Hello and welcome to this very special episode of Bonfire Sight Chat. I have a quick note for you.

This is something we actually talk about in the episode, but we don't talk about it for a while, and I wanted to get it out in the beginning. Just so you know, this episode talking about the music of Demon Souls, is meant to be a companion to that soundtrack, not a substitute. There are musical examples within this episode, but I do not cut in examples of every single thing we talk about.

I recommend listening to this and listening to the soundtrack, either if you're listening

at your computer at the same time, or just are reflecting on the soundtrack after you've

heard our thoughts on it.

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And My name is Gary Butterfield.

My name is Cole Ross.

And you're listening to Bonfire Side Chat. It is a

discordant, melancholy, fugal horn favorite. And on this week, this week's appendix, we are starting

a new mini-series, which we are calling musical identity, where we look back through the Souls games

and talk about their music.

This is something that we talk about, you know, in the individual seasons and

you know, talked about and talk about mostly when we consider a game.

But in kind of aggregate looking back, it is very clear that every game that FromSoft has produced in this kind of modern era has had a very specific kind of identity through its soundtrack and through its boss themes largely, though not entirely.

And yeah, it is very now that we are kind of out of dark souls, where those, you know,

have very similar musical identities, which we all talk about, it kind of makes sense to

hit up different entries and kind of talk about what makes those soundtrack special

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