The Satan Might Cry Present’s Intro Music Is So Stupidly Wonderful

Earlier this week, Netflix pulled again the curtain on its 2025 slate, which incorporates the beforehand introduced Devil May Cry adaptation. Together with a premiere date of April 3, we acquired a have a look at the present’s opening credit, they usually’re a riot. What makes them so good? The track, naturally.

Of all of the tunes to open a Satan Might Cry present, Limp Bizkit’s 2000 single “Rollin’” shouldn’t be the one anyone in all probability would’ve ever guessed. If something, that is the perfect track that might’ve been picked, and never simply because “Rollin’” and Satan Might Cry 3, whose manga the present appears to be taking some plot parts from, respectively flip 25 and 20 this yr. From its a number of protagonists to the music that blares as Dante, Nero, and whoever else slice up demons with their comically giant weapons, DMC is a sequence constructed on silly swagger and feeling like the good child within the room. It’s actually a product of the 2000s, which additionally goes for Limp Bizkit because it acquired to be featured within the first Quick & Livid and Mission: Impossible 2.

If the Satan Might Cry’s intro is providing you with any nostalgia for the responsible pleasure bands of your youth, that’s a part of the purpose. Govt producer Adi Shankar revealed the present is about in his reminiscence of a “late ’90s/early 2000s PS2 period” of the world fairly than current day. Because it’s a throwback, the allegedly kickass soundtrack could have a combination then-current hits and basic DMC songs reimagined by digital band Energy Glove. And if the present will get to proceed, Shankar mentioned future seasons could have their very own distinctive feels (much like how the video games do), and alter up their intro songs and sequences. This present intro reveals the sequence could have slightly little bit of every little thing: not solely do the swords Yamato and Pink Queen—respectively owned by Dante’s twin brother Vergil and his nephew Nero—function prominently firstly, later sequences trace on the inclusion of a number of recreation villains like authentic huge unhealthy Mundus and the Order from DMC 4, plus Girl, an ally of Dante’s who first confirmed in DMC 3.

How a lot of that is really within the season versus planting seeds for what Shanker hopes is an ongoing hit? We’ll discover out when Satan Might Cry hits Netflix on April 3.

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