New Releases: January 2022

The holiday season is over and music is back to being produced at full throttle! After the rather meager album selection in December, hopefully the 43 new releases introduced in this January post will make up for it. Enjoy the first bunch of trailer music albums of 2022!

Amadea Music Productions

Battleborn

• Genre: epic/hybrid/triumphant drama
• Description: "Battleborn, Amadea Music Productions' 69th album features 10 epic, battle, sound design tracks. Epic percussion blast as you drive into battle. Evolving synths and a full orchestra are paired with powerful, aggressive sound design to bring you an epic experience. Battleborn will fit perfectly for modern trailers, action TV, and video games." (Amadea Music Productions)
• Composer(s): Arrano Mach
• Tracks: 10
• Favorite track(s): The Rise of Valor
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Perfect Storm

• Genre: epic/hybrid drama/action
• Description: "Perfect Storm, Amadea Music Productions' 70th album features 10 melody-driven epic trailer tracks. Feel the power of the storm with orchestral presence and cutting edge sound design. Listen to epic percussion, unique signature sounds, evolving synths and a majestic orchestra. Perfect Storm is perfect for modern trailers and action video games." (Amadea Music Productions)
• Composer(s): Jürgen Brischar
• Tracks: 10
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

The Descent

• Genre: epic/triumphant drama, epic action
• Description: "The Descent, Amadea Music Productions' 71st album features 10 powerful epic trailer tracks. Huge brass, braams, epic rhythms and strings dominate this album with support from unique signature sounds and synths. Fall to the depths with this extraordinary epic experience. The Descent is perfect for modern trailers and action sci-fi video games." (Amadea Music Productions)
• Composer(s): Eugene Anikin
• Tracks: 10
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Celestial Dream

• Genre: epic/triumphant/inspiring drama
• Description: "Celestial Dream, Amadea Music Productions' 72nd album delivers 10 exciting uplifting tracks, featuring live vocals, triumphant brass, stabbing ostinato, driving strings and synths, and epic drums. Fall into a dream as you travel through space. This album is perfect for adventure TV, and immersive games." (Amadea Music Productions)
• Composer(s): Caroline-Jayne Gleave, Tom DiMartino, Eleonora Carosso
• Tracks: 10
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Atom Music Audio

Guardians 2

• Genre: epic/triumphant drama, epic action/adventure
• Description: "Guardians II, the next various artist release by Atom Music Audio features 21 powerful, epic, heroic tracks. Let the legacy of humanity embrace you and stride into the fire with the Guardians at your side. Orchestral dominance meets stunning sound design in this majestic album. Guardians II is perfectly suited for heroic trailers, epic soundtracks, and action/adventure games." (Atom Music Audio)
• Composer(s): Christoffer Isefält, Simon Finley, Armin Gutjahr, Matías Castro, Murat Nagoev, Jannick Damkvist, Dominik A. Hecker, Mayrain, Hyun, Lisa van Hal, Andrii Yefymov, Craig Meier, Elias Nilsson, Vaios Christodoulou
• Tracks: 21
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Audiomachine

Amongst the Shimmering Light

• Genre: epic/triumphant/inspiring drama
• Description: "Journey to a place of forgotten magic, to bask in the glow of an endless sunrise and feel the warmth of a nightless day. Experience the beauty of glistening sounds and walk Amongst the Shimmering Light." (Audiomachine)
• Composer(s): Richard Canavan, Harry Lightfoot
• Tracks: 12
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Audiomachine website.

Greatest Hits

• Genre: epic/hybrid action, epic/triumphant/uplifting/reflective/emotive/suspense drama
• Description: "In addition to 40 Audiomachine classics, this release features 6 tracks never before released commercially, alongside 4 completely brand new tracks." (Audiomachine)
• Composer(s): Paul Dinletir, Harry Lightfoot, Kevin Rix, Mark Petrie, Ivan Torrent, Hannu Honkonen, Danail Getz, Matt Foundling, Stuart Roslyn, Thomas-Adam Habuda, Richard Canavan, Ben Knorr, Piotr Musiał, Martyn Corbet
• Tracks: 50
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Intros 3

• Genre: various
• Description: "Every project needs a starting point, and with the celebrated return of our classic INTROS series, this massive collection of cues has you covered. Spanning 18 unique categories, from family feel-good and emotional drama to pulsing thriller and building atmospheres, let's just go ahead and call this your one-stop "start my project" shop." (Audiomachine)
• Composer(s): various
• Tracks: 200
• Favorite track(s): Eau, Aride, Baleine, Darker Days, Royal Flush
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Audiomachine website.
  

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Big Screen Music

Dreamland

• Genre: light/romantic/inspiring drama, magical fantasy, dramedy
• Description: "Lyrical waltzes and whimsical melodies full of beauty, hope, dreams and imagination for character-driven adverts, promos, documentaries and light drama." (Boost Music)
• Composer(s): Josh Wynter, Ian Dolamore, Nik Ammar, Mike Reed, Lincoln Jaeger, Owain Llwyd, Dave Hewson, Mike Tourle, Andrew Joy
• Tracks: 17
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Boost Music website.
  

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Cézame

Corporate Heritage

• Genre: inspiring/triumphant/suspense/reflective/uplifting/period drama
• Description: "Paradoxically, although brand communication is based on innovation, the most prestigious players will always refer to their origins, a testimony to their durability. In a spirit that is both contemporary and classic Corporate Heritage neatly bridges tradition and modernity." (Cézame Music Agency)
• Composer(s): Mathieu Laurent, Isabelle Salmon, Jérémy Dirat, Sebastijan Duh, Julien Vega, Pascal Hautois, Baptiste Thiry, Max Darmon, Florian Robin, Grégory Cotti, Thierry Caroubi, Benoît Cimbé, Antoine Glatard, Marvin McMahon, Gilles Maugenest, Gréco Casadesus, Antonin Mège
• Tracks: 20
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Cézame Trailers

Immortals

• Genre: epic/triumphant drama, epic action
• Description: "A trailer album mixing epic music codes & ethereal textures, strings & piano." (Cézame Music Agency)
• Composer(s): Brian Delgado, Garrett Weyenberg, Gabriel Saban
• Tracks: 12
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Supremacy

• Genre: hybrid action, dramatic/action thriller
• Description: "An aggressive and explosive Trailer album, which combines electro percussion, glitchy sound-design & inexorable impacts. Made for the world of video games and motor sports!" (Cézame Music Agency)
• Composer(s): Salvador Casais, Felix Weber
• Tracks: 12
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Damned Anthem

The Arsenal

• Genre: hybrid/epic action, dramatic/action thriller
• Composer(s): James Norman, Adam Dearborn
• Tracks: 7
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Demented Sound Mafia

Change the Game (EP)

• Genre: epic hip-hop
• Description: "Yair Albeg Wein's music is in a league of it's [sic] own. With this 5 song EP Yair worked with some of the best indie rappers in the game, creating a huge trailerized collection of hard driving bangers. Fusing heroic orchestral themes with massive trailer drums, trap beats, swagger riffs and sound design this is a real jaw dropper and some of his best work. Respect!" (Songs To Your Eyes)
• Composer(s): Yair Albeg Wein
• Tracks: 5
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Shockwave (EP)

• Genre: dramatic/suspense/action thriller, sound design
• Description: "A fusion of huge tribal trailer drums with clicking bones, sticks, chants and a general barbaric, primal, Viking, primitive feel. The time signature of these tracks keeps getting faster and faster throughout which gives these cues a constant building feel." (Songs To Your Eyes)
• Composer(s): Amir Gurvitz
• Tracks: 5
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Directors Cuts

Cult Horror

• Genre: horror, suspense thriller
• Composer(s): Midnight Swami, Kurt Karver, Blake Blumenthal, Hans Bonzales, Aldous Finch, Ben Standage, Tiguan Jones, Jerry Thomas
• Tracks: 7
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Elbroar

Vikings

• Genre: epic/suspense drama, epic action, dramatic thriller, neofolk
• Description: "Ragnarok. Asgard. Valhalla. Unearthly atmospheres turn into black medieval Viking magic - calling the spirits, contacting the dead - in these ten thunderous trailer cues blending ancient instrumentation with hybrid orchestra, transportive, guttural chanting and aggressive tribal drumming. Flames leap. Resurrection begins. The spell is cast." (Warner/Chappell Production Music)
• Composer(s): Yaniv Barmeli
• Tracks: 10
• Favorite track(s): Pagan Ceremony, King of Norway, Sing Their Hymn, Earn the Ring, Valkyries, Blood and Snow, Ragnarok
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Epic Music World

Ascension

• Genre: epic/triumphant/inspiring drama
• Composer(s): Crzysnd, Michael Yang
• Tracks: 9
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Fired Earth Music

Believe

• Genre: epic/triumphant/inspiring drama, epic adventure
• Description: "Powerful and inspiring orchestral trailer cues." (West One Music Group)
• Composer(s): Erick DeVore, Lydia Davies, Michael Wilson, Christopher Deighton
• Tracks: 11
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Forza Trailer & Sound Design

Ultimate Adventure

• Genre: epic/triumphant drama, epic/family adventure
• Description: "Powerful and positive orchestral themes. For adventure, discovery and epic fun." (Atomica Music)
• Composer(s): Devin S. Norris, Chris Cho, Narek Mirzaei, Andrew Hind
• Tracks: 12
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Gothic Storm

Enigma 2

• Genre: dramatic thriller, epic action
• Description: "Urgent neoclassical cello for unfolding investigation trailers. Recorded live in Kyiv, Ukraine." (Gothic Storm)
• Composer(s): Andrii Yefymov
• Tracks: 11
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Imagine Music

Heroes (EP)

• Genre: epic/hybrid/triumphant drama, hybrid action
• Description: "Heroes is an epic superhero hybrid trailer music collection that contains 5 hybrid trailer tracks with a powerful orchestra, massive percussion, modern cinematic synths, editors [sic] friendly structure, and unique "hook" elements." (EMVN Music Licensing)
• 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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Inside Tracks

Storytellers

• Genre: investigative/reflective/light drama
• Description: "Simple, spacious underscores for compelling stories. Rich, organic tones & hypnotic minimalist patterns to elevate the mood, go deep, and make your storytelling intriguing and personal." (Liquid Cinema)
• Composer(s): Hamish Fletcher Huntley, Zak McNeil, Andrew Simmons
• Tracks: 13
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Universal Production Music website.
  

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Jo Blankenburg & Kat Leon

The World Is Waiting (EP)

• Genre: epic pop
• Composer(s): Jo Blankenburg, Kat Leon
• Tracks: 4
  
• Favorite track(s): The World Is Waiting, The One
  
• Publicly available for streaming.

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Jon Adamich

Tales

• Genre: epic/fantasy adventure, magical fantasy
• Composer(s): Jon Adamich
• Tracks: 10
• Favorite track(s): Kiara's Tale
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Kings & Creatures

Hand of God

• Genre: hybrid action, sound design
• Description: "On Hand Of God, Kings & Creatures welcome the talents of Brandon Lau into the fold. With a phenomenal taste for urgent, cinematic synths, tense rhythms, and powerful hits - his debut K&C release is a trove of all-action trailer music. Lau's ability to conjure kinetic, aggressive, sound worlds alongside propulsive, high-energy drums is special, and on Hand Of God we hear that in full force. Expect dystopian dread mixed with some heroic payoffs." (Kings & Creatures)
• Composer(s): Brandon Lau
• Tracks: 8
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Muchas Music

Stories of Grandeur

• Genre: inspiring drama
• Description: "Delicate piano intros slowly blossom in to beautiful crescendos of hope and ambition." (Muchas Music)
• Composer(s): Gareth Thomas
• Tracks: 10
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Muchas Music website.

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Noise Refinery

Epic Hybrid Tension

• Genre: dramatic/suspense/action thriller, epic action/drama
• Description: "Epic Synth and Orchestral Tension Instrumentals." (Universal Production Music)
• Composer(s): Kenji Katoh
• Tracks: 10
  
• Industry-only release available for preview and licensing on the Universal Production Music website.
  

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Phil Rey

Alliance for Survival

• Genre: epic/uplifting/triumphant/reflective/tension drama, epic adventure
• Composer(s): Phil Rey
• Tracks: 20
• Favorite track(s): Messages From the Other Side, More Human Than Humans
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Moving On

• Genre: epic/uplifting/triumphant/inspiring drama, epic action/adventure
• Composer(s): Phil Rey
• Tracks: 14
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Really Slow Motion

Moirai

• Genre: epic/triumphant/inspiring/uplifting drama, epic action/adventure
• Composer(s): Instrumental Core, Rok Nardin, Caleb Swift, Ivan Torrent, Andreas Kübler, Timur Haisyn, Gabriele Salomoni, Dimas Frias, James Minas, Vladyslav Saychenko, Dylan C. Jones, Danny Olson, Nicklas Sushko
• Tracks: 26
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Revolt Production Music

Invincible

• Genre: epic/triumphant/suspense/reflective drama
• Description: "Invincible is an epic, dramatic, and emotional orchestral album with triumphant choir arrangements, big heroic cinematic strings, aggressive percussion, war path moods, and tense emotive openings." (Revolt Production Music)
• Composer(s): Stefan Grossmann
• Tracks: 23
• Industry-only release available for preview on Soundcloud and licensing on the SyncStories website.
  

Solitude

• Genre: reflective/emotive/light drama
• Description: "Solitude is a soothing, melodic and beautiful emotional orchestral album with emotive strings and piano motifs, intricate cinematic arrangements, and dramatic, sparse and melancholy, yet hopeful openings." (Revolt Production Music)
• Composer(s): Stefan Grossmann
• Tracks: 24
• Industry-only release available for preview on Soundcloud and licensing on the SyncStories website.
  

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Score Addiction

The Sunshine Orchestra

• Genre: inspiring/triumphant/uplifting drama
• Description: "Uplifting, hopeful, and inspiring orchestral instrumentals for advertising, promos, and documentaries." (Universal Production Music)
• Composer(s): Aniruddh Immaneni, Peter Nickalls, Jordan Rees
• Tracks: 12
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Score Production Music

Pictures in the Mind

• Genre: romantic/reflective/inspiring/triumphant drama
• Description: "A collection of romantic, atmospheric and epic themes for full string orchestra. Lush arrangements including piano, soaring electric guitar, Celtic whistle, drums and percussion." (Score Production Music)
• Composer(s): Tim Walter
• Tracks: 11
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Soft Data

• Genre: investigative/reflective/light drama, downtempo
• Description: "Electro-organic underscores for factual and scientific programming, with the edges rounded off. Using futuristic rhythmic patterns, SOFT DATA is serious, delicate and sophisticated." (Score Production Music)
• Composer(s): Patrick Gomersall, Carmen Daye
• Tracks: 13
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Songs To Your Eyes

Bara

• Genre: reflective/emotive/period drama
• Description: "An emotional string quartet album recorded live and mixed to perfection. A moody and intimate collection of cues with neoclassical cinematic qualities." (Songs To Your Eyes)
• Composer(s): Evan Hodges
• Tracks: 10
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Kill Machine

• Genre: hybrid action, dramatic thriller
• Description: "Dead Comrade are back with an intense collection of Hybrid sound design cues featuring vocal glitches, arpeggiated synths, big drums and explosive back-ends. Intense action cues for trailers and promos." (Songs To Your Eyes)
• Composer(s): Dead Comrade (Opher Yisraeli, Roman Marin)
• Tracks: 10
• Favorite track(s): Quantumania
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Eastern Dreams

• Genre: suspense adventure/drama, dramatic thriller, ethnic
• Description: "Eastern Dreams is a concept album that fuses Eastern European, Balkan with slight Klezmer feel, with trailer/promo music arrangements. Recorded with live instruments this album is authentic and full of emotion building to big back-ends." (Songs To Your Eyes)
• Composer(s): Brian O'Mahoney, John Forbes Davidson
• Tracks: 10
• Favorite track(s): Better the Devil, Dig It Deep, Maiden's Tale, Over the Top, Storm in a Teacup
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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Space Tones

Exoplanets

• Genre: tension/ambient/reflective drama, docudrama
• Composer(s): Anže Rozman, Camilo Carrero, Kara Talve, Sara Barone, Wil Brumbach, Adam Schiff, Janine Eser, Giovanni Rios, Ian Shi, Adam Lukas, Forest Christenson, Bruce Fingers, Billie Ray Fingers
• Tracks: 10
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Meteorites

• Genre: dramatic/suspense thriller, tension/investigative/reflective drama, docudrama
• Composer(s): Ho-Ling Tang, Anže Rozman, Adam Schiff, Janine Eser, Giovanni Rios, James Everingham, Camilo Carrero, Jake Schaefer, Sylvia Navarro, Dylan Price, Jason Akers, Forest Christenson, Alex Stix-Brunell, Sean Hayden, Brandon Campbell, Simón Wilson, Bruce Fingers, Billie Ray Fingers
• Tracks: 19
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

Quasars

• Genre: ambient/reflective/tension/inspiring drama, docudrama
• Composer(s): Giovanni Rios, Adam Schiff, Janine Eser, Denise Santos, Jake Schaefer, John Also Bennett, Sean Hayden, Forest Christenson, Kyle Hartman, Dylan Price, Brandon Campbell, Bruce Fingers, Billie Ray Fingers
• Tracks: 12
• Favorite track(s): Einstein Cross
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

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West One Music

Cinematic Orchestral Stories

• Genre: reflective/period/emotive/triumphant drama
• Description: "A collection of evocative live orchestral works written by esteemed Polish composer Robert Janson. Building with emotion and drama, featuring passionate strings, delicate piano and intricate woodwind." (West One Music Group)
• Composer(s): Robert Janson
• Tracks: 11
  
• Publicly available for streaming.
  

I don't know about you, but for me this was a great start of the new year, at least in terms of new cinematic music that has become a permanent addition to my playlists. I hope you folks kicked off the new year in health and accompanied by awesome music! Though I have a busy year ahead of me, I'll try to keep these posts coming every month. So, see you at the end of February! Čau!

Jurik

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