About the artist
Bear McCreary is an American film, television, and video game composer known for genre-defining scores that blend orchestral writing with unconventional instrumentation, world music influences, and electronic textures. He rose to prominence with his score for the reimagined «Battlestar Galactica», where he mixed Middle Eastern and Celtic instruments with taiko drums to create a distinctive, tribal-industrial sound that departed sharply from typical space-opera scoring.
McCreary has since become one of the most in-demand composers working across mediums. His television work includes «The Walking Dead», «Outlander» (with its widely recognized «Skye Boat Song» main title), and «Rings of Power», while his film credits include «Godzilla» (2014) and «Child’s Play». In video games he is closely associated with «God of War» (2018) and its sequel, for which his thunderous, percussion-driven score was widely praised and helped redefine music in AAA action games.
His style is marked by strong thematic writing, willingness to fuse folk and ethnic instrumentation with symphonic forces, and close collaboration with directors and showrunners to build musical identities specific to each project’s world. He frequently conducts and records with live orchestras and folk musicians, and is known for extensive fan engagement, including detailed liner notes explaining his compositional choices.
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Discography
The Singularity: Ekleipsis
2026
God of War: Sons of Sparta (Original Soundtrack)
2026
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 2 (Original Series Soundtrack)
2025
Drop (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2025
Outlander: Season 7 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season Two, Episode Eight: Shadow and Flame - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season Two, Episode Seven: Doomed to Die - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season Two, Episode Six: Where Is He? - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2024
The 4:30 Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season Two, Episode Five: Halls Of Stone - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season Two, Episode Four: Eldest - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season Two, Episode One: Elven Kings Under The Sky - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season Two, Episode Three: The Eagle And The Sceptre - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season Two, Episode Two: Where The Stars Are Strange - Amazon Original Serious Soundtrack)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season 2: Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2024
The Singularity
2024
God of War: Ragnarök (Lofi Beats to Journal To)
2024
God of War: Ragnarök - Valhalla (Original Soundtrack)
2023
The Witcher: Blood Origin (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)
2022
God of War: Ragnarök (Original Soundtrack)
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season One, Episode Eight: Alloyed - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season One, Episode Seven: The Eye - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season One, Episode Six: Udûn - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season One, Episode Five: Partings - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season One, Episode Four: The Great Wave - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season One, Episode Three: Adar - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season One, Episode One: A Shadow of the Past - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season One, Episode Two: Adrift - Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season 1: Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
2022
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2022
Outlander: Season 6 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2022
This Game’s Called Murder (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2021
Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge (Original Soundtrack)
2021
Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Vol. 2 (Original Series Soundtrack)
2021
Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Vol. 1 (Original Series Soundtrack)
2021
Ava (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2020
Freaky (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2020
Outlander: Season 5 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2020
See: Season 1 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
2019
Child’s Play (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2019
Happy Death Day 2U (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2019
Hell Fest (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2018
God of War (Original Soundtrack)
2018
The Walking Dead (Original Television Soundtrack)
2017
Happy Death Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2017
Colossal (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2017
Outlander: Season 2 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2016
10 Cloverfield Lane (Music From the Motion Picture)
2016
The Boy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2016
The Forest (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2016
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper (Original Game Soundtrack)
2015
Outlander: Season 1, Vol. 2 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2015
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Original Soundtrack Album)
2015
Outlander: Season 1, Vol. 1 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2015
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2014
Defiance (Original Television Soundtrack)
2013
A Very Eureka Christmas (Original Holiday Soundtrack From the Television Series)
2012
Battlestar Galactica: Season 4 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2009
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Original Television Soundtrack)
2008
Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2007
Battlestar Galactica: Season 2 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2007
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2007
God of War (Original Soundtrack)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)