Who composes the music for Dark Souls?

The music of Dark Souls is credited chiefly to Motoi Sakuraba, the prolific composer of Tales, Star Ocean and Baten Kaitos, and to Yuka Kitamura, the FromSoftware sound designer whose string-driven writing became the series’ second signature. Before them, Demon’s Souls had its own voice: Shunsuke Kida’s live orchestra and choir. Across the wider shelf the pattern holds, Kitamura leads Sekiro’s score (with Noriyuki Asakura contributing), Bloodborne spreads its writing across six composers, and Elden Ring fields a five-composer team.

The music outgrew the games early. In February 2017 the Paris Salle Pleyel hosted an orchestral concert of music from across the Souls series, and a limited vinyl soundtrack box followed in Europe that September, among the first signs that this music was entering the concert-and-vinyl afterlife of classic game scores.