Beloved ‘Celeste’ and ‘Minecraft’ composer shares new soundtrack for scrapped game

Lena Raine, a celebrated composer who’s worked on music for Celeste and Minecraft, has shared a new album of music from scrapped game Earthblade.

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Earthblade was being developed by Extremely OK Games as the follow-up to cult pixel-art game Celeste. The project was first announced at the 2022 Game Awards but in January, the game was cancelled after one of the studio co-founders left. “Celeste‘s success applied pressure on us to deliver something bigger and better with Earthblade, and that pressure is a large part of why working on it has become so exhausting,” wrote another studio head, with EOKG wanting to focus on “smaller-scale projects”.

Now the game’s composer Lena Raine has shared an album of music written for Earthblade and inspired by Cowboy Bebop, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind. “It’s a combination of sounds I really love and hope to explore on some other project in the future,” Raine explained.

The nine-track album ‘Earthblade: Across The Bounds Of Fate’ is available to buy and stream on Bandcamp, with half of the proceeds going to the Trans Lifelines charity.

#Celeste developers may have cancelled Earthblade, however game composer Lena Raine (Celesta, Chicory) has released the soundtrack on Bandcamp. (And today IS Bandcamp Friday! Support your fave artists and get great music!). Read More