Welcome to Wildemount

Welcome to Wildemount is a soundtrack album released on November 15, 2022 by Critical Role Productions under the Scanlan Shorthalt Music record label. It features music composed by Matthew Carl Earl and Steven Grove of Hexany Audio, Colm McGuinness, and Omar Fadel with mastering by Chris Willmott, supervision by Laura Katz of Supe Troop, and producing by Marisha Ray and Maxwell James. The album artwork is by Kent Davis.

Behind the scenes
The "Welcome to Wildemount" theme was originally composed by Colm in January 2018, at the beginning of Campaign 2. It was played during the art reels in the Twitch countdown and the breaks beginning in. Colm later composed multiple musical pieces for the combat against Lucien in, included in the album as "Above the Living Rooftops" and "Neo-Somnovem Incarnate".

Omar Fadel felt that the production's desire to create a sound "off the beaten path" by working with instruments and styles that are not typically played together and "figuring out how to stick the square peg in the round hole" made working on the album a fulfilling and rewarding process. He particularly highlighted this in "Rise of Uk'otoa" as an orchestral composition with tribal percussion, strummed dulcimers, and sea shanty type vocals that he felt should not otherwise work.

Producer Maxwell James describes the tone of the album as different from the prior Welcome to Tal'Dorei to reflect the tonal differences between Campaign 1 and Campaign 2 and between Tal'Dorei and Wildemount. Some compositions are intended to reflect Wildemount as a continent while others are "stand-out hero tracks" for specific campaign moments and characters. He attributed the album particularly to the work of music supervisor Laura Katz and to Omar's and Colm's expertise.

Trivia

 * The album art features a collage of locations in Wildemount. On the left is the city of Zadash with a mountain range, likely the Ashkeeper Peaks, behind it. On the right is the city of Rosohna beneath a dark sky and swirling clouds, with the Barbed Fields in front of it. In the background is the erupting volcano of Kravaraad, and in the foreground the Mighty Nein stands on a cliff-side facing the scene. Behind them in the bottom-left corner is the grave of Mollymauk Tealeaf.
 * "Neo-Somnovem Incarnate" quotes "Your Turn to Roll", the theme for the opening of Campaign 2.