Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have released a Spotify playlist which contains the “answer” to the show’s ending.
Titled Game of Thrones: The End is Coming, the playlist was designed to accompany the eighth and final series of the HBO fantasy epic, and also features some of the duo’s favourite tracks.
“The answer to the ending is 100 per cent hidden in the playlist choices,” they told Spotify’s For The Record in an email. “No one will believe us, but it’s true.”
Sleep Now in the Fire by Rage Against The Machine, Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song and Girl from the North Country by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan are among the 50 tracks that Benioff and Weiss have selected.
Songs by Kanye West, the White Stripes and Queens of the Stone Age also feature.
“We were looking for songs that made us feel the way the show made us feel,” they said. “There’s variety in there – Rage is not Johnny Cash. But they both have a deep inherent power.”
Benioff and Weiss previously developed Game of Thrones: Songs of Ice and Fire in 2017 in collaboration with Spotify’s Head of Rock Allison Hagendorf.
Earlier this week, Gwendoline Christie said that fans will “need therapy” after the show’s dramatic ending.
“The show ending is going to send all of the world into professional help,” the actress, who plays Brienne of Tarth, told the Radio Times.
Her co-star Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) told the publication that the eighth series is “bigger than anything we’ve ever done.”
“Ten times bigger. It’s like everything is on steroids,” she said, before dropping a small hint about what fans can expect from the new episodes.
“The overarching theme in the entire show, but especially in season eight, is power,” she said.
“It’s about what it does to people, what it actually is, who deserves it, what are the decisions that you have to make when you have it, what are the sacrifices you have to make?”
The first episode of series eight is set to premiere on HBO in the US on April 14, and will be broadcast simultaneously in the UK on Sky Atlantic at 2am on April 15.
It will then be repeated at 9pm the same evening, and will also be available to stream on demand on NOW TV.
