Dead Island Trailer

The Dead Island trailer music is an integral of the video game trailer that has every drooling. Call it what you may – this is the best trailer any of us have laid eyes on in the recent past.

When Techland finally decided to release the now-viral trailer to their almost-obscure open-world zombie gore fest they really couldn’t have expected it to defeat the very purpose every media release is always preceded by a trailer – to build positive hype and interest.

Dead Island Trailer

For those who know enough about video games would know that there are three very important factors that determine the fate of a game before its release:

The build quality if of course the most important factor to consider here.
With the worry of drowning in the frenzy of moving images and music, promotion can make even a bad game a moderate success. Unlike the twisted movie audience, gamers aren’t very forgiving.
The place of a title within the game industry also plays a major role in determining its success. Uncharted 3 is a guaranteed critical and commercial success, whereas the third chapter in the very deep Deus Ex franchise might very well go sideways and bury our ideas of kissing Denton a passionate goodbye.

Just in case you’re interested to know more about the company that patched up this little masterpiece, the name of outfit is Axis Animation.

Axis is an independent group hired by developers and publishers to create jaw-dropping and seriously insane trailers and in-game content.

They have worked on a handful of games including Spiderman: Shattered Dimension, Microsoft Flight and Sigularity just to name a few.

Remember, Axis is in no way connected to the good folks over at Techland who we all didn’t care much about till they dumped the idea of a Dead Rising clone through a seriously touching trailer. Kudos!

At the time of writing the IGN-uploaded trailer already had over 3.5 million views. Yeah, that’s what you get by making every father with a daughter and broadband access cry his heart out.

Dead Island Trailer Music

Coming back to the music featured in this epic trailer, here’s a list of the personnel who made us salivate over a dead girl:

Giles Lamb – Composer
Kahl Henderson – Sound Design
Tom Griffiths – Sound Design

If you’re interested to give the trailer’s background music a listen without the accompanying sound effects, check out the stripped video below.

If you’re interested to download this tune on your player of choice here’s the iTunes link. Let us know what you think about this zombie title in the comments below.