One of the final songs in Secret of Mana, the battle with Dark Lich. This boss battle is unique in that most of the boss themes play the same song, but Dark Lich has own theme before you take on the Mana Beast. Boss music from Squaresoft seems to always be recognizable even after several years. Like the other boss battles, you should stick with casting magic like Lucent Beam and stay away from this hands when he fades aways. If his hands stun your characters unconscious, they will be unable to move for a while. Quickly wake them up with a medicinal herb because his hands can continue to attack your characters while they are stunned.
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[..YouTube..] I love this theme!
[..YouTube..] it’s a great theme from one of my favourite games, i killed this boss a hundred times
[..YouTube..] I Love this! Evil, macabre and amazing theme!
[..YouTube..] Greatest boss theme I’ve ever heard!
[..YouTube..] Yeah! :top:
[..YouTube..] best fight song/ game ever
[..YouTube..] best game ever
[..YouTube..] my favorite theme!
[..YouTube..] this is one of the only boss fights that uses a different boss theme than all the others othe than the mana beast
[..YouTube..] Ditto! ^__^ Ya know what this youtube site needs? A loop/repeat button so I can listen to the music over & over again without having to click on play manually!
[..YouTube..] Most FREAKY Boss music EVERY! Yet still strangely catchy!
[..YouTube..] this sound is amazing…perfect when you´re in fighting-action!!
[..YouTube..] Best theme in hole ENTIRE game.
[..YouTube..] This is probably one of the most classic games ever…I still play it…It will forever be one of my favorite games. This theme is the best theme in the game, I like the sounds at 00:39 and 1:31 my favoite hehe.
[..YouTube..] Also there is a big glitch in how to get the Mana Sword right after you get level 8 sword. Message me if you would like to know.
[..YouTube..] Is this the first and last time I have heard of a lich even though they exist elsewhere according to wikipedia?
[..YouTube..] A lich is a mainstay in fantasy, though the only example I can readily cite is in Dungeons and Dragons, which references a spellcaster who has forsaken his life in a dark and evil ritual for an eternity of study.
[..YouTube..] Also, the name of this song is “The Oracle.”
[..YouTube..] “A lich is a mainstay in fantasy, though the only example I can readily cite is in Dungeons and Dragons, which references a spellcaster who has forsaken his life in a dark and evil ritual for an eternity of study.”man that makes this extra ironic…this was uploaded on my birthday, i go to yale and on my birthday felt like i should be celebrating instead of sitting in my dark apartment studying…again…good definition of lich though
[..YouTube..] Oookay, I know it. But when and where in the game does this music play?
[..YouTube..] When you fight Thanatos, the betrayer of Emperor Vandole. The Girl kills him, revealing him to be undead.
[..YouTube..] During the second-to-last boss battle. Even after defeating Dark Lich/Thanatos, you still have to face the Mana Beast.
[..YouTube..] Weird…. I played the whole game up to the end, but I can’t remember that boss O.o
[..YouTube..] You know… the giant… skeleton… wizard… ghost… person…?
[..YouTube..] Now, at last, I’ve seen him again… dug out my old console and startet playing again xD
[..YouTube..] FFVII and Secret of Mana two of Square”soft” ’s best games. But that’s debateable right? Anyways 5/5 thanks for the upload.
[..YouTube..] Well its about time a dj got his hands on the Gamelan Degung!
[..YouTube..] man I forgot how rockin this song is. I love this game, I love this song. thanks for this. I think I will favorite this.
[..YouTube..] Yea, is based on Bali music, if you know, you can hear the Kecak “Song”
[..YouTube..] Perhaps one of the most exciting songs in any Game I ever played, beside some tracks of Secret of Evermore and Terranigma
[..YouTube..] One word: Nostalgia
[..YouTube..] thanatos looks like that dude off tekken o.O
[..YouTube..] Secret of Mana had really bizzare, interesting choices of instruments for music, like this one which is all percussion. The sad part is that the game itself is more like a 7.
[..YouTube..] I just shit my pants!
[..YouTube..] nice…always loved this piece!
[..YouTube..] Combination of: Creepy - Awesome - IT ROCKS :D! = AWESOME! :d
[..YouTube..] 7/5 imo.
[..YouTube..] Is this in Mono or something, It sounds off in comparison to the original…
[..YouTube..] This is a great song to scare the shit out of your little brother with a Afican made mask and a voodoo stick, and dance around his bed with this playing to wake him up XD!It not like i ever did it or anything <_<
[..YouTube..] nice song indeed… i love it xD
[..YouTube..] I still have the VHS tape of me beating this guy from 90….something cause the music was SOOOO bad ass.5/5Fav.dSubbed
[..YouTube..] HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!So wrongSo funny
[..YouTube..] best SNES game!!!
[..YouTube..] kick ass i wanna download it
[..YouTube..] My favorate theme of Secert of Mana and one of my top 5 favorate all time Video game themes.
[..YouTube..] I LOVE THIS SONG!!! I cannot put into words how much fun my brother and I had when going up against this guy. This was the best boss fight we have ever experienced together. And that’s because the song went together so well with the action!
[..YouTube..] why does this sound like it’s been recorded off a TV?
[..YouTube..] OMG me too. This battle was so badass. It was the culmination of the whole game and it wasn’t even the final fight. I remember after watching him kill dyluk, all i wanted to do was kick his ass.
[..YouTube..] It makes one wonder were all the creativity and originality went with videogames and movies. The 2000s’ is so haynecked its not funny. Most videogames of today have lame music, poor story, tried and true boring gameplay, too many sequels, and little to no 4player splitscreen. What happened to 4 player fighting games like Power Stone or the streets of rage like games or unique rpgs like xenogears (PS1) and secret of mana. Road Rash 64 was one of the funniest and entertaining games ever.
[..YouTube..] When me and my friend first got to him the first thing that I noticed was how awesome the song was.
[..YouTube..] Damn FFVII
[..YouTube..] I miss old school Square games so much.
[..YouTube..] haha, I remember when I was seven playing this game, this part creeped me out, the music is so fitting for the scary skeleton magician! XD thankfully I didnt have to do anything though, the whole battle went to my sister since she was playing as the girl lolI love this game =]
[..YouTube..] can06 ff7 is to blame for making videogames so shitty. Just check my profile for an explanation.
[..YouTube..] no way chrono trigger is better, maybe this would be 2nd i guess
[..YouTube..] Fucking love this song its like Stage 7 on Rocket Knight Adventures both songs here sound like club remixes.
[..YouTube..] Chrono Trigger’s music is pretty overrated, I think Secret of Mana and Lufia series tracks spank it. Gameplay wise, Trigger wins by a tad! This games weapon and magic system is highly addictive.
[..YouTube..] Frog’s theme, 600AD, Peaceful Days in Town or whatever, Zeal’s theme.. the rest isn’t as good =P
[..YouTube..] Ugh don’t forget Zeal’s star children Schala and Magus - they had the two best themes in the game!600 AD kinda annoying, same with Frog’s theme heh but of course it’s all opinions.
[..YouTube..] it´s Tantalus Time
[..YouTube..] this game is way better than chrono trigger. in my opinion. XD
[..YouTube..] amen
[..YouTube..] I think this game is a bit too messy to be honest :p At the end you have a bit too big arsenal of spells, and you need to cast them very many times to improve in skill. Also, a lot of walking ganking a lot of monsters around.Still a very solid game, but not better than “sent from the heavens” Chrono Trigger.
[..YouTube..] i respect your opinion but come on. this game was really not that messy. the spells were needed to get though the game and the mana fortress was a bitch. Secret of mana in one of the most overlooked games of the early 90’s. and yes i still think this game is better than “sent from the heavens” chrono trigger. ^^
[..YouTube..] i like chrono trigger too but secret of mana is purely better
[..YouTube..] na chrono trigger is in my opinion
[..YouTube..] lol that your opinion
[..YouTube..] Well, I would just like to point out that Chrono Trigger got much better critics than Secret of Mana^^
[..YouTube..] we all have one :p
[..YouTube..] God they don’t make them like this anymore.
[..YouTube..] at 26, ponders where his childhood has gone so fast…
[..YouTube..] Critics don’t make a game good or bad. I like Secret of Mana better too. That’s just my opinion, as well as the contrary is yours. But base your opinions in your own criteria, not in “critics”
[..YouTube..] This was supposed to be a reply to YellowMagi, even if it shows as an independent comment.
[..YouTube..] Well, if critics can’t decide whether a game is good or bad, what can? All you can say that “you” think this game i better, not that i really is. Can we jsut say that both games are amazing, and leave it to that please? ;P
[..YouTube..] I haven’t played Chronotrigger, but SoM makes me happy enough.
[..YouTube..] Ahh, this tune is badass.
[..YouTube..] This music still makes me quake with fear.
[..YouTube..] you must. you can’t go through life without playing that game.
[..YouTube..] you don’t know what your missing. SoM is awesome but Chrono trigger is even better
[..YouTube..] this is perhaps the most badass boss theme of any game everthanks to the poster
[..YouTube..] best game! best boss theme!
[..YouTube..] NO WAY!! som is way better but I guess its just my taste. lufia 2 is better than those to combined.oh and btw chronotrigger is more than decent to
[..YouTube..] Agreed w/ anomalousone. Most badass boss theme of any game ever….ever.
[..YouTube..] Damn, it’s just so cool. I can’t stop listening to it!
[..YouTube..] Whats with MONO? You can’t get the real Jist of the music in mono…
[..YouTube..] I love this theme!I downloaded this on the VC!
[..YouTube..] This would be some awesome music to listen to while playing Unreal Tournament!
[..YouTube..] chrono trigger is good but not as hard as Secret of mana. the bosses may not do chain cast but they don’t need to. and the monsters can easly kill you if you don’t have good armor on. the dark lich is hard because he got some nasty spells and he sometimes makes his hands come out of the floor and attack you. secret of mana is better. the 3rd boss in secret of mana was really hard. spike tiger that would engulf you in fire, chew on you, crush you, and lower your attack.
[..YouTube..] To fix that you can just put &fmt=18 or &fmt=6 at the end of any video w/ mono.
[..YouTube..] Yea id have to say spike tirger was prolly top3 hardest
[..YouTube..] this is sooo possesd sounding…I can feel the evil lol,.,.
[..YouTube..] THE Kel’Thuzad of ‘90 XD and after that Malygos (mana Beast),but only three ppl to down them lol. EPICCCCC
[..YouTube..] i remember that fight, i remember finally beating him and yelling “ha take that u bastard” the minute my parents were coming through the door
[..YouTube..] wtf? XD
[..YouTube..] please by all means do not compare secret of mana to wow ^^;
[..YouTube..] YEAH !! One of the best fights of this game.THANATOZ RULES !!!!
[..YouTube..] OMG CREEPY SONG!!!
[..YouTube..] Sounds like some old Aphex Twin stuff ( epic )5 Stars …I miss playing this game
[..YouTube..] Hahaha awesome annotations ftw!
[..YouTube..] Oddly enough, this music reminds me of Le Gran Luxe from Shadow hearts.
[..YouTube..] PSYCHODELIC
[..YouTube..] fuck I wanna rave when I hear this!
[..YouTube..] My blood pressure goes waaaaaay up when I listen to this song, and my skin kinda crawls… this song is pure evil!
[..YouTube..] Mmmmmm sexy.
[..YouTube..] when goes into the floor stay away from because he will do heavy dmg to kill any party memeber
[..YouTube..] hm… i noticed that your sound is only on the left side of the speakers…
[..YouTube..] Ya you gotta watch it in HQ
[..YouTube..] ridiculous music for it’s time. best soundtrack ever
[..YouTube..] This TOTALLY sounds like something out of Akira, and that movie was jittin’ crazy! I gott hand it to Kikuta for one BadAss soundtrack.I wouldn’t be suprised if him and and guys like Geinoh Yamashirugumi often fed off each other in their musical designs. 5 stars!
[..YouTube..] Can you feel the beat? Can anybody say where i got or downloadf this soundtrack? Or give me this in MP3, please. Please.
[..YouTube..] I love this kinda boss music, so intense and dark.
[..YouTube..] If I was an evil beast of true badass evil, this would be one of my songs easily….
[..YouTube..] i pulled my snes out yesterday, i still have this game, awsome soundtrack
[..YouTube..] dark lich is very easy i have all lvl 9 weapons and all magics are at 9 the mana dragon is better as him
[..YouTube..] This sound Evil & Dark!…I love it!!hehe Thanks! 5/5
[..YouTube..] This is from an era when developers put their heart and soul into a game. Pity; we don’t ever see that anymore.
[..YouTube..] only sounds like weird techno stuff to me.
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[..YouTube..] I 100% agree with you they worked HARD with what little materials they had with the midi system and went the full length.
[..YouTube..] My favourite music theme in my favourite snes game, I’ve made 98 levels in this game
[..YouTube..] can’t wait to hear this played by a full orchestra. great track !
[..YouTube..] SNES era struck the perfect balance of technology and gameplay. Prior to 16-bit, graphics were ugly and music was bloopy. After 16-bit, gameplay started dumbing down in favor of fancy polygons. SNES graphics were beautiful, the sound was rich, and the gameplay was actually fun.
[..YouTube..] THIS MUSIC R POSESS BY TEH DEVIL!O_O
[..YouTube..] Lemme translate that for the noobies.;D”I’m a retard who doesn’t know how to spell the and I replace is by r.”"I’m a superdouche.”
[..YouTube..] I’m certain that, although the internet masks it, anyone could have seen the joking undertone of the misspelling. But you must’ve felt that to puff yourself up, you needed to take me completely seriously and insult me. Allow me to translate what you’ve just said”I’m a self absorbed prick who can’t just leave a joke alone and feel that I need to insult someone to feel better about myself”Now here’s my fun. If you reply, you were thinskinned enough to let this get to you. If not, you lose.
[..YouTube..] I’ll reply to that because “I’m a self-absorbed prick.”I didn’t insult you because I need to feel better about myself, I did because “I’m a self-absorbed prick.” I had to puff myself up because, “I’m a self-absorbed prick.”Thank you for your time.
[..YouTube..] So in other words, you’re not denying that you couldn’t just leave a joke alone as well as showing that you’re thin skinned enough to respond to a comment obviously posted to provoke. And I’m very glad to see you’ve come to terms with your being a prick. You amuse me.
[..YouTube..] I’m glad I amuse you.Yes, I’m a prick.No, I’m not thin-skinned, I’m just being what you said I was, a “Self-absorbed prick.”
[..YouTube..] I’ll pretend this convo went:XphaetonVx: I was being facetious QuickstartBlazin: It’s coolFor someone who’s blazin’ you seem to be quite critical and not so jocular. Smoke some and chill out.
[..YouTube..] Black people.
[..YouTube..] I dunno why I only did 0 dmg on this boss without charged hits >.>Whenever I charge my attks i’d only do 300dmg at best =/Anyone know why I was doing such terrible dmg on this guy?
[..YouTube..] Meh, tried weed, didn’t like it.
[..YouTube..] Epic music! my favorite song from the bosses in this game
<3I’d did beat the crap out of this guy w/o charged attacks :)) (i did have all though, lvl 99 - all armor, max spellz, everything 
- many hours of playing)< — Addicted to SoM 
[..YouTube..] By far the best song of the Secret of Mana OST. It might compair to some songs from the Chrono Trigger OST.
[..YouTube..] I would shit myself if i had to fight someone and they came out to this music
[..YouTube..] White people.
[..YouTube..] This is scary theme o_oEPIC!
[..YouTube..] all i did was use lucent beam and the fire balls on this guy
[..YouTube..] the download the rom and patch it with hard secret of manadark lich has in the hard versionabout 30k hit points and resistance against light
[..YouTube..] try lucent beam 3 times in a row it does 999 dmghe has also weapon dmg resistance thats why you do less dmg to himoh and he fly
[..YouTube..] Brown people.
[..YouTube..] My lucent beam was only lvl 3 and it only did like 400dmg at the most =/and on the final battle I reeked badly at him…..I only did 250dmg this time. All my spells were useless =/
[..YouTube..] ok that is really hard to beat him withlucent beam lvl 3 but with light magic lvl 5 and higher, he is really easy
[..YouTube..] play this at a Halloween party!
[..YouTube..] I will never forget it! My best friend and me beat this dude on Halloween. We were very young. So it was fucking awesome for us.This music made us really nervous xD
[..YouTube..] Well I did beat him after using a number of charged hits. I ran out of MP and healing items during the fight with the mana beast.
[..YouTube..] Most metal-like tune I heard on a videogame when it came out- *HEADBANGS*
[..YouTube..] this songs been playing in my head for over 15 years.
[..YouTube..] if anyone wants to know, the actual name of this song is “The oracle”
[..YouTube..] Best. Fucking. Song. Ever.
[..YouTube..] i love it best rpg evar uniq in al ways
[..YouTube..] I had a terrible nightmare after listening to the theme O.O
[..YouTube..] I got fucking euphoric, when Listening…Scuare Musik ROCKZ <3In each fucking Decade, Century and Millenium <3 Ya know?!
[..YouTube..] *HEADBANGS* Dude I would fight that Lich over and over and OVER JUST to hear this theme, BEST Boss fight theme of any 16bit old school games!!!Its a freaking Shame there are NO good remixes of it!!!
[..YouTube..] this song makes you feel so accomplished when you finally BEAT THE LIVING CRAP out of this guy lol
[..YouTube..] i always think about the end fly (the manga) when ban appears!!!!!ca me fait pensez au manga fly a la fin quand myst prend le corps a ban LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
[..YouTube..] same.
[..YouTube..] great lyric. “how much wood would a woodchuck chuck”
[..YouTube..] this is even more awesome than the mana beast theme OO…best theme in SoM!!!!!!
[..YouTube..] OMGODZORZ!!!!kk1 qui parle francais sur youtube!!!!!Great battle theme but I prefere the mana beast theme better! ;P
[..YouTube..] ouaiVIVE LA FRANCEwhen you listen seriously 0:52..it’s break music serious battle!!!!
[..YouTube..] Vive les plage en France, sa c sûr!Je vit au Québec!That song’s awesome!
[..YouTube..] i paused the game just to listen to that theme as i was young ! favorite!
[..YouTube..] I got scared of this when I played it the first time, I was about 10 years old..
[..YouTube..] DIK DIK DIK
[..YouTube..] wicked one winged angel and even dancing mad can suck it
[..YouTube..] This would make an awesome rap if someone added lyrics to it.
[..YouTube..] please dont even start with tard shit like making a rap out of this epic one.rap sucks.Secret of Mana is simply perfect *_*5* ^.^
[..YouTube..] When I first heard this song back in the dayI was like “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON”. One of the best boss themes ever.
[..YouTube..] I was mad that I never got last orb for some of the weapons, I never got the swords, the gloves, the boomerang, and i think a couple more. I just kept playing and they never popped up.
[..YouTube..] @FreddeMeansChaos Effin right dude this my fav tune as a kid for real
[..YouTube..] Having met the composer of this song, I think he might agree.
[..YouTube..] ugh, even as a grown man this still creeps me the fuck out. i imagine a horde of rotting skeletons trying to break in, then chasing me screaming down the street 8|
[..YouTube..] I still love this game, the music is simply superb, this theme is one of my favourites…. Really creepy and perfect in that way.
[..YouTube..] had a Halloween party last year and used this as one of the party songs haha
[..YouTube..] i did the exact same thing
[..YouTube..] lol
[..YouTube..] haha thats awesome!
[..YouTube..] 8 bit black metal… siiiiiick.
[..YouTube..] Man this whole damn trak just says, Get ready cuz Im comin for yo azz!!! LOL.Love it!
[..YouTube..] Hands down the best song from this game.
[..YouTube..] @divinemanifestation It’s more like 8-bit Industrial..It’s too techno-ey to be metal
[..YouTube..] i’ve only played Sword of Mana and Dawn of Mana, not this one but i have a feeling it’s better, and the music is bumpin’
[..YouTube..] bumpin’
[..YouTube..] When I played this first time around I was ced to fight this boss D:
[..YouTube..] Tetsuo- Iron man?
[..YouTube..] you never get tired of it hahaha
[..YouTube..] borgore should cover this.
[..YouTube..] Perfect theme for that boss… totally got my attention.
[..YouTube..] shit is evil!
[..YouTube..] It really was an “oh shit” moment
[..YouTube..] Don’t you love boss music that distracts you from fighting to listen to its awesomeness?? XD
[..YouTube..] I listen to this almost everyday.Its that awesome!
[..YouTube..] fag ! fix that video ! its mono dumbaz
[..YouTube..] This still stands as my favorite video game music ever. So damn heavy, you can picture that creepy bitch stalking you.
[..YouTube..] Perfect music for that boss. Shit still freaks me out.
[..YouTube..] The Oracle
[..YouTube..] @SergeOfArniVillage haha, yeah this song is epic
[..YouTube..] Me and my brother used to loop this game so many times, and we’d pause the game during the boss just to hear this awesome music before pummeling Dylucks ass with Lumina beams.Damn, this game rocked my world.
[..YouTube..] i cum in my pants when i hear this, i freakin love this game!
[..YouTube..] @divinemanifestation INDEED xD Release was 1993, maybe some bands got inspired
[..YouTube..] I got a terrible nightmare from listening O.o
[..YouTube..] I’ve never had the passion to play Secret of Mana, but good god DAMN, the Dark Lich is a SUPERB boss battle. The music is even gorgeous.