BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast

Episode #447 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan wraps up October 2026 with another eclectic mix in Radio Hour, Volume 92! It's our annual Halloween special! Just like usual, we've got a terrifyingly fun episode packed with scares, ghouls, black cats, and of course, the undead. Enjoy the holiday being on a Saturday this year, and as always, stay safe if you're out celebrating. Happy Halloween! Email the show at [email protected] with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff & Mike. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Victory Theme from Halloween: The Game [John Carpenter/Mark Rutherford, 2026] Graveyard Gremlins from MachiaVillain [Chase Parker, 2018] Temple of Nightmare from Jack Bros. [Hiroyuki Yanada, 1995] Zombies Dance When The Drums Play from Lollipop Chainsaw [Akira Yamaoka, 2012] Bloody Mansion from Halloween Forever [bc likes you, 2016] Track 9 from Magic The Gathering: Battlemage [Greg Turner, 1996] Lily of the Valley from The Cat Lady [Michal Michalski, 2012] Main Menu from Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom [Michael Patti, 2026] Crimson Forest from Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom [Michael Patti, 2026] Undercity from Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom [Michael Patti, 2026] Title Screen from Tenebris Somnia [Pablo Borghi, Clara Kovacic & David Levill, 2026] Field Of Souls from Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival [Milos Nikolic, 2026] The Noose from Valor Mortis [Arkadiusz Reikowski & Oskar Bala, 2026] Sloth Battle -Trent- from Dead Rising 3 [Celldweller, 2013] LINKS Patreon: https://patreon.com/bgmania Website: https://bgmania.podbean.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Facebook: BGManiaPodcast X: BGManiaPodcast Instagram: BGManiaPodcast TikTok: BGManiaPodcast YouTube: BGManiaPodcast Twitch: BGManiaPodcast PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast Listening Religiously

Bonus Episode #81 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Kyle return to the shadowy world of Castlevania with Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, a gothic adventure that resurrects the legendary Belmont bloodline and brings the series' signature blend of supernatural horror, relentless action, and labyrinthine exploration back into the spotlight. Armed with the iconic Vampire Killer whip, the guys venture into a world crawling with nightmarish creatures, deadly secrets, and the unmistakable atmosphere that has made Castlevania one of gaming's most beloved franchises. There's more than a little bad blood to go around as they sink their teeth into the game's challenging combat, satisfying exploration, intricate environments, memorable boss encounters, and the delicate balance between honoring the series' legacy and carving out something new. Along the way, they discuss the highs and occasional frustrations of the adventure, how it stacks up against other entries in the franchise, and whether this latest chapter delivers the experience longtime fans have been waiting for. Naturally, the conversation wouldn't be complete without a look at the game's haunting soundtrack, including its fresh musical ideas and a reimagined Castlevania classic, before the duo puts the final stake in their review with their closing thoughts and scores. Email the show at [email protected] with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff, & Mike. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Bloodbound from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] Streets of Fire from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] Gravefall from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] Bone March from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] Bloody Tears from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Kenichi Matsubara/Daniel Asadi, 2026] Crimson Dungeon from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] Iron Clock from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] The Stolen Cathedral from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] The Passing of Power from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] The Last Blood from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] Burning Son from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] Mirror Trap from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] Deadly Embrace from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] Lord of the Night from Castlevania: Belmont's Curse [Daniel Asadi, 2026] LINKS Patreon: https://patreon.com/bgmania Website: https://bgmania.podbean.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Facebook: BGManiaPodcast X: BGManiaPodcast Instagram: BGManiaPodcast TikTok: BGManiaPodcast YouTube: BGManiaPodcast Twitch: BGManiaPodcast PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast Listening Religiously

Episode #446 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth are signing the intake forms, snapping on the hospital bracelets, and checking themselves into the gloomiest wards in gaming for an episode all about Asylums & Sanatoriums! From the locked halls of Mount Massive to the crooked spires of Thorney Towers, we’re keeping spooky season going inside the institutions horror games can’t stop dragging us back to, where the doors only lock from the outside, and nobody’s sure what’s real anymore. Visiting hours are over, and the gate just clicked shut behind you. This week’s all about the places nobody checks out of easy: flickering corridors, padded rooms, rusted gurneys, and the kind of quiet that makes you wonder who’s listening on the other side of the door. Sometimes the asylum is a crumbling building on a hill, and sometimes it’s the one you carry around in your own head. Pull up a chair in the dayroom, dim the lights, and try to make it out before the night shift starts its rounds. Email the show at [email protected] with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff & Mike. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Welcome to the Asylum from Outlast [Samuel Laflamme, 2013] Surreal from Alice: Madness Returns [Jason Tai, 2011] O.R.T from Silent Hill: Origins [Akira Yamaoka feat. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, 2007] It Hunts Me from Fran Bow [Isak J. Martinsson, 2015] Cold Corridors from The Evil Within [Shuichi Kobori, 2014] Dr. Loboto's Lab from Psychonauts [Peter McConnell, 2005] Isolated -The Asylum- from Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines [Chiasm, 2004] Last Lullaby from Neverending Nightmares [Sklyer McGlothlin, 2014] Look Who's Laughing Now from Batman: Arkham Knight [Nick Arundel & David Buckley feat. Mark Hamill, 2015] Consequences from Get Even [Olivier Deriviere, 2017] Morimoto Hospital from Persona 2: Eternal Punishment [Atsushi Kitajoh, 2012] Welcome To The Annual Blackwood Winter Getaway from Until Dawn [Jason Graves, 2015] Out of the Asylum... from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League [Nick Arundel, 2024] Ending -Final Credits- from Sanitarium [Stephen Bennett & Jamie McMenamy, 1998] LINKS Patreon: https://patreon.com/bgmania Website: https://bgmania.podbean.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Facebook: BGManiaPodcast X: BGManiaPodcast Instagram: BGManiaPodcast TikTok: BGManiaPodcast YouTube: BGManiaPodcast Twitch: BGManiaPodcast PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast Listening Religiously

Episode #445 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth are dusting off a forbidden tome, lighting a single candle, and peering into the cosmic unknown with a tribute to the master of weird fiction himself: H.P. Lovecraft! From the sunken city of R’lyeh to the gothic streets of Yharnam, we’re exploring games inspired by the Providence author whose sleeping gods, secret cults, and unknowable horrors have been creeping into video games for decades. Somewhere between the first track and the last, you’ll freeze alongside the crew of a doomed North Sea oil rig, hack through a cursed jungle in search of a mound that should’ve stayed buried, hum along as Cthulhu himself crashes the Christmas carols, go on a very questionable date with the Black Goat of the Woods, and drift across a cosmic sea where the sky seems to stare back. Email the show at [email protected] with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff & Mike. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Welcome Home - Trapped from Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss [Nicolas Garcia feat. Tina Guo & Budapest Scoring, 2026] The Evil One from Splatterhouse 3 [Eiko Kaneda, 1993] Hail The Nightmare from Bloodborne [Ryan Amon, 2015] Crypted Chaos from Dusk [Andrew Hulshult, 2018] The Drowning of Davey Rennick from Still Wakes the Deep [Jason Graves, 2024] Searching for the Mound from The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu [Patricio Meneses & Sebastian Palacios, 2026] Carol of the Bels from Cthulhu Saves Christmas [Joshua Queen, 2019] Spaceship from Cthulhu Saves the World [Gordon McNeil, 2011] Lovecraft Boss Fight from Tesla vs Lovecraft [Pandocrator, 2018] Rhok'zan from Sucker for Love: Date to Die For [xtraspicy, 2024] Spiritual Combat from Laplace no Ma [Akiko Kosaka, 1995] The Penitent from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem [Steve Henifin, 2002] Cosmic Sea from DOOM: The Dark Ages [Finishing Move, 2025] The Light Carrier Test from Alone in the Dark [Olivier Deriviere feat. The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices, 2008] LINKS Patreon: https://patreon.com/bgmania Website: https://bgmania.podbean.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Facebook: BGManiaPodcast X: BGManiaPodcast Instagram: BGManiaPodcast TikTok: BGManiaPodcast YouTube: BGManiaPodcast Twitch: BGManiaPodcast PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast Listening Religiously

Bonus Episode #80 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan reviews Silent Hill: Townfall, the first full-length entry in the series played entirely in first person, from Scottish studio Screen Burn Interactive and co-published by Konami and Annapurna Interactive, out now on PlayStation 5 and PC. It’s 1996, and Simon Ordell wakes up in the cold water beside the docks of St. Amelia, a fog-covered island town off the Scottish coast with no one left in it. He has an IV bag hooked to his arm, a hospital wristband with his name on it, and a battered portable TV that keeps picking up voices who seem to know exactly who he is. What happens when Silent Hill leaves its own town behind and washes up on a Scottish shore? Bryan chases that question across all eight segments. He wanders the stone streets and abandoned homes of St. Amelia and digs into the tangled connection between Simon, the nurse Zoe Ellis, and the mysterious Richard. He tunes in to the CRTV, the series’ iconic radio reimagined as a pocket television, and explains why the game’s forced stealth sections and its hidden ending system tested his patience. The longest segment asks whether Townfall needed the Silent Hill name at all. And the soundtrack gets a full segment of its own, as Bryan explores composer Pilotpriest’s dark, ambient take on the series and the dynamic score he built with the sound team at Arrival. Email the show at [email protected] with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff, & Mike. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Hymn from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Apology from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Wailing from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] What Happened To Us from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Drifted from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Home from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Welcome from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Pull from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Gone from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Sleep from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Come Closer from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Last Place from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Staring from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] Otherside from Silent Hill: Townfall [Pilotpriest, 2026] LINKS Patreon: https://patreon.com/bgmania Website: https://bgmania.podbean.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Facebook: BGManiaPodcast X: BGManiaPodcast Instagram: BGManiaPodcast TikTok: BGManiaPodcast YouTube: BGManiaPodcast Twitch: BGManiaPodcast PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast Listening Religiously