Akira Yamaoka Return to Silent Hill (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Vinyl LP Due Out 29/01/27

Akira Yamaoka - Return to Silent Hill (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 29th January, 2027

Tracklist:

1. The Forest
2. Dance Studio
3. The House That Breathes
4. The Letter
5. Armless Creature
6. Woodside Apartments
7. Running Into Darkness
8. A Corridor Without End
9. Brookhaven Hospital
10. Dormant Voices
11. Entering Silent HIll
12. Spider Lady
13. A Tune Left Behind
14. Our Name
15. Chasing Laura
16. The Bathroom
17. 2nd Armless
18. The Field
19. Room 318
20. The Maze
21. Moth Mary
22. Tailing
23. Return To Darkness
24. Moonlight Burial
25. The Furnace Dream
26. Glass Tears
27. Ashes That Remember You
28. Echoes Of A Fading Figure
29. The Ritual

Room 318 Productions and Laced Records are stepping into the fog to bring Akira Yamaoka’s score for the 2026 motion picture, Return to Silent Hill, to vinyl.

This 2LP features 29 specially remastered tracks carefully curated by series composer and executive producer, Akira Yamaoka, to capture the key themes of love, loss, guilt and obsession from Return to Silent Hill and the SILENT HILL 2 video game on which the film is based.

Yamaoka’s musical signature has been an integral part of the series since the first note of the original video game. His work for Return to Silent Hill marks his third time writing music for a motion picture set in the SILENT HILL universe, but this time he returns as the sole composer.

The score for the motion picture was guided by three guiding principles he’s developed while working on SILENT HILL scores – to “not decide music through emotions,” an aspiration to “blur the boundary between music and environmental sound, between reality and the inner world,” and finally, to “not reject beauty.”

“The horror of SILENT HILL is not merely unpleasant or violent. There is always something fragile, human, and irretrievably beautiful mixed within it. Refusing to deny that has remained unchanged since the beginning,” Yamaoka explains.

Working closely with director Christophe Gans, Yamaoka built the score piece by piece to extract the underlying sensibility of the world of SILENT HILL 2 and reconstruct it into music that can stand on its own as a film score. Series veterans will recognize iconic cues from the video games that have been reimagined in tracks such as “Chasing Laura” and “Brookhaven Hospital”.

“The goal was never to replay the game’s music as it was,” Yamaoka explains. “Instead, the challenge was to reinterpret it—to alter its meaning, its distance, and its placement—so it could breathe within the film’s sense of time, imagery, and the inner lives of the characters. It was not a quotation, but a reimagining.”

Whether you consider yourself a master of survival horror or this is your first time stepping into the fog of SILENT HILL, the Return to Silent Hill Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a melting pot of distorted sounds and jagged textures unified by a single sensation: unstable, murky, and yet somehow beautiful.