurking '90s kids. Except they're not – they're the internet's biggest gaming band". [3]
  2. In Overwatch, a player may only choose one hero character in the team at a time. [14] Support characters generally serve the role of healing other characters in the game, [14] [15] and have been described as "a role male players usually assign to women (or assume that women prefer)" according to Polygon. [13]

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