BIOWARE COLLABORATES WITH FLORENCE + THE MACHINE AND INON ZUR FOR RIVETING DRAGON AGE II SOUNDTRACK
The Best in Rock, Music Composition and Gaming Collaborate to Deliver an Emotionally Powerful Soundtrack to one of the Most Anticipated Games of the Year
1 March 2010, Australia & New Zealand – Lower the lights, turn up the volume and prepare for an incomparable audio sensation when you drop in Dragon Age™ II, which has been hailed by Yahoo!, Game Informer, IGN, GameSpot and Seth Schiesel from the New York Times as one of the year’s most anticipated video games.
BioWare™ has teamed up with the Grammy Awards Best New Artist nominee Florence + The Machine for an exclusive rendition of “Don’t Call Me” that you can only hear in-game and in the demo of Dragon Age II. Additionally, award-winning composer Inon Zur returns to bring a wide range of dynamic music styles to Dragon Age II. From ethereal and mystical, to bombastic and lyrical, his original score befits the game’s dramatic visuals and helps drive the heart-pounding action.
Part one of the Dragon Age II soundtrack* will be available for purchase on March 8, 2011 at all digital music service providers worldwide.
The following tracks will be included:
- Dragon Age II Main Theme
- Hawke Family Theme
- Qunari On The Rise
- Templars
- Love Scene
- Arishok
- Tavern Music
- Viscount
- Mages
- Fenris Theme
- Kirkwall Nights
- Rogue Heart
To hear a small sampling of the soundtrack, “Hawke Family Theme” and “Qunari on the Rise,” please visit http://soundcloud.com/nettwerkmusicgroup/sets/inon-zur-dragon-age-2/
In addition to being nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award, Florence + the Machine’s debut album “Lungs” spent 65 consecutive weeks on the top 40 chart in the United Kingdom and won the 2010 BRIT Mastercard British Album Award. Inon Zur’s score for Dragon Age: Origins also won Best Original Video Game Score at the Movie Music UK Awards and Best Original Song at the Hollywood Music In Media Awards.
Additional tracks from the Dragon Age II soundtrack will be available on April 12 and May 10. Dragon Age II will be available in stores on 10 March in Australia and 11 March in New Zealand, and is available on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 console, PC and Mac®. Gamers who want to get a small taste of the game can download the Dragon Age II demo, which also contains the full version of the exclusive Florence + The Machine track, available now on Xbox LIVE®, PlayStation® Network and PC. For more information on Dragon Age II, please visit http://dragonage.bioware.com/, “like” us at http://www.facebook.com/DragonAgeOrigins or follow us at http://twitter.com/dragonage
* Those who pre-ordered the Dragon Age II BioWare Signature Edition will receive the full soundtrack at no additional cost.