Midra Lord Of Frenzied Flame DESTROYED my ears 🔥🤘| Music Director Reacts

Eldin Ring has such POWERFUL music!
This was a lot of fun to listen to even though it was SO loud LOL

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[tobiahhowell]

the lone Violin in the second part is a call back to a specific song played by a small faction in the base game. The merchants in the base game can sometimes be heard playing a violin, and reading into their lore shows that they were once part of a large caravan that traveled all over the lands between. until they were accused of heresy and a majority of the caravan were imprisoned beneath the capital sewers. in a cut questline one of them claims that they were falsely imprisoned for bringing about a curse upon the lands between. but in their eternal imprisonment, they called forth a power even worse, a flame that burns all away. every sin and every curse. the flame of frenzy. the song they play was meant to quell the flame of frenzy and help keep it under some amount of control. and that small solo violin part in the second half sounds very much like the song they play (the song is called "Song of Frenzied Flame Proscription").

[ajackson]

The solo violin in the middle at 20:42 is extremely deliberate.

Midra is the ‘Lord of Frenzied Flame’. Frenzied Flame is a constant mental state of Chaos, where everyone is completely overloaded with this red flame in their minds.

The most affected are these merchants who you meet on the way to the Frenzied Flame’s emissary. To help soothe the mad chaos that’s taken over their minds they play this violin motif you heard, which has a more soothing/gently loop.

In Midra’s track the soothing song is completely wiped out at the end by the high pitched ‘wail’ of a sound from the violin to signify that no amount of soothing music will save you from the Frenzy.

[nthprawn]

For some context in the second half of the piece. The boss is the embodiment of chaos, I’m not joking, that’s actually the lore behind this entity. In the second phase, fire is everywhere, there’s tons of explosions. That’s why the second half of the song is so dang loud. It’s INTENSE😓

[knivy]

only like 1/3 of the way through, but I think knowing what midra represents metaphorically I think can add a lot to the song - most game music is better with context of course. You bring up that the music is freaky and unnerving, and that's because what midra represents is just sort of nihilistic destruction. That's what I interpret the "flame of frenzy" to mean at least - the urge to destroy the world, as you think that humanity or perhaps just life itself is too cruel and unjust, given magical ethereal form that can sorta possess people. Or more so eradicate someone's soul, as in Elden ring bodies and souls aren't mutually exclusive, if that makes sense.

For reference, the character of midra was basically signed up for almost eternal torment as he was researching the concept of frenzy. Not necessarily out of want for destruction, more so just a curiosity as I understand it. But for even trying to comprehend it he was left to suffer as his entire land was kinda excommunicated from everything around it out of fear for even trying to comprehend "frenzy".

So what we fight in the game, and ultimately what the music is trying to communicate, is that you're fighting a person who has endured having the world's most painful piece of large barbed wire shoved down his skull, left to rot for who knows how long - and all that's left when we arrive is the urge to destroy everything in his wake. For him, death and destruction is freedom. That's why what represents his head is fire, all that's left is the desire for the end of everything, said fire has melted his soul away.


Not a major lore guy myself, but that's the context backing up this song from my layman understanding.

[Seelensocke]

Personally, I love the super loud part in the second half. The oppressive, descending choir that gives you a sense of doom and the perpetually swelling orchestra that gives you apocalyptic destruction. I can't help but love how endlessly, mind-numbingly dramatic this is.

[DudeNamedDude]

I wish we got Kalé's quest line in the base game. That monologue he has about what they did to his ancestors. The way he says "Divest thyself of everything... May Chaos take the world." Is said with such hopelessness and despair.

Then compare that to how Shabriri says "May chaos take the world", the dichotomy is so good. Shabriri fills you with fear as you hear his elation at the idea of the death of birth and souls. He wants you to share in his excitement and shows how he really only cares about imposing suffering on others.

Kalé makes you realize that someone can go mad through sorrow and despair. That some people want to see it all melt away because they've lost everything. They don't want total destruction from a place of malice but from a place of suffering. It's so tragic.

[gaunter]

Bayle is badly needed. Messmer too. Tony has his work cut out for him !
Great video as always

[lindabodenmann]

The depths of your foolishness!

Really enjoyed your video! I love this song. Best one of the OST for me.

[dearcastiel]

"it's pretty chaotic"
Well, given the fact it's the theme of the literal avatar of Chaos, I'd say they did a good job then.

[Fairuslolomg]

The bossfight lasts about 3-5min.

Usually you don't get to listen the whole first part of the song since the boss phase transitions about 70% health.

During phase transition is where that weird kinda metallic sound with the haunted strings appears (the one between the first and second halfs of the song)

Second half is that long to almost always make it that the final choirs appear when the boss is almost death.

[HailKosm]

the theme for Midra is definitely a callback to bloodborne, in fact the entire area of the abyssal woods and midra's manse is definitely Miyazaki inserting some bloodborne into elden ring. If you want more similar tracks you should check out the bloodborne OST if you haven't done so yet

[junoglrr]

Enough, i have endured, more then enough.

[Jksteel]

Towards the end I loved the build up to the crescendo, once the timpani got involved. It caused a delay time signature AND gave the vocalists time to stack TWO different choruses, the second chorus is a bit hard to hear due to the chaos but it’s there, and it’s awesome. Whenever I hear this part I feel like the wall of sound was a rocket breaking through different spheres but through a hurricane. The turbulence is high, it’s dark but you see light far off and there’s nothing else to do but to haul ass out of the hurricane, and the crescendo happens just as you reach that point and now it’s clear skies but you’re no longer on earth. Realizing you just conquered a hurricane mid take off.

[XogoWasTaken]

I actually *really* like the use of the 808/synthetic drum in the second phase of this, because that's not something you usually hear in soulsborne music. In every other piece, even when they do use synthetic instruments and vocals, they're trying as much as possible to make it sound like you're standing in front of a massive orchestra.

Here, that bass drum breaks that convention entirely with an unnaturally low thud, leveraging that historical stylisation to make the instrumentation sound distinctly *wrong* (in the best of ways). You come from other souls music to this one and immediately something has *changed* and you are in an entirely different kind of danger. It's super unsettling and does an incredible job of representing the scale and inherent wrongness and otherness of the Flame of Frenzy.

[Giganotus]

Shoutout to the hater in the comments who's letting people who like this track and the Elden Ring DLC's OST live in their head rent free!
Anyway yes the song is loud and chaotic and unpleasant, but that seems to be the point of it! Music that is unpleasant can be perfect for setting a scene after all

[SoI_Badguy]

The 808's are amazing in this song because they're so WEIRD MAN. It's probably one of the last things I would expect to hear in a fromsoft game. It makes the theme and it's boss seem just so alien and strange, which if you know the frenzied flame you know is totally on brand.

[brandoor]

Real question because I am a peasant who doesn't understand, how can the song itself be loud? Wouldn't it just be the specific video you watched and could just turn it down?

[thetsarofall]

This is one of my favorite osts from any game ever.

The sheer fear this song makes you feel with those bass drops is so good and fitting. The frenzied flame isnt just some enemy, not just another boss, not just yet another madman or monster. Its the physical manifestation of an all consuming, destructive and APOCALYPTIC force. The frenzied flame will burn away EVERYTHING if its allowed to, and in its power it can even burn souls. The primal fear you can feel from it is JUSTIFIED.

I also like the feeling of sadness in the song as well. The frenzied flame is despair and nihilism incarnate, the desire for the most downtrodden and oppressed of people to simply burn it all down so the suffering can stop.

Just like the bosses movement's however, the song has an elegance and sense of enjoyment to it. Like cutting loose and ceasing to care anymore, like someone would after they have reached the end of their rope.

And the violin of course. Played by the frenzy cursed merchants in game, hundreds of them found buried ALIVE under the capital of leyendel, many so maddened that playing that song is all they can do anymore.

Only for the song to twist and bend and burn and blow the melody away with its sheer volume and its own melody. There is no calming the madness now, merely an outpouring of violence with no care for the consequences.

may chaos take the world. Burn it all away, every curse, every sin, burn it all away in the yellow chaos flame. No more suffering, no more births.

[deepswing]

This was my favorite music from the whole DLC, followed by the Consort Radahn. This boss is something else, and yes you will listen to the whole piece if you are not doing though, it can be quite long. The boss has two phases, if you need longer for a phase then the music gets cleverly repeated. Next one from the DLC should be Bayle you should listen to, another awesome music. Thanks for everything Tony, love your content so much.

[kiiturii]

you could put this over the rumbling scene and it would probably go really well