Today, Record Label Laced Records announced that composers Akira Yamaoka and Joseph Michael Romersa’s latest original score “Return to Silent Hill (Original Soundtrack)” is now available for purchase and streaming across major streaming platforms. Akira was also an Executive Producer on the Return to Silent Hill film project, being a core part of the freaky horror series since its inception.
“In many films, music clearly tells the audience: this is sad, this is scary, this is the moment to feel uplifted. But in the world of SILENT HILL, the moment you do that, fear and sadness collapse the instant they are explained.
Akiya Yamaoka on the “Return to Silent Hill” film project (continued below)
“I took a different approach with RETURN TO SILENT HILL: not completing emotions, not resolving things—even at the climax—and keeping a slight distance, rather than having the music ‘embrace’ the scene.
“As a result, the audience can no longer be sure whether they are listening to music or hearing sounds that exist inside the world itself. For longtime SILENT HILL fans, this may feel unsettling—and, at the same time, strangely familiar.
“What flows through this story is not clear-cut anger or fear, but something far more ambiguous—unspoken regret, lingering attachment, and a mind that has not yet grasped that there is no way back. I was constantly thinking about how such a state could be made to exist as sound.
“The music for this film does not aim for listeners to remember a striking phrase. Rather, it seeks to leave behind a state where, after the film has ended, only an emotion remains—one that cannot be easily put into words.”
Return to Silent Hill is available as a theatrical release across the United States and will also premiere in France on 4 February.
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