https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88xkqk/i-found-the-guy-behind-a-lost-20-year-old-weather-channel-banger

Last year, thousands of people on social media shared a YouTube video featuring a song composed for the Weather Channel's hurricane “storm alert” in 2006. It wasn’t the first time: originally uploaded in November 2019, the piece has resurfaced on Reddit and social media multiple times in the nearly 20 years since it was written, even while its author remained shrouded in mystery.

Take a listen, and it’s easy to understand why. With powerful chords, driving percussion, and a pulse-pounding piano ostinato lead, the piece feels like a boss battle theme one might hear while playing an epic fantasy RPG. Many users wrote comments comparing it to the work of popular video game composers, with some joking that it may have been ghost-written by Yoko Shimomura—best known for her work on the music of the Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy series of games. And then came the memes. People set the “Storm Alert” song to footage of boss fights from Kingdom Hearts, and even created some impressive remixes.