If you had asked me what Gourmet Sentai Barayarou was about before looking up to find out the context for this music, I likely would have said a platformer akin to the Mega Man series, but with a food skin on everything because of the use of "Gourmet" in the title. Then, looking at the cover of the game, you have pictures of food that I would likely eat, two beefy bois, and a woman straddling/leaning over the title and glaring at you like you are about to pay for something you just said/did. Still, I might have leaned towards a side-scrolling platformer.
Apparently, Gourmet Sentai Barayarou is a bizarre side-scrolling beat 'em up that takes place in a post-nuclear World War III world where people are hard up for protein, and your special military team of Bonjour, Mademoiselle, and Tres Bien have to stop the evil Bath organization from destroying the city of Zeus Heaven Magic City. Please do not ask me to explain any further because that is all I was able to understand from the Wikipedia page.
The song, however, "The Dome - First Half (Spicy)" is why we are here. I love that for a side-scrolling beat 'em up, the music to starts out as a slow piano solo intro for the first 15 seconds, not your typical track for beating the crap out of cybernetically enhanced goons. If you only play those first 15 seconds, it would not sound out of place as the death music in any JRPG. The rest of the song is a restatement of that opening and builds upon it with frantic synth energy and a killer bassline. That is pretty much the whole song.
One interesting thing about this game, and directly related to this song, is that are hard/spicy stages, but I am not 100% sure how those stages differ from the normal stages because all of the longplays I could find only used the music from the standard stages and not the "spicy" stages as named on the soundtrack.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
The Ride Before the Fall, Yeah
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