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dreadn (Dreadnought)Made for the year 2015's edition of the recurring BMS of Fighters tournament line, the so-called Daikessen (大血戦) or BMS of Fighters Ultimate, this is a collaboration work from a couple of artists we've already seen in Donders' County for choice solo BMS entries for eack: Daisuke 'xi' Ishiwata for Parousia and nora2n for his B.B.K.K.B.K.K. Ultimately, it scored 5th in Overall ranking and 4th on the median one, but its influence alone was enough to proper the belonging Team Noraneko (のらねこさい) to the 2nd place, only railing behind the Glitch Throne team who could count on the BOFU turney's winner among its ranks: LunaticSounds's DataErr0r.
There's nothing really extensive about the song's creation backstory, other than a really quick note on the song's original BMS entry stating that it was made with the concept of "shock" as its theme. The word itself, after all, comes from the archaic English for what we nowadays refer to as "fearless" instead and if that's not something to make someone out of left field for a bit, the most knowledgeable Naval history buffs can nover at least a dozen ships bearing that name, most of them being part of His Majesty's Ship (or HMS) country-defending line, too! A long version for Dreadnought made its debut on xi's third solo album (2015's World Fragments), while the nora2n/BlackY dual-artist album Energy of the Sun from 2017 features a full-on remix of it by the sole hands of BlackY.
Being a pre-Nijiiro-era Variety song born across game centers for Taiko means, Dreadnought was one of the tunes to the genres to be relocated into the temporary "Game&Variety" calssification, before reverting into the ongoing genre classification standards. Being another BMS song, it also meant for the charting people on its help -primarily the Taiko Team's Emukepi (えむけぴ)- to take advantage of the lane-based Taiko medium as an homage to its original BMS charts, with the long drumroll in the KFMO set scrolling just as fast aduring that one portion of the song. The 1-on-1 referencing on that portion on the Ura Oni mode is slightly altered to a still-fast-scrolling Don note stream with increasing scrolling speed corrections to each of the involved notes, but it's guaranteed you'll get to feel the full 384 BPM experience the same! On the Max Combo side, the Ura Oni counter matches the one of another Namco Original song that was released in the same year (Cutie☆Demonic☆Majin Emo!!), as well as Critical Velocity's THE FIXER.
For all your Dreadnought needs in other music game-y places, Konami and Sega both got the arcade bases covered across SOUND VOLTEX and the so-called Geki-CHU-mai trilogy from Sonic's home turf, whereas on mobile grounds we can find it in lowiro's Arcaea.
