This episode gets a little more into the song-writing process. I was still kind of putting riffs together when I recorded this footage. You also get a glimpse of how this song sounded 3 years ago when I first recorded the demo. Back then, it was only the idea for a couple of verses and choruses, and it was more based on a minor pentatonic scale. A lot of these riffs have been laying around for a long time. I could just never get them to fit together until now.
Lyrically, I was initially trying to make this an historically accurate song about mummies while also explaining why Dracula has two mummies hanging out in his fucking castle. It made no sense, so I dropped all of the nerdy historical references; though everything in the lyrics now make an indirect reference to Egyptian mythology. You'll hear a lot of references to shadows, bodies, souls, the sun, wings, and gods. All in all, here is my interpretation of the third stage of Castlevania:
Dracula had, long ago, intercepted the spirits (ba) of two Egyptian mummies, which rendered them unable to achieve their ultimate goal of spending their afterlife with the gods. Dracula instead uses them as slaves to battle anyone that makes it that far into the castle. It is then up to Belmont to follow through on a double whammy: defeating the mummies so he may advance, while at the same time, releasing their souls from Dracula's grasp so that they may enjoy the afterlife they so desire.
Just further evidence that I'm looking way too far into this game.
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