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Listen to This Atmospheric Synthwave Cover of the ‘Dark Souls’ Menu Theme
It’s been less than a week since From Software release its latest life-draining game with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (it’s just a bit good by the way) and the love for the Japanese developer is on a high right now.
It feels like a good time to celebrate its gaming catalog, and musician Mono Memory has done just that with another cracking synthwave cover.
This time it’s for ‘Souls of Fire’, the Dark Souls menu music, arguably one of the finest tracks in the Souls series. While Dark Souls may be set in a Dark Fantasy world, its music suits a synthy style pretty well.
Mono Memory specializes in doing covers of video game music, particularly those of a horror leaning. Check out their channel for interpretations of music from games such as Resident Evil 2 and Death Stranding (though my personal fave is their Chemical Plant Zone cover from Sonic 2).
AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.