Spanish guitar weeping through stone corridors. Blasphemous: The Stir of Dawn is the 2020 DLC expansion for the brutal pixel-art metroidvania, and this small soundtrack addition is devastatingly focused. Baile de Violetas gets performed four different ways across cello, clavichord, guitar, and piano versions.
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Each one reframes the same melody through a completely different emotional lens. The cello version is gut-wrenching. The clavichord one sounds ancient and sacred. Cinco Miradas Tiene la Aurora rounds out the set with something that feels like a prayer at dawn, all reverence and sorrow.
Five tracks total but each one carved deep. If you want proof that a DLC soundtrack with one song in four arrangements can still wreck you, press play on the cello version first.