Blackout (theme)

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"Blackout"
Black Bowser's Castle
Composed by:
Unknown
Appears in Paper Mario: Color Splash (2016)

"Blackout" is a theme composed for Paper Mario: Color Splash. The composition starts off foreboding with a pipe organ solo, which is soon taken over by synth, guitar, and percussion. It grows more hopeful as the pipe organ is reintroduced, modulating the composition to the major key, and ends with a glockenspiel solo. Leitmotifs from "Bowser's Theme" and "Bowser Battle" are incorporated in the track. The "Main Theme" leitmotif also begins on glockenspiel, and is finished on guitar. "Blackout" plays during the final boss battle against Black Bowser, and becomes available on the record for Black Bowser's Castle. Unlike most other battle themes, "Blackout" does not have a distorted variant when Mario is low on Heart Points.