Thread by @AestheticGamer1

(1/??) Heyoo! I'm excited for the vocal theme in Resident Evil Village, "Yearning for Dark Shadows," so I wanted to do a little Twitter chain about the history of vocal songs related to the Resident Evil series.

I think this will be a fun little Twitter Thread.

We start with

(2/??) the original game, which had a couple vocal themes made for it in Japan to help promotion of the original Resident Evil game. Fun fact, RE1 having this vocal theme in Japan for marketing I hear inspired RE7 to follow suit later.
Its cheesy but fun:

(3/??) The first song, "I won't let this end as a dream..." was used in Japanese promotion for the game/ending of Biohazard 1. The second song, "Icy Gaze", was used in the Japanese OP in some versions, a part of it at least, but gets a bit less coverage.

(4/??) The next vocal theme is the first one most will recognize, which is "Alexia's Lullaby" from Resident Evil: Code Veronica. It has a few variations, most without vocals, but a vocal theme does appear in Code Veronica & Darkside Chronicles.

(5/??) Now, the next one is a bit interesting. There was a song, "Heroes Never Die", that was made specifically for Resident Evil: Dead Aim.
It's unknown why it never ended up being used, a different song took it's place, but can be heard here:

(6/16) Which yes, it's a vocal & extended theme of Dead Aim's Save Room Theme.

Ultimately, Gun Shot by the band Rize was used in Dead Aim's credits, though I don't believe was originally made for RE, just ended up being used instead.

(7/16) Now, you're going to see a few Pachislot songs pop up here, as each Resident Evil Pachislot game has had a unique vocal theme to it.

The first Pachislot Resident Evil game, which is based off of Resident Evil 1 REmake, was Zero Ground, here:

(8/16) The next vocal song was the first time a vocal theme was used in-game all regions for a main theme of sorts, which is Resident Evil 5's "Pray", and frankly I'm quite fond of this one:

(9/18) Sleeping Beauty, aka Manuella's Lullaby, from Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles is often forgotten. Which is a shame, it's a very pretty song.
Like Alexia's Lullaby, there's a few different versions, but the main one you can hear here:

(10/18) Another version of Sleeping Beauty from Darkside Chronicles plays during the credits, which I ADORE this version. The whole song, but the vocals take a while to kick in. I recommend the whole piece, but the vocals kick in about 2:55 into it:

(11/18) Meanwhile, for each for each of the CG Resident Evil films, they've used a vocal theme as well. This is "GUILTY", by Anna Tsuchiya, which is the vocal theme used in, "Resident Evil Degeneration":

(12/18) Following GUILTY being used in Resident Evil Degeneration, Anna Tsuchiya came back to make CARRY ON for Resident Evil Damnation:

(13/20) We then go full on cheese for, "At the End of a Long Escape", the credits theme for Jake & Sherry's campaign in Resident Evil 6.

It's cheesy as Hell, but to be honest, I'm a fan!

(14/21) Anyways, time for us to enter into PACHISLOT HELL! But these songs are good, so I guess it's fine

For Resident Evil 5's Pachislot, the original song Fallen Friends was made for it (and yes, Rebecca is in RE5 Pachislot before you ask):

(15/21) I won't post all the Remastered versions as it'd get redudant, but Fallen Friends from Resident Evil 5 Pachislot was also remastered for a new version in Resident Evil 6 Pachislot:

(16/22) But that wasn't the only vocal song from Resident Evil 5 Pachislot, there were a couple others. Starting with "The Spaces in Between". This one actually stayed original for RE5 Pachislot, not remastered for RE6 Pachislot:

(17/22) The final song from RE5 Pachislot is, "Bullet Waiting", which was the main theme of RE5 Pachislot. This one did get remastered for RE6 Pachislot, but not posting the Remastered version.
Good ole' cheese RE Pachislot Rock:

(18/25) Anyways, from the same artist as the last one, we have, "Storm the Gates", from Resident Evil 6 Pachislot.
I bet most really aren't aware of these, but they're a bit of fun. RE6 has a few more original Pachislot vocal songs outside of RE5 remasters

(19/25) I personally like this one, "Still Alive". No, not from Portal. It's cheesy, but almost sounds like a Initial D song, or a cheesy electro rock song, which I can dig:

(20/25) This is actually the most recent Resident Evil vocal theme, as this literally came out a few weeks ago, but I'll include it with the vocal song part. UNBOWED, from Resident Evil 7 Pachislot.

I... actually like it:

(21/27) But of course that wasn't the only vocal theme from Resident Evil 7 Pachislot, say hello to Phoenix. I'll do the trailer version for extra fun:


There's still two more RE7 Pachislot songs, though.

(22/27) Say hello to Fireproof, WHICH YES, is supposed to be Ethan Winters character theme, in a cheesy rock, for the Resident Evil 7 Pachislot game:

(23/28) Final song from Resident Evil 7 Pachislot (but not all Pachislot games, as we still have Revelations 1 Pachislot to go over), but here's the Pachislot Theme for the Baker Family:

(24/29) Before we move on from the Pachislot games, we have three vocal themes for the Resident Evil Revelations Pachislot game. The first song, "Test Of Time," you can hear here:

(25/29) The second of the Resident Evil Revelations Pachislot songs is, "Cause never lost," I actually like this one, it's a bit different, still cheesy rock, but I like it!:

(26/30): And finally to wrap up the Pachislot Resident Evil songs to date, we have Blindfolded, from the Resident Evil Revelations Pachislot game:


And that makes it for the Pachislot songs. The next couple songs I'm naming are REALLY interesting, though.

(27/31) This is very unknown by most, but did you know Resident Evil Revelations 2 had an official vocal theme?

Revelation of mankind by DIR EN GREY was made for Resident Evil Revelations 2, not used in-game, but it was made for it, and for promotion:

(28/31) Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster got a similar thing to Revelations 2, a Japanese song made specifically for it for Japanese promotion. Not used in game, but was officially made for RE0. Until the Justice, a song by Raychell:

(29/31) Now for the one everyone thinks of with Resident Evil vocal themes, "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" from Resident Evil 7: biohazard.

Was used in game, in marketing, and fit the game tremendously well:

(30/31) DID YOU KNOW, though, that "Go Tell Aunt Rhody," had a Japanese version, though?

(31/31) Finally, we have "Don't Be Afraid" by L'Arc~en~Ciel, which an PSVR music video was made for in collaboration with Resident Evil:


There we go, that's the history of vocal songs with the series. Looking forward to Yearning With Dark Shadows!

(32/31) I STUPIDLY forgot about Saudade from Resident Evil 2 REmake, which you can hear there.

It works out anyways as it's the newest one outside of the Pachislot songs: