Super Strikers is the in-house band at Brave Wave Productions. Executive produced and directed by label founder Mohammed Taher, the band is made up of superstar gaming performers: Stemage (from Metroid Metal) on guitars, Steve “ap0c” Lakawicz on bass and chiptunes programming, Dino Lionetti on keyboards and arranging (from Cheap Dinosaurs), and Kev Ragone on drums (from Cheap Dinosaurs). Brave Wave’s arsenal of game composers can join them as producers whenever needed, with Keiji Yamagishi and Manami Matsumae (of Mega Man) helming original productions. Platinum-selling Swiss engineer Marco Guardia is the band’s mixing engineer, and is known for mixing a multitude of Brave Wave albums including Keiji Yamagishi’s The Retro-Active Experience, as well as being the restoration engineer behind our Billboard-charted albums Street Fighter II and Ninja Gaiden soundtracks, among others.

Super Strikers recently finished several game arrangements for Brave Wave’s latest mega-album GIANTS, featuring the legendary musicians behind Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Sonic the Hedgehog, and more.

The first appearance of Super Strikers was at the 2018 MAGFest live show, where they played the music of Ninja Gaiden composer Keiji Yamagishi to a roaring audience of passionate fans. This live show was later released as part of Keiji Yamagishi’s The Retro-Active Experience solo album. For the live show, a large portion of what you hear is actually not from Yamagishi’s original stems, but instead is made from scratch by ap0c and Dino using authentic VRC6 sounds.

The band’s guitarist, Stemage, obtained the individual live track stems from MAGFest Mediatron, and was able to professionally mix the live show into something you’d want to hear over and over again. The end result is a live album that's uniquely different from the studio album!

In December 2019, the band released a Card of Darkness arrangement as part of Brave Wave’s “Card of Darkness: The Remixes” compilation album.