Akira Yamaoka - Return to Silent Hill (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)(Preorder 29/01/27)

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

Label: Laced Records - LMLP365 - 5063176104014
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Black
Country: UK
Released: 29th January 2027
Genre: Soundtrack


Description
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. 



Tracklist

Side A

The Forest

Dance Studio

The House That Breathes

The Letter

Armless Creature

Woodside Apartments

Running Into Darkness



Side B

A Corridor Without End

Brookhaven Hospital

Dormant Voices

Entering Silent HIll

Spider Lady

A Tune Left Behind

Our Name



Disc 2

Side C

Chasing Laura

The Bathroom

2nd Armless

The Field

Room 318

The Maze

Moth Mary



Side D

Tailing

Return To Darkness

Moonlight Burial

The Furnace Dream

Glass Tears

Ashes That Remember You

Echoes Of A Fading Figure

The Ritual