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Aria
Aria
heavy metal band formed in 1985 in Moscow, Russia
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Brian Posehn
Brian Posehn
American actor, musician and comedian born 1966
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Nobuo Uematsu
Nobuo Uematsu
Japanese video game composer
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Frank Klepacki
Frank Klepacki
American musician, video game music composer and sound director
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Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino
American composer of music for films, television and video games
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Mick Gordon
Mick Gordon
Australian composer
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Martin O'Donnell
Martin O'Donnell
American video game composer
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Jesper Kyd
Jesper Kyd
Danish composer and sound designer
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Crush 40
Crush 40
Japanese-American hard rock band (former 1997)
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Norihiko Hibino
Norihiko Hibino
Japanese composer
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Andre Matos
Andre Matos
Brazilian musician
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Steve Jablonsky
Steve Jablonsky
American composer
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Probot
Probot
band
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Trivium
Trivium
American heavy metal band
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Jack Wall
Jack Wall
video game music composer
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Ryuji Sasai
Ryuji Sasai
Japanese musician
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Dee Snider
Dee Snider
American musician
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Jeremy Soule
Jeremy Soule
American composer
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Grant Kirkhope
Grant Kirkhope
Scottish video game composer
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Judas Priest
Judas Priest
British heavy metal band
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Yuzo Koshiro
Yuzo Koshiro
Japanese video game music composer, electronic music producer, and audio programmer
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Shoji Meguro
Shoji Meguro
Japanese game composer and musician
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Hitoshi Sakimoto
Hitoshi Sakimoto
Japanese composer
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Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne
English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
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Jack Black
Jack Black
American actor, comedian, musician, music producer, and YouTuber
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Yasunori Mitsuda
Yasunori Mitsuda
video game composer
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Rob Halford
Rob Halford
English heavy metal singer
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Nightwish
Nightwish
Finnish symphonic metal band
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Junkie XL
Junkie XL
Dutch DJ
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Kenji Ito
Kenji Ito
musician
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Brendon Small
Brendon Small
writer, musician, actor
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Junichi Masuda
Junichi Masuda
video game developer
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Paul Masvidal
Paul Masvidal
American musician
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Jani Lane
Jani Lane
singer-songwriter, musician
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Metallica
Metallica
American heavy metal band
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Koji Kondo
Koji Kondo
Japanese video game composer
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Hiroki Kikuta
Hiroki Kikuta
Japanese composer
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Motoi Sakuraba
Motoi Sakuraba
Japanese composer
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Kenji Yamamoto
Kenji Yamamoto
Japanese video game musician
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Robert Prince
Robert Prince
video game music composer
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Mastodon
Mastodon
American heavy metal band
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Koichi Sugiyama
Koichi Sugiyama
Japanese composer, arranger, conductor (1931-)
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Yoko Shimomura
Yoko Shimomura
Japanese composer and pianist
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Tsuyoshi Sekito
Tsuyoshi Sekito
Japanese composer
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Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer
German film composer and music producer
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Simon Wright
Simon Wright
English drummer
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Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe
American heavy metal band
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Kow Otani
Kow Otani
Japanese composer
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Michael Salvatori
Michael Salvatori
American composer
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Russian musician and composer (1965-2015)
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Kirill Vladimirovich Pokrovsky (Kирилл Владимирович Покровский; 25 March 1965 – 1 June 2015) was a Russian composer and musician.

Kirill Pokrovsky learned to play and compose music from a young age, before receiving classical training at Moscow Conservatory. Between 1985 and 1989, Pokrovsky played as a keyboardist for Soviet heavy metal music bands Aria and Master. Later he moved to Belgium and wrote his first solo album called BRUGGE.

Pokrovsky had a successful career as a video game score composer. He wrote the soundtrack for the Divinity series of video games produced by Larian Studios, up until Divinity: Original Sin, which he had finished work on prior to his death.