Need to say that the soundtrack is underwhelming. Music does not have a clear theme, clear melody that drive the game, but instead give us these generic chord progressions which I cannot latch on to. I would rate it 4/10 barely. 

Not sure why didn't Obsidian go for Justin Bell these time also? Because Pillars 1 and 2 both had amazing soundtracks which I listen to this day on Deezer. 

Edited February 24, 2025Feb 24 by Spirtikus

I'll take a wild guess and say: because he left Obsidian years ago and went to Sony.

Edited February 24, 2025Feb 24 by Boeroer

Yea man, but couldn't they get him one more time? His theme is just missing from Avowed, like a chunk of good story. 

Obsidian is a Microsoft Company, Justin Bell works at Sony Entertainment. I'm pretty sure they couldn't.

He left Obsidian for the competition, unfortunately. His work on PoEs and Outer Worlds was fantastic.

6 hours ago, Spirtikus said:

His theme is just missing from Avowed, like a chunk of good story. 

I doubt Justin has any rights to music he has written for Obsidian, so his themes should be reusable if a game calls for it. It is not Pillars of Eternity game, so I am not sure Avowed should borrow from those series to begin with.

I agree that the soundtrack by Venus Theory is generic. I don't even hear any good combat music yet and I am about to travel to Scatterscarp. Justin Bell's music is sorely missed and despite him working with Sony, they should have found a more capable replacement than whoever Venus Theory is. I honestly have not heard of them before this game and I wished that had remained so. I'd give the soundtrack a 2/10.

On 2/24/2025 at 5:09 PM, Wormerine said:

I doubt Justin has any rights to music he has written for Obsidian, so his themes should be reusable if a game calls for it. It is not Pillars of Eternity game, so I am not sure Avowed should borrow from those series to begin with.

 

The music was reused in the (lore) trailers.

I found the unusual percussion combat music in Deadfire pretty refreshing. His PoE soundtracks were good overall, but that was pretty out there. Wonder how that was received. Usually the music in this type o' game is more your standard orchestral epic LOTR music fare (maybe mixed with a bit of Conan The Barbarian if the composer is REALLY going wild. 😄 ). 

Edited March 3, 2025Mar 3 by Sven_

2 hours ago, Sven_ said:

I found the unusual percussion combat music in Deadfire pretty refreshing. His PoE soundtracks were good overall, but that was pretty out there. Wonder how that was received. Usually the music in this type o' game is more your standard orchestral epic LOTR music fare (maybe mixed with a bit of Conan The Barbarian if the composer is REALLY going wild. 😄 ).

Especially PoE1 OST seemed to me to evoke Infinity Engine OST, especially Jeremy Soule's work for Icewind Dale games. PoE OST is one of the few computer game OST I like to out on every once in a while. I also liked his OSTs for Tyranny and Outer Worlds very much. Different vibe every time, well fitting respective games.

Just nice writing overall - varied instrumentation, nice long phrases with natural arcs, counter point, harmonic progressions with development and direction. I think Obsidian lost a really great team member.

 

This music wasn't included in OST and I couldn't find it on youtube, so I recorded it in game and uploaded to youtube. I hope no one minds.

 

 

The theme for Fior was my favorite in the game. But yeah other than that I don't recall many themes being too awfully memorable. The soundtrack wasn't bad by any means, it just didn't stand out to me.

Justin Bell is part of the credits. So something will come from him.

The title theme of Avowed in the main menu reminds me a bit of the Dragon Age 2 theme by Inon Zur.

On 3/9/2025 at 10:44 PM, dukemon_1 said:

Justin Bell is part of the credits.

Or just the new scores has few callbacks to his work in PoE1&2. I can't recall much aside from Shanty above, but if I recall correctly it is not an original work (aka. actual shanty) and words are by JS.

On 3/6/2025 at 12:07 PM, Silvaren said:

This music wasn't included in OST and I couldn't find it on youtube, so I recorded it in game and uploaded to youtube. I hope no one minds.

 

 

Wonderful. I would love if you can also do the same for Fior mes Iverno, also not part of the OST.
Really bummed the OST is so incomplete.

On 3/21/2025 at 8:57 PM, Sylvus_Moonbow said:

Wonderful. I would love if you can also do the same for Fior mes Iverno, also not part of the OST.
Really bummed the OST is so incomplete.

Night theme soon.