Brandon Yates

Brandon Michael Yates is a musician who composes scores for Death Battle.
==Scores Composed==
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|-|Season 2=
*Alive
*Exo
*You Have Failed This City
|-|Season 3=
*Blood on Broken Glass
*Olympus Mons
*I Am All of Mewtwo
|-|Season 4=
*Stronger Together (ft. Mason Lieberman)
*Shredding Silver
*Shonen Showdown
|-|Season 5=
*Titans of Magic
*Off-Brandicoot
*Crash and Burn
*Unlocking Heaven
*A Strange Fate
*Chorus of Carnage
*Devil of the Night
*Infection Perfection
*Kings of Infinity (ft. Omega Sparx)
|-|Season 6=
*Mega Mania (ft. Sithu Aye)
*Marvelous
*Appetite for Greed
*Falcon Uncaged (ft. RichaadEB)
*Ride Into Hell (ft. Jonny Atma)
*Dangerous Gaze (ft. ToxicxEternity)
*The Dark Lords
*One Hundred Percent
*Mighty (with Therewolf Media)
|-|Season 7=
*Sirens of Combat
*Lost Ice Storms (ft. Myriani and Jun Mitsui)
*Days of Booster Past
*American Phantom
*Gods of Destruction (ft. Therewolf Media)
*Frozen Fire
*Way Past Flash
*Madness Envenom
*Blood Moon (ft. Tre Watson)
*Webbed Wings
*Full Course Will
|-|Season 8=
*Chaos Unraveled (with Therewolf Media)
*Apex of Doom
*Thunder Shroud (ft. LadyIgiko & Tiggs)
*Final Breath
*Suit Yourself
*Reverse Rosé
*Satsui no Sekai
*Hollow Dreams
*Balderdash (with Therewolf Media)
|-|Season 9=
*Mad Laugh Riot (ft. Futakuchi Mana)
*Spellaholics Synonymous
*Princes of Pride (ft. Jun Mitsui)
*Diabolical Invincible Me
*The Metal Lotus (with Therewolf Media)
*Fallen Gods (ft. Omega Sparx and SWATS)
*Hedge of Tomorrow (ft. Logan Adams and Mason Lieberman)
*Strongest Alive (mixed and mastered by Anthony DiGiacomo)
*Dragon Dance (ft. Victor Borba, mixed and mastered by Anthony DiGiacomo)
|-|Season 10=
*Fireborn (ft. The Death Battle Fan Choir, mixed and mastered by Anthony DiGiacomo)
*That's No Moon (mixed and mastered by Anthony DiGiacomo)
*God's Hand (ft. Logan Adams, mixed and mastered by Anthony DiGiacomo)
*Discordant Decipher (ft. Infotron and Mr. Goatee)
*[inHuman] (ft. Omega Sparx, SWATS, and Nathaniel Wolkstein)
*Final Formers (mixed and mastered by Anthony DiGiacomo)
*Super (ft. Logan Adams, mixed and mastered by Anthony DiGiacomo)
*All-Consuming (with Therewolf Media, ft. Tiggs)
|-|Death Battle '24=
*Solid State Invincible
*Requiem for a Thief (with Therewolf Media and Saoirse, lyric writing)
*Game Over (ft. Victor Borba and Tyler Anderson, mixed and mastered by Anthony DiGiacomo)
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==Trivia==
*Before composing music for Death Battle, Yates made music for One Minute Melee before leaving to work on Death Battle full time.
*Alongside Therewolf Media, Yates is sometimes open to taking commissions from fans to compose tracks for fan-made VS matchups. You can find more info about it and see when they are available on his YouTube channel's community page or Twitter account.
**Originally, he used to be commissioned by Death Battle to make music before working with them full-time.
**One of his commissioned "What If?" tracks, "This Heartless Empire" (made for Emperor Palpatine VS Master Xehanort), was officially used as the fight track for the DBX episode on the matchup.
**In Season 10, Brandon became an official sponsor for Death Battle, advertising his commissioned "What If?" tracks in Skyrim VS Dark Souls and Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha, two episodes he made the official fight tracks for.
*Brandon uses Pro Tools to make his music, as can be seen on his YouTube channel's occasional livestreams.
*In 2024, Brandon held a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) post on the official Death Battle subreddit. Some answers of which he gave were as follows:
**He got into music-making and learned to play guitar as early as the age of 13, and listened to nu metal bands such as Linkin Park, Korn, and Slipknot.
**The way he and Therewolf Media compose an episode's track is by making it alongside an early version of its fight, adjusting both whenever necessary so that the track flows with the fight as best as possible. For Brandon specifically, he tries to make an episode's track sound as good as a standalone song when composing it to the rough animatic before doing most of the editing on it later to make it better complement the fight.
**From the top of his head, his top five favorite tracks he composed are Diabolical Invincible Me, Final Formers, Strongest Alive, Hollow Dreams, and Mega Mania.
***Conversely, his least favorite track is I Am All of Mewtwo, as he was in a bad place at the time of composing it and called it a mess.
**His favorite track from fellow composer Therewolf Media is The Metal Lotus.
**Of the many "What If?" tracks he's made that are commissioned to him by fans, he stated he's "loved Sins of Liberty for a long time".
**Tracks for episodes that he did not work on that he would like to make include Iron Man VS Lex Luthor, Solid Snake VS Sam Fisher, Dante VS Bayonetta, and Master Chief VS Doomguy, with his largest preference being the latter as it suited his musical styles best.https://www.reddit.com/r/deathbattle/comments/18xd7cb/comment/kg3k4sn/
***The latter two episodes previously got tracks made for the matchups as part of Brandon's "What If?" commission tracks (Dance With the Devil and Covenant With Hell, respectively).
***A re-examined version of Master Chief VS Doomguy would wind up winning a rematch vote from the Save Death Battle Kickstarter, though whether or not Brandon will get to make the track for that episode is yet to be determined.
**His favorite anime is Re:Zero, with Mushouku Tensei, Attack on Titan, and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime being his close follow-ups. He also called Reincarnated as a Sword a fun watch.
***He also said he wants to make an official Death Battle track for a female character from Re:Zero should the series ever debut on the show.
**He expressed a wish to make an opening theme for an anime and some insert music for the Invincible show.
**His favorite dinosaur is the Compsognathus.
**His favorite ice cream flavor is caramel cone, though he mentions a liking for mint chocolate chip as well.
*Previously in June 2024, Brandon's Death Battle tracks became unavailable to listen to on YouTube or Spotify, as Rooster Teeth's closure made it unable to pay TuneCore to keep the tracks up on said sites. In response, he began making remasters of every track he's made to keep them up for his listeners, alongside allowing Anthony DiGiacomo to remaster their mixes and his personal art team to make new cover arts for said tracks.
**Following the Save Death Battle Kickstarter, his original tracks would later be restored by DistroKid.
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