New Releases: April 2021

Here is the April trailer music update! I'm keeping the more structured format of posts for now, which allowed me to compile a summary of over 40 albums for you this month, across a wide range of genres from reflective drama, to fantasy adventure, to hybrid action. Check it out!

1 Revolution Music

Drones 1

• Genre: ambient/tension drama
• Description: "Dark and textural drones that create a tense and mysterious atmosphere." (BMG Production Music)
• Composer(s): Irinel Ciucu
• Tracks: 12
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.
  

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Amadea Music Productions

Eyes Wide Shut

• Genre: tension drama, horror, suspense thriller
• Description: "Amadea Music Productions presents our 41st album, Eyes Wide Shut, with 10 terrifying, creepy tension-building tracks. Cower in fear with eery, aching strings, slow drones, atmospheric strings, and ghastly drums. Hide behind the corners and peer through the dark as something sinister awaits you. Distant ominous pianos play, as hauntingly scary sound design emanates. The dread surrounds you with creaking doors, unnerving string effects, and ghostly vocals. Eyes Wide Shut is perfect for horror trailers, tension TV or horror, sci-fi video games." (Amadea Music Productions)
• Composer(s): Reid Durtschi
• Tracks: 10
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and for purchase on Bandcamp.

Shine

• Genre: inspiring drama, epic adventure
• Description: "Shine, Amadea Music Productions' 42nd release is a compilation of 12 beautiful, orchestral, and uplifting tracks which invoke the feeling of inner happiness. Perfect piano tones and gorgeous melodies allow you to see the silver lining to every adversary. Delicate strings and subtle percussion brighten your day with light and health. This album is perfect for documentaries, emotional programs, and immersive, atmospheric games." (Amadea Music Productions)
• Composer(s): Alireza Vejdani
• Tracks: 12
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and for purchase on Bandcamp.

A Fallen Star

• Genre: epic/inspiring/emotive drama
• Description: "A Fallen Star, Amadea Music Productions' 43rd album presents 10 cinematic, epic, emotional tracks which call on the celestial to tell their stories. Beautiful orchestral passages with gentle percussions, bells, and emotional choirs. Smooth pianos set the uplifting mood for powerful emotional music. Watch the sky at night and drift away listening to these glorious melodies. A Fallen Star is perfect for cinematic trailers, emotional TV, and adventure games." (Amadea Music Productions)
• Composer(s): Christoph Rauch
• Tracks: 10
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and for purchase on Bandcamp.

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Atom Music Audio

Water: Ocean of Blue

• Genre: docudrama, inspiring drama, epic adventure
• Description: "Water, Atom Music Audio's second Epic Nature Series release showcases 16 beautifully organic, documentary, orchestral tracks. Travel over majestic oceans listening to perfect string ensembles and gorgeous lush compositions which capture the essence of the water and ocean life. Lovely woodwinds, epic yet subtle percussion and drums, and powerful brass play relaxing, adventurous, and encapsulating exploration music. Dive deep, witness life in its glory, and dance with the waves. Water is perfectly suited for atmospheric documentaries, nature trailers, and immersive games." (Atom Music Audio)
• Composer(s): Neil Myers, Kenny Mac, Lisa van Hal, Markus Siegel
• Tracks: 16
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and for purchase on Bandcamp.

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Audiomachine

Promethium

• Genre: hybrid/epic action/drama
• Description: "At rest for centuries, the legendary Promethium has returned with reckless abandon. Delivering brute force power alongside soaring strings and haunting landscapes, these tracks, grounded with growling synths and demanding percussion infuse a modern sound into this fabled story for the ages." (Audiomachine)
• Composer(s): Harry Lightfoot
• Tracks: 18
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.
  

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Cézame

Life Science

• Genre: reflective/ambient drama, docudrama
• Description: "Dedicated to science and medicine, Life Science evokes the patience and determination necessary for pharmaceutical research. Organic pianos and subtle sound-design perfectly illustrate the challenges met by medicine and laboratory research." (Cézame Music Agency)
• Composer(s): Runar Blesvik, Baptiste Thiry, Julien Vega, Max Darmon, Florian Robin, Thierry Caroubi
• Tracks: 16
• Favorite track(s): From Disease to Ease, Human Frailty
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.
  

Narrative Soundscapes

• Genre: reflective/ambient drama, docudrama
• Description: "An atmospheric and introspective album in which strings, piano and sound-design are used to construct cyclical pieces, now interrogative and peaceful, now melancholic and suspended. Perfect for the narration of documentaries, docudramas and social dramas." (Cézame Music Agency)
• Composer(s): Benoît Cimbé
• Tracks: 14
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Danny Rayel

Rise of a Hero (EP)

• Genre: epic/fantasy adventure, emotive drama
• Description: "Rise of a Hero is an epic, fantasy, celtic orchestral album with triumphant choir themes, cinematic strings, victorious brass arrangements and emotional, hopeful and sparse melodic themes. Powerful, dramatic, intense and heroic." (Danny Rayel)
• Composer(s): Danny Rayel
• Tracks: 5
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and for purchase on Bandcamp.

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Deep East Music

Cautionary Tales

• Genre: investigative/reflective/ambient drama
• Description: "Serious and understated atmospheric soundscapes. Mature and meticulous - neither too dark nor too light." (Deep East Music)
• Composer(s): Ron Baines, Emma Heathcote, Merlin Danger, Lindsay Wright
• Tracks: 15
• Favorite track(s): Waiting Not Knowing, Honour Among Thieves, Clandestine Architecture, Under the Microscope, Final Forensics, After Hours Sleuthing
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Demented Sound Mafia

Emergency

• Genre: sound design, hybrid action
• Description: "Emergency is an ominous hybrid trailer drums & sirens release with start and stop moments that grow to big, intense mayhem driven backends." (Songs To Your Eyes)
• Composer(s): Opher Yisraeli, Roman Marin
• Tracks: 10
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, and Apple Music.

Beneath the Cause

• Genre: hybrid/epic action
• Description: "A massive orchestral hybrid release with explosive epic heroic themes perfectly crafted for trailers and promos looking for a massive sound." (Songs To Your Eyes)
• Composer(s): Yaniv Barmeli
• Tracks: 10
• Favorite track(s): Takedown
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

Ex Nihilo

• Genre: sci-fi drama, hybrid action, dramatic thriller
• Description: "Composer Yair Albeg Wein releases his new album Ex Nihilo. A collection of mind bending, space inspired, dark trailer scores that showcase his stellar analogue synth driven sound that's so unique." (Songs To Your Eyes)
• Composer(s): Yair Albeg Wein
• Tracks: 7
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Directors Cuts

Soft Focus

• Genre: ambient/reflective drama
• Composer(s): Kara Talve, Adam Lukas, Thomas Obernosterer, Jonathan Shanes, Laurentia Editha, Giovanni Rios, Sylvia Navarro, Jonathan Shaheri, Kyle Hnedak, Dylan Price, Forest Christenson, Bruce Fingers, Billie Ray Fingers
• Tracks: 20
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Extreme Music website.

Apocalypse

• Genre: tension/ambient drama, suspense thriller, sound design
• Composer(s): Andrew James Christie, Jasper van Dijk, Christian Lundberg, Adam Lukas, Laurentia Editha, James Everingham, Kara Talve, Jim Davies, Denise Santos, Jonathan Shaheri, Giovanni Rios, Jake Schaefer, Maxwell Karmazyn, Jacopo Trifone, Sylvia Navarro, Dylan Price, Jarrod Royles-Atkins, Kyle Hnedak, Jonathan Shanes, Bruce Fingers, Billie Ray Fingers
• Tracks: 19
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Extreme Music website.

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Earth Tones

Deep Oceans

• Genre: docudrama, ambient drama
• Composer(s): James Everingham, Adam Lukas, Laurentia Editha, Anže Rozman, Kyle Hartman, Kara Talve, Denise Santos, Ho-Ling Tang, Adam Schiff, Janine Eser, Austin Hammonds, Jonathan Shanes, David Christopher Naroth, Dylan Price, Bruce Fingers, Billie Ray Fingers
• Tracks: 14
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Elbroar

Pandora

• Genre: hybrid action
• Description: "Pandora's box, from Ancient Greek mythology, unleashes terror and destruction once opened. Consider this apocalyptic fantasy the perfect accompaniment with its abrasive orchestral staccatos, explosive drums, violent efx and impious dubstep - all hurdling towards blood curdling climaxes." (Warner/Chappell Production Music)
• Composer(s): Tihomir Hristozov
• Tracks: 12
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

Andromeda

• Genre: ambient/reflective drama, docudrama
• Description: "A peacefully fascinating fantasy space travel of galactic beauty, drifting through endless tranquility, embracing creation and the sound of light." (Warner/Chappell Production Music)
• Composer(s): Jelle Dittmar
• Tracks: 12
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

Ricochet

• Genre: neoclassical, dramatic thriller, hybrid/epic action, suspense drama
• Description: "Wrath double bass sections taking long terrifying strides whilst violins and violas rush frenzied through neo-classical fantasy sound worlds blending with dubstep FX and shattering impacts. Unstoppably rising with brass and cinematic drums under fire. Absolutely epic, elevating and tasteful." (Warner/Chappell Production Music)
• Composer(s): Sebastián Pecznik, Axel Tenner
• Tracks: 10
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Epic Score

Forging New Heroes

• Genre: epic/hybrid action, epic/sci-fi drama
• Description: "Powerful orchestral action with punchy percussion, sound design and choirs. Prepare to go on a big journey." (Epic Score)
• Composer(s): Max Legend
• Tracks: 12
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Imagine Music

Nerve

• Genre: sound design, suspense/dramatic thriller, sci-fi/tension drama, horror
• Description: "Album "Nerve" is about dark slowburn thriller hybrid sound design tracks. There are 19 different cues, full of tension, drama and very viscous suspense, as also very editor's friendly structured and ready for any AV production." (Imagine Music)
• Composer(s): Viktor Khliustov, Almaz Sakhipov, Norman Wille, Sebastian Jakoby, Michael Afanasyev, Roman Trestcov, Igor Fedyk, Nikita Yamov, Petr Brabich, Stanislav Barantsov, Alexander Cherevkov, Andrey Bely
• Tracks: 19
• Industry-only release available for preview on Soundcloud and licensing on the Imagine Music website.

Aggressor (EP)

• Genre: sound design, hybrid action
• Description: "Modern action sound design trailer music collection. There are 5 trailer cues with unique hook sounds, aggressive percussion, intense action energy, and a very editors-friendly structure." (Imagine Music)
• Composer(s): Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Irinel Ciucu
• Tracks: 5
• Industry-only release available for preview on Soundcloud and licensing on the Imagine Music website.

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Justement Music

Middle East Trailer

• Genre: suspense/epic adventure
• Description: "An album of trailers with an Arabian twist mixing traditional instruments, vocal moods and cinematic percussion. A trip to wide-open sand dunes, oases and the burning sun. The call of the desert!" (APM Music)
• Composer(s): Michel-Yves Kochmann, Michael Maas
• Tracks: 10
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Kings & Creatures

Freefall

• Genre: hybrid/epic action, dramatic thriller
  
• Description: "Lawke's debut on K&C cuts like a newly sharpened blade - a collection of powerful and impressive hybrid trailer tracks to leave you rattled. Lawke masterfully wrestles experimental string performances and sound design into futuristic, dystopian pieces. Dark and unsettling, Freefall runs the gamut of chilling, cinematic atmospherics to super-charged, unrelentingly epic climaxes - with finger-bleeding intensity." (Kings & Creatures)
  
• Composer(s): Lawke (Ben Preston), Onno van Velzen
  
• Tracks: 7
  
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

Deadlands 2

• Genre: sound design, horror, suspense thriller
  
• Description: "Deadlands II sees the return of Damon Baxter aka Deadly Avenger (Death Waltz / Burning Witches) and Si Begg (Novamute / Ninja Tune) on K&C. Once again, the duo have returned to deliver another album of high octane, deranged, gothic trailer folk. On Deadlands II, we hear the two producers sadistically testing the range and flexibility of traditional chamber strings - the spiccato stylings forming a percussive and unhinged delivery. Layered with dusty, tribal drums and percussion, Deadlands II takes the ideas explored in the original album to extremes. In equal parts entertaining and savage, Deadlands II hits with a grim intensity that doesn't compromise." (Kings & Creatures)
  
• Composer(s): Si Begg, Damon Baxter
• Tracks: 8
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Muchas Music

Fantasy Adventures

• Genre: fantasy adventure
  
• Description: "The first album in our new Cinematic Score series. This collection of nine beautifully orchestrated themes has us hooked right now." (Muchas Music)
  
• Composer(s): Rafael Abranches, Hans Hess, Ross Baillie-Eames, Olivia Crawford, Jia Lee, James Jarvis
• Tracks: 9
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Muchas Music website.

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Mustafa Avşaroğlu

Pure

• Genre: emotive drama
• Composer(s): Mustafa Avşaroğlu
• Tracks: 7
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and for purchase on Bandcamp.

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Non-Stop Premiere

Celestion

• Genre: epic adventure, inspiring/emotive drama
• Description: "This rousing collection of hybrid orchestral cues fuses epic choirs, classical guitar and arena rock drums with uplifting themes to raise the indomitable spirit." (Warner/Chappell Production Music)
• Composer(s): Rhett Nelson, Ben Carson, Anthony DiLorenzo, Ron Komie, Brady Ellis, Joseph LoDuca, Scott Reinwand, Nathan Hofheins
• Tracks: 10
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Non-Stop Trailers website.

Celestion 2

• Genre: epic/emotive/inspiring drama, epic adventure
• Description: "Soaring and reverent, these sweeping, majestic orchestral pieces elucidate grandeur and define epic with robust choir, dynamic pacing and heartfelt, inspirational themes." (Warner/Chappell Production Music)
• Composer(s): Aaron Merrill, Nathan Hofheins, Brady Ellis, Lisle Moore, John Hancock, Anthony DiLorenzo, Rhett Nelson
• Tracks: 10
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Non-Stop Trailers website.

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Peter Roe

Frozen Wilds

• Genre: epic adventure, inspiring/emotive drama
• Composer(s): Peter Roe
• Tracks: 10
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and for purchase on Bandcamp.

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Position Music

Symphonic Tension

• Genre: suspense thriller, mystery drama
• Composer(s): Tommy Walter, Jesse Howard, Luke Moseley, Brent Clifford
• Tracks: 8
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

For the Thrill, Vol. 1

• Genre: suspense thriller, horror, mystery drama
• Composer(s): Ed Smith, Tommy Walter, Matthew Kirkwold, Anthony Allen, Tommy Barbarella
• Tracks: 18
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

Piano Moods, Vol. 2

• Genre: light/emotive/inspiring drama
• Composer(s): Christoffer Sandberg
• Tracks: 10
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Power-Haus

Corroded

• Genre: dramatic thriller, neoclassical drama, epic adventure, hybrid action
• Composer(s): Axel Tenner, Sebastián Pecznik
• Tracks: 9
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Score Production Music

Cinematic Atmospheres

• Genre: ambient/reflective drama
• Description: "Lush deep strings, piano and smooth organic elements. A collection of powerfully emotional and panoramic pieces containing moments of redemption, loss, discovery and denouement." (Score Production Music)
• Composer(s): Barry Hudson-Taylor
• Tracks: 9
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Secession Studios

Legendary

• Genre: epic drama/action
• Composer(s): Greg Dombrowski
• Tracks: 13
• Favorite track(s): Born a Legend, To Boldly Go
  
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and for purchase on Bandcamp.

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Sergey Cheremisinov

Requiem

• Genre: tension/reflective/ambient drama, dramatic thriller
• Description: "Dangerous technologies in the hands of greedy people + irresponsibility vs. Dying Nature." (Sergey Cheremisinov)
• Composer(s): Sergey Cheremisinov
• Tracks: 9
  
• Favorite track(s): Norilsk, Bhopal, Mayak, Chernobyl, Kamchatka
  
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and for purchase on Bandcamp.

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Seventh Sense

No Surrender 2

• Genre: sound design, dramatic thriller, hybrid action
• Description: "Thriller tension trailer cues with sophisticated sonics and a sense of urgency. Perfect for Action, Sci Fi and Gaming." (Universal Production Music)
• Composer(s): Or Chausha, Boris Nonte, Harel Tsemah, Itay Steinberg
• Tracks: 7
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.
  

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Songs To Your Eyes

The Last Shaman

• Genre: tension/ambient/mystery drama, suspense thriller/adventure
• Description: "Rishhad is a master of creating mesmerizing ethnic sound beds that drive tension, atmosphere, tranquility and mystery. The perfect soundtrack for TV shows looking for a tension based ethnic flavor." (Songs To Your Eyes)
• Composer(s): Rishhad Kothawala
• Tracks: 10
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.
  

Shadows

• Genre: suspense thriller, reflective drama
• Description: "A sparse, mysterious, investigative crime drama that sets a somber, dark mood in a modern way." (Songs To Your Eyes)
• Composer(s): Dmitry Zhdanov
• Tracks: 10
• Favorite track(s): The Decision
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Sound Adventures

Tempest

• Genre: hybrid/epic action
  
• Description: "High-Octane-Fueled, Screaming Guitar, Rock-Orchestral Ferocious Hybrids, for Body-Fluid Saturated (Cage)Sports, Videogames and Trailers." (Intervox Production Music)
  
• Composer(s): Zach Sundwall
• Tracks: 12
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

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Space Tones

Milky Way

• Genre: docudrama, sci-fi/ambient/reflective drama
• Composer(s): Anže Rozman, James Everingham, Adam Lukas, Kara Talve, Ho-Ling Tang, Maxwell Karmazyn, Austin Hammonds, Forest Christenson, Jonathan Shanes, Bruce Fingers, Billie Ray Fingers
• Tracks: 12
• Favorite track(s): Bad Astro
• Publicly available for streaming on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

And that's it, folks! This was the most albums I've listed in a post so far, so there surely is some good stuff for everyone to find among all those tracks. More to come at the end of May! Čau!

Jurik