Assassin’s Creed Origins OST: Listen To 5 New Tracks

In a Billboard interview with composer Sarah Schachner, Ubisoft shared five new tracks for its upcoming title Assassin’s Creed Origins.

“Sarah is a triple threat: a great composer, arranger and performer,” Ubisoft music supervisor Simon Landry stated. “This allowed her to develop a unique signature that combines authentic elements from the game’s time period with contemporary music scoring.”

Schachner scored French Revolution action game Unity as well as Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. For this soundtrack, Schachner performed all the music herself. “I wanted to create a hybrid sound of old and new with an air of ambiguity and mystery to represent this otherworldly culture that was so immersed in mythology,” she said.

As far as the tracks go, you can check them out below. First, there’s the moody “Main Theme,” which mixes some vaguely Middle Eastern instrumentation with a handful of modern boop-boops (thank you, I’m a professional modern music critic):

Next is “Legions of Blood,” a lively, urgent tune with some robust chanting in the background:

Then there’s “Dead Kings and Living Gods,” a spooky, contemplative track that could work just as well on an abandoned space ship as in Ancient Egypt, girded by heavy strings:

The fourth track shared, “I Walk on Your Water,” sounds a bit more modern and cybernetic. Might this be one for the modern-day sequences, haunted by the echo of ancient strings?

Finally, there’s “Nomads of the White Desert,” which sounds rather more jaunty and calm than some of the earlier pieces at first before descending into soft, elegiac tones:

You can also check out the full track listing below:

1. Assassin’s Creed Origins Main Theme

2. Return of the Medjay

3. Bayek of Siwa

4. The Shimmering Sands

5. The Battle of Krokodilopolis

6. The Tongueless Land

7. Legions of Blood

8. Dead Kings and Living Gods

9. Fire in the Duat

10. Born of the Sun

11. Winds Of Cyrene

12. I Walk on Your Water

13. The Order of Ancients

14. Nomads of the White Desert

15. Be My Eyes

16. The Cracked Wall

17. The Alexandrian Pleiad

18. Desert Delirium

19. Apep’s Vengeance

20. Across the Dunes

21. The Last Medjay

22. Chthonic Invasion

23. A Divided Land

24. Ptolemy’s Lament

25. The Hyena's Fire

26. Moonlight on the Nile

27. Ezio’s Family (Origins Version)

How do you feel about the new tracks off the Assassin’s Creed Origins OST? Are you looking forward to the full soundtrack? Will this join the video game soundtrack hall of fame or even your “background music while studying” playlists? Feel free to let us know in the comments section below.