The music has been meticulously mastered for vinyl and will be pressed onto ear discs contained in sleeves illustrated by the HEXWORKS art team.
The Lords of the Fallen soundtrack is a sumptuously recorded dark fantasy masterpiece. It draws inspiration from the melodrama of romantic opera, the requiem masses of Mozart and others, the dissonant struggles of 20th century modernist classical music and the great soundtracks of horror films.
The composition tasks were divided between Cris Velasco and Knut Avenstroup Haugen, two award-winning composers, in order to obtain a unique timbre for each faction and each kingdom in the game. The music of the Rhogar faction (entrusted to Velasco) is raw and violent, with guttural vocalizations, low-toned instruments, and processed human breathing used as a rhythmic device.
Avenstroup Haugen was entrusted with the score for the Radieux/Attestants faction, whose themes are broader and evoke fervent adoration with sinister overtones.
Most of the material recorded live was performed by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra and Choir. Vocal soloists are soprano Eurielle and contralto Jess Dandy. The principal cellist of the London Symphony Orchestra, David Cohen, was recruited to express the melancholy of Axiom's world. Attentive listeners may recognize the distinctive sound of flautist Tony Hinnigan, who has played in some of the greatest Hollywood scores (Titanic, Avatar).
