Who wrote Guilty Gear's music?

Most fighting games credit a sound team. Guilty Gear credits a person. Daisuke Ishiwatari created the series, designed its characters, wrote its story, voiced its hero Sol Badguy, and composed the soundtrack himself, a hard rock and heavy metal score that became as much the game's identity as its art.

In interviews Ishiwatari is candid about how unlikely that was. He took a music class at technical school, found it cancelled, and was handed a small synthesizer device by the teacher instead. He taught himself music theory while already working, and the metal he loved, Queen, Guns N' Roses, and Metallica among it, poured straight into the game. The Library already keeps the page that catalogues those references track by track; this page is about the hand behind them.