Elden Ring vinyl & cutscene

Bandai Namco has put *Shadow of the Erdtree* on vinyl, while a newly surfaced deleted *Elden Ring* cutscene has reopened debate over Miquella’s story. (store.bandainamcoent.com) (youtube.com) The official store listing calls it “ELDEN RING: SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE – Official 2-Disc Vinyl Soundtrack” and says the set is a store exclusive with an expected release date of April 20, 2026. The page lists 18 tracks across two discs in a gatefold sleeve. (store.bandainamcoent.com) Bandai Namco’s product page credits Yuka Kitamura, Shoi Miyazawa, Tai Tomisawa, Tsukasa Saitoh, and Soma Tanizaki as composers, and names late-game tracks including “Messmer, the Impaler” and “The Promised Consort.” (store.bandainamcoent.com) At nearly the same time, modder and dataminer Lance McDonald published a video showing what he described as a “never-before-seen map file” and an unfinished deleted cutscene of Miquella planting the Haligtree. McDonald said the footage also shows how the scene was intended to trigger during earlier development and testing. (youtube.com) That pairing lands in a game world where Miquella sits at the center of the expansion. Bandai Namco’s official *Shadow of the Erdtree* page says players enter the Land of Shadow and follow Miquella, while the June 27, 2024 sales announcement described the expansion as a new chapter in the *Elden Ring* story. (bandainamcoent.com 1) (bandainamcoent.com 2) The audience for both releases is large. Bandai Namco said on June 27, 2024 that *Shadow of the Erdtree* sold 5 million units in three days, and FromSoftware said on July 24, 2025 that the expansion had passed 10 million units shipped worldwide. (bandainamcoent.com) (fromsoftware.jp) The cutscene itself is not canon just because it was found in the files. Deleted scenes show ideas a developer tested and removed, and McDonald’s upload presents this one as unfinished material from earlier development rather than content restored into the shipped game. (youtube.com) The vinyl, by contrast, is fully official merchandise tied to a finished release. Bandai Namco’s store says the soundtrack revisits the expansion’s music as a collector item, while a separate listing for “The Vinyl Collection” offers a larger five-disc, 36-track edition built around the same expansion. (store.bandainamcoent.com 1) (store.bandainamcoent.com 2) So one side of this week’s *Elden Ring* conversation is fixed in wax, with a release date and track list. The other is still a fragment from the cutting-room floor, and fans are reading it against a story Bandai Namco and FromSoftware already shipped. (store.bandainamcoent.com) (youtube.com)