OCTOBER 24th, 2026, from the QUAD arts centre, in Derby, United Kingdom, at the TR30 panel:
In an unprecedented gesture of artistic preservation and audio presentation, San Carlos, California-based franchise developer Crystal Dynamics has soft-announced at the TR30 panel today the planned, long-awaited official publication of the music to the Tomb Raider video games. Encompassing each mainline entry over the past thirty years, the scope of the project includes newly-produced, previously unreleased albums, expanded compilations as well as new presentations featuring previously unreleased material. In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Lara Croft-starring franchise, the yet-to-be-announced albums are slated for release later this year.
"...more than 500 official Tomb Raider soundtrack tracks are expected to arrive on streaming services this November, including newly produced and previously unreleased albums, special compilations, and music being released on streaming platforms for the first time. We can't wait to share more exciting details soon!" - Crystal Dynamics
The music to the Tomb
Raider video games has long been admired, cherished and sought
after over the past three decades. In lieu of applicable official soundtrack
releases, the sharing of substitute community developed productions has historically tied
the fandom together in unanimous appreciation. In mainstream attention, bootleg
Tomb Raider music has generated millions of millions of streams - specifically over the past fifteen years. In
supplementation, Crystal Dynamics began dedicated original soundtrack releases
for new titles from 2013, starting with their titular reboot. This interest
stimulated the acclaimed composer-driven, and crowd-funded orchestral projects The Tomb Raider Suite (2018-2021) & The Dark Angel Symphony (2019-2021)
spanning multiple album releases. Now, the long-overdue official publications of Tomb Raider video game music are
on the way to preserve the original art in the
streaming age.
Also as announced at the TR30 panel in Derby, the birthplace of Lara Croft, we are delighted to reveal that our very own Music of Tomb Raider webmaster Harry Hinds served on the Official Soundtrack project since 2021 as Curator and is credited additionally in sound mixing and as Producer on several albums. Challenges the project faced in a curatorial capacity were numerous, requiring analysis of 20-year-old audio archives in some cases, and were ultimately resolved on an individual basis with careful and thorough consideration.
Stay tuned for more information, coming soon, about the commercial catalogue of the majority of titles for the first time ever in the history of the franchise. Happy birthday Tomb Raider, indeed!
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please please unreleased cutscene music
ReplyDeleteThat is within the scope of this project, stay tuned!
Deletei am PRAYING that albums are complete for once in tomb raider's life and that tracks don't phase from one song to the other to save a few seconds of digital space. crystal has always been such a bad offender in this regard and 500 sounds like alot at first, but there is more than 500 tracks already on your youtube playlists.
ReplyDeleteim placing all my hope onto you harry!!!
You may have to define "phase", because what we might perceive as transitions may not be: They may actually be the "correct" versions. There have been countless examples since the "CD" era of complete, "original" soundtrack tunes later being edited, cut-down or re-sequenced for placement during gameplay. In fact, there's evidence of that with original "Tomb Raider":
Delete[The Playmag (French magazine issue 13 promo CD) is, to my estimation, the ONLY existing source for Nathan McCree's original soundtrack that is arranged and sequenced as he originally intended. The music seems to have been subsequently edited and programmed in a few spots for appropriate placement during Tomb Raider's gameplay, and was then released on all later promo discs in their edited "game" form. Most original titles and some arrangements are intact for the arrangements featured in "The Tomb Raider Suite".]
That's quoted from my own research, started last week. Anyone who owns that disc should preserve it! Ideally, any soundtrack collection with confirmed "wholes" split into "parts" should include ALL versions, but if only the originals were presented, it wouldn't be the first time, and we can't really complain. I myself am looking out for other discrepancies, such as: Why did McCree wait over 15 years to take "Longing for Home" from one track and place that title on a different one? and; Why was "Part 1" of "The-T-Rex" called "Part 2", and vice-versa?
I'm mostly thinking about crystal dynamics releases. The official releases of LAU we got often times have clear seperate tracks fused together into one, thereby losing (for me personally) precious seconds of music from the beginnings and endings of the tracks. I also just like to have them seperated for a better listening experience.
DeleteI agree. I had a listen to those, and I recall very obvious "medley" tracks. We definitely do not want that.
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