New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Skrillex and
Hikaru Utada have teamed up for the opening theme song from the highly-anticipated video game Kingdom Hearts III. The collaborative song "
Face My Fears" is available today in both Japanese and English versions on Utada's Face My Fears EP.
Utada wrote the original Kingdom Hearts theme in 2002, a song that has since become iconic in gaming.
Skrillex has been a longtime self-professed fan of the Kingdom Hearts series, and was an obvious fit to create the new theme. The song was originally intended to be a remix of Utada's single "
Don't Think Twice", but evolved into an entirely new collaboration between
Skrillex and Utada. The underlying theme of Kingdom Hearts has always been about the power of friendship, overcoming tremendous challenges and persevering against the darkness, and "
Face My Fears" is their tribute to the series.
Kingdom Hearts III is available on January 29, 2019 for Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. For more information, visit kingdomhearts.com.
Skrillex helped propel one of the largest shifts in modern American music in recent memory. At around the one-minute mark of his first Grammy acceptance speech in 2012, iPhone in hand, scrolling interminably down a list, it became clear that
Skrillex doesn't feel isolated from his peers. It's always been a defining trait of his character, this aptitude at building things with others. It's since gone on to characterize, color, and define his career, too. From his music to his label, his countless brand collaborations and his work on major Hollywood movies,
Skrillex quite simply loves to make things. Despite being one of the biggest names in music,
Skrillex hasn't walked away from the "do-it-ourselves" attitude he's had since his start.
In the upcoming action-RPG, KINGDOM HEARTS III, players can join forces with Donald Duck and Goofy for the adventure of a lifetime traveling across worlds based on beloved films like Disney*Pixar's Toy Story, and Monsters, Inc., and Walt Disney Studios'
Pirates of the Caribbean, Big Hero 6, Tangled, Frozen and more.
KINGDOM HEARTS is a series of role-playing games created through the collaboration of Disney
Interactive and
Square Enix. Since the first KINGDOM HEARTS was released in March 2002 for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the series has expanded with several additional entries. The series celebrated its 15th anniversary on March 2017, and has shipped over 25 million units worldwide.
