The Devil May Cry Show’s Intro Song Is So Stupidly Glorious

Earlier this week, Netflix pulled back the curtain on its 2025 slate, which includes the previously announced Devil May Cry adaptation. Along with a premiere date of April 3, we got a look at the show’s opening credits, and they’re a riot. What makes them so good? The song, naturally.

Of all the tunes to open a Devil May Cry show, Limp Bizkit’s 2000 single “Rollin’” is not the one anybody probably would’ve ever guessed. If anything, this is the best song that could’ve been picked, and not just because “Rollin’” and Devil May Cry 3, whose manga the show seems to be taking some plot elements from, respectively turn 25 and 20 this year. From its multiple protagonists to the music that blares as Dante, Nero, and whoever else slice up demons with their comically large weapons, DMC is a series built on stupid swagger and feeling like the coolest kid in the room. It’s truly a product of the 2000s, which also goes for Limp Bizkit as it got to be featured in the first Fast & Furious and Mission: Impossible 2.

If the Devil May Cry’s intro is giving you any nostalgia for the guilty pleasure bands of your youth, that’s part of the point. Executive producer Adi Shankar revealed the show is set in his memory of a “late ’90s/early 2000s PS2 era” of the world rather than present day. Since it’s a throwback, the allegedly kickass soundtrack will have a mix then-current hits and classic DMC songs reimagined by electronic band Power Glove. And if the show gets to continue, Shankar said future seasons will have their own unique feels (similar to how the games do), and change up their intro songs and sequences. This current intro shows the series will have a little bit of everything: not only do the swords Yamato and Red Queen—respectively owned by Dante’s twin brother Vergil and his nephew Nero—feature prominently at the start, later sequences hint at the inclusion of several game villains like original big bad Mundus and the Order from DMC 4, plus Lady, an ally of Dante’s who first showed in DMC 3.

How much of this is actually in the season versus planting seeds for what Shanker hopes is an ongoing hit? We’ll find out when Devil May Cry hits Netflix on April 3.

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