The Living Tombstone is a popular musician and producer group best known for their remixes and original music composed for a variety of fandoms including My Little Pony, LazyTown, and Five Nights at Freddy's. The group consists of Yoav Landau (producer) and Sam Haft (vocalist).
Their first official contribution to Hazbin Hotel was an end credit remix for the first premiere of Inside of Every Demon is a Rainbow in October 2018. They also made the official Poison remix that released on April 1, 2024.[1]
They also made the fan song "Alastor's Game".
Career
Yoav Landau was making music under the name "The Living Tombstone" since 2011, mainly in the Brony fandom,[2] and in 2011 or 2012[3] created a remix of the Discord song which exploded in popularity and made it on the front page of Equestria Daily.[2]
In 2013, Yoav uploaded on Tumblr a remix of the family Halloween song "Spooky Scary Skeletons" that blew up in popularity, and then after uploading it on YouTube, and then an outlet includes it as number 6 in their list of most iconic Halloween songs of all time.[4]
In 2014, a week after the first Five Nights at Freddy's Yoav released a song about it, and then went on to make four more.[5]
In 2016, Yoav releases a song about Overwatch titled "No Mercy", which became one of the first big memes on Musical.ly, the predecessor of TikTok.[6]
The first song Sam Haft and Yoav Landau co-wrote together was "My Ordinary Life", which later went on to become their first song to go platinum.[7]
In 2018 or 2019, the director for the Five Nights at Freddy's movie reached out in order to use the song Yoav had created. Later, after Sam saw an article that the movie was filming and made some calls to reach out and see if they still wanted to use the song and immediately heard back and was asked for their lawyer and for them to be on set.[8]
Trivia
- Sam Haft and Yoav Landau met at the end of 2016 and immediately got along. After Yoav just moved to New York City Sam and Yoav got a music studio together where they started independently working on music.[9]
- According to Sam Haft, the song that appeared in the Five Nights at Freddy's movie was largely due to the creator of the game series wanting to end the movie with it, as it was like the unofficial theme for the game due to the impact it had.[10]
External Links
- The Living Tombstone on the The Living Tombstone Wiki.
- The Living Tombstone on the YouTube Wiki.
- The Living Tombstone on Wikipedia.
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