![]() Sets the stage, but for what? You can imagine the enormous Lovecraftian hellbeast carefully rehearsing cheery dance moves, if you like. Ween live at Blue Hills Pavilion, Boston, 2017 Track #1: “Dancing in the Show Tonight”Īn opening reminiscent of an orchestra tuning. For the unbelievers who need further evidence, I submit this definitive mapping of each song from Ween’s 1997 album The Mollusk to scenes from Bloodborne’s DLC, The Old Hunters. One of these things came before the other, and in my book that’s plenty to demonstrate causation: Ween directly inspired FromSoft. Like the Souls franchise, Ween transcended from niche interest to cult classic to genre-defining pop sensation through their masterful combinations of precision, variety, eccentricity, and humor.īut art doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Armchair Bloodborne theorists have drawn tired comparisons between the game and Kentaro Miura’s dark fantasy manga Berserk, but a lesser-known - though self-evidently much more important - influence can be found in American alternative rock band Ween. ![]() ![]() Not every game has werewolves and cosmic horrors and invisible demon babies and self-administered injections of what’s probably menstrual blood, so when a game does, it’s natural to want to dig into how they got there. ![]()
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