Dale North’s Astral Ascent Soundtrack Now Available

We’ve written about the compositions of Dale North before: he’s the man behind such video game soundtracks as RWBY: Arrowfell, Wizard of Legend, Wargroove 2, Dreamscaper, Sparklite, and he also wrote the theme song to Nintendo Minute back when that was a thing. The latest game to bear his music, Astral Ascent, steps out of Early Access to become a full product on Steam today, and there’s more: Dale’s soundtrack is being made available separately at the same time.

“The score accentuates the majestic beauty of the game world as well as the intense boss battles with the Zodiacs.. Listeners will enjoy hearing the exploration, combat, and boss battle music heard in each of the game’s diverse areas of the astral prison know as the Garden,” says Scarlet Moon, publishers of the soundtrack. North’s work for Astral Ascent features a live orchestra and vocals by Emi Evans (NieR, Dark Souls, Star Wars Visions).

Astral Ascent is a 2D platformer roguelite set in a modern fantasy world. You play as one of four heroes whose mission is to escape from the Garden, an astral prison guarded by the Zodiacs, twelve astrology-themed monsters. Pulling off your escape means facing off against dozens of their underlings and learning and mastering dozens of spells along the way.

You can find the Astral Ascent album by Dale North now at the storefronts linked here. A vinyl version of the soundtrack is set to be released at a later time.