Release Date: Jul 21, 2020
The Ivor Novela award-winning Horizon Zero Dawn soundtrack has been a collaboration with composers Joris De Man, Joe Henson, Alexis Smith, Niels Van Der Leest and the Guerrilla Games Audio Team. Opting for a thematic approach Horizon Zero Dawn has a strong motif that plays often in many variations throughout the game ensuring a cohesive soundtrack.
The first piece of music entices us, we hear Julie Elven‘s solo voice slowly moving through the theme. The use of the female voice is very powerful in this context and is an apt choice considering the relation to the female protagonist Aloy.
Once exploring the open world of intensely gorgeous environments, music isn’t always overbearing, drawing our attention instead, to the sounds of “nature” around us, but always serving to warn us of any threatening machines that may be aware of our presence. “Battle” music is never overstated but instead reflective of the electronic/digital origins of the enemies. Percussion is the natural contrast to the “digital” sounding world of the machines, instead reflecting the tribal themes of living in the wild, with fear of futuristic ruins.
There are often places in the game where music becomes a part of the world, where drummers are performing and singers take stage around villagers, singing and praising.
In July 2017, the Horizon Zero Dawn soundtrack won a Jerry Goldsmith award for the best original score in a video game.
Joris Maarten de Man, known as Joris de Man (born 30 June 1972) is a Dutch composer and sound designer, well known for his work on the video game Killzone.
His first work involving video games was chip music written for Atari computers under the moniker "Scavenger." He was also employed as a freelance composer writing for CD-i games in The Netherlands. He spent 3 years working in London for the Bitmap Brothers on sound design and music composition. In 1999 he returned to the Netherlands and found work with Guerrilla Games.
In cooperation with The Flight, Niels van der Leest and Jonathan Williams he composed the Soundtrack of Horizon: Zero Dawn.
Horizon Zero Dawn™ ©2017-2020 Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. Published by Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. Developed by Guerrilla. ""Horizon Zero Dawn"" is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. All rights reserved.
Prologue (feat. Julie Elven) | 5:29 | Bundle Only |
Aloy's Theme (feat. Julie Elven) | 2:31 | Bundle Only |
Motherless (feat. Julie Elven) | 1:41 | Bundle Only |
Vanished Voices (feat. Julie Elven) | 1:25 | Bundle Only |
Seal Your Lips | 1:32 | Bundle Only |
The Welcome of Stones | 1:21 | Bundle Only |
Tell Me (feat. Julie Elven) | 2:06 | Bundle Only |
The Point of the Spear | 1:44 | Bundle Only |
Years of Training | 2:23 | Bundle Only |
The Blessing | 1:53 | Bundle Only |
The Proving (feat. Julie Elven, Cirlce Percussion) | 1:43 | Bundle Only |
A Boon | 1:38 | Bundle Only |
Where You Came From (feat. Julie Elven) | 2:24 | Bundle Only |
Identification | 1:02 | Bundle Only |
What the Seeker Had Sought (feat. Julie Elven) | 1:21 | Bundle Only |
Anointed | 2:26 | Bundle Only |
Seized From The Depths | 2:00 | Bundle Only |
Hologram Myth (feat. Julie Elven) | 3:36 | Bundle Only |
The Bad News (feat. Julie Elven) | 3:05 | Bundle Only |
The Good News (feat. Julie Elven) | 3:47 | Bundle Only |
The Cavalry Breaks Through (feat. Julie Elven, Circle Percussion) | 1:46 | Bundle Only |
Victory (feat. Julie Elven) | 3:03 | Bundle Only |
Homecoming (feat. Julie Elven) | 2:57 | Bundle Only |
To The Hunt! (feat. Circle Percussion) | 4:29 | Bundle Only |
Prologue (Early Style Sketch) | 1:30 | Bundle Only |
Song For Aloy (feat. Julie Elven) | 1:25 | Bundle Only |
Within The Embrace | 4:21 | Bundle Only |
In Great Strides | 4:24 | Bundle Only |
Her Breath, Her Land | 4:59 | Bundle Only |
On Our Mother's Shoulders | 4:46 | Bundle Only |
Haze And Renewal | 1:08 | Bundle Only |
A Truth Whispered At Night | 4:05 | Bundle Only |
Trails in the Darkness | 4:23 | Bundle Only |
Machine Dreams | 4:51 | Bundle Only |
Cloudpart | 0:50 | Bundle Only |
The World and All Its Lessons | 3:39 | Bundle Only |
This New Wilderness | 5:22 | Bundle Only |
Territory of None | 6:43 | Bundle Only |
A Wanderer's Work | 6:34 | Bundle Only |
Brave, New | 5:20 | Bundle Only |
The Memory of Old Walls | 4:31 | Bundle Only |
Aloy's Journey (feat. Julie Elven) | 3:03 | Bundle Only |
Meridian, Shining | 4:00 | Bundle Only |
City On The Mesa | 4:07 | Bundle Only |
Envoys | 2:19 | Bundle Only |
Beads Fallen On Bronze | 0:50 | Bundle Only |
All That The Light Reaches | 7:12 | Bundle Only |
A Resplendent Soil | 5:11 | Bundle Only |
Another Day Rusts | 1:17 | Bundle Only |
Across the Daybrink | 1:24 | Bundle Only |
Delver's Hymnal | 4:04 | Bundle Only |
To Call Our Own | 4:37 | Bundle Only |
Your Hand of Sun and Jewels (Carja traditional) | 2:09 | Bundle Only |
KunaBass Solo | 1:01 | Bundle Only |
Iron Pendulum Solo | 0:29 | Bundle Only |
Braumdrum Solo | 0:51 | Bundle Only |
Go Like Time Around An Arrow (feat. Circle Percussion) | 5:38 | Bundle Only |
Song to the Sun - Dawning | 2:18 | Bundle Only |
Song to the Sun - Midday | 3:23 | Bundle Only |
Song to the Sun - Evening | 3:54 | Bundle Only |
Nora u Norawea | 2:12 | Bundle Only |
The Spreading Eclipse | 5:36 | Bundle Only |
The Demon Remade | 1:26 | Bundle Only |
Force Multiplication | 4:00 | Bundle Only |
Buried Shadow | 0:57 | Bundle Only |
Battle Begins | 1:53 | Bundle Only |
The Future By Its Throat | 3:13 | Bundle Only |
Hold The Ridge | 3:54 | Bundle Only |
Overrun | 1:31 | Bundle Only |
Countdown To Zero | 1:25 | Bundle Only |
Planned Obsolescence | 3:24 | Bundle Only |
Colossal | 4:15 | Bundle Only |
Threat Assessment | 1:46 | Bundle Only |
Will Against Will (feat. Julie Elven) | 3:06 | Bundle Only |
Drawn To Strife | 2:45 | Bundle Only |
Little Ones | 3:38 | Bundle Only |
Beasts of Steel | 2:45 | Bundle Only |
Drums in The Sun-Ring (feat. Circle Percussion) | 6:07 | Bundle Only |
Death and Rebirth | 1:13 | Bundle Only |
A Storm in the West | 1:19 | Bundle Only |