"White Stone Black" (official lyrics in subtitles) - FFXIV OST 

that dragoon backflip at 7:58 is the most crazy confident thing i've ever seen in this game

Ah sweet, MAN MADE HORRORS BEYOND COMPREHENSION

Soken casually reminding us he is one out of 11 industrial music enthusiasts that still exist in 2023.

Hephaistos: uses ultimate attack WOL: imagines a phoenix “Sadly I was killed…. BUT I LIVED “

Tier 1: "So, Lahabrea is experimenting with... Turning the Ancients into cool vampires? Eh, don't see the problem frankly" Tier 2: "SEVEN HELLS PLEASE MAKE IT STOP"

The tears coming out from Lahabrea’s mask turning into nerves running down Hephaistos’ hood is still the coolest goddamn visual in this game. CBU3’s enemy design team popped off so hard this patch between this and the Four Fiends redesigns.

I love the little story telling in this phase him trying to bring back his wife and only when u make the phoenix and come back from the dead he starts his enrage like was using u as a labrat to create the answer for him

coming back to this after p12 hits different

Fighting the Resident Evil Enemy with DMC music in ff14, good times

I love how you win and your character does the happy ear-wiggle and it just... pans on the eldritch hellscape you're floating in. Like... how do you leave?

Can you believe this video is now 1% shorter? Dang.

SWORDTRICKSWORDTRICKGUNSWORD-

But Hespheistos is violating the FIRST RULE of alchemy. Thou shalt not try to bringeth back ye dead. Do thus, and thou shalt be sorry.

Phase 1 theme: Upbeat "you're at the end" type of boss theme Phase 2 theme: *pray*

The SMN summoning Phoenix right as everyone got the Phoenix buff is a poetic coincidence xD

Saw the Primals play this live at Fanfest 2023, and it FUCKING SLAPPED.

The classic move of making us fight a boss that could easily have been the final boss of his own game mid-tier. Oh, how I love it.

Someone in the XIV team REALLY likes Capcom games

"Silence..... Brings violence.... Violence.... Swearing to silence"

This really sounds like something from Devil May Cry, I love it.

dat DRG backflipping into the Dominion tower tho

If I heard this without knowing it was FFXIV, I would think it came from Devil May Cry.

This fight gave off huge Hojo/Jenova/Sephiroth Vibes with that transition and the Plaguelike/Virus floating amidst the background. Especially considering where this is leading storywise with everything Lahabrea has been up to, oh and you know, Ericthonios seeking *Mother*.

A Resident Evil boss with Devil May Cry music. I didn't realize there was another Capcom collab

"Mom can we get William Birkin?" "No, we have William Birkin in FF XIV." *William Birkin in FF XIV*

the bass beat is almost like a heart beat.

shout out to squeenix for actually going to space to find all these brilliant composers

Love can be ugly.

8:00 Damn that was a scary close Elusive Jump

Funny how this and Hic Svent Leones both had one or two verses we understood perfectly without debate (“Here in The Valley your death casts no shadow” and “Shadows shifting paradigm”), and then the rest was a total clusterfuck

Hearing this at Fanfest was great.

It has been 1 year since this game peaked.

Yoshida: so the idea of this savage fight is Hephaistos going berserk in how much he misses Athena and figuring out how to create Phoenix for the first time. Soken: okay, cool Yoshida: and this is what the design looks like Soken: Yoshida: Soken: I have the perfect fucking idea for a beat.

i wasn't expecting a savage original theme to have lyrics for once, but here we are

0:26-0:37 is super underrated and should be longer in the track

It’s a shame a lot of players who don’t do savage may never even know this track exists.

Official Lyrics Dropped for the song! Silence, warning us to violence Violence, swearing us to silence Black mark payback, marking time With a stone of white do we mark up the night Shadows shifting, paradigm To the man behind, prithee pay no mind Roughshod riding, overdrive Tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind Milling slowly grinding fine All the rotten grist on which I dine

This quickly went from Final Fantasy to Resident Evil Hephaistos straight up became Birkin

I swear I hear "now you've really crossed the line" somewhere in here. DMC3 vibes.

3:01, why hello there Hello, World.

I get a bit of a Parasite Eve meets DMC vibe from this theme, love every minute of it.

Admittedly I don't have the time or interest right now to play the hardest content this game offers, but man if the tunes aren't rockin, even if they are more chill like this one.

As a Bloodborne player, I absolutely love this eldritch boss fight

Song rules, but can we talk about this boss design?! Holy shit.

You gotta imagine that they had a LOT of fun designing that giant pile of whattheactualfuckery we fought in Savage mode.

You know it just occurred to me while I was high this song is actually really good on loop for prog since it’s like a lofi with a good upbeat so you won’t get to tired from it

This was the best Boss intro I've ever seen in my entire life.

This was such a treat for prog. I'd avoided listening to it before my static hit phase 2 for the first time and I'm glad I did. Loved it far more than P4S P2. Also the 1% nerf to health is the specific reason we cleared, we run 2 casters 2 melee, and got our first kill while enrage went off. Two people died to the enrage cast and we killed it as it faded out.

This looks like a bayonetta mixed with resident evil endboss enemy perfectly mixed with dmc music

Lyrics to the song: Silence born into violence Violence swearing to silence Silence leads to violence Violence swearing to silence Clutch almighty, hold on tight To begin new thinking, wandering mind Memory slowly, blinding white Power unto this stone we shall pray Black-bound infinite, mocking time When the sun rose up, do we long for the night Shadows shifting, and we die To the land behind, we pay no mind Clutch almighty, hold on tight To begin new thinking, wandering wide Memory slowly, blinding white Power unto this stone we shall pray Black-bound infinite, mocking time When the sun rose up, do we long for the night Shadows shifting, and we die To the land behind, we pay no mind Clutch almighty, hold on tight To begin new thinking, wandering wide Memory slowly, blinding white Power unto this stone we shall pray Black-bound infinite, mocking time When the sun rose up, do we long for the night Shadows shifting, and we die To the land behind, we pay no mind Clutch almighty, hold on tight To begin new thinking, wandering wide Memory slowly, blinding white Power unto this stone we shall pray Silence Violence Silence Violence Black-bound infinite, mocking time When the sun rose up, do we long for the night Shadows shifting, and we die To the land behind, we pay no mind

I love this OST and boss....very Lovecraftian......love the Lovecraft stories and Old Gods/entities......and this song go SO WELL with him

Awesome that it includes the transition. So crazy

Just got here with my static late into the tier (so happy) and while I read up on mechanics, I didn't spoil the transition or music until we all got there. Such a banger and an awesome track to wrap up the tier with!

The second phase bgm we needed! Damn this hits different I can't wait to get to this fight. Upset I started this tier so late XD

Thanks for including the transition! Banger music once again by soken!

that's a G-virus ass mutation if I have ever seen one

Gotta give it to Soken for this. I don't listen to this genre of music but I can say this is my favourite track for this tier.

The song title reminds me of one of the processes to make a philosopher stone in ancient alchemy. The white stone mixed with the black stone to creat the red stone, the perfect material. The magnum opus. Which also reminds me of red mage and itçs mix of white and black magic to make, well, red magic

One of the best battle OST, I love it so much :D

According to RU-vid recap this was the song/video I listened to the most :D

It was awesome hearing the PRIMALS rendition with Koji at the vocals at the FanFest. Very awesome! It was one of those neat surprises. :)

I cant be the only one that thought this bosses design is something straight outta Soul Sacrifice and thats pretty kickass.

The RE2 x FF collab nobody knew was coming. William Birkin is the One-Armed Angel.

I have the feeling that Lahabrea and Elidibus' spirits are going to show up in the Aitiascope in modern day to end Pandaemonium's plot.

Reminds me of Brisela, Voice of Nightmares from MTG. If I didn't know better, I'd say Emrakul's influence knows no bounds.

official lyrics for White Stone Black are out now, and its nowhere close what people assumed lol; Silence, warning us to violence Violence, swearing us to silence Silence, warning us to violence Violence, swearing us to silence Roughshod riding, overdrive Tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind Milling slowly, grinding fine All the rotten grist on which I dine Black mark payback, marking time With a stone of white, do we mark up the night Shadows shifting, paradigm To the man behind, prithee pay no mind Roughshod riding, overdrive Tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind Milling slowly, grinding fine All the rotten grist on which I dine Silence, Violence, Silence, Violence

This has Takafumi Imamura all over it, I'd be absolutely surprised if this song wasn't by him. Also those secondary vocals are 100% Shootie HG, he has worked on a bunch of FF games going back to XIII-2 Crazy Chocobo. Also did some DMC.

Ah yes. Another song to add to my DRK Xaela playlist

Is it wrong to refer to High Concept 2 as "Build-a-Bird Workshop"?

Still reminded of Armored Core with this music

I love how the ot is just called ot

We finally have official lyrics for this Silence, warning us to violence Violence, swearing us to silence Silence, warning us to violence Violence, swearing us to silence Roughshod riding, overdrive Tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind Milling slowly, grinding fine All the rotten grist on which I dine Black mark payback, marking time With a stone of white do we mark up the night Shadows shifting, paradigm To the man behind, prithee pay no mind Roughshod riding, overdrive Tilting windmills wicked, wandering blind Milling slowly, grinding fine All the rotten grist on which I dine Silence, Violence, Silence, Violence

Me again. I just realized that this is less a fight and more just weaponized alchemy lol

This track bangs so damn hard.

this song absolutely fucks, absolute banger

I swear I hear the Dragon Quest magic casting sound at 2:52 and nobody ever comments about this it's driving me insane

We can do it devs! We can reach the Cthulhu type of design! It's... so... close!

His arm is straight up some t-virus shit

I must be hearing things, but I swear I'm hearing the little dragon quest sound for whenever you cast a spell. It pops up every once in a while.

I love the Frontline Assembly vibes in this song

Ahh now this makes sense Hephaistos in Greek Mythology is supposed to be hideous and crooked. He is also the Smith of the gods, a god that knows how to forge with Fire.

Grats on the clear Uvi

The lyrics are really deep

We had Dracula from Castlevania for Circle 4 and now William Brikini from Resident Evil for Circle 8. Who are we getting for Circle 12?

DMC3 OST vibes

massive props for bringing a PLD along we need more love ;-;

Finally, biblically accurate angel.

armored core and DMC what a mix

I love how this is recommended to me in October as Halloween draws near. As the visual image of some helpless guy suddenly becomes a mega mutated abomination from Silent Hill. Stunning.

This boss is straight out of Parasite Eve

my favorite song if the expansion so far

You put this song on any FFXVI combo clip and it wouldnt be out of place at all

Makes me want to take up Savage so I can get the Orchestrion

At least it is not mitochondria

Birkin, is that you? Is this where you ended up when the lab/nest in RE2 exploded?

This is another of those songs that gives Xaela DRK's their hidden motivation buff.

Black angel wings? check, seeking "mother"? check, very alien design? check. The music here is so good as well

wow this is Very Devil May Cry

I hated this fight so much, but I always come back for the music

What genre is this because holy shit I need more