Classical Musician (And Fan) Breaks Down "Almighty Bhunivelze" 

Since I did properly break this beast down, I might as well share the timestamps for the actual soundtrack too (the real soundtrack, not this video). • (0:00-0:29): The Chaotic Organ Intro • (0:29-0:47): The Battle Ark • (0:47-1:35): The I-Don’t-Give-A-Shit-Organ Interlude • (1:35-1:44): The Chanting Ark • (1:44-2:04): The Chanting Interlude • (2:04-2:40): “Saber’s Edge” • (2:40-3:12): The Silent Ark • (3:12-3:30): “Nascent Requiem” • (3:30-3:55): “Caius’s Theme” • (3:55-4:09): The Brass Interlude • (4:09-4:39): The Catchy Ark • (4:39-4:47): The Two Note Interlude • (4:47-5:29): The Harmonic Ark • (5:29-5:41): The Harmonic Chanting Ark • (5:41-5:50): The Harmonic Chanting Interlude • (5:50-5:55): “Ragnarok” • (5:55-6:09): “Fighting Fate” • (6:09-6:33): The Haunting Ark • (6:33-7:02): The Chaotic Organ Intro • (7:02-7:20): The Battle Ark • (7:20-8:08): The I-Don’t-Give-A-Fuck-Organ Interlude • (8:08-8:17): The Chanting Ark • (8:17-8:37): The Chanting Interlude • 8:37-9:13): The No-Saber’s-Edge Ark • (9:13-9:45): The Silent Ark • (9:45-10:03): “Nascent Requiem” • (10:03-10:28): “Caius’s Theme” • (10:28-10:42): The Brass Interlude • (10:42-11:12): The Catchy Ark • (11:12-11:20): The Two Note Interlude • (11:20-11:47): “Fighting Fate” • (11:47-12:00): The Everything-At-Once Interlude • (12:00-12:10): “Fighting Fate” • (12:10-12:43): The “Dancing Mad” Organ Ending • (12:43- ) Loop

Ahhhhh, I can't believe someone made this video!! I'd literally been thinking about making this video for years and years, because this is possibly my single favorite piece of music across the entire medium. I just have never met another person who cares about this piece, hahaha, so I never thought it was worth the effort. It incorporates so much from across the whole trilogy; it's simply amazing. Great analysis! Maybe I should try not to sleep on my next back-burner idea: "The ridiculous pianistic virtuosity of Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth" 🤣

I cant get over this song eve after many years. And I learned quite a lot from this, good stuff!!

I loved this, I was only surprised to not hear you mention the final ark motif in the organ solo at the end. It's playing an arpeggiated version of the ark (albeit somewhat 'jazzy'). Perhaps "The Arp Ark" for the nick name haha Love this content.💜

Almighty Bhunivelze has to be one of my most fav songs in the entire franchise. Your analysis on it made me love it even more!

Yes yes yes! A tremendous YES to everything you said! This track is all about the conflict between Bhunivelze and Hope. You can hear their struggle back and forth. Just the fact that there’s so much chaos within the theme is proof of the war with the human heart within Bhunivelze, since chaos is unique to humans, given to them by Etro behind Bhunivelze’s back. Bhunivelze hates chaos but his theme is rife with it. Hope is FIGHTING and crying out to Lightning. God, this track goes SO HARD. Thank you for breaking it down. Bless you!

Damn I never guessed the Ark's theme is used as a base for this entire track the whole time. I gotta listen more to the tracks to pick such references. Your analysis was pretty nice and I am looking forward for more 13 trilogy track analysis from you.

I loved your analysis to Almighty Bhunivelze, and you even catched more themes than I originally did. I think its so haunting how its a "collage" of all past themes, alluding to the "omnipresence" Bhunivelze has as the creator of the universe. Technically, everything thats happened up to this point, has been connected to him, his purpose, and actions. Its chaotic nature makes this theme feels like Bhunivelze is losing his control, both over the universe, and himself due to Hope. Have you talked about Divine Love? I feel its so interesting how, when compared to the phase 1-2 themes its still very similar-- but more chaotic.

This is amazing! I analysed this soundtrack as a project at uni, and I'm glad to say we agreed on most of it! I really liked what you said about the track telling a story, it makes a lot of sense! And you got more references than I did, I wish I could add them to my work lol... I'd like to add that I think the organ plays some of the Saber's Edge piano in the IDAF interlude, I dont know if you agree... anyway, thank you so much for this, I enjoyed it immensely ❤

It's sad that we can't hear the entire loop before we either die or kill Bhunivelze. The fight is too short for this amazing theme :/

Hello 'tis me, chronic enjoyer of your musical rants, and THIS is what I call a proper unleashed let's go analysis, I hope you enjoyed yourself this time you had no time restrictions (you probably did). I have no idea about the story or the characters but I feel like I was just musically educated a little bit, which I always enjoy. I also enjoyed the implications of just how much absorbing a human soul will inevitably change a creature, a topic very relevant to another of my fandoms lmao

Cec, the video came out great! The call backs and themes are very clearly laid out and it's easy to follow. I'm genuinely surprised at how little the Ark get's credited, normally, in the piece when it's easily the most prominant part of the track. Which, yeah, makes sense in the context of the story. Also, never going to stop self inserting 'mother fu****' after you say 'dea mortis'!

Wow I never realized there were so many recurring themes in this song🤯. It's great to see someone take the time to explain all the details so in dept, and that for a niche game that is more than a decade old (time flies lol). Keep up the great work!

Awesome video! I enjoyed a lot, and there was a lot of things didn't found even after listening so many times