Cult of the Lamb Composer Narayana Johnson Dies

Cult of the Lamb composer Narayana Johnson, who labored underneath the pseudonym River Boy, has handed away, main developer Large Monster to name for followers to present them “some area and a few kindness”.

In a put up on the sport’s Steam web page, Large Monster says it is “not possible to explain how a lot of a void” Johnson’s passing will depart on the studio. He was Large Monster’s audio director, however the dev says he was “greater than” that; he was additionally a “inventive powerhouse”, a “good friend”, and “[their] foolish little man”.

Large Monster goes on to say that Johnson is “woven into the soul of Cult of the Lamb” because of his audio work on the sport, and that each the sport and the studio “will not be the identical” with out him.

No reason for demise was given for Johnson, and no sickness was beforehand revealed both, so it isn’t fully clear how he handed away at current.

Large Monster says it recommends that you simply “take a second to have a look at nature” and “contact your toes to the earth” to have fun Johnson’s life, and that “he would need you to hearken to his music and bear in mind how a lot it meant to him to share it”.

Should you’re not acquainted with Johnson as a composer, he usually labored underneath the pseudonym River Boy, and he was additionally half of the duo Willow Beats.

In accordance with his web site, Narayana Johnson made music that “attracts extensively on his childhood and teenage years spent roaming creeks, forests and mountains within the Northern Rivers, New South Wales”.

His work on Cult of the Lamb feels very evocative of the sport’s tone; it is darkish, eerie electronica, however there is a playful component to it as nicely, reflective of the sport’s combination of sacrificial rituals and cutesy animals.

If you would like to listen to Johnson’s work on Cult of the Lamb (and play a fairly nice recreation into the discount), you may test it out proper now on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Change. You may learn Alex’s evaluation of the sport right here.