Capcom Sound Team

Release Date: 02/01/2022
Format: 4 X LP
Label: Laced Records – LMLP048
Release type: Deluxe Edition 4LP Vinyl Boxset

Laced Records and Capcom’s scenarios intertwine once more as we present the music of 2019’s Resident Evil 2 on vinyl.

Following a series refresh with Resident Evil 7, the impressive RE Engine was used to power this third-person reworking of a survival horror classic. The thick atmosphere, tight redesign of locations (including the iconic Racoon Police Department), and expanded role of a certain fedora-wearing hunter combined to make Resident Evil 2 an award-winning hit with a 91 Metacritic average.

The soundtrack played a huge part in establishing the taut atmosphere of Resident Evil 2, as the composers shifted gears between dark ambient electronic music, thumping cinematic percussion, and audacious orchestral and choral passages. Capcom veteran Shusaku Uchiyama — who worked on the 1998 original — was given lead composition duties, and also arranged several of Masami Ueda’s original pieces. They were joined among the soundtrack credits by Zhenlan Kang, Tadayoshi Makino, Sound Director & Sound Team Leader Kentaro Nakashima, Yuichi Tsuchiya, Masahiro Ohki and Mana Ogura. Syotaro Nakayama and Taisuke Fujisawa supplied the power metal with “Tofu On Fire”; while the vinyl opens with the stomping ‘true ending’ credits theme “Saudade” by Cody Matthew Johnson and Shim.

46 tracks have been specially mastered for vinyl by Joe Caithness, and tracks will be pressed onto audiophile-quality, heavyweight 180g discs.

The Standard Edition features traditional black LPs, which come in printed inner sleeves all housed in a rigid box.

1. Saudade
2. The Beginning
3. What's Going On?
4. The Beginning of Fear
5. Leon and Claire Meet
6. Memento
7. Accident
8. Raccoon City
9. R.P.D. Hall
10. Fear Again
11. Save Room
12. Secret Hope
13. Absurd Advent
14. Cerberus
15. As One Desires
16. Black Impact
17. Escape
18. Conflagration
19. Conflagration Ⅱ
20. Hide & Seek
21. The Straight and Winding
22. Panic
23. Reliving the Present
24. In the Cable Car
25. Ivy
26. Third Demise
27. A Treatment for Sherry
28. Betrayal and Death
29. Regrets
30. Collapse
31. Last Judgment
32. Expansion
33. Mournful Pursuit
34. Ending
35. Fifth Generation
36. Another End
37. Credits
38. Consequence
39. Save Room (Model Screen)
40. Looming Dread
41. Tofu on Fire
42. The Rain of Mourning
43. The March to Survive
44. In Search of Lost Time
45. Run, Kathy, Run
46. Grim Struggle"