![]() Horror feeds on subverting the familiar, and the games capture material culture in Chinese cities in a way no one else has even tried. I can speak personally to both Red Candle games’ qualities: they are spectacularly well-observed and intensely unsettling. “Devotion” turned out to be a signature Cao Dong song, weighty yet effortless, melancholy yet beautiful.Ĭao Dong and Red Candle, it was a match made in hell - which is to say, a special kind of horror game heaven. Like Red Candle’s games, the group’s songwriting expertly layers hidden meanings,-burying secrets within the verses. The song “Devotion” would be Cao Dong’s first release since its 2016 debut album. The game was a follow-up to Red Candle’s award-winning and fantastic debut, Detention (返校 fǎn xiào), which tackled weighty issues like what pervasive censorship does to a society and how societal trauma must be confronted before it metastasizes into literal monsters. Set in a 1980s Taipei apartment, it was a meditation on religious belief, the weight of parental and societal expectation, and demons both psychological and…Taoist. But it owes the bulk of its acclaim to the sheer force of its songwriting.Įarlier this year, the band was approached by Taiwanese game developer Red Candle Games to write the theme song for its long-awaited second title: a first-person horror title called Devotion (还愿 huányuàn). ![]() ![]() No Party for Cao Dong is an incredible band: loud, harsh, uncompromising, intelligent, and emotionally resonant.
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