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 Posted:   Jun 9, 2025 - 7:39 AM   
 By:   Erik Woods   (Member)

I'm six tracks into this hypnotic new video game score from the highly underrated Knut Avenstroup Haugan, and so far, this is one of the top 3 scores I've heard this year. It's a mix of Tron Legacy meets Interstellar meets Zimmer's Dune meets Vangelis... and it's utterly gorgeous!

It's written within Zimmer's Dune musical landscape but Haugen makes it his own! Sublime!

 
 Posted:   Jun 9, 2025 - 7:55 AM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Thanks for the heads-up Erik; I'm definitely looking forward to checking it out as I've liked the composer's previous work!

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Jun 9, 2025 - 8:00 AM   
 By:   Tom Servo   (Member)

Thanks from me as well! This wasn't on my radar at all and sounds cool, but then I don't really dip into video game scores.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 9, 2025 - 9:03 AM   
 By:   Michael_McMahan   (Member)

Sounds cool! Thanks for the heads up.

 
 Posted:   Jun 9, 2025 - 10:17 AM   
 By:   nuts_score   (Member)

I've also been mainlining this soundtrack and it's a contender among my favorites of the year so far. It is definitely a superb entry into the musical "canon" that Frank Herbert's world has given us for decades. The track "Welcome to Arrakis" is absolutely sublime. A rousing melody alongside a synth arpeggio that is reminiscent of Daft Punk's Tron: Legacy.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2025 - 1:21 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Knut has talked about this for a while, so I was very curious to finally check it out. It's bloody excellent! Perhaps 20 minutes too long, but nothing a little whittling can't fix.

 
 Posted:   Jun 10, 2025 - 1:29 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

Don't really understand how a bloody excellent score can ever be too long. (If anything, they are always too short.) :-)

But thanks for the heads-up, I will definitely check this out.

 
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