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Clinton Darryl "Clint" Mansell (born 7 November 1963) is an English musician, singer, and composer. He served as the lead vocalist of alt-rock band Pop Will Eat Itself. After the band's dissolution, Mansell moved to the United States and embarked on a career as a film score composer. He partnered with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky for his films Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, and Noah. Other notable scores include The Hole (2001), Sahara (2005), Doom (2005), Smokin' Aces (2006), Definitely, Maybe (2008), Moon (2009), The Rebound (2009), Last Night (2010), Stoker (2013), Filth (2013), Ghost in the Shell (2017), Loving Vincent (2017), Mute (2018), Rebecca (2020), and Love Lies Bleeding (2024). On television, Mansell wrote music for the Black Mirror episode San Junipero and the DC shows TItans, Doom Patrol, Peacemaker, and Creature Commandos along with Kevin Kiner.
Set in the Kingdom of Lothric, a bell has rung to signal that the First Flame, responsible for maintaining the Age of Fire, is dying out. As has happened many times before, the coming of the Age of Dark produces the undead: cursed beings that rise after death. The Age of Fire can be prolonged with the linking of the fire, a ritual in which great lords and heroes sacrifice their souls to rekindle the First Flame. However, Prince Lothric, the chosen linker for this age, abandoned his duty and watched the flame die from afar. The bell is the last hope for the Age of Fire, resurrecting previous Lords of Cinder (heroes who linked the flame in past ages) to attempt to link the fire again; however, all but one Lord shirk their duty. Meanwhile, Sulyvahn, a sorcerer from the Painted World of Ariandel, wrongfully proclaims himself Pontiff and seizes power over Irithyll of the Boreal Valley and the returning Anor Londo cathedral from Dark Souls as a tyrant. The Ashen One, an Undead who failed to become a Lord of Cinder and thus called an Unkindled, rises and must link the fire by returning Prince Lothric and the defiant Lords of Cinder to their thrones.
