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# In our favorite story ever, Burial chooses Dark Souls 2 over producing new music
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/burial-says-hes-sorry-dark-souls-2/
- Published: 2014-01-31T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-20T21:06:46.000Z
- Description: He named himself in public. Then he said the record would be late.
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: music, News, dark souls, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39, electronic music, Burial, ambient, fromsoftware, creative process

This story is so Kill Screen it hurts. Burial, the hermetic electronic artist on Hyperdub known for grainy, pitch-black beats, has apologized to fans, saying that the sublime *Rival Dealer* EP might be the last we hear from him for awhile. Why? Well, because he’ll be consumed by *Dark Souls 2*, like the rest of us. The thing about Burial is that, though prolific, he’s reclusive to the point where you could question if he exists. His *Dark Souls* name-drop was part of a blog post in which he revealed his true identity to the world for the first time. He outed himself to in effect say “Gone gamin’!”

[His words](http://www.hyperdub.net/burial/?ref=killscreen.com):

> *Hopefully by the end of most years I have done some tunes that are decent enough to release. but Dark Souls 2 is on the horizon soon so I’m not sure if I will have many new tunes for a while because I need to play that game a lot. But I’m going to try to get some new tunes together before it comes out.*

This is another signal that game creators and music creators are starting to speak to one another through their work. And it’s perfect that a game as austere and brilliant as *Dark Souls* could be indirectly informing music as austere and brilliant as Burial’s. I wonder if the From Software guys listen to Burial. They should definitely meet.

(Thanks @WJDDrew!)

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