This theme is HIGHLY underrated… you dont get to hear this incredible mash up of just beautiful orchestration quite like this one. They really throw it at you like this big overwhelming mass of snake person
Yeah this for me is easily the best song in the game. And the spectacle of the fight if you don’t cheese it is unmatched. The storming of flaming skulls…Rykard looming in the back raising his sword and sucking up all the fire and brimstone in a swirling storm around the sword before smashing it into the arena…the pillars of sinew and bones bursting and collapsing as the skulls hunt you down and smash them…it was insane .
Everybody talks like Rykard is character straight out of Berserk or something, but to be honest he is more like Elden Ring's depiction of Satan himself. Biblically devil was described also like snake. Considering that entire Rykard's location is like huge prison and purgatory for undead it suits hell fine. Also the moment when he literally summons thousands of fire skulls feels like hell or some kind of apocallyps. In addition name "Lord of Blasphemous" speaks a lot for itself.
@@deadlyapple8333 Makes sense. Snakes and reptiles are very different from us, they almost invoke a sense of uncanny disgust, especially in a time of limited information and research.
@@kaidothedrunkard Satan was represented, possibly even literally, a snake in the Old Testament. Mogh is just Mogh, while Rykard is a clear nod to the Bible.
@@kaidothedrunkard that Rykard is a representation of Satan doesn't mean that we can't have 2. Mogh being more like Lucifer, a fallen angel (wings given to him by the formeless mother) that waits for his moment to take the world under his dynasty.
0:45 those violins give me chills every time, usually im so into a boss fight that i never focus on the music that much but i always hear those violins over the fight and theyre so beautiful
The most Berserk bossfight for me so far. The nod to the Behelit sword, the parallels between Rykard and Emperor Ganesha, all sooo cool. I also felt like i was playing thru that devil scene in disney's Fantasia when Rykard just summons hell and the strings start flying.
@@aprettyfunnyperson4516 you're right, they do actually have pretty similar likeness in that way. I was thinkin more of the story / character parallels between Ganesha and Rykard, but I think that's what so cool about it; multiple references to different Berserk characters lol
Hearing the part at 1:13 and seeing all the flaming skulls rain down is one of the biggest holy shit moments in any Fromsoftware games i'v played. Amazing Boss with one of the best boss themes in Soulborne History.
Idfc if it's a gimmick fight. Hands down my favorite boss, arena and song in all of fromsoft history. Everything feels so grand. The first time I experienced this, When he starts summoning the flaming skulls, and the whole arena starts burning... Just so amazing. This fight is absolutely astounding. Everything about is just perfect
Gimmick fights are meant to be memorable because they play against the basic fundamentals of the game, but they're risky to pull off successfully and need a lot of thought behind their design, or else they might end up being the worst bosses of the game. See Rykard vs bed of chaos.
This could easily be an opera chorus from some late 19th / early 20th century work. Probably a scene where the hero descends to hell, or a Walpurgisnacht kinda deal. It has that classical but dissonant / post-Wagnerian vibe.
*exploding skulls rain from the sky* *Lava pillars erupt from the ground* *snake man winds up his big slam attack* My friend: “what the fuck is this” Me: “hell.”
This is maybe my favorite music in the game. The deep male voices, its unique from any other boss score. It feels so demonic and evil. From 0:42 through 1:30, that part man. The buildup of the trumpets, then the transition from the slow low voices to the faster chanting. That part is second only maybe to the intro to godricks second phase music for me.
No, but he seems programmed to sync up with it. A lot of people, myself included, saw him activate that attack trigger on the crescendo, but I think staggering him before that resets the timer for the attack.
@@itol2201 I can confirm that at a certain point in the fight (when the sky above becomes really vibrant, if you watch closely you can see souls come off his blade when he scrapes it across the ground, then they get added into the sky.) he is scripted to perform the skull rain attack, and then afterwards he does Taker's flames. The reason I can confirm this is because I stunned him while he was preparing the attack and he tried doing it again, I stunned him again and he tried again, over and over til we both simultaneously killed eachother
Having an actual Hungarian opera singer as the lead vocalist for this track was an absolutely fucking INSPIRED decision. Adds such a uniquely sinister and evil vibe to the fight that really sets it apart from even some of the absolute best boss themes in the game.
It is the moments when the choir subtly becomes almost dissonant/(with that second voice lifting it up a bit sharp?) that makes me feel the power and bizarre majesty of Rykard 1:56, definitely the most memorable boss out of the lot for me
@@MothDaxProbably. Wasn't too sure why it happened, and I would have preferred if I took him down in a way that was fair for him (if that makes any sense...), but he devoured me around 8-10 times before that stunlock-a-thon happened. Took that win and ran with it lol.
@@TheHikariOne i get what you mean, i had him stunlocked because he kept trying to do his rancor rain attack and I'd just keep stunning him I did get a pretty badass end though, we ended up killing eachother
ok so, the beginning and end of this music is Gravelord Nito, and the chaos in the middle and the violins at 00:45 is Seath the Scaleless (minus the xylophone lol). i always get that whenever i listen to this song, it's both of those songs combined and cranked up to batshit crazy in my opinion. gotta luv it
seeing fiery-skulls rain down while the entire ceiling begins spiraling above Rykard himself gave me the biggest “holy fucking shit i’m about to die” feeling
This is my favorite track so far. I swear the chills started as soon as i heard that guy voice and that made the fight an experience in a league of it's own.
Honestly if they took God Devouring Serpent and fully focused the fight about Rykard then he could of easily been the best boss, his first phase is what puts him down for me
I killed him on my first try because I was already over prepared and got to the mountain of the giants so I was upset I didn’t hear the theme for long LOL
TRUE! I was able to beat him on my very first try as well since I was already way too over leveled for the fight, as I was 230 with the fight. Definitely one of my favorite fights in the game and the 2nd phase is pretty incredible, as I'm a sucker for this kind of music in games
It's implied that the hands on the serpent are all the Recusants that have been offered up to Rykard. If the player were to be devoured by Rykard, we'd most likely join all those little arms on his body.
Divorce really does lead your kids down one hell of a path
Extremely underrated comment lmao
And as independant adults, they do the most adult thing
Throw a tanrtum
@@ibragimowbekhan0987 Ranni moment
@@alfalldoot6715 +Malenia
Kids these days… always getting hooked on God Devouring Serpents and all
1:19 M A C A N D C H E E S E
I want you to know I hate you as that's all I can hear now. Like Banana Tiger in the Witcher
You've ruined this song for me 😭
1:21 APPLE JUICE
1:22 PIZZA PAAAN
1:25 STAR BUUUCKS
It was amazing hearing 1:12 for the first time running around while the arena slowly turned into hell
Slowly? Turned to hell REAL QUICK
When Rya leaves her legos on the floor.
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*excellent*
I thought Rykard was the kind of father who builds legos TOGETHA with his sons.
When Rya starts selling meth to pay to provide for her family
@@Mohgenstein breaking bad reference
I like how the intro really encapsulated the disgust and horror you feel after that cutscene, then follows with this almost Berserk esque dark choir.
intro be like "Waaaat duuuuhhh fook is THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT"
I found the cutscene more funny then anything. The goofy snake voice took me out of it.
@@ziggytheassassin5835 "Now we can devour the gods tooogethaaaaa" can't stop laughing when I hear that lmao
We he literally looks like an Apostle straight outta Berserk. He should get a Shiro Sagisu-esque theme
@@ziggytheassassin5835 Funny but disturbing when you really think about it. But the snake voice is goofy.
"TOGETHAAAAA WE WILL DEVOUAAAAAH... THE VERY GODDSSSHHHHMMMM...."
-Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy
Than I call dibs on Marika's a**
- Someone, somewhere
"A serpent never dies" - Dying Serpent Man
@The ultimate, one and only UA-cam cooking channel Close enough indeed. xD
"NOOOoowww, WeeE Can Devour tha GoOODd THOGADAR!!"
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Me when my gf say she’s full and wont finish that pizza
This theme is HIGHLY underrated… you dont get to hear this incredible mash up of just beautiful orchestration quite like this one. They really throw it at you like this big overwhelming mass of snake person
Ye but you can't hear it behind the shower of FUCKING EXPLOSIONS that fly through the sky
Yeah this for me is easily the best song in the game. And the spectacle of the fight if you don’t cheese it is unmatched. The storming of flaming skulls…Rykard looming in the back raising his sword and sucking up all the fire and brimstone in a swirling storm around the sword before smashing it into the arena…the pillars of sinew and bones bursting and collapsing as the skulls hunt you down and smash them…it was insane .
It's up there with Gherman's song because they both make me actually cry in the fight
1:12 is truly amazing.
I completely agree
1:19 Mac and cheese
Now, we can enjoy the second phase theme TOGETHA!!!
Best comment here
Everybody talks like Rykard is character straight out of Berserk or something, but to be honest he is more like Elden Ring's depiction of Satan himself. Biblically devil was described also like snake. Considering that entire Rykard's location is like huge prison and purgatory for undead it suits hell fine. Also the moment when he literally summons thousands of fire skulls feels like hell or some kind of apocallyps. In addition name "Lord of Blasphemous" speaks a lot for itself.
Yknow in allot of cultures there seems to be a gaint snake trying to destroy everything until some king or thunder-god pounds his ass in
@@deadlyapple8333 Makes sense. Snakes and reptiles are very different from us, they almost invoke a sense of uncanny disgust, especially in a time of limited information and research.
If that's the case then wth is Mohg supposed to be? He looks more like Satan than Rykard does.
@@kaidothedrunkard Satan was represented, possibly even literally, a snake in the Old Testament. Mogh is just Mogh, while Rykard is a clear nod to the Bible.
@@kaidothedrunkard that Rykard is a representation of Satan doesn't mean that we can't have 2.
Mogh being more like Lucifer, a fallen angel (wings given to him by the formeless mother) that waits for his moment to take the world under his dynasty.
Never has a boss fight given me such a feeling of HOLY FUCKING SHIT as Rykard did.
0:45 those violins give me chills every time, usually im so into a boss fight that i never focus on the music that much but i always hear those violins over the fight and theyre so beautiful
i never listen to the music fully so i have it turned down to like 10% and its the only thing i hear during the fight
@@nojokejon9577 LMAO EXACTLY they're insane
@@nojokejon9577 That's a fucking sin, Elden Ring music shoul be 100%
Those aren't violins
I was gonna say the same thing. The are going wild uffffff.
So much Shiro Sagisu
Seeing the image, "oh Jesus he looks horrifying"
encountering him in game, *Laughing too hard at his hilarious TOGETHAAAA! voice*
then running in pure "fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck" from his exploding skulls while he summons Hell on you
@@maximiliansinigr3505 Yeah that got a little crazy, I just ran in any direction away from the apocalypse that was happening XD
The music in this game is a fucking masterpiece, hands down
The most Berserk bossfight for me so far. The nod to the Behelit sword, the parallels between Rykard and Emperor Ganesha, all sooo cool. I also felt like i was playing thru that devil scene in disney's Fantasia when Rykard just summons hell and the strings start flying.
Reminds me more of Grunbell than Ganesha in design since they’re both giant reptiles with human faces.
@@aprettyfunnyperson4516 you're right, they do actually have pretty similar likeness in that way. I was thinkin more of the story / character parallels between Ganesha and Rykard, but I think that's what so cool about it; multiple references to different Berserk characters lol
How did i not get that sword of actuation reference
Hearing the part at 1:13 and seeing all the flaming skulls rain down is one of the biggest holy shit moments in any Fromsoftware games i'v played.
Amazing Boss with one of the best boss themes in Soulborne History.
"A serpent never dies"
Hate to break it to you, Rykard...
Go back to where you fought him
here's the funny part, he isn't dead yet.
Death and rebirth seems to be a common theme in Elden Ring.
I went back to where Rykard is and his head is there, sure, but that doesn't mean he's alive
@@Sizzlesubsshouldn't then rya, simply get a larval tear and become fully human?
Idfc if it's a gimmick fight. Hands down my favorite boss, arena and song in all of fromsoft history. Everything feels so grand. The first time I experienced this, When he starts summoning the flaming skulls, and the whole arena starts burning... Just so amazing. This fight is absolutely astounding. Everything about is just perfect
Gimmick fights are meant to be memorable because they play against the basic fundamentals of the game, but they're risky to pull off successfully and need a lot of thought behind their design, or else they might end up being the worst bosses of the game.
See Rykard vs bed of chaos.
But lemme just say the choir and that opera singer is doing their thanggg
This could easily be an opera chorus from some late 19th / early 20th century work. Probably a scene where the hero descends to hell, or a Walpurgisnacht kinda deal. It has that classical but dissonant / post-Wagnerian vibe.
*M A C A N D C H E E S E*
I’m sayin sis 🔥
the violin work in the background has such a shiro sagisu vibe to it and I absolutely love it
Nice seeing a shiro sagisu enjoyer. I love his work on shin Godzilla
It really does! Nice catch.
Only Rykard and Ludwig have made me feel genuine dread in a boss fight.
1:12 when your mother caughts you awake at late of night
*exploding skulls rain from the sky*
*Lava pillars erupt from the ground*
*snake man winds up his big slam attack*
My friend: “what the fuck is this”
Me: “hell.”
And I assume you have to kill him legit to get his sword right? (Not using the serpent killer spear)
@@groudongamer3178 just trade his remembrance with the npc in the roundtable hold, no matter how you kill him
@@NiraSader oh.....okay so I'm just tires and forgot 😂. Thanks. Forgive my stupidity 🤣
“It’s hell, but the kind of hell I like”
Me: this is family
This is maybe my favorite music in the game. The deep male voices, its unique from any other boss score. It feels so demonic and evil. From 0:42 through 1:30, that part man. The buildup of the trumpets, then the transition from the slow low voices to the faster chanting. That part is second only maybe to the intro to godricks second phase music for me.
Do like the Choir goes all out when he's charging his huge flaming skull rain attack.
No, but he seems programmed to sync up with it. A lot of people, myself included, saw him activate that attack trigger on the crescendo, but I think staggering him before that resets the timer for the attack.
@@itol2201 Ah, never knew that.
I wouldn't take that as gospel. I'm mostly guessing.
@@itol2201 I can confirm that at a certain point in the fight (when the sky above becomes really vibrant, if you watch closely you can see souls come off his blade when he scrapes it across the ground, then they get added into the sky.) he is scripted to perform the skull rain attack, and then afterwards he does Taker's flames.
The reason I can confirm this is because I stunned him while he was preparing the attack and he tried doing it again, I stunned him again and he tried again, over and over til we both simultaneously killed eachother
Having an actual Hungarian opera singer as the lead vocalist for this track was an absolutely fucking INSPIRED decision. Adds such a uniquely sinister and evil vibe to the fight that really sets it apart from even some of the absolute best boss themes in the game.
i like how the choir goes ssoobadu ssapatuss sapatiss like a snake
0:49 This part mixed with the whirling sound of wind and fire HAS to be engraved into everyones minds.
I'm using this theme when my dnd party fight a gigantic wendigo Balrog creature : )
I purposefully didn’t use the serpent hunter just so I could listen to this absolute banger for a whole 40 minutes
I want this played on my funeral
"A serpent never dies" would be such an ominous thing to hear at a funeral.
Make sure to put a snake in your coffin for extra effects
Creakychair just raises from the dead, the sky turns red and explosively hot skulls begin to rain from the heavens.
0:45 sounds like something straight out of WoW. One of the songs from the Cataclysm expansion specifically.
I was gonna say same thing
Exactly!
I don't know why, but his merging with the serpent that devoured him makes him look like one of the 72 Demons of Goetia
Would be a final boss in ANY other game. But in fromsoft games? Just an optional secret boss
lets be honest both him and his Brother are Final bosses in their own right
I would prefer Rykard over Elden Beast, but a 2nd phase radagon would be better
Rykard sounds like he smokes 32 packs of cigarettes an hour
It is the moments when the choir subtly becomes almost dissonant/(with that second voice lifting it up a bit sharp?) that makes me feel the power and bizarre majesty of Rykard 1:56, definitely the most memorable boss out of the lot for me
Why can just imagine those arms hanging out of him playing the strings you hear
"A man cannot kill a god"
-🤓
the theme and his boss fight is very chaotic and the theme really shows as chaotic
I thought this guy was pretty hard up until stunlocking his second form for 100% of his health lmao. That damn spear is nuts for this fight.
Was he by any chance trying to use that one move where he stomps down before barraging you with a gorillion skulls and lava explosions?
@@MothDaxProbably. Wasn't too sure why it happened, and I would have preferred if I took him down in a way that was fair for him (if that makes any sense...), but he devoured me around 8-10 times before that stunlock-a-thon happened. Took that win and ran with it lol.
@@TheHikariOne i get what you mean, i had him stunlocked because he kept trying to do his rancor rain attack and I'd just keep stunning him
I did get a pretty badass end though, we ended up killing eachother
So Martys Logarius and Rykard walk into a bar
I love dying to this guy knowing i get to hear this again
waltuh
This music is fitting for sauron
god Rykard is so funny
And on the Second Phase, Lord Rykard said: let there be skulls.
TOGETHAAAA WE WEL DEVAURRRREE D VERY GODDSSSESSSSS
ok so, the beginning and end of this music is Gravelord Nito, and the chaos in the middle and the violins at 00:45 is Seath the Scaleless (minus the xylophone lol). i always get that whenever i listen to this song, it's both of those songs combined and cranked up to batshit crazy in my opinion. gotta luv it
0:45 is so good, it has such a haunting, epic, and intense vibe
seeing fiery-skulls rain down while the entire ceiling begins spiraling above Rykard himself gave me the biggest “holy fucking shit i’m about to die” feeling
the music scares more than the boss
A TRUE SERPENT, NEVER DIES
Reading the manga Kingdom is perfect for this track!!!
Goes hard af when you're trying not to get eaten
Wait, Rykard has 7 fingers?
Several thousand, if you’re counting all of the fiddly bits on the sword and poking out of the snakes body.
He did create the army of creepy hands, so not surprised he has extra fingers lol
The extra ones are from his FAMILYYYYY
He was made using AI
TOGETHAAAA WE WILL DEVOUR THE VERY FINGERS
1:19 Apple cheese, apple juice xD
pizza paaaan
BEST SOUNDTRACK IN THE GAME IMO
Bed of Chaos should learn from Rykard.
“i guess you two are a…”
*Match Made In Hell* -Max0r
Literally couldn’t even hear the song in the background with the amount of bullshit he was throwing at me.
Me when 0:45 plays: 🦟🦗🦟🦗🦟🦗🦟🦗🦟
Imagine hearing it live at opera or something
bloodborne 2 vibes ost
Can you do phase 1 Mohg
Certainly!
NOW WE CAN DEVOUR THE GODS TOGETHA
Togethaaaa!
This is my favorite track so far. I swear the chills started as soon as i heard that guy voice and that made the fight an experience in a league of it's own.
The Lord of Blasphemy: RYKARD. 🤘🏾🔥🤘🏾
Perfect
There should be a mod replacing Rykard face with Nikocado Avocado's
💀
Lord of Blasphemy? Your domain doesn't have much of a future...
Uncle Rykard.
Best song in the game
*TOGETHAAAAAA*
When the limo snake turned around and it was a fucking face😂😂😂😂
unfucking forgettable holy fuck
No one told me it went this hard
Just like how rykard grows on the god devouring serpent, this song is really growing on me
Honestly if they took God Devouring Serpent and fully focused the fight about Rykard then he could of easily been the best boss, his first phase is what puts him down for me
Thanks dude. I've been listening this for the past three hours. It's truly a banger
This is cool, but it'll never beat out Operation Pyrite. Thank you for that one, Max0r.
1:12 bellísimo
Maldad pura
The violin goes insane
The first ten seconds are the best to me.
yall like the bit at 1:12 but i think the vocals at the start is the best
I killed him on my first try because I was already over prepared and got to the mountain of the giants so I was upset I didn’t hear the theme for long LOL
TRUE! I was able to beat him on my very first try as well since I was already way too over leveled for the fight, as I was 230 with the fight. Definitely one of my favorite fights in the game and the 2nd phase is pretty incredible, as I'm a sucker for this kind of music in games
I feel like I have to devour all the gods
Everything abt this part is perfect
Rykard, lord of Veneto
1:10
I just kept Running!
is that image from when shirrako fought this boss
Good loop
Togethaaa
Familee
Wait, so is all those hands on the serpent the hands of different gods??
It's implied that the hands on the serpent are all the Recusants that have been offered up to Rykard. If the player were to be devoured by Rykard, we'd most likely join all those little arms on his body.
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1:02
✌🏾
1:25 brygf
Ihatethisboss
Mainly because I die IMMEDIATELY After this part at 1:45
Bloodborne better