Award-winning composer Walter Mair has been announced as the composer for dark fantasy RPG Lords of the Fallen 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the original 2023 release. The announcement comes during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco – the annual gather of international game developers and publishers. The sequel is set to arrive on PlayStation® 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC in 2026, and promises to deliver more commercial elements, particularly in visual design, to attract a broader audience of players.
Walter Mair is known for his captivating scores ranging from epic orchestrations recorded with 80-piece choirs to intimate, small ensemble and hybrid electronic pieces that have graced a diverse mix of feature films, documentaries, television dramas, narrative-driven interactive entertainment and video games.
In 2023, Walter composed the score for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, which after being nominated for a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello Award is now up for 7 awards at this year’s GANG (Game Audio Network Guild) Awards at San Francisco’s Game Developers Conference. Nominated categories include Audio of the Year, Best Cinematic & Cutscene Audio, and Sound Design of the Year.
In 2022, he scored the Apple+ series Liaison, starring Ewa Green and Vincent Cassel, directed by Stephen Hopkins and the action thriller The Bricklayer, starring Aaron Eckhard and Nina Dobrev, and directed by Renny Harlin. The thriller Infinite starring Asa Butterfield, Tanya Reynolds and Robert Sheehan premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2022.
Walter scored the 2021 survival thriller Till Death, directed by S.K. Dale and starring Megan Fox, as well as the psychological horror film The Unfamiliar, which won the 2021 Telly Award for Best Original Music and an Award for Best Music Score at the 2020 NOLAHFF, and was described by the press as “the Babadook meets Pet Sematary”. Other recent projects include the coming-of-age drama Iceland is Best and the action-thriller Knuckledust, directed by James Kermack and starring Moe Dunford (Vikings), which won the 2021 Telly Award for Best Original Music.
In 2020, he also received two Telly awards for “Best Original Music” for his scores to the BAFTA “EE Mobile Game of the Year” Call of Duty: Mobile as well as his score to the Netflix docuseries Formula 1: Drive to Survive which won the Telly Award for Best Original Music, a 2021 BAFTA Award for Best Sound, and topped the Netflix charts globally. Other credits include Oliver Hirschbiegel’s International cold war mini-series for Netflix and ZDF, The Same Sky, which premiered at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, and Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River starring Saorise Ronan, Matt Smith, Christina Hendricks, and Eva Mendes.
