Music like Hiroyuki Sawano

Hiroyuki Sawano (澤野 弘之, Sawano Hiroyuki, born September 12, 1980) is a Japanese composer, arranger, musician, lyricist and pianist best known for his work on many anime series, television dramas, and films. His works include the musical scores for Attack on Titan, Blue Exorcist, Kill la Kill, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn and The Seven Deadly Sins. He was represented by Legendoor between 2006 and 2017, and is currently represented by VV-ALKLINE. In 2014, he started a new vocal project under the name ''SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]''. Sawano cited Joe Hisaishi, Yoko Kanno, Danny Elfman, and Hans Zimmer as major inspirations.

Sawano was born in Tokyo, Japan. He began playing piano in elementary school. From the age of 17 he studied composition, arrangement, orchestration, and piano under Nobuchika Tsuboi. He has been active as a composer since 2004.