The Living Tombstone (2024)

Yoav Landau (Hebrew: יואב לנדאו), better known online as the founder and producer of The Living Tombstone (formerly known as Koolfox) alongside main vocalist Sam Haft, is an Israeli-American musician and YouTuber, best known for his original songs on well-known video games, with his Five Nights at Freddy's music series being one of the most popular playlists on his YouTube channel.

Starting off creating music in the My Little Pony fanbase, he now creates a variety of original songs, remixes, covers songs, and parodies, often featuring characters from well-known memes, such as the Globglogabgalab and Robbie Rotten from Lazytown (in "We Are Number One").

He occasionally made vlogs doing channel announcements, reading YouTube comments, promoting songs and making subscriber special videos, and so on, although he's stopped making these since January 2016.

Koolfox[]

Koolfox is a YouTube channel that was used by Yoav Landau before he made The Living Tombstone.

He used to upload Remixes, Gameplays, Vlogs and etc. Until on August 28th, 2011. Yoav would post an announcement on his old channel saying he made a new channel called "The Living Tombstone" and that he will be more focus on the new channel.^[1]

Red VS Blue[]

On August 24, 2015, Yoav released the first installment of his Red VS Blue series, remixing the "Dog of Wisdom" meme. He released two versions of the song, a "Blue" version, which is the "Casual" variation of the song, and the "Red" version, the more "Hardcore" variation of the song.

As quoted from his Facebook,

"BLUE version will be the nice and tidy mainstream version for the general audience to enjoy, intended for casual listening.

RED version is where I go all out and make it as intense, crazy and evil as possible, this is intended for people who want more from my music."^[2]

Also describing it as "Blue Version = Heaven, Red Version = Hell" on Twitter.^[3]

He discontinued the Red VS Blue series near October of the same year, when he released the Blue version of the "Dead Kitten Song" which unexpectedly turned out to be the last, without a Red variation. The reason for this is currently not well known, although it is an idea that he did not enjoy making them anymore, and having the expectation to make both versions and quickly whip up another without the thought of quality or whether it's a version he's proud of releasing. His last mention of it is on a Twitter reply thread, stating, "I am not doing anymore Red vs Blue stuff, I'll leave the Blue version where it is and leave it be."

He reinstalled the series June 2018, with his Globglogabgalab Remix, and continued until Right Now (RED) in July 2019.

zero_one[]

In 2019, The Living Tombstone, now a group, signed with Warner Music Group.^[4] Now working with songwriter and vocalist Sam Haft, the co-writer and singer on My Ordinary Life, The Living Tombstone explained that they had taken time off to release an album, titled "zero_one,"^[5] and subsequently released the first single from the album, Drunk, on June 11, 2020. Their second single, and formal album announcement, came in the form of Sunburn.

Trivia[]

• He created "Tom's Dog", which is the theme for the 5th installment of the popular web series, asdfmovie by TomSka.
• He created the "Beep Beep I'm a Sheep" song from asdfmovie with TomSka, BlackGryph0n and LilDeuceDeuce.
• He is the first YouTuber to make a Five Nights at Freddy's song, titled "Five Nights at Freddy's 1 Song."^[6] It has allotted over 300 million views as of November 2023, making it the most viewed Five Nights at Freddy's song on YouTube.
• Before he was known for his Five Nights at Freddy's songs, he was known for his remix of the song "Discord", based on a character of the same name in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• His remix of the song "Discord" by Eurobeat Brony got attention from even outside the MLP fanbase, where a lot of them would often be "annoyed" of how good the song was despite it being based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• One of his most popular songs is "It's Been So Long", which is associated with Five Nights at Freddy's 2.
• He composed the original soundtrack for the psychological horror game In Sound Mind.
• He appeared in the background, wearing a red shirt, in TomSka’s YouTube skit “Coming Out”. ^[7][8]
• He worked on some of the soundtrack for Eddsworld. Specifically, the opening theme for "Fun Dead", the theme and intro for "Space Face Part 1". He also created the tracks "Zomtage", "Desire Room", "Legacy", "Creepy Girl", "Abducted", "Zombieland", "Desire Room", "Rock 5", an 8-Bit version of the Fun Dead theme and the asdfland theme (with LilDeuceDeuce).^[9]
• They sang his Five Nights at Freddy's song at a Blumhouse event with the animatronics used in the film.^[10]
  • Additionally, Blumhouse used their song in the film's credits. They were first approached in 2018 to have the song added.
  • On August 6, 2023, the song earned a Gold Certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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