Kane & Lynch Composed by Kyd
Renowned video game composer Jesper Kyd has composed and produced the soundtrack for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, according to an announcement made by Eidos today. His work on the soundtrack is described as a “cohesive and hard-hitting combo of scar-edged melodic soundscapes and subversive action-driven grooves.” The game will be released for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 next month. Here’s the scoop:
To achieve the right kind of musical tonality for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Kyd’s foreboding and graphic score is as relentlessly intense and unforgiving in its attitude as the violent rage of Kane and Lynch on their destructive path of redemption and revenge. Delivering a masterful mix of melodic and sublime atmospherics, explosive electronic beats intoxicated with musical distortion and strewn with hardcore industrial guitar sounds, Kyd pushes the immersion factor and displays the main characters’ flaws, anger and pain in his echoing themes embedded with haunting vocals, heavily processed synth ambience, ethnic instrumentation and other multi-layered sounds.
Kyd has worked with io Interactive, the studio behind the game, before on the Hitman series for which he was won awards.