On November 6, the official Phantom Blade Zero soundtrack went live. It is released by Milan Records, a label of Sony Music Entertainment, and the rights line is unusually specific: the recording is owned by S-GAME's registered entity, Beijing Lingyoufang Technology Co., Ltd., and licensed exclusively to Milan Records. Apple Music's listing credits the album to Caisheng Bo, the composer behind the game's score, and counts 81 tracks across four discs.
A second release landed the same day. The ending song, "My Heart Beats True," was issued as its own single performed by Sha Bao Liang — one track, 4 minutes 43 seconds. It is not one of the 81. The album's final track is "Lóng Unleashed (2026)," so anyone who wants to hear the vocal closer on a streaming service has to look up the single rather than let the album run to the end.
Who released it, when, and where it can be heard
Milan Records handles the release. The full rights line reads "℗ 2026 S-GAME - Beijing Lingyoufang Technology Co., Ltd., under exclusive license to Milan Records, a label of Sony Music Entertainment," which puts the recording with Lingyoufang and the distribution with Sony's label.
The release date is November 6, and Apple's catalog entry matches the date on the English-language coverage. Final Weapon's November 6 report names Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube as the streaming services carrying the album, and the official announcement describes it as available for streaming and for purchase. No further channels are spelled out.
The composer credit is a single name: Caisheng Bo. The series' music has been his across the project, and this is his own credited album rather than a collection of contributions from several composers.
81 tracks, four discs, 4 hours 39 minutes
The four-disc split is not marketing language. It survives in the digital release as metadata: Apple's catalog assigns every track a disc number and a position on that disc, and the 81 tracks divide into 20, 20, 21 and 20.
| Disc | Tracks | Runtime |
|---|---|---|
| Disc 1 | 20 | 67 min 42 sec |
| Disc 2 | 20 | 69 min 02 sec |
| Disc 3 | 21 | 68 min 56 sec |
| Disc 4 | 20 | 73 min 15 sec |
| Total | 81 | 4 hr 38 min 57 sec |
Every disc lands between 67 and 74 minutes, and the spread between the shortest and longest is under six minutes. That is roughly the amount of music a single CD holds. Whether the split was cut to fit the medium or to follow the game's progression is not stated anywhere; the track distribution supports either reading. Disc 4 is the longest, and the only one whose last two tracks are both re-recordings.
What each disc actually holds
Disc 1, 20 tracks, 67 min 42 sec. It opens on "Valley of Mist" and closes on "Soaring Lóng (2026)," running through "Against the Flow," "A Night of Rain (2026)," "Mountain Pursuit," "The Axemaster," "Surging Sha-Chi," "The Hunt's Twin Sickles," "Forest of Ambush," "The Drunken Sword," "Thieves' Refuge," "No Fear Ahead," "Homesick Puppets," "Hua the Bride," "Bloodline Legacy," "Where Dusk Lingers," "Asura of Wrath," "The White Serpent," "As If It Were Yesterday (2026)" and "Forever and Aye (2026)." This is the only disc that ends on three re-recordings in a row.
Disc 2, 20 tracks, 69 min 02 sec. It starts on "Unbridled Across the Land (2026)" and finishes on "The Sword's Echo (2026)," with "Before the Moon is Whole (Chiba & Guitar Duet)," "Outside the Village of Lu," "A Way Through," "When the Clouds Part," "Secrets in the Rain (2026)," "Blaze of Vengeance," "Adrift in Mist," "Backstreets of Pangzhen," "Voice of Wanyue," "Long Awaited Return," "Shifting Illusions," "Shadow Wardens," "Wan Jun, the Coppermaul," "The Acolytes," "Red Tassel, Old Bonds," "A Fleeting Journey," "Reminiscence of Youth" and "A New Ambition" in between. Pangzhen shows up in a track title here for the first time, at position nine.
Disc 3, 21 tracks, 68 min 56 sec. The only 21-track disc, running from "Xiaokui (2026)" to "A Final Farewell," and carrying "Toward the Light," "Iron and Jade," "Before the Moon Is Whole (Guqin & Chiba Duet)," "The Killing String," "Souls in Wood," "Strings of Qiansui," "A Weathered Mandate," "The Waning Sun," "The Seven-Stars Formation," "Sword of Despair," "Echoes of Despair," "The Puppet Pit," "A Lightless Sky," "Snake House (2026)," "Grave Hunger," "Mirage Estate," "A Stage of Blades," "Azure Crescent" and "Triple Threat." It has the densest run of proper nouns on the album.
Disc 4, 20 tracks, 73 min 15 sec. From "The Awakened Lion" to "Lóng Unleashed (2026)," and the longest of the four: "The Lion's Return," "The Past Unbound," "Jade-Face," "A Wake of Blood," "Realm of Mirage," "The Flawed Pipa," "The Three Unbound," "Bound in Frost," "Blizzard Blademaster," "Divided by Duty," "A Hero's Finale," "Soulrend Cliff," "The Path Ahead," "The Crusher and Saw," "The Last Battle (2026)," "Bound by Threads," "The Lady Descends" and "The Severed Lóng." The late-game material clusters here.
Across the 81 titles, 20 begin with "The" and 13 carry a parenthetical — the eleven "(2026)" tags plus the two duet arrangements. The remainder are mostly plain two- and three-word phrases, several of them mood pieces with no name attached: "Adrift in Mist," "A Lightless Sky," "Bound in Frost," "Where Dusk Lingers."
Track titles that name the game
A sizeable share of the titles use proper nouns straight from the game, which makes them readable without hearing a note.
Bosses are the most direct group: "The Axemaster," "The Drunken Sword," "Hua the Bride," "Asura of Wrath," "The White Serpent," "Blizzard Blademaster," "The Crusher and Saw," and the pair "The Awakened Lion" and "The Lion's Return," which sit back to back on the same disc and follow the lion-dance thread. "The Lady Descends" and "The Severed Lóng" land late on disc 4, matching their position at the end of the album.
Places form a second line: "Valley of Mist," "Forest of Ambush," "Thieves' Refuge," "Outside the Village of Lu," "Backstreets of Pangzhen," "Mirage Estate," "Soulrend Cliff," "Snake House," "The Puppet Pit," "A Stage of Blades." The titles travel with the map, from a mist-covered valley to the backstreets of Pangzhen to a mirage estate.
A third group is people and factions: "Xiaokui," "Voice of Wanyue," "Wan Jun, the Coppermaul," "The Acolytes," "Shadow Wardens," "The Three Unbound," "Jade-Face," "Red Tassel, Old Bonds." Some of these map onto a boss or a stronghold; others exist only in the track list.
What the album does not do is label which track belongs to which location, or to which phase of which fight. The names line up with the game, but the running order is not a walkthrough.
The eleven tracks tagged (2026)
Eleven of the 81 titles carry a "(2026)" suffix, and all four discs have at least two.
- Disc 1: "A Night of Rain (2026)," "As If It Were Yesterday (2026)," "Forever and Aye (2026)," "Soaring Lóng (2026)"
- Disc 2: "Unbridled Across the Land (2026)," "Secrets in the Rain (2026)," "The Sword's Echo (2026)"
- Disc 3: "Xiaokui (2026)," "Snake House (2026)"
- Disc 4: "The Last Battle (2026)," "Lóng Unleashed (2026)"
They are not spread evenly. Disc 1 opens with one and closes with three; disc 2 opens and closes on one; disc 3 puts one first and one at position fifteen; disc 4 ends on two. If the tags mark older melodies reworked for this release, then the album is built to open and close on them.
The official announcement offers one clue that explains the suffix. The music behind this album began 18 years ago, when Bo was in high school and creative director Soulframe Liang was in graduate school, and the two of them were building the indie game Rainblood 2: City of Flames — the project that later grew into the Phantom Blade series. Over nearly two decades the visuals and the combat were rebuilt from the ground up, the announcement says, while the main melodies were carried over and the core of the music stayed put.
Put those two facts together and "(2026)" reads most naturally as: a 2026 version of a piece that shares its name with an older one. The announcement does not go track by track and name which older game each piece comes from, so that reading rests on the naming convention rather than on a per-track note. For how the music was written, see how the score was written; on the album itself, the suffix is the visible trace.
One melody, two arrangements
"Before the Moon is Whole" appears twice, and the two versions are scored differently: disc 2, track 2 is a "Chiba & Guitar Duet," while disc 3, track 4 is a "Guqin & Chiba Duet." Same title, different instruments, and almost identical length — 3 minutes 47 seconds against 3 minutes 49 seconds.
The two arrangements sit on adjacent discs, so a straight listen through the album runs into the same melody again one disc later.
The runtime spread is worth noting for a second reason. Only seven of the 81 tracks pass five minutes. "The White Serpent" is the longest at 7 minutes 19 seconds, followed by "Bound by Threads" at 6:17, "The Crusher and Saw" at 6:05, "The Hunt's Twin Sickles" at 6:02, "The Path Ahead" at 5:54, "Blaze of Vengeance" at 5:32 and "Forest of Ambush" at 5:23. In the other direction, seven tracks come in under two minutes, the shortest being "Homesick Puppets" at 1 minute 42 seconds. The bulk of the album sits in the three-to-four-minute range, with the long pieces reserved for a handful of major fights.
Why the ending song is a separate single
"My Heart Beats True" is its own release. Apple's catalog titles it "My Heart Beats True (Phantom Blade Zero Ending Song) - Single," credits it to Sha Bao Liang, lists one track at 4 minutes 43 seconds, dates it November 6 like the album, and carries a rights line identical to the album's.
According to the official announcement, Bo wrote the song and Sha performs it. It was not folded into the album as track 82; it was issued as a single instead.
That makes two separate things to keep straight: an 81-track score album, and a one-track vocal single from the same label on the same day. Together they come to 82 entries.
By the numbers, the album runs 4 hours 38 minutes 57 seconds across 81 tracks and four discs. The discs are close to equal in length, and the track order moves roughly from early locations toward late opponents and closers — but since the album carries no chapter markings, that progression is a matter of how it plays rather than a documented map.
A complete listen, album plus ending single, is 82 entries and about 4 hours 44 minutes.